Her interdisciplinary psychoanalytic scholarship has won numerous awards, including the American Psychoanalytic Association Karl Menninger and CORST prizes. Karen Yu, PhD, is a professor of psychology at Sewanee: the University of the South in Sewanee, TN, where she teaches courses in cognitive psychology and has helped to develop an interdisciplinary course on Child, Family, and Community Development in Rural Appalachia. She is involved with Discover Together, a program to promote resilience by fostering social connectedness and community engagement through shared knowledge and appreciation of local places, people and their stories. Learning objectives