Debra Martinson Curriculum Vitae

Profile

Available as an unpaid laboratory assistant in psychology preparatory to making graduate school applications this winter. Exceptional computer skills, strong research interests in self-injury, self-schema theory, group dynamics, and research methods. Current project: forming non-profit corporation to coordinate resources, gather information, and educate public about self-injury. Also running online support groups for those who self-injure, and running 400-member email list for self-harmers.

Personal Details

Address: 2607 22nd Ave W
Seattle, WA 98199
Telephone: (206) 284-9249
Email: llama@palace.net

Research Experience

1996-present. Independent Study. Compiled extensive literature review in the area of self-injury and created an award-winning World Wide Web page.

1993-94. University of Chicago/National Opinion Research Center Data management and statistical/computer support, Sloan Study on Youth and Social Development. Created all first-year SPSS and SAS data files, compiled demographical information, suggested areas of investigation, debugged SPSS code for graduate students, wrote basic UNIX and SPSS manuals for project workers, designed and co-taught UNIX class for graduate research assistants. Worked under Barbara Schneider, Ph.D., and Charles Bidwell, Ph.D., director Ogburn-Stouffer Center of NORC.

1987-89. University of Texas at Arlington Undergraduate thesis on shyness and stereotyped sex-role behaviors during initial interaction with an opposite-sex stranger (as part of psychology honors program). Undergraduate research assistant in social/personality psychology (14 semester hours of credit in research): coded videotapes, entered data, monitored experimental settings. Completed three-hour credit in directed readings. Research, readings, and thesis under the direction of Professor William Ickes, Ph.D.

Publications

Borman, K. M., Castenell, L., Gallagher, K., Kilgore, S. B., & Martinson, D. A. (1995). Education Reform and Policy Implications. In P. W. Cookson Jr & B. Schneider (Eds.), Transforming Schools (Garland Reference Library of Social Science, Vol 888). New York: Garland Pub.

Martinson, D. (1997). 20 minutes until i have to go to work. Essay in A. Sondheim (Ed.), Being Online. New York: Lusitania Press.

Education

1989, University of Texas, Arlington B.S. Psychology, minor Mathematics (with honors) Overall G.P.A.: 3.65 (on 4.0 scale) Major G.P.A: 4.0 (60 hours of research, lab, and theory) GRE: 800 verbal 780 quantitative 800 analytical 770 psychology subject

Academic Honors and Awards

Liberal Arts Honors Program, UTA (86-89)

Psychology Honors Program, UTA (88-89)

Elected to Psi Chi Psychology Honor Society, UTA (89)

Elected to Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honor Society, UTA (89)

Elected to Chi Alpha Academic Honor Society, UTA (89)

Invited to participate in conference on interdisciplinary collegiate education, UTA (88)

National Merit Scholar, W.B. Ray HS (Corpus Christi, TX) (81)

Winner, several district and regional writing awards (81)

Other Relevant Work Experience

1994-95. SPSS, Inc., Chicago, IL. Technical Support Specialist.

1989. University of Texas, Arlington. Tutored undergraduates in statistics, calculus, and English.

1988-89. Crisis Intervention, Fort Worth, TX.

Hotline crisis counselor. Put in more than 500 hours on the line, was a member of the Case Review Committee, and did phone training of new volunteers. "Volunteer of the Month," May 89 (first recipient of this award).

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Reproduction and distribution

Feel free to print out and use anything on this site. I've gotten email from therapists who've found some pages useful for their clients, and from people who have found using printouts from this site a useful way to help explain their self-injury. If you do this, please give the site URL (http://www.palace.net/~llama/selfinjury is the easiest to remember) on the printout. A name credit (copyright 1996-2001 Deb Martinson or by Deb Martinson) would be nice but not necessary. This permission extends to large numbers of copies, but does not include commercial use -- I don't make money off of this site and I'd rather no one else did. This information should be freely available to anyone who needs it.

Citation

I'm not sure if the APA has an approved way for citing works published on-line. If you're using material gathered here in a paper or presentation and are unsure how to credit it, I'd suggest:

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