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<b>From: </b>Whittington, Drew <whitdrew@uab.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 5:34 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Whittington, Drew <whitdrew@uab.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[External] Request to Distribute Survey of Mental Health Trainees to Trainees in your Counseling Program<br>
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Good afternoon,</div>
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<span style="color: black;">My name is Drew Whittington, and I am a current doctoral student in the Medical/Clinical Psychology program at The University of Alabama at Birmingham under the supervision of Dr. Nicholas Borgogna (</span><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="mailto:borgogna@uab.edu" id="OWAa1553d76-644b-a656-1548-95092c1f4dbd" class="OWAAutoLink" title="mailto:borgogna@uab.edu" data-linkindex="0" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin: 0px;" data-outlook-id="e92761e4-da70-471a-82d4-11abbd8b3a2a"><u>borgogna@uab.edu</u></a></span><span style="color: black;">).</span></div>
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We are conducting a national survey study examining mental health trainees’ mental health and perceptions of psychotherapy treatment and evidence-based practices.</div>
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We are contacting you as a designated program director or coordinator of an accredited counseling program. We are asking you to please forward the following survey to trainees in your designated program. We hope that our findings will allow us to better understand
relations among mental health factors in trainees as well as further our understanding of how trainees perceive evidence-based practices.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">Please reach out to Drew Whittington (</span><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="mailto:whitdrew@uab.edu" id="OWA80fa900d-86cf-587e-0378-7cd87d915750" class="OWAAutoLink" title="mailto:whitdrew@uab.edu" data-linkindex="1" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin: 0px;" data-outlook-id="e4b74571-82cd-4398-9d8f-6191aa45ab05"><u>whitdrew@uab.edu</u></a></span><span style="color: black;">)
or Dr. Nicholas Borgogna (</span><span style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><a href="mailto:borgogna@uab.edu" id="OWA92fc9966-2865-c939-96bd-be05ce8b9e2b" class="OWAAutoLink" title="mailto:borgogna@uab.edu" data-linkindex="2" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin: 0px;" data-outlook-id="695f58c2-2929-42da-9bfe-dde465afe4e1"><u>borgogna@uab.edu</u></a></span><span style="color: black;">)
for any questions regarding this study. We sincerely appreciate you for sharing this survey with your students! Please feel free to direct us to a more appropriate contact person if necessary. Please see attached for our university IRB approval.</span></div>
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Survey link: <a href="https://uab.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1U0aKj4ycCrJW98" target="_blank" id="OWAed8818d6-97bf-4342-e378-e64d73c6a715" class="OWAAutoLink" title="Original URL: https://uab.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1U0aKj4ycCrJW98. Click or tap if you trust this link." rel="noopener noreferrer" originalsrc="https://uab.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1U0aKj4ycCrJW98" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3" style="margin: 0px;" data-outlook-id="c09f7d40-8a15-4d9c-a26d-bcc0d59e7c5a">
https://uab.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1U0aKj4ycCrJW98</a></div>
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Sincerely,</div>
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Drew Whittington</div>
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<b>Drew Whittington, MS, MA | Medical/Clinical Psychology PhD Student</b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Department of Psychology</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">UAB | The University of Alabama at Birmingham</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(5, 99, 193); line-height: normal;">whitdrew<u>@uab.edu</u></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br>
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