Date: May 2001

Faruk Gencoz

 

Department of Psychology

Middle East Technical University

06531, Ankara, Turkey

Office Phone: + 90 (312) 210 5107

Fax: + 90 (312) 210 12 88

E-mail address: fgencoz@metu.edu.tr

Home Page: http://www.metu.edu.tr/~fgencoz

 

EDUCATION

Post-Doctoral Fellow, June 1999- February 2000, Department of Psychology, Florida State University, USA

Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, 1997, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey

M.S., Applied (Clinical) Psychology, 1990, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

B.S., Department of Psychology, 1987, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor: 2002 - Present, Department of Psychology, Middle East Technical University

Assistant Professor: 2000 - 2002, Department of Psychology, Middle East Technical University

Instructor: 2000, Department of Psychology, Middle East Technical University

Visiting Scholar: 1999 - 2000, Department of Psychology, Florida State University

Instructor: 1993 -1999, Department of Psychology, Middle East Technical University

Research Assistant: 1989 -1993, Department of Psychology, Middle East Technical University

 

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES

(2001-2002) Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Faculty Executive Board

(2002-Present) Director of the Clinical Psychology Unit

(2003-Present) Department of Psychology, Assistant Chair

 

HONORS / AWARDS

1999 Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA) International Research Award

 

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS

Emotions in Psychopathology, Facial Emotional Expression, Stress, and Smoking

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Graduate Courses

Emotions in Psychopathology

Ethical Issues in Clinical Psychology

Adulthood Psychopathology and Psychotherapy I and II

Practicum I, II, and III

Undergraduate Courses

Clinical Psychology

Emotion

Stress and Coping

Psychopathology

Psychology of Adjustment

Workshop on Facial Expression,

Workshop on Mental Retardation

General Psychology,

Introduction to Psychology I, and II,

Research Methods I, and II,

 

CLINICAL EXTERNSHIPS

August 1989 - September 1989 (Full-time)

Enver Bakioglu Rehabilitation Center, Izmir

Duties: Behavioral assessment of developmental deficits, Intelligence testing, application of rehabilitation techniques, sports intervention, and report writing.

 

March 1989 - June 1989 (Part-time)

Hacettepe University Psychiatry Clinic, Ankara

Duties: MMPI, Rorschach, and TAT applications, interpretation and report writing, observation of therapy sessions, behavioral psychotherapy of a couple with sexual problems.

 

October 1988 - January 1989 (Part-time)

Gülhane Military Medical Academy Psychiatry Clinic, Ankara

Duties: Psychological test battery applications, report writing and initial interviews with anxious and depressive patients.

 

INTERNSHIP

September 1991 - June 1993 (Part-time)

Hacettepe University Student Counseling Center, Ankara

Duties: Cognitive behavioral assessment, MMPI application, interpretation and report writing, cognitive- behavioral psychotherapy.

 

PUBLICATIONS

Gencoz, F. (1997). The effects of basketball training on the maladaptive behaviors of trainable mentally retarded children. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 18, 1-10. Click here for abstract

Gencoz, F. (1998). Psychology of adjustment. Kriz Dergisi, 6, 1-7. Click here for abstract

Gencoz, F., Gencoz, T., Joiner, Jr.,T. E. (2000). Physiological hyperarousal as a specific correlate of anxious symptoms among youth psychiatric inpatients. Social Behavior and Personality, 28, 409-412. Click here for abstract

Joiner, Jr.,T. E., Schmidt, N. B., Lerew, D. R., Cook, J. H., Gencoz, T., & Gencoz, F. (2000). The differential roles of depressive and anxious symptoms and of gender in defensiveness. Journal of Personality Assessment, 75, 200-211. Click here for abstract

Joiner, Jr., T. E., Metalsky, G. I., Gencoz, F., & Gencoz, T. (2001). The relative specificity of excessive reassurance-seeking to depressive symptoms and diagnoses among clinical samples of adults and youth. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 23 (1), 35-41.

Gencoz, T., Voelz, Z., Gencoz, F., Pettit, J., & Joiner, Jr., T. E. (2001). Specificity of information processing styles to depressive symptoms in youth psychiatric inpatients. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 29, 255-262.

Pettit, J. W., Kline, J. P., Gencoz, T., Gencoz, F., & Joiner, T. E., Jr. (in press). Are happier people healthier? The specific role of positive affect in predicting self-reported health symptoms. Journal of Research in Personality.

Joiner, T., Gencoz, F., Gencoz, T., Metalsky, G.I., & Rudd, M.D. (in press). Does schizophrenia imbue self-hatred with a suicidal quality? Journal of Psychopathology & Behavioral Assessment.

Joiner, T.E., Pettit, J.W., Perez, M., Burns, A.B., Gencoz, T., Gencoz, F., & Rudd, M.D. (in press) Can positive emotion influence problem-solving attitudes among suicidal adults? Professional Psychology: Research & Practice.

 

MEMBERSHIP

Turkish Psychological Association (TPA)

International Society for Research on Emotion (ISRE)

 

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Gencoz, F. (2001, June). Affect identification bias among anxious and depressive university students. Poster presentation conducted at Feelings and Emotion: The Amsterdam Symposium, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Voelz, Z. R., Gencoz, F., Gencoz, T., Pettit, J. W., Perez, M., &Joiner, Jr., T. E. (2000, November). Patterns of hemispheric perceptual asymmetries: Left hemispatial biases predict changes in anxiety and positive affect in undergraduate women. Poster presentation conducted at the 33rd Annual Convention of the Association for the Advancement ofBehavior Therapy, New Orleans, Louisiana.

 

PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

Gencoz, F., Cepeliogullar, N., Kaynak H., & Yalim, D. (April 2001). Psychological Wars: Adjustment, Development and Stress. The Turco-British Association, Ankara.

Gencoz, F. (October 2000). Use of popular movie films in Clinical Psychology Training. The Turco-British Association, Ankara.

Karanci, N., Gencoz, T., Gencoz, F., Duru, C. (1997, December). Workshop on psycho-social aspects of disaster management. Ministry of Public Works and Settlement, Ankara.

Gencoz, F. (1995, November). Attitudes of university students towards ethical problems in psychological research. IVth National Social Sciences Congress, Ankara.

Gencoz, F. (1995, May). Humanistic approaches in psychology and investigation of love and tolerance from the perspective of psychosocial personality development. Panel of love and tolerance, 50^th Anniversary of United Nations organized by the Turkish Ministry of Education and Celebration of the Year of Tolerance, 1995, Ankara.

Gencoz, F. (1995, April). Description of stress from the ecological perspective, physiological explanations, adaptation and coping with negative consequences. Workshop of coping with stress, Ist National Psychology Students Congress, Ankara.

Gencoz, F. (1992, September). Physiological explanations of progressive relaxation and encountered problems during the application of these exercises. Progressive relaxation, Workshop at VIIth National Psychology Congress, Ankara.

Gencoz, F. (1992, July). Importance of family factor in the education of children with mental retardation). Child and mental health, 11^th Aksaray-Ihlara Tourism and Culture Festival, Aksaray).

 

EDUCATION ACTIVITIES

Gencoz, F. (1996, June). Stress and coping with stress. Middle East Technical University Continuing Education Center Public Seminars , Ankara.

Gencoz, F. (1997, February). Course for clinical psychologists on understanding and behavioral interventions of mental retardation and its ethical issues. Turkish Psychological Association, Ankara.

Gencoz, F. (1994, March). Relaxation with its fully explained examples. Seminar of coping with stress, Middle East Technical University Continuing Education Center, Ankara.

Gencoz, F. (1993, March). Effects of relaxation in coping with stress, physiological explanation of relaxation and application of relaxation. Educational seminar of stress and coping with stress at work, Middle East Technical University Continuing Education Center, Ankara.