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Earlise C. Ward is known for her community-based clinical research that studies the mental health of older African American women. Her research focuses on their thoughts on mental illness, and whether these views may prevent older African American women from looking into mental health services and coping skills in response to mental illness. In 2008, she founded the Oh Happy Day Class, a community-based intervention with the aim of treating depression among African American adults. Two pilot studies discovered that the class was successful at lessening depressive symptoms.

Ward is a clinical psychologist and a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing. She served as an assistant scientist for the Center for Women's Health Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2005-2007). She upheld a leadership position working for the faculty of the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (2013). She is currently the faculty director of the Morgridge Center for Public Service.

Ward received the Carolyn Payton Early Career Award in 2010 for submission of her research published in Qualitative Health Research. She was also honored with the Outstanding Women of Color Award in 2015 for her remarkable achievements in her studies of health disparities.

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Biography
Ward was born in Brooklyn, New York. She received a B.B.A. degree in International Marketing from Baruch College of the City University of New York in 1993. She continued her education in Guidance and Counseling at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, where she completed her M.S. degree in 1997. Ward moved to Madison, Wisconsin to pursue a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and obtained her degree in 2002. As a doctoral candidate, she wrote her dissertation on a mixed method study examining the experience of counseling for racial and ethnic minority clients.

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Research
Ward's research explores discrepancies in mental health endured by minorities, while concentrating on major depressive disorder.

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Representative publications

 * Ward, E. C. (2005). Keeping it real: A grounded theory study of African American clients engaging in counseling at a community mental health agency. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 52(4), 471-481.
 * Ward, E. C., Clark, L. O., & Heidrich, S. (2009). African American women’s beliefs, coping behaviors, and barriers to seeking mental health services. Qualitative Health Research, 19(11), 1589-1601.


 * Ward, E. C., & Heidrich, S. M. (2009). African American women's beliefs about mental illness, stigma, and preferred coping behaviors. Research in Nursing & Health, 32(5), 480-492.
 * Ward, E., & Mengesha, M. (2013). Depression in African American men: A review of what we know and where we need to go from here. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 83(2pt3), 386-397.
 * Ward, E., Wiltshire, J. C., Detry, M. A., & Brown, R. L. (2013). African American men and women's attitude toward mental illness, perceptions of stigma, and preferred coping behaviors. Nursing Research, 62(3), 185-194.