Change and Maintaining Change

Rick A. Bevins  is the Willa Cather Professor and Chair of Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His research interests bridge areas of neuroscience, pharmacology, animal learning and cognition, and psychology. He is the NIH Study Section Member for Neurobiology of Motivated Behavior, the Past President for Division 28 (Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse) of the APA, the Behavioral Pharmacology and Neuroscience Editor for Journal of Experimental Analysis of Behavior, and Associate Editor of Motivated Behavior for Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior.

Debra A. Hope is an Aaron Douglas Professor of Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Dr. Hope received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University at Albany-State University of New York in 1990 and joined the psychology department of UNL in the same year. Her current research interests follow two broad themes: (a) assessment and treatment of anxiety disorders(particularly social anxiety disorder) and (b) the impact of stigma and discrimination on mental health and health services for individuals who identify as gender and sexual minorities.  Dr. Hope is the director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic and the Rainbow Clinic, both specialty services within the UNL in-house clinic, and co-founder of Trans Collaborations, a community-academic partnership to reduce health disparities for gender minorities.