Degrees awarded January 29,
2010
DOCTOR OF PSYCHOLOGY
Leonard Caltabiano
(School Psychology – General Track)
Verbal Query Intervention: Addressing Stereotype in Students with
Autism.
Zheng Zhou, Ph.D., Mentor
Tracy Gangi
(School Psychology – General Track)
School Climate and Faculty Relationships: Choosing an Effective
Assessment Measure.
Raymond DiGiuseppe, Ph.D., Mentor
Rachel Greenfeld
(School Psychology – Bilingual Track)
The Role of Students’ Age and Gender and Teachers’ Knowledge of
Autism in Treatment Acceptability of Interventions for
Autism.
Mark Terjesen, Ph.D., Mentor
Giuliana Losapio
(School Psychology – General Track)
Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Treatment
Methods and Parental Perceptions.
Mark Terjesen, Ph.D., Mentor
Jennifer Salhany
(School Psychology – General Track)
The Role of Parent Irrational Beliefs, Parent Anxious and Depressed
Symptoms.
Mark Terjesen, Ph.D., Mentor
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE
Jennifer Atencio-Bacayon
Clinical Psychology – Clinical Child Track
Examining Ethnic Differences in Perceived Discrimination and
Psychological Health Using Structural Equation Modeling.
Elizabeth Brondolo, Ph.D., Mentor
Emily Neiditch
Clinical Psychology – General Track
Effectiveness and Moderators of Improvement in a Family Education
Program for Borderline Personality Disorder.
Wilson McDermut, Ph.D., Mentor
Degrees awarded September 30,
2009
DOCTOR OF PSYCHOLOGY
Subashini Jesurasa
School Psychology – General Track
South Asian Perceptions of Children with Disabilities.
Samuel Ortiz, Ph.D., Mentor
Tremaine Sayles
School Psychology – General Track
Validation of a Computerized Neuropsychological Assessment Battery
for Children.
Robin Wellington, Ph.D., Mentor
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE
Grace Kong
Clinical Psychology – Clinical Child Track
A Social-Motivational Model of Problematic Drinking in Emerging
Adulthood.
Andrea Bergman, Ph.D., Mentor
Daniel Libby
Clinical Psychology – Clinical Child Track
Vagally-Mediated Wellness: High-Frequency Heart Period Variability
and Psychological Well-Being.
Alice Powers, Ph.D., Mentor
Louis Mora
Clinical Psychology – General Track
Religious Fundamentalism, Personality, Irrational Thinking, and the
Use of Immature Defense Mechanisms.
Wilson McDermut, Ph.D., Mentor
Valentina Nikulina
Clinical Psychology – Clinical Child Track
Responses to Sexual Assault Disclosure and Survivor’s Symptoms of
PTSD and Depression. Do Race/Ethnicity of Sexual Assault Survivor
and Disclosure Recipient Matter?
Elissa Brown, Ph.D., Mentor
Eliyahu Reich
Clinical Psychology – General Track
Habituation Versus Operant Learning in the Treatment of Anger and
Anxiety.
Raymond DiGiuseppe, Ph.D., Mentor
Jonathan Shaffer
Clinical Psychology – Clinical Child Track
Factor Structure, Measurement Equivalence, and Item Invariance of
the Outcome Questionnaire.
Raymond DiGiuseppe, Ph.D., Mentor
Degree to be awarded May 2010
DOCTOR OF PSYCHOLOGY
Kristen Cardella
(School Psychology – General Track)
Predicting the Likelihood of Help-Seeking in Adolescents: The Role
of Personality Variables, Social Support, Gender, and Type of
Problem
Mark Terjesen, Ph.D., Mentor
Susan Farber
(School Psychology – General Track)
The Effects on Siblings of Children with Autism
Andrea Bergman, Ph.D., Mentor
Alan Galgana
(School Psychology – General Track)
The Effects of Style and Length of Martial Arts Training on Parent
Perception of Adolescent Aggression and Self-Regulation
Raymond DiGiuseppe, Ph.D., Mentor
Amanda Grodewald
(School Psychology – General Track)
The Interrelations Among Rumination, Depression and Social Stress
in Children and Adolescents: A Longitudinal Study
Alice Pope, Ph.D., Mentor
Veronique Hayek
(School Psychology – Bilingual Track)
Parental Justification of Children’s Aggressive Behavior
Tamara Del Vecchio, Ph.D., Mentor
Jacqueline Notti
(School Psychology – General Track)
The Development and Validation of the Parent Anger Scale
Tamara Del Vecchio, Ph.D., Mentor
Sarah Jabbour
(School Psychology – Bilingual Track)
Evaluation of Child and Adolescent Characteristics as Predictors of
Success in a Day Treatment Setting
William Chaplin, Ph.D., Mentor
Stacey Lella- Souravlis
(School Psychology – General Track)
Evaluating Speech-Language and Cognitive Impairment Patterns via
the Culture-Language Interpretive Matrix
Samuel Ortiz, Ph.D., Mentor
Melissa Matovic
(School Psychology – General Track)
The Efficacy of the Mystery Motivator among Kindergarten and Fourth
Graders
Mark Terjesen, Ph.D., Mentor
Kerry Anne O’Toole
(School Psychology – General Track)
Parent Behavior and Cognition in Predicting Female Childhood
Physical Aggressive Behavior: The Role of Irrational and Normative
Beliefs as a Function of Child Age
Mark Terjesen, Ph.D., Mentor
Jessica Pochtar
(School Psychology – General Track)
Maternal Irrationality, Stress, Behavior and Disabled Preschoolers’
Functioning
Mark Terjesen, Ph.D., Mentor
Jessica Puttre
(School Psychology – General Track)
The Meta-Analytic Review of the Treatment Outcome Literature for
Traumatized Children and Adolescents
Mark Terjesen, Ph.D., Mentor
Scott Quasha
(School Psychology – General Track)
A Program Review of a Middle School Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA)
Club
Samuel Ortiz, Ph.D., Mentor
Dana Santomenna
(School Psychology - General Track)
Are There Benefits of Theatre Arts Programs in Schools?
Mark Terjesen, Ph.D., Mentor
Jennifer Stein
(School Psychology – General Track)
Peer Mediation Training and Its Effects on Student Mediators
Alice Pope, Ph.D., Mentor
Marina Treybick
(School Psychology – General Track)
The Association of Social Support With Depression in Early
Adolescence
Alice Pope, Ph.D., Mentor
Christina Tripodi
(School Psychology – General Track)
Emotional Reactions to Changes in Visual Context and its Effect on
Infant Memory
Jeffrey Fagen, Ph.D., Mentor
Lauren Zomick
(School Psychology – General Track)
Social Skills in Siblings of Families with a Child Diagnosed with
Autism
Andrea Bergman, Ph.D., Mentor
Jared Zucker
(School Psychology – General Track)
Consumer Perceptions of School Psychologists: The Views of Parents,
Teachers, and Administrators
Mark Terjesen, Ph.D., Mentor
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE
Maisha Horton
(Clinical Psychology-Child Track)
Prepulse Inhibition and Habituation of Human Eyeblink to
Acoustic Stimuli
Alice Powers, Ph.D., Mentor
Aida Mencia
Ripley
(Clinical Psychology – General Track)
Sex-Typing, Coping, and Blood Pressure: An Exploration of the
Effects of Biological Sex vs. Gender on Health
Elizabeth Brondolo, Ph.D., Mentor
Vanessa Rodriquez
(Clinical Psychology – Child Track)
Evaluation of Cognitive Processing Therapy for Mexican Women With a
History of Trauma
Elissa Brown, Ph.D., Mentor
Degree to be awarded September
2010
DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY DEGREE
Jessica Berenguer
Clinical Psychology – General Track
Investigation of Gender Differences in the Expression, Experience,
and Perception of Anger Using Classical Test Theory, Item Response
Theory, and Item Content Analysis.
William Chaplin, Ph.D., Mentor
Lauren Gonsalves
Clinical Psychology – Clinical Child Track
Social-Cognitive and Emotional Correlates of Social Preference and
Perceived Popularity.
Alice Pope, Ph.D., Mentor
Jasmin Kwok
Clinical Psychology – General Track
The Role of Ethnic Identity in the Link between Perceived Racism
and Psychological Distress Across a Multiethnic Sample.
Elizabeth Brondolo, Ph.D., Mentor
Dina Matic-Kriakova
Clinical Psychology – Clinical Child Track
Learning and Memory in Infancy and the Preschool Years.
Jeffrey Fagen, Ph.D., Mentor
Nisha Ver Halen
Clinical Psychology – General Track
A Randomized Controlled Study of the Acute and Sustained Effects of
Perceived Racism on Negative Affect.
Elizabeth Brondolo, Ph.D., Mentor