Dissertation Grant Award Prior Winners

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2023

Gina Belli (Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine) - "OCD Misdiagnosis and Under Detection Among Primary Care Providers: Development of Scalable Implementation Strategies for Evidence-Based Practices in Healthcare"

Amy Lieberman (Florida State University) - "Exploring Community in Fitness as a Protective Factor Against Suicide"

Francisco D Marquez (The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa) - "Daily Changes in Affect and Early Life Adversity: An Idiographic Network Analysis"

Christin Mujica (University of Arkansas) - "'Stay Woke:' Understanding Critical Consciousness Development in Adults and its Relationship to Psychological Constructs"

Taylor Rodriguez (Rutgers University) - "A longitudinal examination of Black adults’ mental health help- seeking intentions and behaviors: An application of the theory of planned behavior"

2021

Alyssa Morris
"Pregnancy in the Time of COVID-19: Effects on Perinatal Mental Health and Early Infant Development"
Mentor: Darby Saxbe

Stefanie Sequeira
"Testing a neurobiological susceptibility to social context model linking neural reward processing and social stress to social anxiety in adolescent girls"
Mentor: Jennifer Silk

Maria Aparcero Suero - winner of the Diversity in Clinical Science Award
"Development and Initial Validation of a Standardized Instrument to Assess Competency in Immigration Court
Mentor: Barry Rosenfeld

2020

Paula Floyd: “Personality and Psychopathology Correlates of Institutional Misconduct among Juvenile Offenders” (MENTOR: Nora Charles)

Jolin Yamin: “Experiential Training in Disclosure Elicitation and Emotional Awareness and Activation: A Randomized Test” (MENTOR: Mark Lumley)

Katherine Musacchio Schafer: Reducing Suicidal Ideation: A Pilot Randomized Control Trial of a Brief Web-Based App to Target Perceived Burdensomeness” (MENTOR: Thomas Joiner)

Diversity in Clinical Science Dissertation Grant Award

Laura Curren: “Testing the Perinatal Health Promotion Model in Underrepresented Mothers Postpartum” (MENTOR: Martha Tompson)

2019

Zabin Patel: "Individual, Family, and Neighborhood Effects on Anxiety and Depression in Youth" (Mentor: Mandy Jensen-Doss) 

Corinne Bart: "Neural Reward Functioning in Bipolar Spectrum and Substance Use Disorders: Identifying Common Mechanisms" (Mentor: Lauren Alloy)

Jennifer Gamarra: "How Powerful is Knowledge? A Mixed-Methods Approach to Evaluating Mental Health Literacy" (Mentor: Bruce Chorpita) 

2018

Kiera James -  Binghamton University - Physiological and Neural Responses to Interpersonal Stimuli in Adolescents Who Engage in Non-Suicidal Self-Injury

Sierra Kuzava - Stony Brook University - Maternal Neural Response to Child Cues: Examining Longitudinal Associations with Maternal Sensitivity and Child Behavior

Caitlin Stamatis - University of Miami - Using a Multimodal Data Science Approach to Understand Risk and Vulnerability for OCD

2017

Alexandra Peterson: "Identifying What Works: Improving Measurement Feedback Systems for Measurement-Based Care" (Mentor: Corey Fagen, University of Washington)

Amy Rapp: "Cultural Neuroscience of Latino Mental Health: Collectivism and the Psychophysiology of Self-Regulation in Adolescents" (Mentor: Denise Chavira, UCLA)

Craig Rodriguez-Seijas: "Does Mood Reactivity to Daily Stressors Predict Changes in Internalizing Across Time?" (Mentor: Nicolas Eaton, SUNY-Stony Brook)

Michael Sun: "The Effects and Neural Correlats of Combined Conscious Fear Control and Extinction Learning on Fear Reduction and Relapse" (Mentor: Michelle Craske, UCLA)

Aliona Tsypes: "A Fine-Grained Examination of Reward Processing in Suicide Attempters" (Mentor: Brandon Gibb, SUNY-Binghamton)


2016

Shannon Blakey

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Mentor:  Dr. Jonathan Abramowitz

 

Matthew Carper

Temple University

Mentor:  Dr. Philip Kendall

 

Tony Cunningham

University of Notre Dame

Mentor:  Dr. Jessica Payne

 

Anastacia Kudinova

Binghamton University

Mentor:  Dr. Brandon Gibb


2015

Anne Malaktaris, Binghamton University (Advisor Dr. Steven Jay Lynn) - "Attentional capture and difficulty disengaging from threatening and pain-related stimuli in chronic pain and clinical anxiety populations"

Andrew Peckham, University of California, Berkeley (Advisor Dr. Sheri Johnson) - "Transdiagnostic cognitive control training for emotion-relevant impulsivity"

Katharine Reynolds, University of Houston (Advisor Dr. Candice Alfano) - "Impact of experimental sleep extension on adolescent social emotion regulation"

Marianne Rizk, University of Iowa (Advisor Dr. Teresa Treat) - "The effects of caloric education, trial-by-trial feedback and their interaction on college-aged women's abilities to estimate caloric content”


2014

Jennifer Forsyth - UCLA 
"The Effects of D-cycloserine on Deficits in Neuroplasticity and Learning in Patients with Schizophrenia"

Jessica Hamilton - Temple U. 
"Physiological Markers of Stress Generation and Affect Reactivity in Risk for Depression"

Elissa Hamlat - Temple U 
"Memory Specificity Training as Depression Intervention"

Julie McCarthy - U. of Maryland 
 "Functional Neuroimaging of the Social Regulation of Emotion in Schizophrenia"

Lauren Szkodny - Penn State U. 
"PTSD in Daily Life:  Using an Ecological Momentary Assessment Approach to Examine Maintenance of Posttraumatic Symptoms at Individual and Group Levels"

Mary Woody - Binghamton U 
"Using Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials to Evaluate Attentional Biases in Formerly Depressed Women:  Impact of a Negative Mood Induction, Brooding Rumination, and Heart Rate Variability"

2013

Lindsay Bodell, Florida State University

Advisor: Thomas E. Joiner

Translational Approach to Understanding Factors Influencing Binge Eating in Women with Bulimia Nervosa

Lauren Bradley, Drexel University

Advisor: Evan Forman

A Remote, Acceptance-Based Intervention for Weight Regain After Bariatric Surgery

Katie Burkhouse, Binghamton University (SUNY)

Advisor: Brandon  E. Gibb

A Multi-Method Assessment of Emotional Reactivity in Adolescent Depression – State or Trait like Marker of Risk?

Anita Lungu, University of Washington

Advisor: Marsha Linehan

Computerized Trans-Diagnostic DBT Skills Training for Emotion Dysregulation

Jennifer McCabe, University of Iowa

Advisor: Michael W. O’Hara

Distress Tolerance in Perinatal Women: Longitudinal Associations with Maternal Responsiveness

2012

Dylan G. Gee, University of California, Los Angeles

Advisor: Tyrone D. Cannon

Amygdala-Prefrontal Function and Clinical Course among Adolescents and Young Adults at Clinical High Risk for Psychosis

Evan Kleiman, George Mason University

Advisor: John H. Riskind

The stress generation theory explains unanswered questions in suicide research: An integrated transactional diathesis-stress model of suicide

Jessica Ribeiro, Florida State University

Advisor: Thomas Joiner

Acute Over-Arousal and the Acquired Capability for Suicide: Understanding Acute Suicide Risk through the Lens of the Interpersonal Theory of Suicide

Donald J. Robinaugh, Harvard University

Advisor: Richard McNally

Constructive Episodic Simulation of Future Events in Bereaved Adults With and Without Complicated Grief

2011

Thomas Armstrong, Vanderbilt University

The Effects of Fear Conditioning on Attentional Bias in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: An Eye Tracking Study

Joanna Chango, University of Virginia

The Neural Mechanisms Underlying Associations between a Lack of Adolescent Social Competencies and Psychological Adjustment in Early Adulthoo

Debra Glick, Suffolk University

A Comparison of the Effects of Two Interventions for Reducing Academic Procrastination: Acceptance-Based Behavioral Therapy vs. Time Management

Amanda Morrison, Temple University

Attention Bias and Attentional Control in the Development of Social Anxiety Disorder

Stephanie Rabin, Drexel University

The Interaction of Therapist Experiential Avoidance and Extraneous Clinical Information in Predicting Therapist Preference for Exposure Treatment for OCD

Matthew Rouse, Emory University

Physiological Mediators of Parenting Behaviors in Depressed Mothers

Erin Ward-Ciesielski, University of Washington

Brief Skills Training for Suicidal Individuals

2010

Faith Brozovich, Temple University

Examining mental imagery and post-event processing among socially anxious individuals

Advisor: Richard Heimberg, Ph.D. 

Kristen Gainey, University of Iowa

A lower order structural examination of the neuroticism/negative emotionality domain: Relations with internalizing symptoms and selected clinical traits

Advisor: David Watson, Ph.D.

Ashley Johnson, Binghamton University

Attention biases in children with depression

Advisor: Brandon Gibb, Ph.D.

Lisa Talbot, University of California-Berkeley

The relationship between sleep and affect in bipolar disorder and insomnia

Advisor: Allison Harvey, Ph.D.

Jennifer Veilleux, University of Illinois- Chicago

Affective chronometry of cue-induced cigarette craving
Advisor: Jon Kassel, Ph.D.

2009

Dissertation grant awards were made to the following individuals in the fall of 2009.

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Katherina Hauner

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Northwestern University

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Advisor: Susan Mineka

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Title: Functional neuroanatomical substrates of fear extinction during exposure therapy..

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David Johnson

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University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

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Advisor: David Penn

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Title: A preliminary investigation into the feasibility and clinical benefits of loving-kindness meditation to enhance the psychological recovery of individuals with persistent negative symptoms .

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Eunyoe Ro

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University of Iowa

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Advisor: Lee Anna Clark

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Title: Examining Relations Between Psychosocial Functioning and Personality Pathology.

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Keiran M. Rump

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University of Pittsburgh

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Advisor: Mark S. Strauss

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Title: Affective Experiences in Adolescents with Autism: An EMA Study.

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Amanda Steiner

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University of Virginia

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Advisor: James Coan

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Title: The Self- and Social- Regulation of Emotion in Older Adults.

2008

Dissertation grant awards were made to the following individuals in the fall of 2008.

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Courtney Beard

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University of Georgia

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Advisor: Nader Amir

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Title: Information Processing Modification in Social Anxiety: Combining Attention and Interpretation Training.

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Frank Farach

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Yale

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Advisor: Teresa Treat

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Title: Effects of trait anxiety and induced mood on the temporal allocation of attention to emotional information.

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Ashley Peitrefesa

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Binghamton University

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Advisor: Meredith Coles

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Title: Temporal Relations Between Daily Negative Life Events and Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms.

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Sarah Tarbox

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University of Pittsburgh

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Advisor: Michael Pogue-Geile

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Title: Social Functioning and Familial Liability to Schizophrenia.

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Ursula Whiteside

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University of Washington

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Advisor: Mary Larimer

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Title: Beyond BASICS: Enhancing Interventions for College Students Drinking to Cope.


2006

Dissertation grant awards were made to the following individuals in the fall of 2006.

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Marcel Bonn-Miller

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University of Vermont

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Advisor: Michael Zvolensky, Ph.D.

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Title: Frequency of Marijuana Use and Anxious and Fearful Responding to Bodily Sensations: A Laboratory Test.

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Jill M. Holm-Denoma

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Florida State University

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Advisor: Thomas Joiner, Ph.D.

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Title: The Latent Structure of Restrictive Eating Behaviors: Taxometric Investigation and Construct Validation Using Genetic and Personality Indicators.

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Brant P. Hasler

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University of Arizona

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Advisor: Richard Bootzin, Ph.D.

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Title: Diurnal rhythms in co-sleeping couples.

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Valerie Grant

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Dalhousie University

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Advisor: Sherry Stewart, Ph.D.

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Title: Emotional Antecedents of Alcohol Cognitions & Consumption in Drinkers with Coping-Anxiety, Coping-Depression, &/or Enhancement Motives.

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Peter D. Yeomans

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Drexel University

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Advisor: James Herbert, Ph.D.

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Title: The effect of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder psychoeducation on the nature and severity of traumatic stress symptoms in a Burundian sample.


2005

Dissertation grant awards were made to the following individuals in the fall of 2005.

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Lea R. Doughtery

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Stony Brook University

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Advisor: Daniel Klein, Ph.D.

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Title: Temperamental Low Positive Emotionality and HPA Reactivity in Preschoolers.

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Eva M. Epstein

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Temple University

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Advisor: Denise Sloan, Ph.D.

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Title: Emotional Reactivity in Eating Pathology.

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Coreen A. Farris

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Indiana University

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Advisor: Richard Viken, Ph.D.

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Title: Feature Integrality Between Diagnostic and Non-Diagnostic Cues of Women's Sexual Interest: Influence of Alcohol Intoxication and Sexual Coercion History.

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Kelly O'Brien

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University of Florida

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Advisor: Sheila Eyberg, Ph.D.

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Title: A Preliminary Examination of Coaching in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) and Parenting Skill Acquisition.

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Brian Wymbs

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University at Buffalo, SUNY

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Advisor: William Pelham, Ph.D.

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Title: Does Disruptive Child Behavior Cause Interparental Discord? An Experimental Manipulation.


2004

Dissertation grant awards were made to the following individuals in the fall of 2004.

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Stephanie Cassin

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University of Calgary

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Advisor: Kirstin von Ranson, Ph.D.

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Title: The Effect of Brief Motivational Enhancement Intervention on Binge Eating.

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Lindsay M. Collins

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University of Maryland

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Advisor: Jack J. Blanchard, Ph.D.

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Title: Behavioral Indicators of Schizotypy in the Biological Parents of Social Anhedonics..

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Susan C. South

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University of Virginia

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Advisor: Eric Turkheimer, Ph.D.

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Title: Personality Disorders and Marital Adjustment.

2003

Dissertation grant awards were made to the following individuals in the fall of 2003.

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Anil Chacko

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University at Buffalo, State University of New Yor

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Advisor: William E. Pelham, Ph.D.

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Title: The Treatment for Single-Mothers of Children Diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Comparison Between a Traditional and an Enhanced Behavioral Parenting Program.

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Gail H. Chang

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Temple University

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Advisor: Lauren B. Alloy, Ph.D.

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Title: Lifestyle Regularity and Affective Symptomatology in Individuals Exhibiting Cyclothymic Symptoms.

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Rebecca E. Ford

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DePaul University

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Advisor: Kathryn Grant, Ph.D.

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Title: Acculturation and Problem Behaviors of Latino Youth: A Development Perspective.

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Amy Przeworski

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Penn State University

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Advisor: Michelle Newman, Ph.D.

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Title: The Efficay of Internet-based Treatment for Children with Anxiety Disorders.

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Jennifer A. Steinberg

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Temple University

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Advisor: Lauren B. Alloy, Ph.D.

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Title: Implicit and Explicit Self-Esteem Level and Rectivity as Predictors of Depression.


2002

Dissertation grant awards were made to the following individuals in the fall of 2002.

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Todd Kashdan

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University at Buffalo, State University of New York

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Advisor: John E. Roberts, Ph.D.

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Title: Excessive Social Anxiety Among Persons with Depressive Disorders: Perceived Therapeutic Relationships and Slf-Focused Attention as Determinants of Change in Group Treatment.

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Shireen L. Rizvi

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University of Washington

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Advisor: Masha Linehan, Ph.D.

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Title: Treatment of Shame in Borderline Personality Disorder.

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Jasper Smits

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University of Texas - Austin

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Advisor: Michael J. Telch, Ph.D.

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Title: Facilitating Public Speaking Fear Feduction by Increasing the Salience of Disconfirmation Evidence .

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Jelena Spasojevic

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Temple University

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Advisor: Lauren B. Alloy, Ph.D.

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Title: Interpersonal Context of Depression: A Study of Individuals Involved in Newly Formed Romantic Relationships..

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Mariann R. Weierich

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Yale University

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Advisor: Teresa A. Treat, Ph.D.

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Title: Attentional Processing in Specific Phobia.


2001


Dissertation grant awards were made to the following individuals in the fall of 2001.

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Winnie Eng

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Temple University

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Advisor: Richard G. Heimberg, Ph.D.

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Title: An Examination of the Interpersonal Problems Associated with Symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

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Elizabeth H. Flanagan

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Auburn University

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Advisor: Roger K. Blashfield, Ph.D.

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Title: An Investigation of Clinician Taxonomies.

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Lori Brotto Fontana

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The University of British Columbia

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Advisor: Boris Gorzalka, Ph.D.

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Title: Examining the Clinical Untility of Laboratory-Based Measure of Sexual Arousal in Women with and without Arousal.

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Erin L. Scott

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Temple University

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Advisor: Richard G. Heimberg, Ph.D.

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Title: Misimterpretation of Bodily Symptoms: Specificity of Responses in Individuals with Panic Attacks and Hypochondriacal Concerns.


2000

Dissertation grant awards were made to the following individuals in the fall of 2000.

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Meredith E. Coles

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Temple University

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Advisor: Richard G. Heimberg, Ph.D.

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Title: "Implicit and Explicit Memory for Critical Faces in Individuals with Social Phobia".

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Katrina Keil

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University of Arizona

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Advisor: Alfred W. Kaszniak, Ph.D.

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Title: "Examining Executive Function in Those With Brain Injury".

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Michael F. Lorber

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State University of New York at Stony Brook

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Advisor: Susan G. O'Leary, Ph.D.

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Title: "Cognitive and Emotional Mechanism of Harsh Parenting and Toddler".

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Katy L. Lynch

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University of Montana

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Advisor: Christine Fiore, Ph.D.

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Title: "Children Exposed to Domestic Violence: Resiliency and the Mother-Child Relationship".

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Jeneva L. Ohan

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University of British Columbia

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Advisor: Charlotte Johnston, Ph.D.

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Title: "Aggression in Girls with and without ADHD".