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RECENT THESIS TITLES - 2009

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A-B | C-D | E-G | H-J | K-L | M-O | P-R | S-U | V-Z

(PR = Post Resident)

Meghan Albrecht
Resilient traits of children raised by a parent with borderline personality disorder

Maisha N. Aza
What's the skinny on fat women in psychotherapy mental health clinicians' countertransference with women of size?

Annie Bachrach
An exploratory study of the life experiences and motivating factors of White anti-racist organizers and educators

Christina Bagley
The school mental health clinician's role as a mandated reporter of child abuse and neglect

Jaeyoun Bang
Understanding the emotional experiences of first generation Korean-American Fathers: Perspectives from Meta-Emotion Philosophy

Julia E. Barker
Psychotherapist and intuitive healer's cultivation of self-compassion: How loving the self enhances therapist intuition and client interaction

Ashley P. Benson
Close encounters of a therapeutic Kind

Dana L. Benton
Faces of the tuture: An exploration of biracial identity development and racial identification in biracial young adults

Rian Bovard-Johns
Alliance with juvenile sex offenders: How alliance is affected by current client variables of trauma symptoms and attachment functioning

Rian Bovard-Johns
Juvenile sex offenders' religion and sprituality: The interaction between religious importance and therapeutic alliance

Eugene Espejo Canotal
An overseas example of "lighter is better": The implications of colorism among male sex workers in Thailand

Rachel Ellen Carfora
Codependency among only children as predicted by parenting style practiced in family-of-origin

Sarah Cartier
Self-image in adolescent foster youth who have had multiple placements

Prarie Chiu
From swarms to summer camps: A theoretical deconstruction of cohesion among groups of latency aged boys

Sonnie Chong
Majority attitudes toward affirmative action in the workplace: A survey based on the Kuklinski List Experiment

Caitlin Mara Cotter
"There is something you should know": The reasons therapists disclose their chronic, physical illness to clients and the therapeutic implications of self disclosure

Lashauna Cutts
Making hope and hard work matter: What does it take to be African American, male, and a high-achieving senior at an urban public high school?

Claretta Daniels (PR) - Winner of the Eleanor Clark Thesis Prize
Echoes of racism: An exploration into skin color bias within the African American community

Jamil M. Davis
Gathering the strengths and resiliencies of low-income joint and custodial fathers of color: A focus group study

Michael DiLorenzo
Looking at substance use disorders through the lenses of self psychology and existential psychotherapy: A theoretical study

Sandra L. DiPillo
Identity among Black gay men: The relationship between racial and sexual orientation identity development

Elizabeth M. Donahue
The marathon of life: An exploratory study of female cancer survivors' experience with training for and participating in a marathon after their cancer diagnosis

Jessica Rose Donohue
Women among men: The experiences of female staff in residential facilities for adolescent males

Tracy A. Donsky, J.D.
Mental health and developmental factors related to juvenile adjudicative competence

Carmel T. Drewes
Anonymous sperm donor preferences in non-genetic mothers

Jessica W. Eipper
Older women's perceived indepdendence in post-widowhood repartnership

Sarah Eley
School-based mental health providers' perceptions of their training in serving LGBTQI youth

Aethena Enzer-Mahler
The experience of early childhood educators working with children who have attachment impairments

Emily Erchick
Strategy and power in contemporary clinical practice: A theoretical xxamination of family preservation philosophy and strategic family therapy in the context of poverty

Emy Fehmi
Understanding the overall ingredients that contribute to satisfaction and dissatisfaction in the field supervisory relationship from the social work student perspective

Sunshine E. Finneran
Trauma and the body: A survey examining the use of therapeutic touch in psychotherapy

Julia E. Gallichio, M.A.
Religion, spirituality and clinical practice: An exploration of practical applications

Thalia Ghazey Bates
Therapeutic adaptation: Treatment of individuals with mental retardation and psychiatric disorders

Cynthia Gibeau (PR)
Perception and quality of life: Contrasting personal faith-based wellness and the traditional medical models of care used in alcohol abuse and addiction treatment programs

Keri Godfrey
The primparious experience: An examination of body satisfaction and self-esteem

Jillian Goldstein
Voices from the parents of lesbian, gay, or bisexual children: How do parents adjust to their child's lesbian, gay, or bisexual identity?

Corye Goodman
Clinical social work and the medical model: The use of art and play therapy interventions

Mia R. Gutfreund
The conceptualization and integration of conscious breathing in clinical practice

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Lauren Polly Hanson
Do you see what I see? Making the invisible visible through an exploration of the intersubjective experience of social work clinicians working with fat clients

Andrea Harbeck
The feasibility of dialogue writing with patients who have an eating disorder

Jennifer Harrison
A discontinuous space: postmodern perspectives on mental health discourse

Theodore R. Healy
Current trends in employee assistance consumer concerns: Employee assistance professionals' reports on the presenting concerns of employees

George C. Herrity
A follow-up study exploring the transformative effects of wilderness therapy on adolescents with histories of trauma

Cole Douglas Hooley
Engaging fathers: Examining social service agency father-friendliness and its relationship with father involvement

Laura Jacinto
Stuck in the sibling relationship: Growing up with a sibling with a serious mental illness and how intimate relationships later in life may be affected

Leah Jackson
Clinician perceived barriers to effective discharge planning for youth coming out of residential and inpatient treatment: A qualitative study

Lindsay Jamieson
An exploratory study of clinicians' understanding of children's non-traditional toy choice and parents' concerns

Julie Anne M. Joy
"It's a common belief that people who see a therapist or psychologist are crazy": A study of rural mental health care in Wyoming

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Amy Kirsztajn
Childhood sexual abuse and the lesbian coming out process

Sheri Kurtz
Sorry is harder to say when you mean it: Clinicians' perceptions of working with juvenile sexual offenders on taking responsibility for their offenses

Amy Y. Kwan
The effects of oncology social workers' involvement on cancer patients' decisions about end-of-life care

Joseph J. Lacy
Establishing the core self and its significance developmentally: A qualitative exploration of the relationship between achieving self cohesion and the entrance into adulthood

Alex Laughrey
Religion as a protective factor in the severity of crimes committed by juveniles with sexually offending behaviors

Simone Lichty
The air that I breathe: How Buddhist practice supports psychotherapists in the midst of vicarious trauma and burnout

Holly G. Light (PR)
"I feel fat!": How do therapists help recovering female anorectic clients cvercome body image issues?

Susan Lutzke-Hoff
How palliative care professionals in multicultural or monocultural dyads incorporate humor in their work

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Michelle Hart Marlowe
Narrative approaches to recovery-oriented psychotherapy with individuals with schizophrenia

Tarn C. Martin
An exploratory study of transracial adoptions: African American perspectives

Katherine McDonnell
Supporting Father Iinvolvement Project: From research to action

Karen Davis McGinty
Having our say: Stressors and readjustment issues of veterans of the wars in iraq and afghanistan from the perspective of loved ones

Omer Astar Mendelson - Winner of the Amith Ben-David Thesis Award
Lovers without borders: Self-reflections on the relationships of cross-national and cross-cultural couples of Korean women partnered with North American non-Asian men

Daniel S. Millman (PR)
Free to act any way he wanted: Male gender identity development and professional wrestling

Laura Mowrey
The therapist as client: Revisiting the idea of clinicians in personal therapy

Mareike N. Muszynski
Influence of a multidimensional model of antiracism traning on White clinician's positive self-regard, White privelege attitudes and social identity development

Kay Naito
The necessity of "conflict transformations" in approaches to psychosocial interventions

Shoshana M. Narva
The role of narrative therapy techniques in fostering parent self-efficacy

Tara Nicotra-Clemente
The experience of social workers who use Thought Field Therapy or Emotional Freedom Technique

Susana Ochoa
An exploratory study: Hispanic/Latino OEF/OIF U.S. military veterans readjusting post-deployment

Lydia Onofrei
A critical examination of the theoretical and empirical overlap between overt narcissism and male narcissism, and between covert narcissism and female narcissism

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Linsay Pepin
How does family support affect adjudicated adolescent girls' experiences in a residential treatment facility? An exploratory study

Julia Perault
The experiences of Smith College School for Social Work students talking with field supervisors about issues of race

Sena M. Perrier-Morris (PR)
Engaging the hard to engage: An examination of sanctioned TANF clients' perceptions of the re-engagement process

Zpora R. Perry
Living in a context of new knowledge: An exploration of the experience of young adults transitioning from cancer patient to survivor

Kristin Pinto-Wilson
Circle: A relationship-based dialogic approach to growing out of racism

Yolanda Ramos
The experiences of Latina attending predominately White colleges

Erin Hamilton Richter
Post-traumatic stress disorder and depression in combat veterans within group-based exposure therapy treatment: A correlation between grief and guilt?

Sophie Ricks
Experiences of urban and suburban police officers encountering mental illness in their communities: Training, attitudes and actions

Sarah M. Rigney
Inextricably intertwined: An exploration of identity development in adults with a disabled sibling

Caroline I. B. Robertson
Childhoold maltreatement and its effects on male delinquent crime: Physical neglect trumps all

Lisa Rudge
Social workers helping to put out the fire: How do combination fire department employees work through occupational stress?

Emily Brennan Russell
"Like straight people do": An exploration of issues lesbian women encounter during their coming out process

Tara Ryan
A retrospective look at the perceived effects of parental acceptance/non-acceptance on transgender adolescents

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Miriam Sadinsky
Acting on grief in the aftermath of violent loss: The efficacy of social action as a mechanism for psychic repair

Amanda R. Santiago
Impulsive and antisocial personality characteristics amongst male sdolescent sexual offenders

Sarah Santoro
Clinical social workers' uses of humor as a coping strategy on an inpatient psychiatry unit

Eliza Schriffin
"This so clearly needs to be marked": An exploration of memorial tattoos and their functions for the bereaved

Jeannette Sheerin
Transgender individuals' experiences in therapy and perception of the treatment experience

Evan Shopper
The effects of joint physical custody on fathers and the father/child relationship

Tara Slade
Voices of graduates from clinical social work master's programs: The impact of the education process on the self and on personal relationships

Lisa Marie Smeltzer
Exploring intimate partner violence through the lens of modern attachment theory

Sara Smithson
The theoretical foundations of wilderness therapy

Lois Jihae Son
Exploring the lives of African Americans living with mental illness

Billie Ann Starks
Gaps in the provision of psychosocial services to cancer patients in a multidisciplinary setting: A social work perspective

Andrew Sussman
Family therapists' responses to monopolizing, blaming, critical and unempathetic behavior in parents

Hunter Greenwood Swanson
Standards of Care: Transgender/genderqueer clients' experiences with mental health workers

Kristin Amy Swenson
Race and diagnosis: An assessment of clinician detection of eating disorder symptomatology in Asian, African American, and White women

Allison Terbieten
Boundary constructions in treatment relationships between service providers and homeless youth

Kimberly J. Therrien
Repeat pregnancy during adolescence: Factors that influence teens' decisions to have more than one child

Nathalie Rachelle Torrens
Gettin' good with ourselves: White caucus groups as emergent anti-racism pegagogy

Andrea J. Torres (PR)
Feeling your way: Affect in psychotherapy and creative writing from the perspective of the client-writer

Mary Triulzi (PR)
Do the Pikler and RIE methods promote infant-parent attachment?

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Bao Chau Van
Lost and found: Resilience approaches that helped the Vietnamese residents of Biloxi, Mississippi in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

Denise L. Villegas
What is the efficacy of evidence-based practice in mental health treatment of diverse ethnic minorities?

Sara Esther Walker
An exploration of White mental health clinicians' provision of Spanish language services to Latino/a clients

Matthew J. Warford
Social workers' perceptions on community violence and resilience: The impact of assessment and treatment when working with children and adolescents

Jennifer F. Wiech
How social workers resolve the ethical dilemmas that arise when working with women experiencing domestic violence

S. Heath Williams
The effects of sexually transmitted illness (STI) stigmatization on intimate relationships: Non-infected partners' perceptions, reactions, feelings and attitudes toward female partners' disclosure of herpes simplex virus (HSV) positive status

Sarah Crofton Winsor (PR)
Sugar and spice: The hidden world of pre-adolescent female aggression

Serena Wong
What are the mental health-seeking behaviors of female sex workers?

Katie A. Worms
Why horses? Why not horses! Equine-facilitated therapy for mental health treatment

Jana L. Wu
Assessing the benefits of practicing spirituality or religion while incarcerated: A study of formerly incarcerated men in Texas

Shawn Young
Navigating into the ring: A qualitative study of some of the many barriers keeping Equine Assisted Psychotherapy practitioners from connecting with prospective clients

Elizabeth Jean Zacher
School counselor perspectives on bullying behavior in urban middle school settings

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