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Deanne Katz '08 started working with autistic children in high school and hasn't really stopped. This summer the rising senior has an Emerson grant to build a project around special needs services for autistic children in Massachusetts schools. Collaborating with Assistant Professor of Psychology Tara McKee, Katz is spending her summer researching the services provided to autistic children in Massachusetts public schools and how the district parents feel about these services.

Hamilton College's highest awards for teaching were presented on May 6 to five faculty members from the English, government, economics and psychology and philosophy departments. They were honored during the Class & Charter Day celebration, an annual convocation recognizing student and faculty excellence during the preceding academic year.

Assistant Professor of Psychology Tara McKee was invited to give a colloquium for the psychology department at Bucknell University in February. The talk was titled "The Role of Coping Styles in the Parenting of Children and Adolescents with Externalizing Problems."  She also  published an article in February based on research she had started as an undergraduate: Ptacek, J.T., Leonard, K., & McKee, T.L. (2004). “I’ve got some bad news…”: Veterinarians’ recollections of communicating bad news to clients. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 34, 366-390.

Assistant Professor of Psychology Tara McKee has published an article titled “The Relation Between Parental Coping Styles and Parent-Child Interactions Before and After Treatment for Children with ADHD and Oppositional Behavior.” The article appears in the Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology Volume 33, No.1. McKee and her colleagues from the University of Massachusetts, Eastern Connecticut State University and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine sought to investigate the relationship between the coping styles of parents of ADHD children and their response to behavioral parent training programs that teach techniques for managing inappropriate behavior. McKee gave a talk at Bucknell University on Feb. 20 about this study as well as the research she is conducting with her students at Hamilton.