Keith Bridwell M.D.,
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Carpenter awarded one of
four Brookdale fellowships
By Gerry Everding
These are a few of the questions to be explored over the next two years by Brian Carpenter, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology in Arts & Sciences and one of four scholars selected recently for the Brookdale National Fellowship Program. Carpenter will use his Brookdale fellowship to explore family relationships in late life, including the processes families use to make decisions and how family dynamics affect the decision-making process. A goal of the research is to help families make decisions that benefit older adults, satisfy all family members and strengthen family relationships. Established in 1985 by the Brookdale Foundation, the fellowship program is part of a larger national effort by the foundation to train a new generation of leaders in geriatrics and gerontology, a commitment that responds to the realities of a rapidly aging American population. Brookdale fellows are selected through an invitational competition among selected institutions with centers of geriatric and gerontological study. The fellowships support recipient research for two years and are designed to encourage aging-related research by promising scholars in the fields of medicine, basic science, humanities, policy, behavioral science and social science. Carpenter earned a doctorate in clinical psychology in 1997 at Case Western Reserve University, which included a pre-doctoral internship at the New Orleans Veterans Affairs Medical Center and postdoctoral clinical training at the Philadelphia Geriatric Center. He obtained additional research training while on a National Research Service Award fellowship in geriatric psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania. His research generally focuses on the clinical psychology of aging, including the identification and treatment of depression, dementia and other mental health problems in old age. Other interests include ethical issues in old age, death and dying, and psychotherapy outcome research. |
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