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New Post-Traumatic Insomnia Workbook Co-authored by PAU Aluma C. Laurel Franklin, PhDDifficult and traumatic life experiences affect our lives in unexpected ways and can even change the way we sleep. In fact, up to 75 percent of all people who have experienced abuse, violence, or traumatic incidents have sleeping problems after these events, even after all other trauma-related symptoms have diminished. If you’ve experienced these problems for yourself, The Post-Traumatic Insomnia Workbook is for you. Read more about the Workbook and purchase your copy today! About C. Laurel Franklin, PhD New Mentorship Program Launching in 2011PAU is excited to announce a new Mentorship Program, featuring alumni panel talks and discussions, starting in Spring 2011. We invite alums to participate and share ideas. Please contact Kemper Mitchell at kmitchell@paloaltou.edu for more information. 
Alumni SpotlightGreg Salerno, Ph.D. News from PAUDr. Phillip Zimbardo at PAU Dr. Zimbardo addressed a group of students, faculty and staff at Palo Alto University on Monday, October 25, 2010. Topics discussed included Dr. Zimbardo’s recent appearance on the Dr. Phil show and Dr. Zimbardo’s recent book The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil Multicultural and Psychology Academic Leader Dr. Stanley Sue Joins PAU Faculty |
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C. Laurel Franklin, PhD earned her BA degree from Loyola University, New Orleans in psychology and her MS degree in psychology from University of South Alabama. Her doctorate was awarded in 2001 by Pacific Graduate School of Psychology (now Palo Alto University). Dr. Franklin completed her pre-doctoral internship at the New Orleans VA Medical Center (now Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System). She completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital, where her research focused on assessment and diagnosis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Dr. Franklin currently is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Tulane University. She also works as a clinical psychologist on the PTSD clinical team at the Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System. Dr. Franklin has had grant funding in the area of assessing and treating PTSD and trauma-related insomnia. Currently, she has a grant examining whether cognitive behavioral treatments for insomnia can be effectively applied using telemedicine in veterans who have post-traumatic insomnia.