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Dissertations from 2026
Quality care for neurodivergent youth, Emily V. Bogaev
Cultivating Trauma Competency: Counselor Development Through Education and Experience, Kayla Bryant
Self-State Shifts During Nonsuicidal Self-Injury: Associations with Trauma History and the Functions of Self-Harm, Katie E. Callahan
A critical-constructivist grounded theory exploration of the mental health experiences of individuals with intellectual disabilities in post-secondary settings, Alyssa L. Decker and Alyssa L. Decker
Addressing research design validity threats to research on undergraduate research experiences, Laura Lambert
The Impact of Free vs. Fixed Factor Correlations on Parameter Recovery in Multidimensional IRT Models, Stephanie LeRoy
To use my data or not to use my data: That is the question in low-stakes assessment, Kelsey Nason
Finding Belonging Through Displacement: A Phenomenological Study of Transformative Learning in First-Year Students in an International Learning Community, Jennifer A. Nelson-Faulconer and Jennifer A. Nelson-Faulconer
Building a Therapeutic Alliance: Training Graduate Students in Applied Behavior Analysis to Use Motivational Interviewing During Parenting Consultation, Valencia Pankey Camper
Designing and piloting a movement-based self-regulation curriculum, Tess Pieragostini
Student Effort During a Low-Stakes Testing Session: A Mixed Methods Study of Time of Testing and Test Order Effects, Katarina Schaefer
Enhancing Access Through Integrated Behavioral Healthcare: Expanding Counselor Identity and Social Determinants of Health Competency, Tiffany N. Snow
Exploring Play: Counselor Education Strategies, Online Community Fantasy Play, and Sexuality in the Counseling Space, Nattalie Wolff-Tseng
Dissertations from 2025
Parent–Child Interaction Therapy adapted for older children, Luke W. Badley
Ethics and clinical supervision: Understanding the needs of counselors in training and self-efficacy development in clinical supervisors, Brooke Carroll
Exploring EcoWellness and attachment dynamics: Understanding parental experiences, youth perceptions, and counseling implications, Katelyn Dolieslager
Examining the effectiveness of Imago relationship therapy in married couples, Anne Erickson
Developing resilience in first year collegiate athletes: The effectiveness of a resilience and strengths based course, Dorian James Hayden
A qualitative exploration of sibling relationships impacted by autism: “We’ll be brothers forever”, Julia M. Linger
From clicks to classifications: Examining effects and addressing rapid guessing in longitudinal DCMs, Nicolas Mireles
LGBTQIA+ competency in counseling: Understanding current trends, educational experiences, and counselor identity implications, Tyler Puryear
Unmasking masculinities in counseling: From conformity to connection, Kyle R. Rose
Clinician training, support, and self-efficacy in supporting patients with severe persistent mental illness, Jaclyn Sharkey
Exploring trauma education and the intersection of self-efficacy, Ashlea Yearwood
Dissertations from 2024
Investigating the direction of item parameter bias in the presence of rapid guessing, Sarah Alahmadi
An exploration of the value in integrating pre-treatment assessments of caregiver-child Dyad functioning, Emery Qian Brautigan
Addressing youth mental health through school counseling, advocacy, and student voice, Elizabeth Dinwiddie
Wellbeing in the Caribbean: Exploring wellness in Afro-Caribbean populations, Lynnquell S. Gardiner
Revolutionizing counselor education through cultural humility: A critical examination of pedagogical practices, educators’ experiences, and determining factors, Renee L. Haskins
Exploring the intersection of mental health, self-advocacy, and sense of belonging among rural, first-generation college students, Sarah Johnson
Lived experiences of Korean immigrant women in the U.S., Jinok Lim
Antiracism in higher education: An integrated psychological perspective, Rhea E. Nesbitt
Factors that help and hinder experience of reflective functioning in an attachment-based intervention: An enhanced critical incident technique analysis of parents’ experiences, Shelly-Ann Peart James
Facilitating parental scaffolding of joint book reading with toddlers, Tiffany Pempek Rahl
Cultivating emotional competencies in therapists-in-training, Tara Rajagopal
A qualitative lens for exploring ethical reasoning: Developing the 8 Key Question Codebook, Yelisey Shapovalov
Using recurrent neural networks to predict mastery outcomes from learning journey clickstream data, Sean A. York
Dissertations from 2023
Affectionately attached: The impact of attachment styles on sexual self-concept among adults who identify as LGBTGEQIAP+, Karli M. Fleitas
Observing how college students process culturally responsive test items, Chris R. Patterson
Children’s experiences of parental death, “Lost but still remembered”, Nour Salem
Designing movement-based Interventions to promote self-regulation in early childhood, Gayatri Sardana
The lived experience of counseling students in natural disaster, Amy M. Sirocky-Meck
Investigating the specific links between adverse childhood experiences and vulnerability to suicide: A mixed methods study, Priyata Thapa
A novel examination of none-of-the-above as it influences examinee item responses, Kathryn N. Thompson
The S9 model: A comprehensive framework for conceptualizing student suicidality, Katherine C. Wilson
Dissertations from 2022
Strategies and methods of training teacher emotional competence, Christina D. Beaton
Black girl magic: The endurance of enslaved mothers’ lessons, Briana G. Gaines
Impact of parental substance misuse on attachment in young adults: A qualitative approach, Susan E. Hardman
Taking time: Part-time students and student learning outcomes assessment, Sarah K. H. MacDonald
Equitable counselor education: Promoting a sense of belonging in master's counseling students, Jessica E. Mastrangelo
CALM-MO: An integrative tool for psychological mindfulness, Charles L. Miller
Exploring the role of defense styles in the relationship between childhood adversity and vicarious trauma, Stewart Nafziger
Delivery of parent-child interaction therapy in a telehealth format: Reducing disruptive behaviors in pediatric traumatic brain injury, Emily D. Pogue
Learning improvement at scale: Improving rhetorical awareness in a first-year writing program, Caroline Prendergast
The use of complex-structure items in multistage testing, Paulius Satkus
Operationalizing the gift of love (GOL) in interpersonal reconstructive therapy (IRT): An examination of the role of meaning reconstruction in therapeutic change., Eliza Stucker-Rozovsky
Dissertations from 2021
How college men describe their understanding of sexual assault, Sarah Anolik
Nature and its place in professional counseling: A qualitative study of expert views, experiences, and future plans, Matthew V. Bukowski
Borderline personality disorder: A review and analysis through the lens of the unified theory, Paulihna S. Cechak
Healing attachment wounds: Drama therapy within an interpersonal theoretical frame as a group treatment modality, Julia Dobner-Pereira
Getting caught-up in the process: Does it really matter?, Nikole Gregg
Reimagining racism: It's more than black & white, Morgan E. Gunter
Virtual manhood acts within social networks: The enactment of toxic masculinity on Reddit, Christian D. Haase
Adverse childhood experiences and self-reported emotional well-being for well-functioning young adults: The case of Burundian college students, Peace N. Ningabire
Does coding method matter? An examination of propensity score methods when the treatment group is larger than the comparison group, Beth A. Perkins
Homelessness and mental health: A participatory action research approach, John D. Rogers
Exploring coaches’ perceptions of the role of trauma in sport success, Elizabeth Sanborn
Informing consent: A grounded theory study of parents of transgender and gender diverse youth seeking gender confirming endocrinological interventions, Charles F. Shepard
Dissertations from 2020
Posttraumatic growth during COVID-19: A quantitative analysis of individualist and collectivist values, Stephanie Chalk
A general education course designed to cultivate college student well-being, Jessica C. Davis
Promoting attention in the classroom using the Play, Learn, and Enjoy curriculum, Virginia Gallup Larsen
Undue police violence towards African Americans: A quantitative analysis of professional counselors, Darius Green
Naming the pain: A model and method for therapeutically assessing the psychological impact of racism, Connesia Handford
Therapeutic assessment with couples: An intervention to enhance healthy relational and marital practices, Alexis C. Kenny
A qualitative study of the foster parent experience: “I try to weather the storm”, Ariel D. Marrero
An interpersonal view of personality disorders, Mariafé T. Panizo Jansana
Pragmatic language and behavioral and emotional functioning- a systematic review: Implications for research and interprofessional practice, Erica Pritzker
Can auxiliary information improve Rasch estimation at small sample sizes?, Derek Sauder
RISE and shine: A comparison of item fit statistics for the Rasch model, Glenn T. Waterbury
The space between Black & White: Examining the lived experiences of African American supervisees in cross-racial supervisory relationships, Brittany A. Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
A sequential explanatory mixed methods exploration of practitioner use, development, and satisfaction of theoretical paradigms in sport psychology, Christopher E. Bilder
Simultaneous Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) and Teacher-Child Interaction Training (TCIT) interventions using distance coaching: A pilot study, Kirstin Drucker
Building Teachers’ emotional competence: A transactional training model, Caroline Fulton
Attachment in middle childhood among foster and adopted children: Preliminary validation of a behavioral observation system, Somer George
Cultivating the sustainably gendered self, Patrick Kenny
The EI Leadership Model: From Theory and Research to Real World Application, Kelly Dyjak LeBlanc
Are all cognitive items equally prone to position effects? Exploring the relationships among item features and position effects, Thai Quang Ong
Let the Church say amen! A qualitative study exploring the experiences of African American pastors providing mental health support, Tiffanie D. Sutherlin
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Contributory factors of well-being in new mothers: An exploratory study, Molly Bowman
