Julia McDonald PhD

As a suicide loss survivor, I feel conflicted talking about my brother’s suicide. So why do I keep talking about it? And who's hurt when we can't talk about our mental health? Check out my 2nd post on @PsychToday - featured as an Essential Read! psychologytoday.com/us/blog/deeper…

Graduate school is an escape room. Each milestone unlocks a new series of seemingly endless tasks to solve. The good news is…my internship cohort escaped grad school!!! Plus we escaped an actual escape room :) Really great way to end this journey to become psychologists.

Excited to talk about the value of lived experience in our upcoming webinar: "A DARN Conversation with Self-Relevant Researchers in Disability and Mental Health" This Friday, 4/19, 11 am PST Please register, share, & engage: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

If anyone is going to APS this year and wants to learn more about scientific communication, sign up for @AndrewDevendorf’s workshop!

Come attend our APA webinar tomorrow: “Addressing Mental Health Stigma in Clinical Psychology” Fri, 3/15, 1 pm EST Over 1000 ppl have registered!! Live ?s will be fielded. It will be fun & informative @APA @sarahevictor @MayaNauphal + Drs Gudino & Swee apa.org/events/2024/es…

I successfully defended my dissertation last week: "The Prevalence and Perceptions of Self-relevant research ("Me-search") in Psychological Science" I'm now Dr. Andrew Devendorf (pending paperwork), which is crazy. It's been an exhausting road, but it happened 😄

I moved from Tampa to Seattle for clinical internship (cost ~$10,000-12,000) Here's some cross-country moving tips. 1) Reserve moving pods early. Prices will jump a lot in summer. You can adjust your moving dates & cancel res's whenever. 2) Sell items on FB marketplace. Be..

Excited to share our upcoming @APA Essential Science webinar: "Addressing Mental Health Stigma in Clinical Psychology" on Mar 15 at 1 pm EST Register here: apa-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist… Join @MayaNauphal, @sarahevictor, @DrOmarGudino, Michaela Swee & myself for a rich discussion ☺️

@AndrewDevendorf Couples match FTW 😅

Huge congrats to all the psychology PhD students who applied for internship! And KUDOS to anyone who also break the APPIC portal. Last year, the site kept crashing when @Juliabmcd & I submitted our 419 rankings. Took over an hour. Still have nightmares 🤕

@SN_Hellberg YAYAYAY!!!! Congrats!! Hmu if you want to do festive activities together. I’ve been dying to see pretty lights and drink hot coco! 😄

Officially applied to postdoc. 🎉 and now on to a weekend rewarding myself with all the festive activities I can dream up. 🎄

Now in-print! We found: -55% of clinical psychologists have done me-search -Me-search on mental illness is more stigmatized than when done on physical illness -Researchers from marginalized backgrounds = ⬆️rates of me-search @PsychScience @sarahevictor journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

@SN_Hellberg Sign me up for the Disco Botanics Therapy rotation! That’s something I could do long term!

Today’s gem of a convo with my non-psyc partners…. Me: *something about appreciating internship & desire to practice #DBT long term* Him: “which one is that again? Disco Botanics Therapy?” 🪩🪴 😂 #psychtwitter

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I get vulnerable on @psychspodcast while blending my personal & professional experiences with suicide, depression & mental health stigma. What are signs of suicide? How do you help others cope with loss? Plz share - Juila & Gill are fantastic humans :) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sti…

@CJCascalheira @AndrewDevendorf @_amymontague7 See you in Seattle! 🤗

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When abusers come armed, it can be deadly. On National Gun Violence Awareness Day, 6/2, we will #WearOrange for the countless women in this country whose lives have been stolen at the hands of an armed abuser. Why will you wear orange?

While horrifying acts of mass gun violence grab national attention, gun violence takes 120 lives and wounds hundreds more in individual acts of gun violence every single day in this country. We #WearOrange for victims and survivors of gun violence whose stories often go untold.