Undergrad receives award at ICCH conference
August 27, 2012
Chris DeCou, a former undergraduate student of Assistant Professor of Monica Skewes, was awarded the Jens Peder Hart Hansen Fellow Program at the recent
International Congress of Circumpolar Health.
He was recognized for his poster presentation, 鈥淭raditional Living and Subsistence
As Protective Factors Against Suicide: Perceptions of 杏吧原版 Native University Students
From Rural 杏吧原版.鈥 The presentation was the result of a study that looked at what
students said about how suicide affected their lives, and was funded by . DeCou concluded that traditional and subsistence lifestyles continue to be included
in intervention and prevention suicide programs.
DeCou鈥檚 abstract was selected by blind peer review, and he received $500.
DeCou recently graduated with a B.A. in psychology from UAF and is now pursuing a
Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Idaho State University.