The third workshop of PTG and Resilience was successfully held at the National Cancer Center Hospital (click the picture to read more about the location) by Dr. Kanako Taku and Dr. Ken Shimizu.  Psychologists, psychiatrists, physicians, nurses, social workers, educators, teachers, researchers, graduate students and many others attend the workshop.  The attendees exchanged their opinions… Read more

Dr. Taku just recently finished her new study in Japan.  The purpose of this study is to examine how core beliefs, rumination and subjective perceptions of the earthquake that hit Japan on March 11, 2011, would correlate with posttraumatic growth and distress. Dr. Taku conducted this survey in the beginning of June.  Approximately 300 Japanese undergraduate students… Read more

Congratulations are in order!  Online Schools Michigan has created a list of the top 25 psychology professor in Michigan based on recent awards in teaching, research and scholarship.  Oakland University’s very own Dr. Taku was selected to be placed among this list based on her research endeavors in clinical psychology, cross-cultural psychology and trauma psychology. … Read more