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Biographical Sketch
Erin is a second year graduate student in Dr. Linehan’s lab who joined the research group at the BRTC in 2007. She completed her B.A. at Indiana University South Bend in 2006 where she majored in Psychology and minored in Spanish. She decided to center her education on psychology in her first year of her undergraduate studies and cultivated a research interest in suicide during a class on suicide and depression in her third year. She completed an honors thesis under the mentoring of Dr. John McIntosh that looked at the attitudes of the general population and practicing therapists toward therapists who had lost patients to suicide. Since coming to the University of Washington and the BRTC, she has continued to develop her research interests in suicide through current research projects and course work.
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