David Schuldberg
Office: Skaggs Bldg 206
Phone: (406) 243-4183
Email: david.schuldberg@umontana.edu
Curriculum Vita: View/Download CV
Current Position:
Professor
Director of Evaluation, National Native Children's Trauma Center
Description:
My research interests are diverse and span health psychology, severe mental illness, creativity, treatment of childhood trauma, and health care service delivery, particularly rural and rural minority mental health.
My primary focus is on the determinants and processes of psychological health, and what they tells us about intervention and program development. This work includes delineating the attributes and outcomes that define positive health and examining the mechanisms and processes that produce good outcomes. We must also acknowledge the often contradictory and opposing nature of health.
Small models, constructed from psychological variables and including nonlinear relationships or coupling among the variables, define Somewhat-Complicated Systems (SCS). These model systems are very useful in understanding behavior, particularly the maintenance of well-being in the face of change and fluctuation.
I am currently using nonlinear dynamic models to study the phenomena of Positive Psychology, as well as temporal variations in emotion, stress and social-support, and self-reported personality characteristics. A key issue involves testing the correspondence of nonlinear dynamical models to “real” psychological data; I am interested in both model construction and the study of complex time series data. Current work in my lab is focusing on short-term dynamics of emotion and other variables; this includes observation, measurement, data analysis, modeling, and model-fitting.
Additional research interests include: Assessment tools for psychological health, creativity, and cognitive style; symptoms and trajectory in severe mental disorders and chronic illness; trauma and children; interpersonal assessment; Evidence-based trauma treatment; negative symptoms in schizophrenia; automated assessment, emphasizing format equivalence and validity of reports; mental health service delivery and health care reform; play; analysis of sequential behavioral and time series data; evaluation of preventive behavioral health programs.
Notice to Applicants for Fall, 2013:
I do not expect to be accepting a graduate student for the clinical Ph.D. program under my mentorship to begin in Fall, 2013.
Field Of Study:
Psychopathology, assessment, psychometrics, creativity, health psychology, assessment and treatment of child traumatic stress , Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
Courses:
Psychology 625 - Psychological Evaluation III: Projective methods and Report Writing
Psychology 120 - Introduction to Psychological Research Methods
Psychology 378 - Introduction to Clinical Psychology
Psychology 534 - Advanced Clinical Methods
Psychology 630 - Ethics, Professional, and Cultural Issues
Psychology 631 -- Internventions (Severe Mental Illness and Recovery)
Education:
Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley, 1981
M.A., University of California-Berkeley, 1978
B.A., Harvard University, 1973 (Social Relations)
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Research, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, 7/88 - 8/89
International Experience:
Integrazione delle scuole interpersonali: Le teorie e le applicazioni [Integration of the interpersonal schools: Theory and applications], two-day workshop presented (in Italian) to the Scuola di Psicoterapia Comparata [School of Comparative Psychotherapy], Florence, Italy, June 13-14, 2009.
Visiting Professor, Professore di Chiara Fama (“clear fame”) Program, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy, March 20-30, 2006. Collaborative research with prof. Marco Giannini.
Selected Publications:
Morsette, A., van den Pol, R., Schuldberg, D., Swaney, G., & Stolle, D. (2012). Culturally informed Cognitive Behavioral interventions for trauma symptoms: Group therapy in rural American Indian reservation schools. Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 5 (1), 51-62. DOI:10.1080/1754730X.2012.664865.
Giannini, M., Gori, A., De Sanctis, E., & Schuldberg, D. (2011). A Comparative analysis of attachment: Psychometric Properties of the Psychological Treatment Inventory Attachment Styles Scale (PTI-ASS). Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 21 (4), 363-381.
Field, R. J., & Schuldberg, D. (2011). Social-support moderated stress: A nonlinear dynamical model and the stress buffering hypothesis. Nonlinear Dynamics in Psychology and the Life Sciences, 15 (1), 53-85.
Schuldberg, D. (2011). Chaos theory and creativity (revised). In M. Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Creativity, 2nd Edition. NY: Wiley.
Schuldberg, D. (2011). Affective Disorders. In M. Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Creativity, 2nd Edition. NY: Wiley.
Calhoun, D., Brod, R., Kirlin, K., Howard, B. V., Schuldberg, D., & Fiore, C. (2010). Preliminary evidence for the effectiveness of Motivational Interviewing inspired counseling among Northern Plains Indians with Type-2 Diabetes. Diabetes Spectrum, 23, 107-114.
Gori, A., R. Lauro-Grotto, R., Giannini, M., & Schuldberg (2010). Predicting treatment outcome by combining different assessment tools: Toward an integrative model of decision support in psychotherapy. Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, 20 (2), 251-269.
Angstman, S., Schuldberg, D., Harris, K., & Cochran, B., Peterson, P. (2009). Use of Quality of Life Inventory for measuring quality of life changes in an inpatient psychiatric population. Psychological Reports, 104, 1-8.
Morsette, A., van den Pol, R., & Schuldberg, D. (2009). Etiology and treatment of PTSD symptoms with American Indian adolescents: A summary of five years of research. Conference Compendium, Intersecting Interests Conference .2008.
Morsette, A., Swaney, G., Stolle, D., Schuldberg, D., Young, M., & van den Pol, R. (2009). Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS): School-based treatment on a rural American Indian reservation. Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, 40, 169-178.
Giannini, M., Schuldberg, D., Di Fabio, A., & Gargaro, D. (2008). Misurare l’ottimismo: Proprietà psicometriche della versione italiana
Schuldberg, D. (2007). Living well creatively: What’s chaos got to do with it? In R. Richards (Ed.), Everyday Creativity and New Views of Human Nature: Psychological, Social, and Spiritual Perspectives, Chapter 2. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association Press.
Schuldberg, D. (2007). Living well creatively: What’s chaos got to do with it? In R. Richards (Ed.), Everyday Creativity and New Views of Human Nature: Psychological, Social, and Spiritual Perspectives, Chapter 2. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association Press.
Schuldberg, D. (2006). Nonlinear dynamics of Positive Psychology: Parameters, models, and searching for a systems summum bonum. In A. D. Ong & M. van Dulmen (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Methods in Positive Psychology, pp. 423-436. N.Y.: Oxford University Press.
Schuldberg, D. (2006). Complicato, ma non troppo: A small nonlinear model and the good life. In, A. Delle Fave (Ed.), Dimensions of well-being. Research and intervention, pp. 552-566. Milano: Franco Angeli (Selected Papers, 2nd European Conference on Positive Psychology, Verbania Pallanza, Italy). View pdf
Schuldberg, D. (2005). Eysenck Personality Questionnaire scales and paper-and-pencil tests related to creativity. Psychological Reports, 97, 180-182.
Gottlieb, J. D., Pryzgoda, J., Neal, A., & Schuldberg, D. (2005). Generalization of Skills through the addition of individualized coaching: Development and evaluation of a Social Skills Training program in a rural setting. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 12, 324-338. View pdf
Atkins, T., van den Pol, R., & Schuldberg, D. (2006). Safe School Assessment and Resource Bank: A research based instrument to monitor school climate and safety. Communiqué (Newspaper of the National Association of School Psychologists),35 (1), 45-47.
Schuldberg, D., & Gottlieb, J. (2002). Dynamics and correlates of microscopic changes in affect. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology and Life Sciences, 6, 231-257. View pdf
Schuldberg, D. (2002). Theoretical contributions of complex systems to positive psychology and health: A Somewhat-complicated affair. Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology and Life Sciences, special issue on creative theory, 6, 335-350. View pdf
Schuldberg, D. (2000-2001). Six subclinical "spectrum" traits in "normal creativity." In special issue of Creativity Research Journal, edited and with commentary by L. A. Sass and D. Schuldberg, 13 (1), 5-16. View pdf
Schuldberg, D. (1999). Chaos theory and creativity. In M. Runco & S. Pritzker (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Creativity, Volume 1, pp. 259-272. N.Y.: Wiley. View pdf
Schuldberg, D., Quinlan, D. M., & Glazer, W. (1999). Positive and negative symptoms and adjustment in severely mentally ill outpatients. Psychiatry Research, 85, 177-188. View pdf
Schuldberg, D., & Guisinger, S. (1991). Divorced fathers describe their former wives: Devaluation and contrast. Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, 14, 3/4, 61-87.
Schuldberg, D. (1990). Varieties of inconsistency across test occasions: Effects of computerized test administration and repeated testing. Journal of Personality Assessment, 55, 168-182. View pdf
Representative Presentations:
Gori, A., Giannini, M., & Schuldberg, D. (2008). Mind and body together? A new measure for planning treatment and assessing psychotherapy outcome. Paper presented to the Congress of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI), Boston, MA, May 4, 2008.
Morsette, A., Schuldberg, D., Stolle, D., & van den Pol, R. (2006). Culturally informed CBT for trauma symptoms: Preliminary Lessons Learned. Poster presented to the meetings of the American Psychological Association, New Orleans, LA., August, 2006.
Schuldberg, D. (2006). How stable are traits, really? Assessing and evaluating temporal fluctuations in a short Big-Five measure. Presentation to the Department of Psychology, University of Florence, Italy, March 28, 2006.
Guisinger, S., & Schuldberg, D. (2007). The A-BPST: A Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for Anorexia Nervosa based on evolutionary theory, with pilot data. Presented to the Academy for Eating Disorders meetings, Baltimore, MD, May 4, 2007.
Stolle, D., van den Pol, R., Schuldberg, D., Morsette, A. (2006). Trauma and Northern Plains Indian children: Elements of recovery through a school based trauma treatment program. Paper presented to symposium, “Promoting the Mental Health of Ethnically/Racially Diverse Adolescents: School & Community-Based Approaches to Addressing Trauma” (Jessica Goodkind, Chair; Marlene Wong, Discussant), biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence, San Francisco, CA., March 24, 2006.
Schuldberg, D. (2004). Complicato, ma non troppo: A small nonlinear model and the good life. Paper presented to the 2nd European Conference on Positive Psychology Verbania Pallanza, Italy, July 5 - 8, 2004. (See http://www.gallup-europe.be/PositivePsychology/presentations.htm)
Schuldberg, D. (2004). Living well creatively: What’s chaos got to do with it? Invited paper accepted for Division 10 symposium, “Everyday creativity and new views of human nature” (Ruth Richards, Chair), 2004 Convention of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, HI.
Schuldberg, D. (2004). An appreciation and some criticisms of Seligman’s Authentic Happiness: In which our virtues become our vices, and vice versa. Presentation to the Philosophy Forum, The University of Montana, September 14, 2004.
Schuldberg, D. (2003). “Writing the dissertation” and “Developing (and using) your CV” (co-presenter). Presentations to the Compact for Faculty Diversity Institute on Teaching and Mentoring, Miami, FL, October 30-November 2, 2003.
Gottlieb, J., & Schuldberg, D. (2004). Aspects of cognitive vulnerability as predictive of general and specific themes of delusional ideation in individuals at risk for psychosis. Presented to the 38th annual AABT meetings, New Orleans, LA., November 18-21, 2004.
Pryzgoda, J. & Schuldberg, D. (2004).Thought suppression, self-reflection, and posttraumatic thought: An examination of proposed pathways to growth. Presented to the 38th annual AABT meetings, New Orleans, LA, November 18-21, 2004.
Gottlieb, J. D., Rothman, W., Pryzgoda, J., Belcourt-Dittloff, A. M., & Schuldberg, D. (2003). Elucidating the relationship between risk for psychosis and problematic alcohol use: The role of alcohol expectancies in relation to symptomatology. Poster presented to the meetings of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy, Boston, MA. November 20-23, 2003.
Schuldberg, D. (2003). The nonlinear dynamics of Positive Psychology: It’s just somewhat complicated. Paper presented to International Positive Psychology Summit, Gallup Organization, Washington, D.C., October 2-5, 2003.
Schuldberg, D., & Waltz, J. A. (2003). Dynamic correlates of “Emotional numbing.” Paper presented to the annual meeting of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology and the Life Sciences, Boston, MA, August, 8-10, 2003. Abstract available on-line: http://www.societyforchaostheory.org/conf2003/abstracts.html.
Schuldberg, D. (2002). Health psychology challenges. Paper presented in symposium, "Nonlinear Dynamics (Chaos) in psychology: Progress report from the frontier." American Psychological Society annual convention, New Orleans, L.A., June 9, 2002.
Schuldberg, D. (2000). Creativity and chaos in positive psychology. Invited address for the program of APA Division 10 (Psychology and the Arts), Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D. C., August 4-8, 2000.
Schuldberg, D., & Guisinger, S. (2000). Female choice in the evolution of language: Evidence from an analogue study of sperm donor preferences. Paper presented to the meetings of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, Amherst, M.A., June, 2000.
Young, Q-R, Schuldberg, D., Seekins, T., & Ravesloot, C. (1999). Two applications of a cognitive health promotion intervention: Evaluation of an application for older adults and a pilot with cardiac patients. Presentation to the Society of Behavioral Medicine, San Diego, C.A., March 6, 1999.
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Languages Known:
- Italian - general intermediate
