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Michael J. Telch (born March 28, 1953, in
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,
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) is an American psychologist who has taught at the
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(UT-Austin) since 1986. At UT-Austin, he is a professor of
clinical psychology Clinical psychology is an integration of human science, behavioral science, theory, and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically-based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well ...
, the founding director of the Laboratory for the Study of Anxiety Disorders (which he founded in 1988), and the former Director of Clinical Training. He is a fellow of the
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and the American Association of Applied and Preventive Psychology. He is known for his research on
posttraumatic stress disorder Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental disorder that develops from experiencing a Psychological trauma, traumatic event, such as sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse, warfare and its associated traumas, natural disaster ...
among American soldiers, and the extent to which it can be predicted before the soldiers serve in combat.


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Telch's faculty page
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an article in ''
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'' about Telch's research on posttraumatic stress disorder Living people University of Texas at Austin faculty 1953 births University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni University of the Pacific (United States) alumni Stanford University alumni Health professionals from Boston Fellows of the Association for Psychological Science American clinical psychologists {{US-psychologist-stub