Announcement from the Graduate Student Advisory Committee - Introducing Thane Erickson to the GSAC
I’m pleased to
serve on the Graduate Student Advisory Committee. After all, I first fell
in love with the interpersonal circumplex and interpersonal theory in graduate
school, where I was smitten by the elegance, balance of parsimony and
complexity, and clinical utility of these ideas. I earned a doctorate in
clinical psychology at Penn State and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in
the psychiatry department at the University of Michigan, and now teach on
psychopathology, personality, cognitive-behavioral therapies, and statistics at
Seattle Pacific University. My research interests lie at the intersection of
anxiety/depression/stress, emotion science, and interpersonal aspects of
personality. My team’s most recent work focuses on socio-moral emotions and
their effects in applications to stress hormones, psychotherapy, and at-risk
individuals (homeless men; women struggling to escape sex trafficking). In
addition, I enjoy providing interpersonally-informed cognitive behavioral
therapy in a private practice. I reside in Seattle with my wife, kids, and
excessively warm-submissive dog, Baxter.