Karen Wolford

Research

Karen Wolford is a licensed clinical psychologist whose research interests include treatment outcome studies, validational studies and scale development of psychological screening instruments (for organicity, suicidality). Additional areas of interest include psychological assessment, substance abuse, psychological trauma, mindfulness-based stress reduction research, and issues of race, class and gender. Her work includes assisting with the development of a state-wide grief counseling curriculum including a unit on support and supervision for grief counselors dealing with the September 11 tragedy. Most recently Dr. Wolford has been working with veterans mentoring research on trauma for an NSF REU grant.

Education

• Ph.D., Oklahoma State University, 1980
• MS, Oklahoma State University, 1977
• BS, Oklahoma State University, 1974

Classes taught

• PSY 350 - Abnormal Psychology
• PSY 452/552 - Introduction to Trauma Studies
• PSY 451/551 - Trauma and Loss
• PSY 595 - Graduate Field Placement in Trauma Studies