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How Success Coaches Help New Students Find Their Footing
Whether opening dialogues with roommates or sharing time management strategies, Chatham success coaches are there to make sure first-year students have the tools they need.
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Two Professors Tried a Different Approach to Open New Classroom Discussions
By combining their positive psychology and addictions classes, professors John Dimoff and Deanna Hamilton inspired their students to find new ways of thinking.
![A PsyD Student Asks How Black Pastors Handle Worshipers’ Mental Health Concerns](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627a6ef0f125404091392104/42383a4b-5fe0-4762-88a8-b6ce989ef64c/IMG_3298.jpg)
A PsyD Student Asks How Black Pastors Handle Worshipers’ Mental Health Concerns
Montaya Parham, MAP ’21, is focusing her doctoral dissertation on just that question. For her, it’s personal.
![Meet the Chatham Alum Who Counsels and Trains Current Students](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627a6ef0f125404091392104/67087fed-9acd-41cd-84a5-ddf22bd0c0e5/IMG_7082.jpeg)
Meet the Chatham Alum Who Counsels and Trains Current Students
Christine Simpson, PsyD ’16, found a passion for psychology when she studied it at Chatham. “With something as complex as human behavior, you never find the answer.”
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Student Success Coaches Make a Difference
Meet a few of our Student Success Coaches and the students they help adjust to college life.
![Alumna Profile: Alexis Hahn, PsyD ‘20](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627a6ef0f125404091392104/1660743131153-Y8VEZRDJPXQEB5GZ63HX/thumbnail_IMG_2865.jpeg)
Alumna Profile: Alexis Hahn, PsyD ‘20
Meet 2020 PsyD alumna, Dr. Alexis Hahn. She managed to transform her doctoral internship into a full-time job and her doctoral dissertation into a published research paper in American Psychologist. Read more about Alexis's daily work as Staff Psychologist at a federal men’s prison.
![From Paper to Publication: Inside the COVID-19 Research of this PsyD Team](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/627a6ef0f125404091392104/1660748727632-MJB6UX9OG8VU2AZUES62/psyd+covid.jpg)
From Paper to Publication: Inside the COVID-19 Research of this PsyD Team
Assistant Professor of Psychology Dr. John Dimoff and PsyD students Angela Dao, Jodie Mitchell, and Alexandra Olson tackled applying social psychological theory to COVID-19 in hopes of improving and influencing public health messaging during the pandemic. We caught up with this research team to learn more about their collaboration and recommendations for impactful health communications.
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Seeking Asylum: A Conversation on Refugee Mental Health
Alex Olson, PsyD ‘22 has a passion for working with refugee and immigrant populations to provide therapy that empowers the patient and shifts the paradigm.