William Spaulding
Office: 323 Burnett Hall
(402)472-3811
msullivan@navix.net

Dr. Spaulding received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1976 and completed a postdoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health Research and Teaching at the University of Rochester, 1976-1979. His research interests address various aspects of schizophrenia and other severe disorders, including clinical and experimental psychopathology, the effectiveness of treatment and rehabilitation, and service systems and social policy. Recent projects in his research group have included neuropsychological impairment in schizophrenia, cognitive and neuropsychological predictors of success in treatment and rehabilitation, neuroendocrine aspects of schizophrenia, assessment of stress and coping in rehabilitation, the effectiveness of cognitive treatment, and the impact of managed care and privatization on services for people with psychiatric disabilities. Dr. Spaulding also has general interests in psychopharmacology and the integration of psychopharmacological and psychological treatment. He teaches graduate courses on psychopathology and psychopharmacology, and supervises clinical practica.

Representative Publications:

Reed, D., Sullivan, M., Penn, D., Stuve, P. & Spaulding, W. (1992). Cognitive assessment and treatment in psychiatric rehabilitation. In R. Liberman (Ed.) New Directions in Mental Health Services #53: Effective Psychiatric Rehabilitation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Spaulding, W. (Ed.) (in press) Cognitive technology in psychiatric rehabilitation. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press.

Poland, J., Von Eckardt, B. & Spaulding, W. (in press). Problems with the DSM approach to classifying psychopathology. In G. Graham & L. Stevens (Eds.), Philosophical issues in psychopathology. Boston: MIT Press.

Penn, D., Spaulding, W. & Hope, D. (in press). Problem solving from different perspectives: An investigation of instructional context on social problem solving ability. Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy.