Clinical Psychology Dissertations Collection

 

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Dissertations from 2023

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Decomposing Relational Mechanisms of Parent Engagement in Early Intervention: An Examination of Working Alliance and Family-Centered Practices, Alison E. Chavez

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Sexual Racism and Mental Health Among Asian/Asian American Sexual Minority Men, Christopher Chiu

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Investigating the Sexual Consent Process for Plurisexual Individuals, Kaitlyn R. Gorman

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Lost in Translation: Training Experiences and Burnout Among Bilingual Trainees in Doctoral Psychology Programs, Ingrid Hastedt

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Exploring the Roles of Parent Emotional Styles and Children’s Coping Skills in the Emotional and Behavioral Sequelae of Community Violence Exposure, Juliana M. Neuspiel

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Diagnosing Psychosis Among Black Americans: The Impact of White Clinicians' Colorblind Racial Attitudes and Multicultural Responsiveness, Keira E. O'Donovan

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The Impact of Historical Trauma, Self-Compassion, and Resistance Against Racism among African Americans, Darrick Scott

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Negotiating Acculturation: A Qualitative Study of Muslim American Women, Noor N. Tahirkheli

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Resolution of Diagnosis Among Parents of Children Diagnosed with Autism, Deanna C. Toner

Dissertations from 2022

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Patterns of Emotional Processing and the Psychological Impact of Heterosexism, Kathleen M. Collins

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Body Image Experiences Among Black American Sexual Minority Women, Alison E. A. Goldblatt

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Examining Culturally Adapted, Values Based, Mental Health Stigma Reduction and Help-Seeking Messages for Asian Americans, Anna M. Ying

Dissertations from 2021

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Self-Compassion Among Roommates: An Investigation of Interpersonal Effects, Bryan Balvaneda

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A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effects of After-School Programs on Academic, Social, Behavioral, Mental Health, and Identity Outcomes Among Youth with Marginalized Identities, Kirsten M. Christensen

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The Power of Friendships: Associations Between Friendship Quality, Satisfaction, and Well-Being for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Melanie S. Feldman

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Evaluating the Cultural Validity of Social Cognition in a Latinx Sample, Mayte Forte

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Beyond Borders in Chronic Schizophrenia: NEO-FFM Personality Traits, Neurocognition, and Symptoms, Lauren M. Grabowski

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A Longitudinal Investigation of First-Generation College Students' Mentoring Relationships during their Transition to Higher Education, Matthew A. Hagler

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My Wounds Matter Too: Associations Among Distress, Emotion Regulation, Autism Symptomology, and Self-Harm Functions Among Young Adults with ASD, Sarah Levinson

Dissertations from 2020

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Cross-Age Peer Mentoring: A Meta-Analysis, Samantha Burton

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The Experience of Misgendering Among Trans and Gender Diverse People, Hamish A. Gunn

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Assessing Mental Health Provider Bias Toward Clients with Understudied Marginalized Sexual Identities and Practices, Cara Herbitter

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The Effectiveness of a Mindfulness, Acceptance, Valued Action, and Flexible Coping Intervention for Race-Based Stress on Momentary Coping and Distress Symptoms, Jennifer Honculada Martinez

Dissertations from 2019

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Responsibility Development in Young Men in Postsecondary Settings: Construct Structure and Contextual Influences, Gabriel M. Garza Sada

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A Process for Change: A Grounded Theory Investigation of Participatory Action Research as a Means for Countering Mental Illness Stigma Experienced by Transition-Aged Black Youth, Jacqueline G. Hargrove

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Dismantling an Intervention Aimed at Increasing White People's Knowledge and Understanding of Racial Justice Issues, Alissa L. Hochman

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The Role of Narrative Coherence and Parental Scaffolding in Buffering the Effects of Domestic Violence Exposure, Shirley Poyau

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Novice Therapist Responsiveness: Description and Development, Max B. Wu

Dissertations from 2018

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Latino Immigrant Youth Development in Anti-Immigrant Contexts: Exploring Adaptive Cultures as Resources Promoting Competencies and Wellness, Darcy Alcantara

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Treatment Engagement and Client Competence in CBT for Social Anxiety Disorder, Amber L. Calloway

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“Surviving and Thriving During Stress”: Bridging the Gap with Technology, a Web-Based Acceptance-Based Behavioral Therapy Program for University Students, Elizabeth Hemenway Eustis

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Diagnostic Stability of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Young Children with Diverse Backgrounds, Ivy Giserman Kiss

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Examining the Moderating Role of Internalized Racism on the Relation Between Racism-Related Stress and Mental Health in Asian Americans, Danielle Godon-Decoteau

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Mental Health Literacy and Stigma among Recently Returning Veterans: Cultural Correlates, Mutability, and Relations with Healthcare Utilization, Sarah Krill Williston

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The Impact of Individual and Parental Confucian Attitudes on Mental Illness Stigma and Help Seeking Attitudes Among Asian Americans from Confucian Cultures, Charles M. Liu

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“I Wish Katrina Wouldn’t Have Happened, But I’m Glad It Happened”: Posttraumatic Growth and Adaptive Outcomes in Low-Income Black Mothers Who Survived Hurricane Katrina, Emily E. Manove

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Encouraging Toddlers with ASD to Request: An Exploration of Expectant Pausing and Engagement Strategies, Melissa P. Maye

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Does Mindfulness Support Empathy?, L. G. Rollins

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Exploring Perceived External Control as a Transdiagnostic Cognitive Process in Anxiety Disorders and the Investigation of a Brief Acceptance Intervention, Lauren P. Wadsworth

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Mentoring as a Protective Factor for Youth with a History of Interpersonal Trauma Exposure, Elyssa Briann Weber

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An Exploration of Mentoring Functions in the Context of Parental Relationships, Laura A. Yoviene Sykes

Dissertations from 2017

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The Challenge of Social Mobility: Habitus among Low-Income and Working-Class Students in Higher Education, J. Anna Bell

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Risk, Resilience, Recovery: In Search of the Protective Factors of Mental Health, Victoria Choate Hasler

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Cognitive Aspects of Children's Experience of Economic Disadvantage, Amy E. Heberle

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Mothering Values of Black Student Mothers: A Grounded Theory Analysis, Sara A. Kaplan-Levy

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Asian American Women Leaders' Strategies for Negotiating Intersectional Discrimination Related to Racism and Sexism, Fanny Ng

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Young Children's Emotion Vocabulary and the Potential Influence on Emotion Regulation Ability, Marisa Murphy O'Boyle

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Determined Wellness: The Influence of Mental Illness Models Upon Treatment Outcome Expectancies and Treatment Engagement, Francisco I. Surace

Dissertations from 2016

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Self-Reported Sexuality among Women with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Hillary Hurst Bush

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The Power in the Pattern: Relationships between Out-of-School Time Activity Participation Profiles and Civic Engagement in Youth, Melody Joy Blass Fisher

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The Influence of Mentor-Youth Activity Profiles on School-Based Youth Mentoring Relationship Processes and Outcomes, Stella S. Kanchewa

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Experiences of Trust in Longer-Lasting Formal Youth Mentoring Relationships, Michelle Levine

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Exploring the Effects of Cultural Protective Factors on Infant Development and Maternal Well-Being: A Transnational Study of Brazilian Mothers and Their Infants Living In Massachusetts and Minas Gerais, Fernanda Lucchese

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The Roles of Early Intervention Providers’ Cultural Competence and the Parent-Provider Working Alliance in Early Intervention Service Receipt Outcomes of Diverse Children At-Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorders, Frances D. Martinez-Pedraza

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The Relationship to Internal Experiences Scale (RIES): The Development and Validation of a Self-Report Measure of Cognitive Fusion and Decentering, Shannon M. Sorenson

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Evaluating the ‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes’ Test: Cultural Variations in Emotional Perception, Ashley-Ann Woodhull

Dissertations from 2015

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Patterns of Interaction within Parent-Child Dyads Affected by OCD and Anxiety, Catherine Kraper

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Cultural Adaptation of In-Home, Community-Based Mental Health Services for Ethnic Minority Children and Families: Exploring Clinician and Family Perspectives on Effective Care, Esroruleh Tamim Mohammad

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In the Face of Adversity: Valued Living and Decentering as Buffering Factors in the Relations Among Social Disadvantage, Psychological Distress, Drinking to Cope and Problem Drinking, Lucas P. K. Morgan

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The Intersectionality of Racism and Sexism for Asian American Women, Shruti Mukkamala

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Identifying Sensory Symptoms as a Diagnostic Indicator of Autism Spectrum Disorder, Timothy W. Soto

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Individual and Dyadic Analysis of Cardiac Profiles in Response to Stress in a Longitudinal Sample of Infant-Mother Dyads, Akhila Venkatachalam Sravish

Dissertations from 2014

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Palestinian Refugee Family Trees of Resilience: Intergenerational Cultivation of Resistance, Return, and Perseverance, in Response to Israel State Violence and Occupation, Devin G. Atallah

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The Relationship between Mental Health and Young Children's Academic Development: What We Can Learn From a National Sample of At-Risk Chilean Children, Katia M. Canenguez

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Understanding the Impact of Violence on Early Language, Danielle Forbes

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The Psychological and Social Processes through which Internalized Heterosexism Influences Psychological Distress in Sexual Minorities, Julia A. Puckett

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Black Beauty, White Standards: Impacts on Black Women and Resources for Resistance and Resilience, Speshal T. Walker

Dissertations from 2013

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Experiences of Latina First Generation College Students: Exploring Resources Supporting the Balancing of Academic Pursuits and Family Life, Hercilia B. Corona-Ordoñez

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Linking Universal Developmental/Behavioral Health Screening and On-Site Mental Health Consultation: Examining Gaps in Service Delivery, Leandra Godoy

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Racism and Anxiety in a Black American Sample: The Role of Mediators and a Brief Mindfulness Manipulation, Jessica Rose Graham

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The Impact of Emotion Regulation and Interpersonal Problems on Behavioral Dysregulation in a College Student Sample: An Investigation of the Mediating Role of Mentalizing, Kelly Graling

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The Role of Caregiver Insight in Young Children's Violence Exposure: Testing a Relational Model of Risk and Resilience, Sarah A. O. Gray

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Understanding Ethnic-Racial Socialization and Cognition among Multiracial Youth: A Mixed Methods Study, Susan A. Lambe Sarinana

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Targeted Prevention of Childhood Anxiety: Engaging Parents in an Underserved Community, Nicholas D. Mian

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Maternal Self-Efficacy and Perceived Stigma Among Mothers of Children with ASD, ADHD, and Typically Developing Children, Sara D. Rosenblum-Fishman

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Youth Initiated Mentoring: Investigating a New Approach to Working with Vulnerable Adolescents, Sarah E. O. Schwartz

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The Influences of Social Identities and Resource Competition on Blacks' and Asians' Social Distance: A Virtual World Method, John Tawa

Dissertations from 2012

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Latino Immigrants' Responses to Immigration Policy and Enforcement: Strengths and Resources Promoting Empowerment and Wellness in an Urban Setting, Celeste Atallah-Gutiérrez

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Measuring Exposure in Natural Disaster: A Meta-Analysis, an Integrative Data Analysis, and a Multi-Wave Longitudinal Study of Hurricane Katrina Survivors, Christian S. Chan

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The Role of Difficulties in Emotion Regulation in the Relationship between Experiences of Trauma, Kathleen Sullivan Kalill

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Objectification Theory and Sexual Health among Women, Kara Lustig

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Bereavement among Urban University Students: The Role of Meaning Making in Adjustment to Loss, Rebecca L. Norris-Bell

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The Impact of Mindfulness on Exposure and Extinction Processes in Social Anxiety, Michael Treanor

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The Role of Men's Friendships in Psychological Distress, Fear of Emotions, and Adherence to Masculine Role Norms, Liza Zwiebach

Dissertations from 2011

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Exploring Predictors of Well-Being after Exposure to Inter-Caregiver Aggression in Childhood: Examining the Role of Emotional Support and Emotional and Cognitive Processing, Cara Fuchs

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The Social Negotiation of Ambiguous In-Between Stigmatized Identities: Investigating Identity Processes in Multiracial and Bisexual People, Vali Dagmar Kahn

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Trajectories of Psychological Distress among Low-Income, Female Survivors of Hurricane Katrina, Sarah Ryan Lowe

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The Ecology of Cognitive Training and Aging, Anya Potter

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Expanding a Model of Female Heterosexual Coercion: Are Sexually Coercive Women Hyperfeminine?, Elizabeth Anne Schatzel-Murphy

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Developing an Anti-Racist Stance: How White Youth Understand Structural Racism, Catharine R. Thomann

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Functioning in the Face of Racism and its Uncertainties: The Potential Buffering Role of Values Clarification and Values Consistency in a Black American Sample, Lindsey Michelle West

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The Expression of Nonviolence in Communication and its Relation to Physical and Mental Health: Development and Validation of a Coding System for Measuring the Expression of Nonviolence in Communication between Intimate Partners in Conflict Situations, Lissa Brett Young

Dissertations from 2010

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Understanding Revictimization: The Impact of Emotion Suppression, Acceptance, and PTSD Symptomatology on Risk Detection Abilities in Sexual Assault Survivors, Heidi M. Barrett-Model

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Adopted Korean Women: Influences of Becoming a Biological Mother on Racial & Ethnic Identities and Cultural Orientations, Stephanie Carole Day

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Psychosis-Proneness, Mindfulness, and Positive Emotional Experience: Examining Correlational and Causal Relationships, Shannon Marie Erisman

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Unattainable Beauty: An Analysis of the Role of Body Shame and Self-Objectification in Hopelessness Depression among College-Age Women, Meredith A. Evans

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Neuropsychological and Personality Predictors of Competence to Stand Trial: A Social Cognitive Perspective, Kristy L. Klein

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Coping with Acquired Brain Injury through an Asian American Lens: Interrelationships between Collectivistic Coping and Psychosocial Outcomes, Patricia Happy Lee

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Couples' Joint Activity and Perceived Relationship Quality: Exploring the Comparative Effects of Joint Community Service vs. Play, Michael J. D. Rollock

Dissertations from 2000

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Alternative Medicine and Mental Health: A Clinical Trial of Homeopathic Treatment for Depression, Fabiana G. Wallis