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RECENT THESIS TITLES - 2008

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Georgia Louise Banks
Taking the Bait: Countertransference Among Female Clinicians who Work with Men who Batter

Sarah Barnett-Parker
"Enough about you, let's talk about me": Clinician's use of self-disclosure and (un)conscious awareness of Race, Sexuality, and Gender

Lavange Barth
Meaning Making for Survivors of Suicide: An Exploratory Study of a Complicated Process

Amy Beth Basford
Applying and Adapting Testimonial Psychotherapy to Address the Effects of Race-Based Traumatic Stress on People of Color in the United States

Jerry Dale Beene
The Living and Spiritual Experiences of Gay Men with AIDS: An Exploratory Study

Sarah Belanger
An Exploration of Possibilities for Clinical Work with Transracial Adoptive Family Members: Employing Narrative Therapy and Attachment Theory in Ways that are Consistent with the Rights of Transracial Adoptees

Lynda Marie Bonneau
School Experiences of Foster Children as Seen Through the Eyes of Teachers

Tamika M. Brock
"Do I Pull the Race Card?" Middle-Class African Amierican Parental Perceptions of Racsim in their Children's Public Schools

Kelly Brogden
"They were neither typical... nor unique": An Exploratory Study of Enlistment Decisions of American Veterans from Past to Present

Adam Brown
Understanding Male Juvenile Sexual Offenders: An Investigation of Experiences and Internalized Masculinity

Elizabeth Diane Burris
Emotions in the Classroom

Sara Tildon Burton
Sexual Expression among Black Women in Relationships with Men from Different Minority Racial Groups

Richard Cabada
The Subjective Experience of Attachment for Children with Mothers who have been Formally Diagnosed as Schizophrenic: An Exploratory Study Based on the Practice Wisdom of Clinical Practitioners

Michael Delaney Cantor (PR)
The Use of Storytelling in Therapy with Children

Brianne Goodman Carter
The Strength of Muslim American Couples in the Face of Heightened Discrimination from September 11 and the Iraq War

Michael J. Carter
Male Obesity: A Qualitative Study of Clinical Attitudes and Perspectives

Tsu-Yin Chang
Cultural Competence: An Exploration of its Translation into Therapeutic Practice

Vuthy Chhum
Interracial Relationships from the Perspectives of Cambodians in Western Massachusetts

Binda Colebrook
Mothering the MOther: A Qualitative Study of Clinical Attitudes and Perspectives

Luz Eneida Cotto
Exploring the Experiences of Clinicians Treating Latino Clients who Utilize Folk Healing Practices

Jessica Batsheva Covitz (PR)
Resilience, Recovery, and Story-telling: Exploring the Connection between Narratives of Post-Holocaust Testimonials and the Ritualized Storytelling of Jewish Culture through the lens of Trauma Theory

Sarah Crane
Therapists' Descriptions of their Beliefs and Practices Regarding Engaging Resistant Caregivers of Children and Adolescents

Nola-Rae Cronan
Difference in Perception of Campus Climate between White Students and Black and Latino Students at One New England Independent School

Gwendolyn Cutting Wishard
Attachment Style and Identity Construction: The Choice of Profession as One Method of Culturally Mediating, Locating and Fulfilling Attachment Needs Both Interpersonally and Societally

Lindsay L. Davison
Embodying the Therapeutic Alliance: An Exploration of the Working Alliance in the Personal Trainer-Client Relationship

Margaret M. Dickey
The Impact on the Self of Growing up with a Sibling on the Autism Spectrum: An Exploratory Study

Meghan Dwyer
Religion, Spirituality, and Social Work: A Quantitative Study on the Behavior of Social Workers in Conducting Individual Therapy

Emily Rebecca Fischer
Negotiating Agency and Personal Narrative in Clinical Social Work Practice: A Qualitative Study Investigating how Clinicians' Experiences of Multiple Narratives Influence Their Clinical Work

Mary E. Fisher
The Use of Psychoeducation in the Treatment of PTSD with Military Personnel and their Family Members: An Exploratory Study from a Clinician's Perspective

Corneila Friedman (PR)
Death Matters: Psychodynamic Views of Death and Death Anxiety

David S. Ganapol
The Transformative Effects of a Three-Week Adventure Therapy Program with Adolescents: An Exploration of Trauma and Resiliency

Amanda L. Gane
Mothers' Experiences of Having a Child Diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder

Elise Geltman
Determining Outcomes and Improving Effectiveness: An Outcome Study of the East Bay Agency for Children's Therapeutic Nursery School

Amanda Giese-Sweat
The Intersection of Religion, Spirituality and Social Work: Implications for Spiritual Practice

Megan C. Glennon
Resilience and Street Level Prostitution: A Collective Case Study

Ann Cristina Goett
What are the Factors that Influence Whether a Clinician Discusses Race in teh Crossracial Therapeutic Encounter?

Tandeka Hiya Guilderson
A Question of Diagnosis: Mood and Character in a Case of Emerging Mental Illness

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Enroue Halfkenny
Together or Separate: Implications for Expressing Progressive Social Justice Work and Spiritual Practices

Angela Baczewski Hakkila
Social Work Practice with Latino Pentecostals: Applying Feminist Family Theory and Object Relations Theory

Sharon E. Harp
An Exploratory Study of Mental Health Providers' Awareness of Internalized Oppressions of Women Who Experience Same-Sex Intimate Partner Violence

Kathryn Lynn Hayden
A Slight Schooling on Deaf Education

Nora Heins
Implications of Frequent Online Social Network Use for Adolescent and Emerging Adult Social Experiences

Katherine A. Hornowski
The Way We Speak Affects our Reality: Why Speaking from the Values of Racial Justice Begins the Creation of a Racially Just World

Catherine C. Huh
"What Do You Mean, 'Separate Identity'?": An Exploration of Separation and Individuation for Second Generation Korean American Adolescents

Tessa Leona Hutchinson
The Role of Psychotherapy in the Age of Medication: A Theorectical Analysis of Biological and Psychodynamic Perspectives on the Etiology and Treatment of Schizophrenia

Jennier A. Irving
An Exploration of the Influence of Media, Advertising, and Popular Culture on the Self Esteem, Identity, adn Body Image of Adolescent Girls

Sheela M. Joshi
Tranisistional Objects in Adult Treatment - Case Studies

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M. Elizabeth Kanard
Weighing In: An Analysis of the NASW's Web-Based Content Regarding Theoretical Issues and Practice Recommendations for Social Workers Working with Overweight and Obese Individuals

Candice Tara Karber
The Importance of Racial Concordance and the Childhood Experiences of Black Students and Practicing Clinicians in the Field of Social Work

Maisie L. Ketron
Parental Death: Grieving Loss of Life while Sustaining a Relationship

Leslie Catherine Kilpatrick
No Place Like Home: Trans-Indiiduals' Search for Belonging in a Binary Gendered World

Glenna Sue Klein
How Clinicians' Use of Narrative Therapy Can Assist Elders in Late-Life Transition

Kendra Koeplin
The Impact of Race on the Decision-Making Process for Interracial Lesbian Couples Opting to Conceive Through Donor Insemination

Jennifer Elmassian Leszkiewicz
Examining Our Worst Fears

Ashley Logee
How Home-Based Clinicians Assess and Assist Parent(s) who Experience Changes in Family Dynamics Post Discharge of Their Pre-Latency/Latency Age Child's First Psychiatric Hospitalization

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Saralyn Masselink
What is Culture? What is Compentency? What is Latino?: An Exploratory Study of Clinician's Perceptions and Practice of Cultural Competency with Latino Clients

Sharon M. Maybarduk (PR)
An Exploration of Factors Associated with Reentry Adjustment of U.S. Foreign Service Spouses

Lauren P. McEvoy
An Investigation into What "Best Practice" Entails with Adolescent Survivors of Prolonged Childhood Abuse

Megan McKenna
What if They Think I'm Crazy? Clinical Interventions to Help Adolescents Manage Stigma Following a Psychiatric Hospitalization

Stacy McMillan (PR)
High School Staff Perceptions of Interpersonal Relationships with Students as a Result of an Intervention Called Challenge Day

Anastasia D. McRae
A Survey of Clinicians' Use of Touch and Body Awareness in Psychotherapy

Kim E. Monson
Engaging Parents in the Treatment of their Child: Clinicians' Views on Parent Work

Mwaniki F. Mwangi
Do School-Based Mental Health Programs Have a Positive Outcome on Elementary, Middle, and High School Aged Students' Functioning from the Perspective of Teachers in Urban Public School Systems in New York City, Boston, and Berekely, CA?

Karen C. Nelson
Deconstructing White Privelege: Social Variables that may Effect White Males' Racial Identity Development

Duncan Nichols
Embodied Practice: Do Social Work Therapists Explore Client Strengths as Expressed in the Lived Experience of the Body?

Heather Novack (PR)
In Whose Mirror: A Comparative Analysis of the Conceptualization and Treatment of Pathological Narcissism, Using Modern Analysis and Self Psychology

Arden O'Donnell
Strengthening the Capacity of Helping Professionals to Provide Psychosocial Support to Communities Affected by Armed Conflict: The Evaluation of One Program

Cassiel Owens
A Critical Analysis of Human Trafficking Discourse

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Irja Peck
Elementary School Teachers' Perceptions of the Foster Care System and of the Children in its Care

Emily Ramsey-North
Island Dreams Amierikkkan Nightmares: Colonialism and Culture in the Case of Puerto Rico

Pamela Sloane Rich
Forget Me Not - A Retrospective, Exploratory Study of Daughters Caring for a Mother with Alzheimer's Disease

Chara Riegel
Buddhist Philosophy and Practices as Applied to Unlearning Racism

Rebecca M. Ross
Music and Memory: An Exploratory Study on the Connection between Music and Evocative Memory in the Bereaved

Lauren Rothwell
Wilderness Therapy and Spirituality

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Beth Sadavoy
"Bearing the Weight of a Mother's Mood": Does a History of Depression Influence a Woman's Attitudes About Having Children?

Janet Darcy Saxe
How do Single Fathers Construct a Parenting Identity to Incorporate Nurturing?

Sara R. Schieffelin
Using Art Making in Cross-Cultural Clinical Therapy

Shannon Lydia Sennott
The Double Bind Theory and Gender Non-conforming Identity Development

Laurel Lynn Shortell
The Healthy Solitary Person

Michael Scott Slevin
Vietnam Combat Veterans: Readjustment through the Lenses of Identity and Social Drama

Liz Sosland
Born of Our Fathers: Patrilineal Descent, Jewish Identity, and the Development of Self

Stacey Spilly
Swimming Upstream: Navigating the Complexities of Erotic Transference

Amanda Starfield
Adult Support for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Questioning (LGBTQQ) Youth in High School

Kimberly Stasny
How do Clinical Social Workers Stay Enthusiastic About Their Work?

Erin Stevens
Language Interpreters' Perspectives on Working in the Triadic Relationship with Clients and Clinicians: Culture, Power, and the Therapeutic Alliance

Heidi Griffin Street
Self Psychology at Work in Trauma Theory

Molly C. Thomas
Shades of Gray: Lesbian Therapists Explore the Complexities of Self-Disclosure to Heterosexual Clients

Monica F. Toomey
Facilitating a Sense of Legacy: How Receiving Acknowledgement for Their Generative Social Accomplishments Affects Women in Later Adulthood

Jennifer Lynne Trebby
Perspectives on Severe, Adult Child Molesters: A Look at Their Adult Attachment Styles, Use of Pornography, and Chaos in Families-of-Origin

Sanya K. Unis
Effect of Religiosity on the selection of Life Long Mate in Pentecostal Adult Church Attendees

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Joanna Vaughn
The Smith College School for Social Work Anti-Racism Commitment: A Chronology and Reflections on the Years 1993-1998

Katharine Jane Waggoner
Bread and Roses: Clinical Social Work with Clients Living in Poverty

Ollie Dooling Walker
Physician Assisted Suicide: A Survey of North Carolina End of Life Care Workers

Sara E. Wiener
The Imposter Phenomenon: An Exploratory Study of the Socializing Factors that Contribute to Feelings of Fraudulence among High Achieving, Diverse Female Undergraduates

Keshia Unika Williams
Exploring Internalized Racism: A Critical Review of the Literature and Implications for Clinical Social Work

Amy Tindall Willson
"If I told you what was going to happen, you wouldn't do it": The Breast Cancer Survivor's Experience of Chemotherapy

Lisa Winn
The Relationship between Job Satisfaction and Program Traits for Wilderness Therapists Employed at Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Treatment Programs

Christopher L. Woodman
Dissonance, Development, and Doing the Right Thing: A Theoretical Exploration of Altruistic Action as an Adaptive Intervention

Alyssa J. Wyman
Clinician Gender as a Factor of Countertransference in the Treatment of Clients Diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder

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