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The immediate aim is to elucidate the
contribution of patient illness factors (stressors), caregiver resources
(coping, social support) and vulnerabilities (physical illness and behavioral
risk factors) in predicting caregiver health outcomes. A current five year
intervention study is examining the health impacts of a family education and
support program for schizophrenia caregivers. Another series of studies is
looking at the predictive relationship between behavior, lifestyle, and
physiological factors and a non-invasive marker of coronary heart disease
(coronary artery calcification).
Biographical Information
Dennis G. Dyck, Professor
of Psychology and Neurosciences, received a B.A. degree in psychology from
Fresno Pacific College in 1968, an M.A. in psychology from the Pepperdine
University of Washington in 1969, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the
University of Oklahoma in 1973. He was a postdoctoral intern in clinical
psychology at the University of Manitoba in 1983-1984. From 1984-1991conducted
Neuroimmmunology research at the University of Manitoba. Dr. Dyck joined W.S.U.
in 1991 as the Director of the Washington Institute for Mental Illness:
Research and Training which he continues into the present. In this capacity he
directs clinical and mental health services as well as training programs that
benefit persons in the public mental health system.
Selected Publications
Hendryx, M, Dyck, DG
&
Srebnik, D (in press). Risk-adjusted outcome models for public mental health
outpatient programs. Health Services Research.
Short, R, Vitaliano, P & Dyck, DG (1998). Predictors of infectious illness in
schizophrenia family caregivers. Psychosomatic Medicine,60, 100.
Florio, E, Hendryx, M, Jensen, JE, Rockwood, T, Raschko, R & Dyck, DG (1997).
A comparison of suicidal and non-suicidal elders referred to a community
mental health center program. J of Suicidal and Life Threatening Behavior, 27,
182-193.
Srebnik, D, Hendryx, M, Stevenson, J, Caverly, S, Cauce, AM & Dyck, DG (1997).
Development of outcome indicators for monitoring the quality of public mental
health care. Psychiatric Services, 48, 903-909.
Ries, RK & Dyck, DG (1997). Representative payee practices of community mental
health centers in Washington State. Psychiatric Services, 48, 811-815.
Janz L, Vriend CY, Murray L, Green-Johnson J, Nance DM, Greenberg AH and Dyck
DG (1996). Pavlovian conditioning of LPS induced responses: Effects on
corticosterone, splenic, NE & IL-2 production. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and
Behavior, 59, 1103-1109.
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