William Spaulding, PhD

Dr. Spaulding received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona in 1976 and completed a postdoctoral Fellowship in Mental Health Research and Teaching at the University of Rochester, 1976-1979. He joined the UN-L faculty in 1979. His research interests address various aspects of schizophrenia and other severe disorders, including clinical and experimental psychopathology, the effectiveness of treatment and rehabilitation, and service systems and social policy. Recent projects in his research group have included neuropsychological impairment in schizophrenia, cognitive and neuropsychological predictors of success in treatment and rehabilitation, neuroendocrine aspects of schizophrenia, assessment of stress and coping in rehabilitation, social cognition in psychosis, the effectiveness of cognitive treatment, state hospital reform and involuntary treatment. His graduate students include individuals in the regular clinical Ph.D. track and clinical students in the M.L.S./Ph.D. track of the UNL Law-Psychology program. His law-psychology students are generally interested in law and social policy related to severe mental illness, and therapeutic jurisprudence (using the law for therapeutic purposes). Dr. Spaulding also has general interests in psychopharmacology and the integration of psychopharmacological and psychological treatment. He teaches graduate courses on psychopathology, psychopharmacology and the history and philosophy of psychology, and supervises clinical practica. His recent book, Treatment and Rehabilitation of Severe Mental Illness, with co-authors Mary Sullivan and Jeffrey Poland, is a comprehensive integration of theory, research and practice principles.

Dr. Spaulding maintains an active clinical and consulting practice, including staff positions in community-based and hospital-based psychiatric rehabilitation programs. He teaches graduate courses on psychopathology, psychopharmacology and the history and philosophy of psychology, and supervises clinical practica.

Dr. Spaulding is the Principal Investigator for the new (2007) NIMH Grant: Decision Science in Rehabilitation (DSR).

Email Will: WSpaulding1@unl.edu

For a representative list of Will's publications please reference his bio on the UNL Psychology web site.