Liz possesses a range of research interests within the serious mental illness field. These include the neurocognitive and social cognitive deficits associated with psychotic disorders, the relationship between cognition, psychotic symptoms, and psychosocial functioning, treatment for psychotic disorders, and program evaluation of mental health service settings.
Prior to coming to UNL, Liz received her BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2006. While there, she worked on projects investigating the prodromal stage of psychosis, and psychosocial treatment for first episode psychosis.
Liz's placement this year is research assistant for the RAISE Project.
Penn, D. L., Uzenoff, S. R., Perkins, D., Mueser, K. T., Hamer, R., Waldheter, E., Saade, S., & Cook, L. (in press). A pilot investigation of the Graduated Recovery Intervention Program (GRIP) for first episode psychosis. Schizophrenia Research.
Waldheter, E.J., Penn, D.L., Perkins, D.O., Mueser, K.T., Owens, L.W., Cook, E.A. (2008). The Graduated Recovery Intervention Program for First Episode Psychosis: Treatment Development and Preliminary Data. Community Mental Health Journal, 44, 443-455.
Davidson, C. A., Cook, E. A., Bottoms, H. C., Gallegos, Y., Spaulding, W. (2010). The inventory of self-efficacy and externality (I-SEE) in a community mental health center: reliability, factor structure, validity, and a proposed validity scale. Poster presented at the 44th Annual Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. San Francisco, CA.
Kleinlein, P., Choi, K., Cook, E., Davidson, C. A., & Spaulding, W. (2010). Social cognition and interaction training (SCIT) for outpatients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. Poster presented at the 44th Annual Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. San Francisco, CA.
Liu, N. H., Cook, E. A., & Spaulding, W. D. (2010). Cognitive rehabilitation: which treatment works for which outcome? Poster presented at the 44th Annual Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. San Francsico, CA.
