Clinical Psychology – Alumni
2023
| Alumni | Professor | Current Position | Dissertation Title |
| Johnson, Sarah | Moore | Postdoc at Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA | The Role of Trait Mindfulness, Perceived Stress, and Impulsivity in Understanding the Relationship between Stress Mindset and Psychological Intimate Partner Aggression |
| Glovak, Samantha | Macfie | Postdoctoral Fellowship at VA Puget Sound, Seattle. | The Role of Maternal Trait and Real-World Emotion Dysregulation and Experiential Avoidance in Maternal and Child Anxiety Symptoms: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study |
| Younginer, Taylor | Elledge | Postdoc fellowship at Nationwide Children’s Hospital | A Qualitative Analysis of a Playground Mentoring Program for Bullied School Children. |
| Skadberg, Rebecca | Elledge | Postdoc at VA Bedford Healthcare System | Peer Victimization and Internalizing Distress in Youth: the Moderating Role of Mindfulness and Self Compassion |
2022
| Alumni | Professor | Current Position | Dissertation Title |
| Fox, Lauren | Moore | Medical Health Psychologist at the Brain and Spine Institute at Sinai Hospital | The Role of Intimate Partnership Among Older Adults on Pain Severity and the Engagement in Preventative Health Behaviors |
| Grigorian, Hannah | Stuart | Postdoc at Bedford VA | The Roles of Alcohol Use and Sleep Quality on the Relationship between Fear of Missing out and Intimate Partner Violence |
| Mariotti, Emily | Bolden | Pediatric Psychologist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia | A Preliminary Study of Executive Functions, Effortful Control, and Visual Planning and Organization in Neurotypical Children |
| McClain, Cara | Elledge | Postdoc at VA Bedford Healthcare System | Peer Victimization and Internalizing Distress in Youth: the Moderating Role of Mindfulness and Self Compassion |
| Smith, Connor | Hulsey/Nash | Albany Medical Center – Dept. of Psychiatry | Questing and Defense Against Death Anxiety |
2021
| Alumni | Professor | Current Position | Dissertation Title |
| Brem, Megan | Stuart | Assistant Professor – Virginia Tech | Extending a conceptual model of alcohol-related violence to cyber dating violence using a daily diary design with college students |
| Fillauer, Jonathan Parks | Bolden | Resident DeBakey VA Neuropsychology | Understanding The Association of Working Memory Capacity, Working Memory Processes, and Symptoms of ADHD & Depression |
| Florimbio, Autumn Rae Hyacinth | Stuart | Postdoc U of Michigan, and Licensed Clinical Psychologist | Associations between Implicitly Assessed Attitudes, Laboratory Aggression, and Dating Violence |
| Garcia, Darren | Gordon | Assistant Professor – University of Kansas | Interactional Synchrony in Romantic Couples: Linking Dynamic Systems of Nonverbal Behavior with Outcome Data |
| Gilmore, Jenna | Bolden/Hulsey | Private Practice – Knoxville, TN | Analyses of Taxonomic Structures in the Assessments of Personality Disorders |
| Kors, Stephanie | Macfie | Assistant Professor – Loyola University | Child Maltreatment, Perceived Stress, and Opioid Misuse in Pregnancy |
| Lenger, Katherine | Gordon | Postdoc – Alpert Medical School, Brown University | Is Mindfulness Only for the Fortunate? The Development and Dissemination of a Brief-Home-Based Mindfulness Intervention to Low-Income Couples |
| Russell (Morris), Ashley Nicole | Welsh | Staff Psychologist – Lexington VAMC | The Relationship Education Workshop and Its Impact on Learned Healthy Relationship Outcomes and Self-Compassion in the Emerging Adulthood Population |
2020
| Alumni | Professor | Current Position | Dissertation Title |
| Storment (Mahan), Rebecca | Macfie | Private Practice – Knoxville | Dyadic parent-adolescent role confusion dimensions: Development and validation of an observational coding scale |
| Schmidt, Megan | Moore | Private Practice | The Role of Attachment, Self-Esteem and Impulsivity on Intimate Partner Violence in Same- and Opposite-Sex Relationships |
| Whitley, Marissa | Elledge | Private Practice – Knoxville, TN | Factor Analysis of Personality Disorder Spectra Scales for the MMPI-2: Discovering Dimensionality |
2019
| Alumni | Professor | Current Position | Dissertation Title |
| Goldman, Jared | Hulsey/Nash | Cherokee Health Systems – Knoxville, TN | Development of a Scale Designed to Measure Interest in Verbal and Written Expression |
| Bierma, Shannon | Moore | Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry for LSUHSC | Factors related to medication adherence and viral variability in HIV+ individuals |
| Bishop, Jennifer | Welsh | Private Practice – Knoxville, TN | Emerging Adult Development in the College Context: A Longitudinal Study of Role Balance and Academic Success in the Transition to College |
| Clevenger, Caitlin | Stuart | Assistant Professor at University of Alabama at Birmingham | Proximal associations of alcohol use with suicidal ideation and behaviors in college students |
| Custer, Morgun | Hulsey/ Nash | Assistant Professor – Albany Medical College, Dept. of Psychiatry | Does personality organization affect empathic perspective- taking |
| Kurdziel, Gretchen | Psychologist | Harvard – Clinical Fellow | The Role of Borderline Features, Social Support, and Perceived Stress on Prescribed and Non-Prescribed Opioid Use during Pregnancy |
| Shorter, Rebecca | Gordon | Psychologist – South Texas VA Healthcare System | Integrative Healthcare and Emotional Health and Immune Function in Cancer Patients: Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Effects |
| Smeraglia, Katherine | Elledge | Psychologist Auxillium Services, Indiana | Examining the Factor Structure and Validity of a Retrospective Report Measure Assessing Parent-Suggested Child Strategies for Responding to School Bullying |
| Manring, Samantha | Elledge | Psychologist, Greenville, NC VA | The Bullying Attribution Scale: An initial examination of factor structure and construct validity |
2018
| Alumni | Professor | Current Position | Dissertation Title |
| Carl, Megan | Bolden | Primary Care Psychologist, NE Ohio VA | Executive Function Abilities and Social Competence in Undergraduates |
| Elmquist, JoAnna | Stuart | Psychologist. Oregon | A Preliminary Examination of the Use of Weight Insults as a Form of Psychological Aggression in Intimate Relationships |
| Finn, Mike | Nash | Private Practice – Minnesota | Structurally Rich Movement: Measuring Human Movement for Empirical Psychology and Examining the Dynamic Complexity of Affect Regulation in Behavior |
| Khaddouma, Alex | Gordon | Staff Therapist – University of Hawaii at Manoa | Sex, Love, and Mindfulness: Examining the Longitudinal Effects of Mindfulness on Young Adult Dating Relationship Outcomes |
| Lyon, Gyrid | Hulsey/ Nash | Private Practice – Philadelphia, PA | Facilitating psychodynamic diagnosis: A lexical analysis of Rorschach responses |
| Norona, Jerika | Welsh | Life Coach, VIA Life Coaching, Bay Area, CA | Breakups and Betrayals in Emerging Adulthood: A Developmental Perspective of Romantic Dissolution and Infidelity |
| Pollock, Brianna | Elledge | Institute of Living/Hartford HealthCare | Violent Media exposure and bullying behaviors: The moderating roles of parental monitoring, emotion regulation, gender, and frequency of media use. |
2017
| Alumni | Professor | Current Position | Dissertation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cannity, Kerry | Bolden | NY Presbyterian Hospital | Efficacy of Short-Term Emotional Regulation Training on Interference During Cognitive Tasks |
| Hughes, Jessica | Gordon | VA, San Diego, CA | Examining the role of therapeutic alliance, split alliance, and gender on couples’ satisfaction following a brief couple’s intervention |
| Mena, Chrstina | Macfie | Postdoc – Great Life Counseling Center, Dallas, TX | Child Temperment as a Moderator Variable between Maternal Borderline Personality Disorder and Mother-Child Synchrony |
| Strimpfel, Jennifer | Macfie | St Elizabeth Physicians, KY | Hostility and Social Rejection and Borderline Features: The Influence of Rejection Sensitivity in Parents and their Young Adult Offspring |
| Tullis, Paul | Nash | Postdoc – Penn State | “Can text analysis of TAT protocols differentiate patients operating at neurotic, borderline, & psychotic levels of personality organization?” |
| Zapor, Heather | Stuart | VAMC, Johnson City, TN | The Relationship between Power Processes and Intimate Partner Violence over Time |
2016
| Alumni | Professor | Current Position | Dissertation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| File, Audrey | Hopko | Postdoc – Hefner VAMC, Salisbury, NC | Psychometric Properties of Three Common Depression Measures in Brest Cancer Patients with Major Depressive Disorder |
| Lookatch, Samantha | Moore | VAMC, Philadelphia, PA | Neuropsychological Effects of Placebo Stimulants in College Students |
| Mauck, Sarah | Moore | Community Mental Health, South Bend, IN | Perceiving Sexual Consent: the Effects of Gender and Alcohol Use on Attributions of Sexual Consent |
| Watkins, Christopher | Macfie | Behavioral Medicine Institute, Knoxville, TN | Assessing Attachment: Divergent and Convergent Factors in Mothers and their Adolescent Offspring and Contributions to Borderline Features |
| Winter, Sophia | Nash | Albany Medical Center, NY | Treatment Preferences and Outcomes in a Randomized Controlled Trial for Depression Comparing Supportive Expressive Therapy to Medication and Pill Placebo |
| Wischkaemper, Katie | Gordon | VAMC, Knoxville, TN | Relationship Qualities: Investigating the Nature of Self-Identified Couple Strengths and Language use in the Context of Strength Conversations |
2015
| Alumni | Professor | Current Position | Dissertation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Febres, Jeniimarie | Stuart | Postdoc – Bedford VA | The Perpetration of Adulthood Animal Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence in Men and Women Arrested for Domestic Violence |
| McIndoo Losier, Crystal | Hopko | Postdoc – MIRECC VA Portland (2 yr) | Mindfulness-Based Therapy and Behavioral Activation: A Randomized Controlled Trial with Depressed College Students |
| Preddy, Teresa M | Welsh | Postdoc -Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital – Brown Univ | Assessment and Investigation of Electronic Aggression in the Romantic Relationships of Emerging Adults |
| Ritter, Kathrin | Moore | Postdoc – Neurobehavioral Specialists – Jacksonville | The Effects of Electronic Treatment Reminder Cues on Relapse Prevention |
| Rowley, Maria M | Gordon | Postdoc – Edith Nourse Rogers VA – Bedford, MA | Three Rs: Relationship Orientation, Relational Interdependent Self-construal, and Relationship Maintenance Strategies |
2014
| Alumni | Professor | Current Position | Dissertation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abbas, Amineh | Macfie | Cherokee Health Systems; Morristown, TN | Dissociation and Sexual Trauma: The Moderating Role of Somatization |
| Culpepper, Christi | Welsh | Postdoc – Kennedy Kreiger Institute (2yr) | The Effects of Social Support on At-Risk Youth |
| Gilbert, Sarah | Gordon | Clinical Psychologist | Using Mindful Self-Compassion to Improve Self-Criticism, Self-Soothing, Cravings, and Relapse in Substance Abusers in an Intensive Outpatient Program |
| Gray , Samantha | Welsh | Postdoc – Harvard Meducal School | How technology interacts with emerging adulthood psychosocial developmental tasks: An examination of online self-presentation and cell phone usage |
| Holmes, Rachel | Welsh | Indiana Univ Health Physicians | Predictors of Casual Sex Participation in Young Adulthood: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health |
| Ryba, Marlena | Hopko | Postdoc – Ohio State Univ | Behavioral Activation for Depressed Breast Cancer Patients: The Impact of Therapeutic Compliance and Quantity of Activities Completed on Symptom Reduction |
| Seavey, Amanda | Moore | Praxis Psychological Services, Dept of VA Raleigh-Durham, NC | The Effects of a Brief Mindfulness Intervention on Lab-based Aggression |
| Shorey, Ryan | Stuart | Asst Professor, Ohio University | The Temporal Association between Alcohol, Negative Affect, and Dating Violence |
| Tirone, Vanessa | Moore | Postdoc – RUSH Univ Medical Center | Assessing Motives for Consensual Sex: Development of the Sexual Motives Questionnaire |
| Toman, Karen | Handler/Nash | Volunteer Ministry | Measuring Change in Psychotherapy Using the MMPI-2 and the Holt Measure of Primary Process Manifestation |
| Vitulano, Michael | Fite | Postdoc – Seattle Children’s Hospital | Developmental Trajectories of ADHD Symptoms to Adolescent Substance Use: What Influence Do Peer, Family and Neighborhood Factors Have? |
| Volpe, Erin | Nash | Private Practice, Phildelphia, PA | Belief in the Efficacy of Psychotherapy (BEP): Psychometric Scale Development and Examination of Theoretical Correlates |
| Wimsatt-Childs, Amber | Fite/ Moore | Staff Psychologist, Yale University, CT | Bidirectional Associations between Parenting Behavior and Child Callous-Unemotional Traits: Does Delinquent Peer Affiliation and/or Parental Psychopathology Moderate this Link? |
| Wong, Albert | Nash | Director, Somatic Psychology John F. Kennedy Univ | Testing Claims of Efficacy and Mechanism of Action for Emotion Focused Couples Therapy: A Dyadic Case Study Using Time-Series Design |