WWU professor and author awarded by American Psychological Association

A Western Washington University professor has been awarded by the American Psychological Association for her recent book exploring how women’s “self-silencing” across various world cultures can lead to higher rates of depression than those that are found in men.
Dana C. Jack, who is a professor of interdisciplinary studies at WWU’s Fairhaven College, received the Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award from the APA for her work, “Silencing the Self Across Cultures: Depression and Gender in the Social World.”