This home page contains information on:

• Classes that I teach
• The Psychology Department
• Resources for parents of premature infants
• My Psychological Genealogy: Undergraduate and Graduate. OR Do we all go back to Von Helmholz and Mueller?

1. Psych 193, FRESHMAN SCHOLARS SEMINAR: PERSONALITY THEORIES: PERSPECTIVES ON "WHY YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE", last taught in the Fall, 2005
2. Psych 205 PERSONALITY, to be taught in the Spring, 2007
3. Psych 673 EXPERIMENTAL PERSONALITY, last taught in the Spring, 1999
4. Psych 407 PERSONALITY THEORIES, last taught in the Fall, 2006
5. Psych 741 SYSTEMS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY, to be taught in the Spring, 2007

I have also added the text of a talk, "Facing a life sentence in the NICU" and a list of references regarding emotional distress in parents of premature infants. They are located at the end of the home page.

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A copy of my vita

I conduct research on stress reactions (such as posttraumatic stress disorder) in parents that have had their premature or full-term high-risk infant hospitalized in a neonatal intensive care unit.

Off-Campus Favorite Activities. Below is a picture of my smiling wife, Lauren, and me (lower left) before a dive on Lake Geneva, WI

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• a post-dive picture
• smallmouth bass fishing on the Wisconsin River
• my premature baby
• an even smaller premature baby
• parental distress
• a more academic picture of me and my sleep-deprived graduate student, Fran, now Dr. Quinnell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Northern Michigan Univ.

• A great medical web page for parents of preemies

• a great support web page for parents of preemies, Tommy's Cybernursery

• a link to the international Internet support group, Preemie-l

• the back of the Mike Hynan tour bus, found in Ireland by my "cousin" Mary Hynan

• the front of the tour bus

• A talk I have given on "Helping Parents Cope With A High-Risk Birth: Terror, Grief, Impotence, and Anger"

• Another talk I have given for high-risk parents, "Facing a Life Sentence in the NICU"

• A NEW talk I recently gave at the 2001 annual meeting of the National Perinatal Association. "Assisting the Trembling Hands that Hold the Tiny Hands: Helping High Risk Parents Improve Neonatal Outcomes for Their Infants"

• a link to ordering "Baby Steps" from the Wisconsin Association for Perinatal Care.

• A list of references concerning emotional distress (inclucing Posttraumatic Stress Disorder) in parents of premature infants

• A questionnaire called the Perinatal Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Questionnaire (PPQ). It was published in Journal of Perinatology. The reference, DeMier et al. is listed in the set of references in the link just above this. Our research indicates that mothers of babies hospitalized in a NICU answer between 6 and 7 of the 14 items "Yes"; mothers of full-term, healthy infants answer 2.5 of the 14 items, "Yes".