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2007

Jennifer Lisa Bluth
An Exploration of the Perception of Body Image Satisfaction and Depression among Preadolescents and Adolescents

Delia J. Gonzalez-Sanders
Familismo and Resilience in Latino Family Caregivers of Dementia Afflicted Relatives: An Ethno-Cultural Cross-Sectional Study

Chikako Nagai
Understanding and Responding to Culturally Based Spiritual Phenomena: Traditional Asian Cultural and Eastern Spiritual Perspectives

Barbara Phillips
Seeing in Order to Listen, Listening in Order to See: Narratives of Deaf/Hearing Couples

Debra Kraushaar Ruben
Well Being of Mothers Employed Outside the Home: A Comparison of Hourly and Salaried Women

Nelly Rojas Schwan
The Relationship between Cultural Competence and Professional Training, Ethnicity, and Experience. An Analysis of an Organization's Cultural Diversity Journey: A Multi-Method Case Study

 

2006

Maryellen Butke
Cultivating Hardiness: Group Therapy Research with Urban Adolescent Girls

Gael McCarthy
Doing Well and Doing Poorly in Care: Caregivers' Attachment Status and Other Risk and Resilience Predictors of Children's Outcomes in Kinship, Foster, and Adoptive Placements

Elizabeth Rodriguez-Keyes
A Qualitative Study on How Second Generation Puerto Rican Women Negotiate Living between Two Cultures

Ellen Smith
Still Here: Trauma, Illness, and Coping in the Lives of Women with HIV/AIDS

Joseph Smith
Therapists' Reactions with Adult Female Sex Abusers/Offenders: Implications for Policy & Practice

Christopher Vaughan
I Am What I Am: Management of Unconscious Conflict in Coming Out Behavior of Young Gay Men

 

2005

Beatrice Armendariz
In Search of a Mexican American Perspective on Health Care: An Examination of Curanderismo and the Elderly Patient's Healing Process

Joanna Bettmann
Shifts in Attachment Relationships: A Quantitative Study of        Adolescents in Brief Residential Treatment

Patricia Demont
Case Studies of Patient-Therapist Collaboration in Examining     Transference Themes through the CCRT Method

Bill Etnyre
Growing Up Gay is Still Hard To Do: A Look at Developmental   Experiences of Gay Youth

Mary Hart
What Five-Year-Old Children Say about Their Attachment Security and Their Coping Strategies when Presented with Stressful Situations in Story Form: An Exploratory Study

William Heran
The Effects of Global Empathy Training on Attachment Styles, Social Competencies, and Empathy Deficits with Male Adolescent Sex Offenders in Court-Ordered Residential Treatment

Mark Jacobsen
When Sons Become Fathers: An Exploration of Post-Feminist Fathers and Their Internalized Representations of the Father-Son Relationship

Efrosini Kokaliari
Deliberate Self-Injury: An Investigation of the Prevalence and Psychosocial Meanings in a Non-Clinical Female College Population

Kim Thompson
The Phenomenology of Loss: Interpersonal and Intrapsychic Experiences in Women with Ovarian Cancer

 

2004

Annette Bailey
School-Based Mental Health Providers: Characteristics, Tasks, and Job Responsibilities

Sherri Ettinger
Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Female Students of Color on Two College Campuses: A Multimethod Study

Mary Lisa Franch-Henry
Siblings Reared with an Alcoholic Parent: A Multimethod Study of Sibling Social Support and Family Structural Characteristics

Melissa Grady
Effects of an Empathy-Focused Group Treatment Program for Incarcerated Sex Offenders

Kathy Graves
Resilience and Adaptation among Alaska Native Men

J. Camille Hall
An Exploratory Study of the Role of Kinship Ties in Fostering   Resilience among African American Adult Children of Alcoholics

Ziva Levite
A Tango of Loving Hate: Couple Dynamics in High Conflict Divorce

Galina Markova
The Relationship between Parental Mental Representations, Attachment Style, and Institutionalization of Children in Bulgaria

Bernard Marshall
Unconscious Guilt as an Explanation for Male Genital Exhibitionism

Yona Weiss
The Importance of the Peer Group in the Israeli Kibbutz for the Development of Adult Attchment Style                                                        

2003

Brian Beech
An Explorative and Comparative Analysis of Female Juvenile Firesetters

Thomas Brauner
Efficacy of Attachment-Oriented Family Therapy Interventions for Children with Developmental Disabilities: An Exploratory Descriptive Study of Process and Outcome in a Therapeutic Preschool

Julie Canfield
An Exploratory Study of Secondary Traumatic Stress and Vicarious Traumatization among Child Psychotherapists

Laura Lewis
The Use of Physical Objects in Mourning by Midlife Daughters Who Have Lost Their Mother

Pamela Lotenberg
Shirk and Russell's Case Formulation Prototypes: Are They Reliable Categories?

Michael Mabanglo
A Quasi-Experimental Study of a School-Based Psychoeducational Group for Traumatized School-Aged Children and Their Parent/Caregivers

Sydney Spears
The Essence and Meaning of Whiteness as Perceived by White Social Workers: A Phenomenological Study

Lisa Werkmeister-Rozas
The Effect of Intergroup Dialogue on Cross-Racial Friendship and Cross-Racial Interaction in a Learning Environment

Darryl Wheat
Women Prisoner's Perspectives on the Prison Family

2002

James Gardner
Uprooting at Midlife: Developmental Challenges and Successful Adaptation for Middle-Aged Soviet Jewish Immigrants

Jeana Hayes-Carrier
Moving through the Loss: The Maternal Experience of Grief Following the Unexpected Death of a Teenage Child

Martha Pierce
A Visit to Motel 6: Clinicians' Responses to Suicidal Adolescents in an Era of Managed Care

Robert Sills
Narratives of Newlyweds: Aspects of Empathy and Their Influence on Marital and Individual Happiness and Marital Stability

 

2001

C. Susanne Bennett
Two Mothers and Their Child: A Multimethod Study of Parenting Bonds and Division of Labor within Lesbian Adoptive Families

Cheryl-Anne Cait
Death and Identity: When an Adolescent Girl's Parent Dies

Carol Cohen
Individual Psychotherapy with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals: Perceptions of the Consumer

Melissa Doyle
An Interplay Based Social Skills Group for Children with Asperger's Syndrome

Johnnie Hamilton-Mason
Transactional Learning and Double Consciousness: Voices of Students of Color within Racism and Oppression Courses

Elizabeth Keenan
From Strangers to Working Partners: Interactional Process of Sociocultural Issues in the Beginning Phase of Cross-Cultural Social Work Practice

Catherine Orzolek-Kronner
The Relationship between Attachment Patterns and Guilt in the Function of Eating Disorder Symptoms: Can Symptoms be Proximity-Seeking?

Shoshana Shonfeld-Ringel
The Effect of Culture on the Working Alliance between Asian American Clients and Western Therapists

Stephanie Swann
Understanding Lesbian Identity as a Phenomenon with Two Separate but Inclusive Processes during Adolescence and Young Adulthood

 

2000

Irene Cirillo
The Relationship of Constructive Aggression to Resilience in Adults Who Were Abused as Children

Dale Dingledine
Standing in the Shadows: Adult Daughters of Alcoholic Mothers

Sheila Roger Faucher
"Successful" Female Clinicians' Perceptions of Their Relationship with Their Fathers: Impasses and Resolutions

John Giugliano
Out-of-Control Sexual Behavior: An Exploratory Study

Janice Houston-Little
African American Men and Their Daughters: Daughters' Perceptions of Their Fathers through Narrative Reconstruction

Janet Kowal
Self-Psychological Issues for Mothers Who Launch Their Firstborn to College

Karen Lynn
Adult Consequences of Experiencing Maternal Loss during Adolescence as Reflected in the Treatment Relationship

Sheila Margiotta
Effects of "Person-Under-Train" Incidents on Locomotive Engineers

Leigh Tuttle
Couintertransference within the Context of Clinical Supervision

Starr Wood
Object Relations, Alexithymia, Symptoms of Psychological Distress, and Methadone Treatment Outcome

 

1999

Karen Bellows-Blakely
Psychotherapists' Personal Psychotherapy and Its Perceived Influence on Clinical Practice

Ann Marie Glodich
Psychoeducational Groups for Adolescents Exposed to Violence and Abuse: Assessing the Effectiveness of Increasing Knowledge of Trauma to Avert Reenactment and Risk-Taking Behaviors

Sallie Deans Lake
Having a Baby: The Meaning Given to One's Pregnancy and Early Motherhood by White American Teenagers

Arlene Montgomery
Comparison of Two Efforts to Identify Core Conflictual Relationship Themes in Psychotherapy Narratives

 

1998

Judith Batchelor
Adaptation to Prolonged Separation and Loss in Institutionalized Children: Influences on the Psychological Capacities of Adults "Orphaned" throughout Childhood

Jean Coe
Developmental Perspectives on Women's Experiences of Loneliness

Margery Daniel
The Role of Sibling Mental Representations and Attachments in the Experience of Adult Relatedness

Leslie Fleischer
Dimensions of Personality Functioning: Implications for Clinical Social Work Assessment

Susan Fortgang
Core Conflictual Relational Themes of Women Childhood Sexual Abuse Patients

Vincent Gilpin
Mystical Experience and Psychosocial Development

Mary Butteweg Gratton
Case Studies in the Therapeutic Introduction of a Transitional Object to Recast the Relational Experience of Abused Children

Robert Gratton
A Descriptive Study of Children Born to Vietnam Veterans Diagnosed with PTSD

Maconda Brown O'Conner
Development Status of Affect Management in Adjudicated Adolescent Males

Henry Powers
An Assessment of Pre-Oedipal Guilt

Hector Rosario
The Descriptive Quality of Object Representation and Idealization in a Clinical Puerto Rican Sample

Caroline Rosenthal
Toward a Better Understanding of the Use of Psychodynamically Informed Treatment with Latinos: Findings from Clinical Experience

Alan Schroffel
To what Extent does the Availability, Quality, and Style of Supervision Correlate with the Degree of Clinician Job Satisfaction?

George Tsukuda
The Long-Term Effects of Internment on Pre-Adolescent Japanese American Males

Jean Twomey
Implications of Maternal Mental Representations of Absent Fathers to Their Preschool Children

 

1997

James Jay Canning
The Effect of Family Support on the Alliance in Psychotherapy with Psychiatrically Disturbed Parents

Maryke Cramerus
A Psychoanalytic Model of Social Anxiety

Marian Harris
Factors that Affect Family Reunification of African American Birth Mothers and Their Children Placed in Kinship Care

Tanya Harrison
A Study of Mothers' Adult Attachment and Interaction while Feeding Their Toddlers

Michael Hayes
Empathic Performance of the Clinician as a Function of Mental Representation and Attentional Focus

Laurie Herzog
Redefining Women's Mentorships in Academe: The Influence of Significant Work Relationships on the Development of Self and Vocation in Adulthood

Martha Sweezy
Trauma and Recidivism to Prison: What's Guilt Got to Do with It?

Adrienne Wolmark
Feminism and Psychoanalysis: Narratives on Development Theory and Practice

 

1996

John David Bassett
Psychological Correlates in Induced Hypomasculine and Hypermasculine Physiques: Male Anorexics and Body Builders

Susan Bliss
Environmental Factors and Cognitive Deficits as They Relate to the Development of Egocentrism and Narcissism in Adolescents

Jonathan Diamond
Narrative Means to Sober Ends: Language, Interpretation, and Letter Writing in Psychotherapy and Recovery

Patricia Henry Hensley
Psychodynamic Clinical Social Workers' Theories of Therapeutic Cure: A Qualitative Study

Josephine Nol
A Comparison between Feminist and Control/Mastery Therapists' Case Formulations

Elyse Garlick Schneider
An Examiniatin of Post-Disclosure Adjustment in Childhood Incest Victims

Jennifer Tolleson
The Transformative Power of Violence: The Psychological Role of Gang Life in Relation to Chronic Traumatic Childhood Stress in the Lives of Urban Adolescent Males

Davelyn Vidrine
An Exploratory Study of the Nature and Process of Change in the God and Self-Representations of Seminary Women

Susen Weimer
Developmental Factors and Ego State Changes in Female Delicate Self-Cutters

 

1995

Maria Jordan Yellow Horse Brave Heart
The Return to the Sacrec Path: Healing from Historical Trauma and Historical Unresolved Grief among the Lakota

Richard Feinberg
Adaptation to Mortality at the Psychosocial Stage of Integrity vs. Despair: An Examination of Experience in Male Retirees

Vida Grayson
Unbidden Images: The Role of Imagery in Traumatic Stress

Colin Hollidge
The Psychological Adjustment of Siblings to a Diabetic Child

Carole Mucha
The Effects of Early, Average, or Late Onset of Menarche on Girls' Adolescent Social Development

Brian Rasmussen
Metaphor and Psychotherapy: A Qualitative Study of Borderline and Non-Borderline Psychotherapy Sessions

Barbara Phelps Rainwater Redinger
Assessing Self Development through Object Representational Descriptions in a Psychotherapy Group of Women with Borderline Personality Organization

 

1994

Leavelle Cox
Childhood Adversity and the Successful, Resilient Black Aullt: A Retrospective Qualitative Study

Sylvia Forman
The Experience of Separation-Anxiety Considered from the Vantage Point of Recent Infant Research Findings: Inability to Separate, or Inability to Attach?

Edith Fraser
Family Influences on Self-Esteem and Adaptation to College for First Generation African-American Women: An Exploratory Study

Dianne Friedman
Identification of a Visual or Auditory Modality Profile Preference of Child and Parent: A Comparative Study of Latency Age Children Diagnosed as Conduct Disorder or Depressive Disorder

Rosemary Hazelton
The Long-Term Effects of Parental Separation on Young Adult Relationships: The Role of Early Attachment

Faye Mishna
Group Therapy for Adolescents with Learning Disabilities and Related Psychosocial Problems: A Qualitative Analysis

Ellen Emerson Nigrosh
The Role of Conscious and Unconscious Guilt in Adaptation to College

Jane Rudd
Young Men's Relationships with Their Fathers and Their Peers: A Correlational Study

Vivian Shapiro
Bridging the Losses in Biographical Discontinuities through Narrative Reconstruction


1993

D. Joseph Courtney
Transference Tests of Unconscious Pathogenic Beliefs in Therapy: The Application of the San Francisco Psychotherapy Research Group's Plan Formulation Method to Group Psychotherapy

Ann Daniels
Reminiscence, Object Relations and Depressions in the Elderly

Jody Shachnow
The Family Environment of Young Women Hospitalized for Borderline Personality Disorder

Carole Stalker
Adult Female Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Attachment, Organization and Adaptation

Robert Twigg
What Price Foster Care? The Effect of the Foster Care Experience on the Foster Parents' Own Children: An Exploratory Study

 

1992

Allison Brownlow
The Relationship between a Mother's Mental Representations of Her Child and Her Child's Adjustment in Day care

Kim Jones
The Effects of Father Absence on Adolescent Separation-Individuation

Nancy Kahn
The Adult Bat Mitzvah: Its Use in Female Development

Sheila Platt
The Process of Learning in Clinical Social Work Students

Howard Snooks
Medical Utilization Change Following Brief Psychotherapy

 

1991

Philip Barrett
The Fantasized Lost Object in Miscarriage and Stillbirth: A Study of Prequickening and Postquickening Response to Loss

Sylvia Beard
Adaptive Pathways of Children Disfigured by Burn Injury

Michael Becker
The Role of Self and Object Representations in the Response of Patients to the Argon Laser Treatment of their Port Wine Stains

Shelley Brauer
The Supervisory Relationship as a Factor in the Development of the Student's Sense of Self as a Clinician

Neil Campbell
Adaptations to Emergent Fathering in a Prenatal Educational Support Group

Dorothy Doucette
Daughter's Mental Representations of a Deceased Father in Late Adolescent Development Negotiations

Terry Northcut
The Level of Referential Activity in Time-Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy

E. Anne Riley
Early Histories and Developmental Deficits of Child Abusing Mothers: A Psychodynamic Profile

Gail Wittkin Sasso
The Meanings of Work to Women: Maternal Identifications of Employed Women and Their Homemaking Mothers

Cheryl Springer
Individuation and Connectedness in the Adjustment of Young Adolescents to Parental Divorce: An Exploration of Gender Differences

Jay C. Willilams
An Exploration of Affect Labeling in Impulsive Aggressive Boys

 

1990

Kathryn Basham
Moral Courage and Noncustodial Mothering: A Study of Interactional and Cognitive Perspectives

Judith Belle Brown
The Impact of Developmental Antecedents on the Personal and Professional Well-Being of Female Family Physicians

Margaret Waller Burhoe
Mid-Adolescent Girls Who Physically Fight Other Girls in School

Stephen Cadwell
Issues of Identification for Gay Psychotherapists Treating Gay Clients with HIV Spectrum Disorder: Special Vulnerability and Its Management

Alice Chornesky
Paternal Images, Reworking Experienjces and Parental Awareness among Fathers of Latency-Age Children

Maria Corwin
Dysfunctional Cognitive Sets and Depressive Experiences: A Comparison of Borderline Dysthymic and Primary Dysthymic Responses to Loss

Nina Heller
Object Relations and Symptom Choice in Bulmics and Self-Mutilators

Carol Jensen
Affect Development Status in Adolescents with Emotional Disorders

Dorothy Harper Jones
Synchrony in the Separation-Individuation Experience of Mothers and Their "Practicing" Infants: A Comparative Analysis of African Mothers and Their Infants and African American Mothers and Their Infants

Sharon McQuaide
Superego Issues Contributing to Apprehension over Public Speaking

Michael Reison
Developmental Antecedents Affecting the Potential for Growth during the Transition to Fatherhood

Sandra Payne Richards
Early Communication and Level of Mental Representation in the Profoundly Deaf

Wendy Rosen
Self-in-Relation Development in Lesbians and the Mother-Daughter Relationship

Jeff Schrenzel
Developmental Gains Associated with Long-Term Membership in Alcoholics Anonymous

Gale Terry
Emotional Availability and Depression in Mothers of Preschool Children

Cecily Weintraub
Dual Coding Influences on the Formation of Clinical Impressions

 

1989

Holly V. Humphreys
Transfer between Clinicians for the Patient with Chronic Schizophrenia in a Clinic: Factors that Predict Smooth Continuation in Treatment

Michael J. Loughran
Emotional Disengagement from Fathers as a Factor Affecting the Postdivorce Adjustment of Young Adolescent Sons

Dennis A. Miehls
Marital Attachment Patterns and Change in One's Mental Representations

Betty Morningstar
Shifting Sexual Object Choice in Adult Women: A Study of the Developmental Achievements and Adaptation of a Sample of Late-Emerging Lesbians

Deborah Dolan Power
Projective Identification and the Mother's Image of her Psychiatrically Hospitalized Child

Elaine Robb
Crisis Intervention in a Children's Psychiatric Day Treatment Program: Its Beneficial Characteristics

Sharon M. Roberts
Adolescent Acting-Out, Ego Development, and Family Interaction: A Study of Hospitalized Adolescents and their Parents

Diane L. Rotnem
An Examination of the Association between Maternal Depression and the Behavioral Functioning of School Age Children

Mark W. Weber
Adaptation to Recurring Psychosis: an Exploratory Study of Schizophrenic Clients' Efforts to Understand, Explain, and Integrate Their Deviant Experiences

 

1988

Susan Childers
The Relationship between Premorbid Social Adjustment and Long-term Outcome in DSM-III Schizophrenia

Seth Hunt Montgomery
The Evolution of the Therapeutic Representation through the Course of Psychotherapy

Kathleen Novak
The Psychological Development of Very Low Birth Weight, Premature Infants

Susan Carol Shulman Polit
Adult Daughters: The Psychological Impact of Their Aging Mothers' Need for Care

Kenneth Dane Wenning
Borderline Children Two to Eight Years Later: A Follow-Up Study

 

1987

Susan Donner
Lawrence Kohlberg's Theory of Moral Development and Object Relations Theory

Louise Enoch
Never-Married Women: A Study of Adaptation

Kathleen Reardon
The Effects of Learning: A Model of Clinical Learning on Supervisory Behavior

Bruce John Thompson
The Experience of Distress and Adaptation in Response to the Threat of AIDS in Healthy Gay Men: An Exploratory Study

 

1986

Caroline Corkey
Adult Relationship Functioning of Children Treated in a Day Psychiatric Hospital

Harriet Meek
Precursors to Reciprocity

Margaret Wool
Exploration Study of Extreme Denial in Breast Cancer Patients

 

1985

Joyce Kraus Aronson
The Level of Object Relations and Severity of Symptoms in the Normal Weight Bulmic Patient

Wendy Haskell
The Role of the Mother-Daughter Relationship in the Choice Regarding Motherhood

Carla Ann Monroe-Posey
The Long-Term Psychological Effects of Father-Daughter Incest on Young Adult Women

Stephanie Nurenberg
Psychological Development in Borderline Adolescents in Wilderness Therapy

Rita Schein
The Use of a Television Role Model in Facilitating the Mourning Process for Institutionalized Latency Aged Boys

Raphael Triana
The Representational World of Combat in Vietnam Veterans: A Study of Post-Traumatic Stress

Lyle Lobel Warner
Adopted Women's Search for the Biological Mother: A Developmental Perspective

Diana Zacarian
Qualitative and Conceptual Characteristics of Object Representations and Types of Depressive Experiences in Normal and Clinical Adults

 

1984

Ami Gantt
Inpatient Treatment as a Holding Environment for Borderline Adults

Karen Lee Peterson
An Exploration of the Separation-Individuation Processes in the Down Syndrome Child

Geraldine Scheller-Gilkey
Case Studies of Unmarried Adolescent Mothers from a Developmental Perspective

 

1983

Bettye Clement
Father-Infant Interaction and Its Relationship to the Father's Sex Role Identification

Thomas Doherty
Patterns of Adaptation to Military Retirement: An Exploratory Study

Martha Gabriel
A Descriptive-Exploratory Probe of a Developmental Formulation for Boredom in Adults

Robert Jolley
An Exploration of Separation-Individuation in Families with Adopted Infants

Joanne Lindy
Social and Psychological Influences on Children's Adaptation to the Death of a Parent

Phyllis Shepard-Spiro
Separation-Individuation Issues in the Mother-Daughter Relationship for Patients with Anorexia Nervosa

 

1982

Yvonne Holyman Dodson
An Exploration of a Therapeutic Model Oriented to the Narcissism of the Borderline Patient

Helene Jackson
The Impact of Combat Stress on Adolescent Moral Development in Vietnam Veterans

Kathy DeBell Rees
Mourning and Object Relations in the Elderly

Betty Smith
Exploration of the Effects of an In-Service Training Program on Staff Relations

Elaine Spaulding
The Formation of Lesbian Identity during the "Coming Out" Process

Ruth Winter
The Separation-Individuation Negotiations of Asthmatic Toddlers and Their Mothers

 

1981

Jacinta Lu Costello
A Follow-Up Study of Formerly Hospitalized Borderline Adolescents

Marybelle Fisher
An Exploration of the Clinical Learning Process in a Time-Limited Psychotherapy Training Program

Suzan Kamm Kartell
The Father's Influence on the Woman's Development in the Post-Oedipal Period

Beth Kemier
Resolution of Anticipatory Grief as Related to Object Relationship Functioning

Joan Deborah Lampert
Treatment Caesurae: A Follow-Up Study of Borderline Adolescents Who Failed to Complete Psychiatric Hospitalization

Joan Robin Robb
An Interactional, Developmental Model of the Emergence of the Childhood Accident Problem

June Townsend
The Effects of Ego Deficits on Parenting an MBD Child, Examined in Parental Group Therapy

 

1980

Barbara L. Nicholson
Treatment Response to Methadone Maintenance and Its Relationship to Object Realtionship funcitoning

 

1979

Dorien Mintzer Greenberg
Parental Reactions to an Infant with a Birth Defect: A Study of Five Families

Allen Johnson
Developmental Achievement in Latency-Aged Spina Bifida Children

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