Dissertation News

Defending Soon:

• Adler, M. "The relation between anxiety and intellectual functioning"
• Blocher, J. "Teaching Psychology Doctoral Students an Evidence-based Treatment for Child Anxiety: A Peer-Training Model"
• Dilmanian, D. “Personality Diagnoses in Adolescents: Validity of SWAP-A Prototypes”
• Meeter, J. “Evaluation of a Structured Observation and Coding System in the Assessment and Treatment of Selective Mutism”
• Mercado, M. “Quality of Life Differences in Bisexual and Questioning Adults”
• Muschel, A. “Protective Factors of Religious and Family Identification in Adolescent Substance Use”
• Ratner-Stauber, A. “How Ultra-Orthodox Rabbis Counseling Individuals with Trauma”
• Rivzi, S. “Pakistani Parents and Acculturation”
• Rooney, E. “Examining Parent Treatment Expectancies and Preferences in Dialectical Behavior Therapy with Adolescents”
• Sauro, D. “Development and validation of a scale measuring dominance/submissiveness and dependence/independence in twins”
• Schroeder, M. "The Effects of Client History on Mental Health Professionals’ Attitudes Towards Disruptive Behavior Disorders"
• Zito, D. “The Art of Seduction: Psychological Characteristics and Experiences of Pick Up Artists”

Dissertations in Progress:

• Cullen, M. "Exploring Parenthood & Career Changes in Heterosexual Partnerships: Feminist Perspectives."
• Dziedzic, M. "Can I Do This By Myself? The Effects of Peer and Student-Faculty Relationships and Academic, Emotional, and Financial Stressors in a Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program on Risk of Student Psychopathology."
• Fanicullo, M. "A Mediational Model of the Impact of Caregiver Depression, Social Support, and Physical Health on Ugandan Preschool Children's Mental State Talk: The Role of Attachment Security."
• Francois, D. "Development of the Parent and Child Technoconflict Scale"
• Fults, E. "An Exploratory Student on the Role of Psychological Trauma in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Neuropathic Pain."
• Haimoff, S. "Effects of Including Fathers in Parent Training Treatment."
• Klein, S.J. " A Qualitative Analysis of Alumni Mentorship."
• Magid, L. "An Exploration of Transitions into Motherhood within the Context of Morality Salience: A Qualitative Study."
• Margolis, A. "Conditional Love: the Mediational Effects of Sexual Satisfaction on Attachment and Relationship Satisfaction."
• Mesrie, V. "Supervisory Dyad Attachment Style and Perceptions of Novice Therapist Counseling Self-Efficacy: The Moderating Role of Level of Experience."
• Pekala, K. "A Critical Discourse Analysis of Why and How the Mentally Ill are Blamed for Gun Violence and Mass Shootings in the United States."
• Piesman, J. “Long-Term Effects of Exposure to Parental Physical Abuse of a Sibling”
• Polonksy, J. "The Impact of Smartphones on Relationships."
• Ramotar, K. "Using a Peer Support Model to Increase Adherence to Self-Care Practices and to Decrease Stress in Psychology Graduate Students."
• Ritchie, T. "Bedpartner Sleep Disturbance and Nontraditional Sleep Structures: Emotional, Social, and Cultural Considerations"
• Ross, M. " Why Worry About It? An Investigation into Imaginal Exposure to Treat Generalized Anxiety."
• Sood, C. "The Cost of Caring Vicarious Trauma in the Context of Conservation of Resource Theory."
• Tieman, D. "Perceived Social Support and Stress in Residential Treatment Care-Providers."
• Whittington, D. "Increasing Adherence to Contingency Management Procedures with Modern Technology."

Recent Successfully Defended Dissertations:

• Adams, Catherine (2013). Black Women Psychologists: A Qualitative Study Exploring Subjective Experiences Faced on Their Paths Toward Career Advancement
• Andersen, J. (2014). The Effectiveness of DIRFloortime® for School-Aged Children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders
• Avivi, Adi (2013). Internet Communication Among Childfree Women
• Barry, I. (2014). "Complex Trauma and the Utility of Criteria A2 for a Diagnosis of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in a Traumatized Adolescent Sample"
• Barry, S. (2013) Validating the Parent Training Topic Preference Scale (PTTPS): A Measure of Behavioral Parent Training Topic Preference
• Barsky, Tristan (2016) Art from the edge: The effects of publicly exhibiting art created in or about extreme states
• Bauer, N. (2015). Meaning-Making: The Differential Impact of Religion on Depression
• Belanus, Kristina (2016) Predicting Treatment Seeking Attitudes Among Christians
• Berasi, Kateri (2016) The Psychological Impact of the Asylum-Seeking Process on Individuals Who Identity as Lesbian or Gay
• Berger, Leah (2012) Psychotherapy Supervision: What Personality Factors Drive Student Preferences?
• Blake, B. (2016) An Examination of the Interrelation Between Reflective Functioning and Alexithymia in Women with Eating Disorders”
• Casey, C. (2015). Do Maternal Mood and Cognitions Match?: A Study Examining Reportedly Stressful Parent-Child Interactions
• Chu, Deb (2016) Children’s Perceptions of Caregivers and Quality of Reflective Functioning as Mediators of Caregiver Depression on Childhood Depression
• Colston, S. (2015). Counselors’ Experience Working with Inmates Who Report the Use of Religious Coping
• Conti, Michelle (2013). Coping Strategies of School-Age Children Following Traumatic Grief Exposure
• Cutz, G. (2015).. “Assumptions and Conclusions: Fundamental Distinctions Between Buddhist and Western Approaches to Happiness.”
• DeCou, S. (2014). What Low-Income, Depressed Mothers Need From Mental Health Care:
• Overcoming Treatment Barriers From Their Perspective
• Elkin, J essica (2016) Straight To The Source Adolescent Perspectives on Engagement and Commitment in Individual Psychotherapy
• Fichter, C. (2014). Intervening with Secondary Victims of Natural Disasters: Posttraumatic Stress, Growth, and Peer Support In Haitian-American Youth
• Gallios, J. “Assessment of Trauma & Clinical Symptomology in Animal Cruelty Investigators.”
• Gettings, Lisa (2015) A Qualitative Exploration of Clinician Adherence to the Model in Dialectical Behavior Therapy
• Goldfeder, Chani (2016) Adolescent Perspective of Middle Path Module of DBT-A
• Gomez, Saul (2013). The Psychometric Validation of the Obstacles to Engagement Scale
• Gorman, Jennifer. (2016)What About Me? I'm a Type III! The impact of type I diabetes on spouses
• Gottesman, B. (2014). “Train Up a Child in the Way He Should Go:” An Examination of Parent Attitudes Towards Attending Parent-Training Interventions in Houses of Worship
• Heckel, E. (2015). “Addiction Professionals’ Attitudes about Harm Reduction Psychotherapy: A Qualitative Study.”
• Hunter, N (2015) Whose treatment is this anyways? Helpful and harmful aspects in the treatment of dissociative identity disorder phenomena
• Japko, Deb. (2016) Does Psychodynamic Therapy Improve Mentalization Skills among Patients Diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder?
• Kahoud, Dustin (2013) Messages in a Bottle: Omnipotent Fantasies in Creativity and Substance Abuse
• Kaish, S. (2015).“Up the Rabbit Hole: Using Mindfulness to Enhance Attention and Learning in the Presence of Digital Distractors.”
• Källström-Schreckengost, Kathleen (2013). How Bisexual Women Develop Romantic Relationships
• Keefe, Cynthia (2012) Stress Reduction Pilot Program For Mothers Of Adolescents With ADHD: Implications For Practice And Research
• Kunkle, K. (2014) Maternal Treatment Acceptability and Preference of Room Time-out and Deferred Time-out Escape Contingencies
• Kwitel, Abbie (2012). A Qualitative Examination of Adolescents’ and Their Families’ Experiences of DBT
• Langer,Erica (2012). A Comparative Student of the Exner Comprehensive System (CS) for the Rorscheach and the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS): An Examination of Critical Variables
• Leven, Eva (2013). Spousal Relationships and Coping Following Traumatic Exposure
• Liebman, M. (2014). The Immediate Impact of Fast-Paced Television on Delay of Gratification in Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
• Light, E. (2013) A Qualitative Study of Working Mothers' Experience Employing Nannies
• Maldonado, Olivia (2012). The Development of Racial Identity in Biracial and Multiracial Individuals: A Qualitative Study
• Melkumov, M. (2015) Ten Years and Counting: Examining the Experience of 9/11 First Responder Spouses
• Meyers, E. "Does Behavioral Extinction Treatment for Bedtime Resistance Negatively Impact a Child’s Attachment Behavior?"
• Nadell, Nicole (2016) A Look into the Perspectives of the Couple in Teaching Family Homes: A Qualitative Study
• Narimanidze, M. (2015).Who’s Talking to Whom? A Qualitative Study of Voice Hearers
• Novich, J. (2014).. The Experiences of Gay Jewish Men in the Orthodox Community: Social Justice, Oppression, and Winnicott
• Osei, A. (2014). Black Clinical and Counseling Psychology Students:Navigating an Interpersonal Matrix
• Pascal, S. (2015). Fleeing from Self and Other: A Constructivist Self-Development Theory Examination of Dual-Identity Refugees and International Aid Workers
• Pearl, E. (2015). “Parent Acceptability and Preference of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Approaches to Treating Anxiety in Young Children (Ages 2-7)”
• Pecora-Sanefski (2015).. The Experience of Ambiguous Loss, Grief, and Burden in Caregivers of Dementia Patient
• Pierson, M. Caregivers of Individuals with Dementia: Attribution Style as a Moderator between degree of Involvement and Distress
• Pollak, Eric (2012). Family Environment, Social Support, & Gender as Predictors of Self-¬Esteem in Jewish Orthodox Adolescents
• Renz, J. (2014). Psychological and Demographic Predictors of Excessive Exercise Among Adolescents with Eating Disorders
• Roufail, Christine (2013). Understanding Therapists’ Attitudes Toward Recording Therapy Sessions
• Rugg, Ian (2013) The Male Student’s Experience in a Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program: A Qualitative Study
• Schlager, S. (2013).. Financial Support and Emerging Adult Perceptions of Relationships with Parents and Development toward Adult Status
• Scudellari, Laura (2015) Readiness to Change in Military Family Caregivers of Patients with Dementia
• Sita, Gina (2012). Program Evaluation of Teen Anger Management (TAME) in a School Setting
• Smedresman, S. (2015). The Relationship Between Scheduled vs. On Demand Feeding and Attachment.
• Stallings, K. (2015) ’I’m not here. This isn’t happening.’ Defense mechanisms expressed in the art of children who have experienced traumatic loss.
• Stein, Victoria. (2014). To Test or Not to Test: Psychological Considerations Associated with Genetic Testing in Young Adults.
• Stratis, A. (2013).The Experience of the Artist as a Parent: A Qualitative Study
• Styka, J. (2015).Gay Men’s Experiences with Location-Based Smartphone Applications for Men seeking Men: A Qualitative Study
• Talesnick, Jacqueline (2012). Body Modification in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Population
• Tappin, Alana (2012). The Experience of Growing Up With A Borderline Parent
• Weiss, Z. “An Examination of Mode of Meeting and Marital Satisfaction in Modern Orthodox Jewish Couples”
• Wolnerman, Sheri (2012). Hostile Attribution Bias and of Self-Esteem: Do They Correlate with Aggression in At-Risk Adolescents in Residential Treatment Settings?
• Wright, C. (2015). Influence of prior trauma and gender on perceptions of sexual encounters on sexual education efforts in emerging adults.
• Wysocki, M. (2014).Trauma Processing Theory and an Art Narrative Therapy Intervention for Children in Residential Treatment.
• Yellin, E. (2015) An Exploration of Caregiver Grief, Depression, and Outcomes Associated with Child Mortality in Rural Uganda
• Zimmermann, C. (2015). Through Their Eyes: Perceptions of Psychotherapy and the Mental Health Field Held by Members of the Working Poor

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