Events at UT Tyler
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Men’s Basketball |
NOV
21 |
Outdoor Adventures Men’s Basketball |
NOV
22 |
Senior Recital |
NOV
23 |
Senior Exhibition Begins Turkey Trot 5:15 p.m. HPC
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News
UT Tyler Magazine: Focus on Faculty Dr. Dennis Combs, an assistant professor of psychology at The University of Texas at Tyler and licensed clinical psychologist, has devoted more than 10 years to
studying social cognition, paranoia and other psychological problems associated with schizophrenia. And he has collaborated with two other researchers to create Social Cognition and Interaction Training, a new intervention that is receiving international attention for improving the lives of persons with schizophrenia.
A group therapy addressing social dysfunction, SCIT has been featured by “ABC News’’ and “Psychiatric Services,’’ an American Psychiatric Association journal, as a potential best practice in rehabilitating schizophrenic patients.
Dr. Combs and his colleagues – Dr. David Penn, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and former UNC graduate student David Roberts, who is doing post-doctoral work at Yale University – hope to help schizophrenic patients worldwide through SCIT. More...
