TIDR News

Assistant Professor Xiaoling Xiang and Associate Professor Emily Nicklett received a grant from the Community Memorial Foundation via the Aging Care Connections for their community-engaged project which aims to evaluate the Aging Well Neighborhood initiative in Illinois. The Initiative is a collaboration of businesses, health care agencies, and nonprofits to create “health neighborhood” that assists the whole person aging in place and affirms the benefits of a life-long process of wellness and prevention.

Assistant Research Scientist and LEO Adjunct Lecturer Adrienne Lapidos received a grant from the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services for her project, ”Create Sustainable Model for Community Health Workers in Detroit.” The project is designed to address the behavioral, medical, and social determinants of health among health plan enrollees living in the Cody Rouge neighborhood of Detroit.

Associate Dean for Research and Professor Joe Himle and Assistant Professor Addie Weaver’s article, “Awareness enhancing and monitoring device plus habit reversal in the treatment of trichotillomania: An open feasibility trial” was published in the Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders. Click here to read the article.

Peter Felsman (PhD student) and Associate Dean for Research and Professor Joe Himle received a grant from The Detroit Creativity Project for “The Improv Project” which is a Detroit school-based program that teaches life skills to adolescents through improvisational theater. The program has been found to predict increases in social skills and reductions in social phobia, through survey outcome data.

Associate Dean for Research and Professor Joe Himle, Associate Professor Matthew Smith, and Assistant Professor Addie Weaver’s Treatment, Innovation and Dissemination Lab (TIDL) was featured in The Michigan Daily article, “TIDL launches new website, continues work on mental health research.”