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UWM Psychology Department
Educational Background
B. A., Psychology; Magna Cum Laude - University of South Florida, 2002
Minor, Music Performance - University of South Florida, 2002
M.S., Psychology (emphasis on Applied Behavior Analysis) - Florida State University, Panama City Campus, 2005
Brief Biosketch
Cristal is a 3rd year student in the Clinical Psychology program, and is currently working on her Master’s, which will be a multiple baseline design analogue study of the mechanism of change in Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP). In general she is interested in behavioral treatments for depression, implications of stigma in treatment-seeking behaviors, functional assessment in outpatient psychotherapy, and increasing the current body of empirical support for FAP.
Current Research Activities & Interests
▪ Behavioral Treatments for Depression
▪ Functional Analytic Psychotherapy
▪ Mental Illness Stigma
▪ Mechanism of Change in Outpatient Psychotherapy
Representative Presentations & Publication
Publications
Kanter, J. W., Busch, A. M., Weeks, C. E., & Landes, S. J. (in press). The nature of clinical depression: Symptoms, syndromes, and behavior analysis. The Behavior Analyst.
Busch, A. M., Kanter, J. W., Callaghan, G. M., Weeks, C. E., Baruch, D. E., & Berlin, K. S. (2007). Does in-vivo contingent responding change client behavior and does improvement generalize to daily life? A single subject description of Functional Analytic Psychotherapy’s mechanism of change. Manuscript in preparation.
Busch, A. M, Callaghan, G. M., Kanter, J. W., Baruch, D. E. & Weeks, C. E. (2007). The Functional Analytic Psychotherapy Rating Scale: Replication and extension. Manuscript in preparation.
*Elwood, C., Lloyd, L., Morris, D., Tofte, A., & Zandecki, M. (2005) Increasing Pre-Designated Drivers: An extension of a prompt and incentive intervention package. OBM Network Newsletter, 19(3). 9-12.
*Elwood, C.E., Poythress, N.G., & Douglass, K.S. (2004). Evaluation of the Hare P-Scan in a non-clinical population. Personality and Individual Differences, 36(4), 833-843.
Presentations
Kanter, J. W., Busch, A. M., Rusch, L. C., Manos, R. C., & Weeks, C. E. (2007, November). Bridging the gap between scientist and practitioner in a university training clinic: The example of depression. In Levine, J. & Hynan, M. (Chairs), Translational Research in Training Clinics: Testing Grounds for Basic and Applied Innovations. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.
Busch, A., Andresen, E., Weeks, C. E., Manos, R., Czarnecki, A., & Kanter, J. W. (2007, November). Converging lines of basic science evidence in support of the behavioral activation theory of depression. In J. W. Kanter & P. Mulick (Chairs), Basic Science Foundations and New Applications of Behavioral Activation. Symposium presented at the annual meeting of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.
Weeks, C. E. (2006, May). If I said you have a beautiful body… would you hold it
against me? Using verbal behavior to devise the best pick-up lines: a practical how-to guide. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Behavior Analysis, Atlanta, GA.
*Elwood, C. E. (2005, September). If I said you have a beautiful body… would you hold it against me? Using verbal behavior to devise the best pick-up lines: a practical how-to guide. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Florida Association for Behavior Analysis, Sarasota, FL.
*Elwood, C., Lloyd, L., Morris, D., Tofte, A., & Zandecki, M. (2004, September). Increasing Pre-Designated Drivers: An extension of a prompt and incentive intervention package. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Florida Association for Behavior Analysis, Orlando.
*Elwood, C. (December, 2003). The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. A self-management approach to eating more good foods, fewer bad foods, and increasing exercise. Paper presented at the 4th Annual Florida State University Panama City Research Exposition.
Workshops
Kanter, J. W., Busch, A.
M., Weeks, C. E., Bowe, W. M., & Baruch D. E.
Behavioral Activation for Depression. Professional workshop presented at
Aurora Behavioral Health, February 22, 2008, Milwaukee, WI.
*Briefly known as: Cristal E. Elwood
