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RECENT THESIS TITLES - 2005

VERONICA AKINS (PR)
Clinician Countertransference and Efforts of Countertransference Management with Female Adolescent and Young Adult Clients Who Deliberately Self-Injure

KARA J. ANDRESEN
Cultivating Awareness in the Child Mind: A Single Case Study Examining the Feasibility and Effectiveness of Modified Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training for Children

JENICA BABBITT-PEARCE
John’s Perspective: An Exploration of Male Motivation to Purchase Sex

ALLISON L. BASKE
An exploratory study on summer camp experiences of scholarship campers: Did they have positive experiences?

ALICIA BASURTO
Si Se Puede, in Psychotherapy?  How is Empowerment Utilized in Psychotherapy with Latino Therapists

AMBER BEALS
Front-line Mental Health Care Staff and Burnout: An Exploratory Study

NANCY BEGIN
To Share or Not to Share: A Question of Common Faith

LAURA BETTS
Social Worker’s Perceptions of the Diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder in Children Ages 6-12 years old

JOANNA M. BIENKO
What Factors Motivate White Clinical Social Workers to Develop and Maintain Cultural Sensitivity in the Areas of Race and Ethnicity

ELIZABETH A. BIERBAUM
Challenges in Service Delivery to the Elderly: A Clinical Social Work Perspective

ERICA C. BLAIR
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Experiences In Counseling

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DANNA BODENHEIMER
Letting the Love In: Clinical Experiences of Feeling and Acknowledging Love Within the Psychotherapeutic Dyad

AJARA BOMAH
An Exploratory Study on Shades of Love among African Americans: Who is the Compatible Mate?

JONATHAN B. BRODY
Buddhism and Western Psychotherapy: An Exploration Into Integrating Etiologies And Approaches To Human Suffering

CAROLINE WOLFE BULLARD
The Impact of Attachment on Brain Development

MELISSA BURROUGHS
The Cast of Make-Believe: An Exploration of Children’s Use of Imaginary Friends

JOHANNA CALLARD
The Language of Imagery: Art as an Intervention in Trauma Recovery

CLARE CASADEMONT
The Psychological Implications of Delaying Motherhood: Conversations with Women who Waited

ELIZABETH CATON LYMAN
Clinical Impressions: Therapeutic Reflections on Treating Children and Adolescents with Asperger’s Syndrome

MARIA M. CERVANTES (PR)
The Effect of Language on Countertransference for Spanish-Speaking Bilingual/Bicultural Clinicians

FANNY R. CHALFIN
How Do Attachment and Object Relations Theory Inform our Understanding of the Intergenerational Cycle of Violence and Treatment of Heterosexual Couples In Volatile Relationships

JENNIFER ANNE CLARK
Instructions Not Included: Adult Lesbians’ Recollections of Disconnection in Relationships during Adolescence

LARA CONLEY
Creating Home Base: Mentoring Portland’s Homeless and Transitional Youth

HILLARY SCANLAN CRONIN
The Efficacy of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) with Racially and Culturally Diverse Populations

MARK DÁVILA
I Just Want to be Close to You: Attachment and Safer Sex Practice in Gay Men

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CHERYL ANN DEAN
The Royal Road Meets the New Millennium: Classical and Contemporary Theories of Dream Interpretation

ERICA DEBLASE
Racial Identity Development in Transracially Adopted Korean-Americans

REBECCA EMET
Newlyweds’ Experiences Legally Marrying Their Same Sex Partners in Massachusetts:  An Exploration of Some of the First Legally Recognized Same Sex Marriages

HANNAH FENTON-ROBERTSON
Sleeping with the Baby: Mothers’ Beliefs, Expectations, and Experiences with Nighttime Sleep Arrangements

AMY FERLAZZO
Birthplace as a lost object: An exploratory study of the potential relationship between nostalgia and subjective quality of life among Latin-American immigrant women

ANNE L. FINE
The Body as a Doorway for Psychological Healing: Do Clinicians Trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Find it Effective in Treating Patients with a Trauma History? (Awarded a Grant from the Sarah Haley Memorial Fund)

CLARA GARLAND
What’s in a Name?  An Exploration of Sexual Identity and Sexual Behavior in Self-identified FTMs

CAMILLE F. GIANARIS
A Comparative Analysis of Father-Daughter Incest and Exploitative Professional Sexual Misconduct

ASHA GOLDSTEIN
Adult Daughters of Absent Fathers: Using Psychotherapy to Renegotiate the Father-Daughter Relationship

MEGAN E. GOLDSTEIN
The Relationship Between Coping Styles and Adjustment to College Among College Students

SAMANTHA GOOD
Homeless Youth and Economic Rights: An Exploratory Study into the Lives of Homeless Youth who Minimally Access Social Services

SANDRA GORDON
Countering the Culture: A Critique of Eating Disorder Prevention Programs Based on an Examination of Sociocultural and Structuration Theories

APRIL SUZANNE GOSS
Mental Health Clinicians’ Views On The Use Of School-Based Group Therapy To Address Behavior Problems in Middle School Populations

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SUSAN GREENEBAUM
Me, myself, and I(nternet): The role of projection in internet dating

ABIGAIL GREGOR
“She’s just my sister to me”: White Siblings of Transracial Adoptees Perceptions of Race and Racism

ALVIN G. GREGORIO
Can mixtapes serve as transitional objects:  A study that examines the anxiety-reducing qualities of mixtapes during life transitions for young adults, age 18-25 years

SAMARA GROSSMAN
Loving Action: Feminist Citizenship, Social Work and Robert D. Putnam’s Social Capital Theory

PAMELA SUZANNE HASKIN (PR)
Trauma and the Relational Matrix: The Therapeutic Relationship in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR)

EDITH S. HEINEMANN
Voices of Young Adults Who Have Siblings with Multiple Learning Disabilities: Family Resilience Abounds

JIM HELLING
Neuroscientific and Psychodynamic Aspects of a Procedural Model of Somatization: Toward an Integrated Clinical and Developmental Theory

BIRGIT HOGAN
The Return of a Crisis: Reentry Women Creating a New Self.  An Independent Study of Identity Development in Reentry Women  Through an Eriksonian Lens

JESSICA Q HONIG
Let’s Talk About Sex and Disability!: Social Constructs and Psychodynamic Issues Surrounding Sexuality for Adolescents with Cerebral Palsy and Spina Bifida

NICOLE K. HUTCHINSON
Treating clients with complex PTSD: Clinicians’ perspectives on the impact of the therapeutic alliance on treatment outcome

LARA E. INSEL
In Their Own Words: An Examination of the Most Influential Factors in Achieving Recovery from Anorexia Nervosa

STACIA L. JACKSON
Motivating Factors for College Matriculation for African American Alumnae of Single Sex High Schools

SIMONE E. JACOBS (PR)
The Influence of Racial Identity In the Treatment of African American Women with a History of Attachment Trauma: A Theoretical Study

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MARIANNE R. KAVANAGH
How Personal Safety Concerns of Female Therapists Affect Their Treatment of Violent, Incarcerated, Male Clients

RENÉE KLEINMAN
I’m Deaf and I Need Services Too: A Needs Assessment of the Availability and Accessibility of Domestic Violence Services for a Deaf Victim in Connecticut

ANNA KOGAN
Attitudes toward Psychotherapy among the Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union

MARINA KOVARSKY
Cultural Considerations in Conducting Psychotherapy with Russian-speaking Immigrants

ANN MARIE KRAYBILL
The Narrated Self:Using Autobiographical Narratives In The Treatment Of Depression

STACIA LANGENBAHN (PR)
Forced Termination with Adolescent Clients Who Have a Terminally Ill Parent

KATHERINE E. LANGHART
An Exploratory Study of the Ways Western-trained Mental Health Professionals Formulate and Utilize Treatment Strategies with Clients who are Refugees and Immigrants

LEAH LEVINE
“All That I Have Left”: The Transitional Objects of Bereaved Parents

ANDREA M. LOFTUS
Treatment Issues When Working With Adult Female Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse Perpetrated By Adult Females

MELISSA LOPEZ
The New Face of Fear: Surviving the American Nightmare Post 9/11

LEA W. LORTIE
Clinician Self-Disclosure Practices of Queer versus Heterosexual Clinicians

ALEJANDRO ALEXIS LUCIANO
Negotiating Differences: An Exploratory Study of Identity Development in Black and Latino Adolescents Attending Elite Private High Schools in the Northeast

ERIKA T. MALM
The Effects of Yoga on Perceived Stress and Coping Among New York City School Staff

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EILEEN MARTINEZ
Gender Expression, Sexual Orientation and Identity Development: Exploring the Formation of a Butch Lesbian Identity

JOSIANNA MARTINI
An Exploration of the Skills and Techniques that Crisis Workers Use to Engage, Orient, Anchor, and Motivate Clients in Crisis: A Qualitative Study

ERIN MATTHEWS
“I’m Still an African American but with a Similar but Different Story to Tell” The Racial Identity Development of African American Males who Join Historically Caucasian Fraternities

MEGHAN ALANA MCGEE
Clinical Implications for Working with Children who Have Been Removed from their Primary Caregiver(s) and Placed in Foster Care

KIMBERLY A. MILBERG
Punishment Forever: The Impact of the Criminal Offender Record Information System on Women with Criminal Records in the Springfield, MA Area

SASHA MOAZED
Combination of Mindfulness Meditation with Psychotherapy in the lives of Women Survivors of Sexual and/or Physical Abuse

MARIA MORELLI
A Room of Her Own-Interior Spaces and Communal Places: An Exploratory Study of Identity Construction in Single Women, Ages 50 to 65

S. BARKLEY MURRAY
The Experience of First-Generation College Students at Elite Universities

MICHELLE NICHOLAS
Attitudes towards social work students’ with mental illness: A survey of students and alumni

 

DONNA NICOLINO
Therapists’ knowledge of and experience with the use of body-based therapies: An exploratory study

 

CHRISTINA PAPANESTOR
Pioneering New Territory: Gender, Age, and Body in Women’s Later Life

 

GINGER ELLEN O’NEAL
Attachment Theory: Implications for Family Therapy

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SIGNY PECK
Cultural Countertransference in Work with Children: A Qualitative Study of White Therapists’ Relationships with Child Clients of Different Races and Ethnicities than Their Own

 

SUSAN R. PERRY
An Exploration of Clinician Use of Person-in-Relation Concepts

 

LAUREN SHERIDAN POST

Difficulties Breastfeeding: Exploring a Mother’s Change in Self-Perception

 

RONIT REGUER

We need them on that wall, but who is there when they fall?  Military Training, Deployment, and Reintegration

 

PHILLIP ANTHONY REYNOLDS
Female Friendship Through Transitions and Lifestages: An Exploratory Study

 

VICTORIA RINGO
The Implications of Object Relational Orientation For The Onset of Genital Sexual Activity

 

ANNE ELIZABETH ROUGHTON
The Benefits of Treating Traumatized Children with Animal-Assisted Therapy

 

JESSICA ROBINSON SAALFIELD
Under What Circumstances Do Clinical Social Workers Use Motion Pictures As An Adjunct to Therapy?

 

KELLY SCHABOT
The Social Support Structure and Identity Development of Married Gay and Lesbian Couples

 

MOLLY SCHNURE
An Exploratory Study of the Impact of Continuing Secondary School Segregation on the Experiences of a Sample of Students of Color in a Predominantly Caucasian University

 

REBECCA GRIESE SHATTUCK
The Shape of my Loss, The Shape of my Life: The Role of Early Maternal Death in a Daughter’s Adolescence and Beyond

 

KATHERINE P. SHAW
Adolescent Males and Mental Health: Implications for the Use of Adventure-Based Programs to Assist Male Adolescents who are Resistant to Traditional Psychotherapy

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CLAUDINE L. SOLIN
From Freud To Michael White: A Theoretical Bridge Between Psychodynamic Theory and Postmodern Narrative Practice for use by Clinical Social Workers in their Treatment of Children Who Have Experienced Psychological Trauma and Demonstrate Repetition in their Play

 

ANN M. STAUBLE
The Risk of DSM-IV Diagnoses in Obtaining Individual Health Insurance: Impact on the Therapeutic Alliance

 

EMILY COLEMAN STODDARD
The Paths Ahead: The Factors and Perceptions that Influence Female College Students to Enter Social Movement Organizations or Electoral Politics after Graduation

 

JEREMY S. THAYER
Substance Use and Attachment in Adolescence: A Quantitative Analysis

 

GWENDOLYN WILLIAMS THOMAS
Restorative Narratives: Exploring the Theoretical and Practical Integration of Restorative Justice and Narrative Therapy

 

ERLAND M. TORRICO
Are Contact Sport Athletes More Hostile Aggressive Off the Field than Non-Contact Sport Athletes?

 

EMILY VELLANO
A Queer Perspective on Attachment Hierarchies in Lesbian Adoptive Families

 

HILARY DEBORAH VIENS
What are we thinking? Facilitators Perceptions on the Effectiveness of the Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Treatment Modality for Batterers

 

ERIN R. VORWERK
Investing in Our Future: Suggestions of At-Risk Youth for Effectively Teaching Employment Skills

 

CAROLYN WALL
Cross-Racial Therapy and Empathy Explored from Relational and Intersubjective Theoretical Perspectives

 

MEGAN A. WHITE
Sadomasochism and Object Relations: An Exploratory Study

 

REBECCA HATHAWAY WHITSON
Voices from the Walking Wounded And the Forgotten Few: What are the Motivating Factors and Triggers of Inwardly and Outwardly Directed Aggression as expressed by Females During Adolescence?

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BRITTANY A. WILKINSON
How Inexperienced and Experienced Clinical Social Workers Deal with Vicarious Traumatization as it Pertains to Working with Sexually Abused Children and Adolescents

 

AMILLAH PINNOCK WILLIAMSON
A Narrow Margin of Error on an Uneven Playing field: The Variations of Perfectionism Among African American Professionals

 

KELLY J. WISE
An Exploration of the Internalized Homophobia Amongst Lesbian College Athletes

 

TAWANNA M. WOOLFOLK
A Survey of Community-based Agencies and Programs: Their Efforts to Decrease the Impact of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Among Black Youth in one New England City

 

 

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