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Kent State Psychology Professor Honored for Stress Research
Posted Aug. 17, 2015 | Ashlyne Wilson and Haley Keding
Douglas L. Delahanty, Ph.D., psychology professor in
the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University,
earned the university’s 2015 Outstanding Research and
Scholarship Award for his research to discover early
predictors of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and
depression in children and adults after they have been
through traumatic events.
Douglas L. Delahanty, Ph.D., psychology professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at Kent State University, earned the university’s 2015 Outstanding Research and Scholarship Award. Delahanty received the award for his research to discover early predictors of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression in children and adults after they have been through traumatic events.
Kent State’s Outstanding Research and Scholarship Award recognizes outstanding faculty members for their notable scholarly contributions that have brought acknowledgement to their fields of study and to Kent State.
Delahanty says that receiving the award has pushed him and his team to deepen their research of stress and apply for more grant funding for future research.
“I think it’s really great that your colleagues recognize you for the research that you’ve been doing,” Delahanty says. “It’s a very humbling thing, especially since we have such amazing researchers on campus.”
Delahanty, who started researching stress in graduate school, began with basic research on the impact of stress on biological factors like immune system activity and hormone levels, making it a natural transition to research more extreme stress like PTSD.
Since coming to Kent State in 1997, Delahanty wrote one book and more than 80 publications related to stress and trauma. His research has been funded by major grants from organizations like the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, along with other federal and state funding agencies.
Delahanty currently collaborates with local hospitals and teams of graduate students to conduct research on victims who experienced traumatic events. His work aims to identify which trauma victims are likely to have prolonged issues and how to correctly target those victims with appropriate therapeutic techniques.
For more information about Delahanty and his research, visit http://www2.kent.edu/cas/psychology/people/~ddelahan/.
For more information about Kent State’s Department of Psychological Sciences, visit www.kent.edu/psychology.