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Sep. 9, 2011

Trinity University Psychologist Named to Fellowship at Stanford University

Carolyn Becker will explore next steps for her nationally recognized body image program

SAN ANTONIO - Trinity University psychology professor Carolyn Black Becker has been named a Residential Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University for the 2011-12 academic year.

Becker, a nationally recognized expert on body image as well as a clinical psychologist, also developed the award winning Reflections Body Image Program, which is running nationally in partnership with the Delta Delta Delta sorority. One aspect of the program encourages women to stop references to "fat talk" when discussing their body shapes.

Becker noted that the Reflections program was started on the Trinity campus with local sororities and has been expanded throughout North America in partnership with the Tri Delta national sorority. As a Fellow, she will ponder next steps for the program.

"This Fellowship gives me an exciting opportunity to interact with an interdisciplinary group of scholars and to take the time to proactively plan the next stage of research related to the Reflections Body Image Program," Becker said. "I also will use this time to begin development of a body image program for older women in partnership with the Succeed Foundation, a London-based eating disorders charity." 

The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences is a national and international resource that exists to extend knowledge of the principles governing human behavior to help solve the critical problems of contemporary society.

Since 1954, the residential Fellowships have offered programs for scientists and scholars from the United States and foreign countries who seek to advance basic understandings of the social, psychological, historical, biological, and cultural foundations of behavior and society.