Following each student`s name is the dissertation title and the name of the dissertation committee chairperson.
Doctor of Philosophy
Erain Applewhite: A Case Study of an Urban Elementary School
Improvement Initiative Using An Adaptation of a Program Planning and
Evaluation Framework
Advisers: Charles A. Maher and Kenneth Schneider
Kristen J. Aurelio: A Program Evaluation of a School-Based Counseling
Group for Elementary School Children
Advisers: Kenneth Schneider and
Karen Haboush
A. Margaret Bezmalinovic: Conduct Disorder in
the United States: a Psychosocial and Service Utilization Profile
Advisers: James Walkup and Lynn Warner
Melissa Robin Brand:
Caregiver Practices, Perceptions, and Understanding of Social and
Emotional Learning in Children
Advisers: Charles Maher and Lew Gantwerk
David Brantley III: Introduction of African American and Latino
Male Youth to Drug Dealing: a Search for Potential Points of
Intervention
Advisers: Brenna H. Bry and John Kalafat
Leila
Bremer: Spirituality as a Moderating Value in Facilitating the
Association Between Coping and Social Functioning Among the Severely
Mentally Ill
Advisers: James Walkup and Philip Yanos
Craig
Matthew Callan: Current Practices in Psychoanalysis: the Disclosure of
Autobiographical Information by Psychoanalysts to Their Patients
Advisers: Nancy McWilliams and Lew Gantwerk
Jacqueline Calle:
The Negotiation of Autonomous Decision-Making with Respect to Family
Among Professional Latinas
Advisers: John Kalafat and Nancy
Boyd-Franklin
Shandra Loise Cast: Impact of a Multicultural
Literature Program on Students' Reading Habits and Attitudes Towards
Reading
Advisers: Kenneth Schneider and R. Brett Nelson
Gary
William Dayton: The Paradox of Multiple Missions: an Evaluability
Assessment of an Affirmative Business Program that Employs Persons with
Serious Mental Illness
Advisers: Dan Fishman, Keneth Heckart, and Peter
Campanelli
Peter Nicholas Denigris: Developing a
Community-Based Intervention Model for Trauma-Affected Adolescents: A
Case-Based Approach
Advisers: Daniel B. Fishman, Kenneth Schneider, and
Monica Indart
Robert Emmerling: Cognitive and Affective
Processes in Career Decision-Making: An Integrative Theory
Advisers:
Nancy Fagley and Cary Cherniss
Annalisa Erba: Paradise Lost:
Potential Long-Term Sequelae of Early Maternal Death in Two
Exceptionally Creative People in History
Advisers: Nancy McWilliams and
George Atwood
Jocelyn Fierstien: Patterns in Referrals to
Child Study Teams: Contribution of Faculty`s White Racial Consciousness
Advisers: Kenneth Schneider and Shalonda Kelly
Michelle
Figliuolo: The Effects of Organizational Dynamics on the "Be Proactive"
Program and its Evaluation
Advisers: Clayton Alderfer, Lewis Gantwerk,
and Christine Truhe
Jason S. Fleming: A Pragmatic Case Study
Evaluation of the Process of Juvenile Sexual Offender Treatment
Advisers: Daniel B. Fishman and Charles A. Maher
Marcha
Prottas Flint: Comparison Between a Vaginal Estrogen Ring and Behavior
Modification Technique in the Alleviation/Elimination of Urogenital
Problems in Postmenopausal Women
Advisers: Gloria Bachman, Sandra
Harris, and Sandra Leiblum
Paul Furtaw: Integrating Expertise,
Influence, and Authorization: A Social-Developmental Model of
Early-Career Clinical Psychologists` Professional Identity and Efficacy
Advisers: Clayton Alderfer, Nancy McWilliams, and Lewis Gantwerk
Rachel Golum: An Evaluability Assessment of a School-Based Group
Counseling Program for African-American Female Students Living in an
Urban Area of Predominantly Low-Income Status Families
Advisers: Kenneth Schneider and Helen Strauss
Jan Alexandra Grayson: The Maternal Experience of Caring for an Adult
with Autism: An Exploratory Study
Advisers: Sandra L. Harris and
Kenneth Schneider
Blythe N. Grossberg: Adults with
Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) in the Workplace
Advisers: Karen Riggs Skean, Kenneth Schneider, and Christine Truhe
Jana R. Miller Grotas: To Know Thyself: The Roles of Accuracy of
Self-Assessment, Personality, and Cognitive Intelligence in Assessment
Center Performance
Advisers: Cary Cherniss and John Kalafat
Kimelle S. Halaby: Variables Predicting Noncompliance with Short-Term
Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Suicidal and Parasuicidal Adolescent
Advisers: Lew Gantwerk and Alec L. Miller
Audrey Stacy
Halpern: A Comparison of Discrete Trial Instruction and Mand Training
for Teaching Children with Autism to Make Requests
Advisers: Sandra
Harris and Lara Delmolino
Christina L. Hamme: Group Emotional
Intelligence: The Development and Testing of an Assessment Instrument
Advisers: Cary Cherniss and Lewis Gantwerk
Adrienne M. Bullock
Harrison: African-American Adolescents' Academic Achievement
Advisers:
Brenna Bry and Nancy Boyd-Franklin
Joseph Robert Harvey: The
Design of an Anger Management Program for Elementary School Students in
a Self Contained Classroom
Advisers: Kenneth Schneider and Brenna H.
Bry
Brook Hersey: Changing Representations of Depression in
Pharmaceutical Advertising: 1980-2000
Advisers: James Walkup and Karen
Riggs Skean
Jonathan Huston-Wong: The Roles of Shame in
Psychoanalytic Therapy for Adolescents: Theoretical Consideration
Advisers: Karen Riggs Skean and C. Seth Warren
Jamila Elisa
Irons: An Exploratory Study of the Child Rearing Practices of
African-American Mothers with Adolescent Daughters
Advisers: Nancy
Boyd-Franklin and Nancy McWilliams
Brian Steven Jacobson: The
Relation Between a Man's Sexual Orientation and How He Is Perceived By
Others
Advisers: Nancy Fagley and Nancy Boyd-Franklin
Daniel
Benjamin Jacobson: Psychological and Religious Change of Orthodox
Jewish Boys During a Post-High School Year of Study in an Israeli
Yeshiva
Advisers: Lew Gantwerk and Nancy McWilliams
Mara J.
Kailin: The Social Networks of Substance-Abusing and
Non-Substance-Abusing Women in Welfare-To-Work in New Jersey
Advisers:
Barbara McCrady, Brenna H. Bry, and Katherine H. McVeigh
David
S. Kreiss: Case Studies of the Experiences of Students Referred for
Problems of Disruptive and/or Aggressive Behavior to an Alternative
High School Program
Advisers: Dan Fishman and Ken Schneider
Jin H. Lee: Korean-Americans in Psychotherapy: Inferences from Two
Intensive Relational Psychodynamic Case Studies Advisers: Nancy
McWilliams, Nancy Boyd-Franklin, and Thomas Johnson
Bradford
C. Lerman: An Intergroup Perspective on Consulting with Synagogues: A
Case Study
Advisers: Lewis Gantwerk and Ruth L. Orenstein
Thor
Tembeya Mann: Developing Another Ear: Using Organic Metaphors to
Understand Organizations
Advisers: Clayton P. Alderfer and Ruth
Orenstein
Amanda K. Marshall: Mothers' Awareness of and
Reactions to their Adult Child`s Excessive Drinking
Advisers: Barbara
McCrady and Elizabeth E. Epstein
Michelle McNamara: Case Study
of the Design, Implementation, and Formative Evaluation of a Program
for Latino Children with Attention and Behavioral Needs and Their
Caretakers
Advisers: Charles Maher and Nancy Boyd-Franklin
Jauffmick Michel: Identity Development of Young Women from Haitian
Immigrant Families in the United States: A Qualitative Exploratory
Study
Advisers: Nancy McWilliams and Nancy Boyd-Franklin
Erica
Kim Minde: A Program Design Model for Teaching Typically Developing
Elementary School Students about Physical and Developmental
Disabilities: Promoting Acceptance Through Understanding and
Interaction
Advisers: Ken Schneider and Sandra Harris
Kevin
Carson Moore: How Are Friendships Sustained after One Friend Suffers a
Psychotic Episode?
Advisers: James Walkup and Kenneth Roy
Lori
A. Muffi: When Things Come Together: A Case Study of
Interorganizational Collaboration
Advisers: Clayton P. Alderfer and Lew
Gantwerk
R. David Mulligan: Assessment of Social and Emotional
Competencies of Floor Covering Salespeople and Their Correlation with
Sales Performance
Advisers: Cary Cherniss and Nancy Fagley
Stacy Elizabeth Philpot: An Exploratory Study of Family of Origin
Influences on Individual Behavior at Work
Advisers: Lew Gantwerk and
Nancy Boyd-Franklin
Melanie Francoise Podsiadlo: Social
Defenses in a Large Community Mental Health Organization
Advisers:
Clayton P. Alderfer and James Krantz
Rebecca J. Rabin: The
Lithium Battlefield: Subjective Meanings and Intersubjective Contexts
of Noncompliance
Advisers: Lew Gantwerk and Anna Ornstein
Donna Ricca: Emotional Intelligence, Negative Mood Regulation
Expectancies, and Professional Burnout Among Police Officers
Advisers:
Cary Cherniss and Sandra L. Harris
Tanya E. Romasz: Teaching
Social and Emotional Learning through Literature: The Development and
Pilot Implementation of a Tertiary Prevention Group Counseling
Curriculum for Use with Young Urban Elementary Students Demonstrating
Disruptive Classroom Behaviors
Advisers: Maurice Elias and Kenneth
Schneider
Debra L. Roquet: Toward the DSM-V: an Examination of
a Withdrawal Gate Model for Alcohol Abuse and Dependence at the Item
and Algorithm Level
Advisers: James Langenbucher and Erick Labouvie
Erin E. Schmidt: A Program Design Model for Promoting Social and
Emotional Health through Group Counseling with Middle School Students
Advisers: Kenneth Schneider and John Kalafat
Tina Sherry:
Family Factors that Influence Self-Resolution of Alcohol Problems: the
Significant Other's Perspective
Advisers: Barbara McCrady and Elizabeth
E. Epstein
Andrew Fredric Simon: Working Online: the Relationship Tasks and Technology
Advisers: Clayton P. Alderfer and Cary Cherniss
Deana N. Stevens: Current Beliefs and Practices in the Assessment and
Treatment of Alcohol and Other Drug Problems: A Survey of the New
Jersey Psychological Association
Advisers: Thomas J. Morgan and Lew
Gantwerk
Chatham Clarke Sullivan: Boundary Theory: a Field
Study of Groups in Organizations
Advisers: Clayton P. Alderfer and
Stanley B. Messer
Michael Evan Weissman: Sport Psychology
Services in Public Schools: Breaking New Ground Through Program
Development and Support for Student- Athletes and Coaches
Advisers: Charles Maher and Lew Gantwerk
