CURRICULUM VITAE
AMANDA SUZANNE UNRUH
Department of Psychology
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306-1270
Email: unruh@psy.fsu.edu
EDUCATION
2008-Present
Bachelor of Science in Psychology
Minor: Women’s Studies
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
GPA: 3.9
RESEARCH POSITIONS
08/11 - Present
Full-time Research Assistant
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Anxiety and Behavioral Health Clinic
Supervisor: Norman B. Schmidt, Ph.D.
Activities: Manage a multi-site anxiety based suicide prevention project funded
by the Military Suicide Research Consortium; manage undergraduate students
working in the laboratory; recruit research participants for various lab projects
utilizing multiple media sources; conduct telephone screens to determine
psychopathology in potential clients and research participants; construct and
manage internet data bases and SPSS data bases.
01/11 - Present
Honors Thesis Research
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Anxiety and Behavioral Health Clinic
Supervisor: Norman B. Schmidt, Ph.D.
Title: The influence of trait suggestibility on treatment seeking behavior
Activities: Assisted project coordinator with study needs including recruitment,
scheduling, and database creation; developed a website to facilitate scheduling;
administered research protocol to eligible participants, oversaw and trained new
assistants on lab policies and experimental procedures; managed data entry and
data cleaning utilizing SPSS; proficient in writing syntax for data analysis;
conducted data analysis for thesis.
01/10 – Present
Research Assistant
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Anxiety and Behavioral Health Clinic
Supervisor: Norman B. Schmidt, Ph.D.
Activities: Created databases utilizing SPSS; entered and cleaned data for various
lab related projects; administered research protocol to eligible participants;
conducted literature searches on anxiety-related topics and reviewed research
papers with graduate students; attended biweekly lab meetings; assisted with
exposure exercises in social anxiety disorder group therapy; assisted on video
project for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies; reviewed
videos and created video clips for ABCT website.
01/11 – Present
Research Assistant
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Clinical Psychology Laboratory
Supervisor: Thomas E. Joiner, Ph.D.
Activities: Assisted with participant recruitment for study assessing imminent
symptoms of suicidality in an in-patient population; assisted with the on-going
research by consenting, administering research protocol, collecting data, and
debriefing eligible participants; aided in SPSS database creation and data entry
for various research projects.
08/11 – Present
Research Assistant
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Clinical Psychology Laboratory
Supervisor: Edward M. Bernat, Ph.D.
Activities: Administered research protocol to eligible participants including
consenting, data collection, and debriefing using psychophysiology
measurements such as EEG and SCR; assisted with time-frequency analysis of
EEG data.
01/11 – 08/11
Research Assistant
Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Clinical Psychology Laboratory
Supervisor: Jesse R. Cougle, Ph.D.
Activities: Recruited and consented participants at various out-patient hospitals
in the community for a study assessing development of PTSD immediately after
a trauma; administered research protocol to participants at multiple time points;
assisted with data collection utilizing psychophysiology measurements; entered
and cleaned data using excel and SPSS; attended weekly lab meetings.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
1. Medley, A., Capron, D.W., Korte, K.J., Unruh, A.S., Schmidt, N.B. (2012). Risk Factors for
Compulsive Hoarding. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Anxiety Disorders Association of
America, Arlington, VA.
2. Korte, K. J., Unruh, A. S., Schmidt, N. B. (2012) Increasing motivation for intervention utilization in
those at high-risk for developing anxiety disorders. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Anxiety
Disorders Association of America, Arlington, VA.
HONORS AND AWARDS
05/08 – 04/12
Bright Futures Scholarship Recipient
01/10 – 04/12
Florida State University Honors in the Major Program
01/11 – Present
Phi Beta Kappa Honor’s Society Member
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Anxiety Disorders Association of America (Student Member)
REFERENCES
Available upon request