Undergrad receives award at ICCH conference
August 27, 2012
Chris DeCou, a former undergraduate student of Assistant Professor of Psychology 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, “Traditional Living and Subsistence
As Protective Factors Against Suicide: Perceptions of Alaska Native University Students
From Rural Alaska.” The presentation was the result of a study that looked at what
students said about how suicide affected their lives, and was funded by Alaska EPSCoR. DeCou concluded that traditional and subsistence lifestyles continue to be included
in intervention and prevention suicide programs.
DeCou’s 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.