Positive Emotion & Psychopathology Lab

PEP Lab - Fall 2021
(First lab photo together in a very long time)

Hi PEP Lab Followers:

My students and lab are trying to fundraise to support our ability to continue to study changes in mental health for young adults before and during COVID-19. We can learn a lot about how young adults cope with stress and the changes that social isolation and uncertainty has posed on different paths of wellness and vulnerability. We created a webpage below with a specific CU Boulder donation link for our team's work and would be grateful if you know or anyone you know can spread the word around. Link below for reference.

EMERGE Project -- Dr. Gruber Dr. Gruber and her team have been actively involved in addressing a critical and growing nation-wide concern regarding the mental health and well-being of college students before, during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. We adopt a multi-method approach that incorporates remote-based survey measures...

mental health expert series spotlight: Critical themes in Racism and Disparities in Mental Health with April Thames at University of Southern California

#talkmentalillness interview with Dr. April Thames on disparities in mental health outcomes Dr. June Gruber, associate professor of psychology and neuroscience at CU Boulder, interviews Dr. April Thames, associate professor in the Department of Psyc...

Please consider donating to support our team’s ongoing work on student mental health and covid during this challenging time.

Positive Emotion & Psychopathology (PEP) Lab - Gruber Gift Fund | CU Boulder | Giving to CU To provide support for the Positive Emotion & Psychopathology (PEP) Lab at the University of Colorado Boulder. Support includes research, instruction, travel, education and training.

Congrats to PEP lab graduate student Cindy Villanueva and Renée Martin-Willett on their SRP newsletter discussing the power of students to harness social change in clinical science and the field of mental health at large. Important read!

Thrilled to share the official launch of our
Coursera University of Colorado Boulder course today! Please spread the word!

https://www.coursera.org/learn/talkmentalillness?fbclid=IwAR0Kh9K14cl0yJMCYtWRlBYWwLEgAy1HSo69TSPYXglM8KsqPpSXBU1003k

#talkmentalillness Offered by University of Colorado Boulder. I am a professor and mental health researcher and educator, and I’ve been working in the field ... Enroll for free.

Grateful to announce Dr. Gruber's brand new course for the public on Coursera at University of Colorado Boulder. Contains a series of 37 interviews with leading experts, scholars and public health advocates in mental illness, health and science of happiness. Course launches in early February -- stay tuned!
You can also find the interviews on YouTube linked below.

Psychologist launches #TalkMentalIllness course for the masses After leading a ‘call to action’ on burgeoning mental-illness crisis, prof launches a massive, open online course on mental health.

The CU Boulder BFA Student Affairs Committee just finished its series of focus groups with undergraduate and graduate students to identify barriers to student learning and success that hybrid and remote-learning classes have created this semester. We would like to give those students who were unable to join us a chance to share their perspectives by completing a brief anonymous survey below. If you are CU student and have a few minutes, please consider taking this survey.

BFA SAC FA20 Academic Experience Survey | Qualtrics Survey Solutions The most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today.

PEP lab offers science based suggestions for this pandemic Thanksgiving

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/11/26/thanksgiving-2020-colorado-covid/

Congrats Cindy Villanueva on publishing an amazing 1st-author paper with superstars Rebecca Silton, Deanna Barch, & Wendy Heller.

Villanueva, C. M., Silton, R. L., Heller, W., Barch, D. M., & Gruber, J. (in press). Change is on the horizon: Call to action for the study of positive emotion and reward in psychopathology. Current Opinion in the Behavioral Sciences.

https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2020/10/22/wave-distress-mobilizes-psychologists?fbclid=IwAR1hSrMaO2bCIb4PYkYST2fdIb3n6sYnzcHbCpUJ5DZuFawQqJEjIA784Ko

Gruber and over 25 clinical scientists signal a call to action to counter the wave of distress faced during the COVID-19 pandemic

Wave of distress mobilizes psychologists CU Boulder professor co-leads ‘call to action’ for mental-health care during pandemic