Dr. Tasha R. Howe, HSU Associate Professor of Psychology, has won a Fulbright Scholarship, January to June, 2008, in Cyprus to work at the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies in Nicosia, a non-profit organization. Dr. Howe will train social workers in violence prevention skills, using the American Psychological Association's ACT Against Violence curriculum, for which she is a nationally certified trainer.
"As a requirement of the Fulbright," she said, "I must work bi-communally with both the Greek Cypriot community (recognized as a nation by the United States and the 27-member European Union) and the officially unrecognized Turkish Cypriot community in the northern region. I will be working with child abuse scholars in the north and will teach a graduate level course at Near East University to clinical psychology master's students." The course will focus on Developmental Psychopathology (childhood mental illness).
Dr. Howe also will teach workshops on child abuse in both communities, including at Cyprus College's Center for the Study of Childhood and Adolescence in the south.
She teaches a variety of subjects at Humboldt State, ranging from human development and family relations to childhood social and emotional problems.