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About Diana M. Morelen

Positions

August 2016 - Present Associate Professor, East Tennessee State University ‐ Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
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Present Assistant Professor, East Tennessee State University ‐ Child and Family Health Institute
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Present Assistant Professor, East Tennessee State University ‐ College of Arts and Sciences
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Present Associate Director of Training Dissemination and Implementation, East Tennessee State University ‐ Strong BRAIN Institute
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Present Member, East Tennessee State University ‐ Psychology's Committee on Inclusion and Equity
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Curriculum Vitae

Disciplines

Research Interests

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Professional Service and Affiliations

Present Member, Association for Infant Mental Health in Tennessee
Present Member, Intermountain Psychologist Association
Present Member, Society for Research in Child Development
Present Member, Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Division 53 APA
Present Member, Tennessee Psychological Association
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Honors and Awards

  • 2004-2008 - Dean's List Honor Role, College of William & Mary
  • 2005 & 2006 - Bionetics Summer Service Grant
  • 2006 - James Monroe Scholar
  • 2008 - Stanley B. Wilson Award for an Outstanding Student in Psychology
  • 2010 - University of Georgia International Travel Funding Award
  • 2011 - University of Georgia Domestic Travel Funding Award
  • 2012 - University of Georgia Domestic Travel Funding Award
  • 2012 - American Psychological Association Student Travel Award
  • 2012 - Florene M. Young Award for Outstanding Clinical Service
  • 2012 - University of Georgia Dissertation Completion Award
  • 2015 - National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program
  • 2016 - National Institutes of Mental Health Child Intervention and Prevention Services (CHIPS) Fellowship
  • 2017 - East Tennessee State Presidential Grants in Aid Research Training Award
  • 2017 - East Tennessee State University Research Development Committee Major Grants Program
  • 2017 - National Institutes of Health Loan Repayment Program, NICHD
  • 2019 - East Tennessee State University College of Arts & Sciences New Faculty Award
  • 2019 - Moms Innovation Award: Community Solutions
  • 2020 - Moms Innovation Award: Community Solutions

Courses

  • Introduction to Psychology (Undergraduate Course)
  • Evidence-Based Interventions (Graduate Course)
  • Personality Theory and Models of Psychotherapy (Graduate Course)
  • Advanced Psychopathology (Graduate Course)
  • Clinical Practicum (Graduate Course)
  • Developmental Psychopathology Lab (Undergraduate Research Lab)

Education

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September 2014 - July 2016 Post Doctoral Fellowship, Clinical Psychology, The University Of Michigan
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July 2013 - July 2014 Internship, Clinical Psychology, Virginia Commonwealth University Medical Center
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August 2011 - August 2014 PhD, Clinical Psychology, University of Georgia
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August 2008 - August 2011 MS, Clinical Psychology, University of Georgia
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August 2004 - May 2008 BA, Psychology, William & Mary
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July 2005 - November 2005 Study Abroad program, University of Wollongong
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Contact Information

PO Box 70649
Johnson City, TN 37614

Office: 420 Rogers-Stout Hall
Phone: 423-439-4424

Email:

Peer-Reviewed Publications (23)

Article
Children's Emotion Regulation Across and Within Nations: A Comparison ...
This research examined national, regional, developmental, and gender differences in children's reported management of anger and sadness. Participants (8–15 years) were 103 Ghanaian children from a village setting, 142 Ghanaian children from a middle-class urban context, 106 Kenyan children from an impoverished urban context, and 170 children from the United States in lower to middle-class urban areas (58.8% Caucasian). Children completed the Children's Anger and Sadness Management Scales (Zeman, Shipman, & Penza-Clyve, 2001) to assess emotion management (i.e., effortful control, over control, under control). Comparisons across nations indicated that Ghanaian youth reported more overt anger expression than youth from Kenya and the United States and less anger inhibition than Kenyan youth. U.S. children reported less overt expression and more constraint over sadness than Kenyan and Ghanaian children, although Kenyans reported being calmer when experiencing sadness than Ghanaian and American youth. Comparing Ghanaian regional contexts, village children reported more anger control than urban children. Regardless of nationality, boys reported more control over sadness than girls who reported more under control of sadness and more over control of anger than boys. Future research is needed to build on these descriptive, preliminary findings examining under-studied cross-national contexts. (2012)
Diana M. Morelen, Janice Zeman, Carisa Perry-Parrish and Ellen Anderson
This research examined national, regional, developmental, and gender differences in children's reported management of anger and sadness. Participants (8–15 years) ...
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Book Chapters (4)