Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Towards construct validity: Investigating the structure of the mental toughness in Sport Questionnaire (MTSQ-32), Kelly Jane Foelber
Weighing in: Therapeutic benefits of online communities for individuals with eating disorders, Cheri L. Greenfield
The effects of a social-emotional skills training program on optimism in elementary students, Jessica Sheree Harris
Serving those who served: Understanding the needs of student veterans, Jessica Catherine Hayden
Using mindfulness to explore worldview perspective and enhance intercultural development, Rebecca J. Heselmeyer
Identifying academic protective factors in gifted minority students, Janei Kimberly Jackson
The interaction of patience and resistance to miserly information processing on life outcomes, Tristan Kirkman
The treatment of missing data when estimating student growth with pre-post educational accountability data, Jason P. Kopp
Embracing counseling and psychotherapy in Kenya, Faith Mueni Masambia
Back to nature: The impact of nature relatedness on empathy and narcissism in the millennial generation, Anne Loyer Metz
Auditory masking in spontaneously hypertensive rat: An examination of the continuum of impulsivity, John Joseph O'Malley
How do we conceptualize depression?: A mixed methods study, Mariafé Taeví Panizo
Understanding the gendered self: Implications from EI Theory, EI Self, and the BEVI, Christen Pendleton
The effects of having teachers implement teacher child interaction training on language and communication development, Chelsea Ann Rainear
Psychosocial needs of children coping with parental terminal cancer in a hospital setting, Meredith Reed
The effects of chronic, partial sleep deprivation on risk-taking behavior in rats, Ashley Marie Shemery
Merge of behavior analysis procedures into a speech-language pathology autism clinic, Elizabeth Simons
Assessing ethical reasoning skills: Initial validity evidence for the Ethical Reasoning Identification Test, Kristen Lynn Smith
Healthy living skills education: A 12-module group intervention for individuals with serious mental illness, Brette Marie Stephenson
In search of best practices for multicultural education: Empirical evidence from the Forum BEVI Project, Mary Beth Tabit
Using Microsoft Powerpoint© to conduct a Paired Stimulus Preference Assessment, Andrew M. Tiry
Inhibitory control and classroom behavior in kindergarten children, Samantha Anne Tynan
Investigating the discrepancies between student perceptions and faculty expectations of graduate-level statistics preparation, Devon Hopkins Whetstone
Training graduate clinicians to implement speech language pathology, occupational therapy and applied behavior analysis goals in their treatment sessions, Heather B. White
Those who laugh, last: Exploring the use of humor as a vehicle of healing through personal reflection, theory, and practice, Eleanor Barham Whitehurst
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
The effects of caffeine and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep deprivation on free operant responding under a VI 30-S schedule of reinforcement, Curtis Allen Bradley
Student engagement in the assessment context: An examination of the Cognitive Engagement Scale-Extended Version (CES-E), Ashley Brianne Charsha
Hypnosis and mindfulness for the treatment of anxiety disorders: Empirical and applied perspectives, John Lawrence Clarke
Wired to bond: The influence of computer-mediated communication on relationships, Jennifer Lynn Cline
Effects of negative keying and wording in attitude measures: A mixed-methods study, Chris M. Coleman
The initial development of a measure of cultural competence in school psychology: The Madison Assessment of Cultural Competence in School Psychology (MACCS), Nicholas Anthony Curtis
Current needs and response to suicidal behavior at the elementary school level: A survey of Virginia school psychologists, Kelsey R. Cutchins
Training practicum students in child-directed interaction (CDI) and incidental teaching (IT): Efficacy of immediate bug-in-the-ear feedback, Alicia C. Faller
Implementing dialectical behavior therapy for adolescents in an acute inpatient psychiatric setting, Thomas Andrew Field
Measuring motivation for coursework across the academic career: A longitudinal invariance study, Makayla Grays
A unified approach to well-being: The development and impact of an undergraduate course, Kimbelry Erica Kleinman
Assessing intervention fidelity in a randomized field experiment: Illuminating the black box, Jeff John Kosovich
Supporting the well being of university student survivors of cancer, Janice Lewis
Cries of the world and joys of the heart: A primer for new counselors in community mental health clinics, Patrick Lincoln
Small steps and long strides: Personal reflections and insights on becoming multiculturally competent, Sharon D. Lockaby
To move or not to move: The impact of instruction on planning and the role of inhibitory control, Sarah Anne Marrs
The effects of item and respondent characteristics on midpoint response option endorsement: A mixed-methods study, Kimberly Rebecca Marsh
Developing competency in counseling survivors of sexual assault, Grace Meyer
Developing a measure of student resume quality in student affairs assessment: An application of generalizability theory, Oksana Naumenko
Examining the effects of d-amphetamine on discounting in spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR), Daniel Joseph Peterson
Emotion regulation in European American and Hong Kong Chinese middle school children, Kayan Phoebe Wan
Effects of chronic marijuana use on circadian rhythms, sleep, and cognitive performance, Lauren Nicole Whitehurst
Students’ attitudes toward institutional accountability testing in higher education: Implications for the validity of test scores, Anna Zilberberg
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
The development of the well-being interview, Craig Alexander Asselin
Using longitudinal mean and covariance structures (LMACS) analysis to assess construct stability over two time points: An example with psychological entitlement, Bozhidar Mihaylov Bashkov
Interaction between source and filter in vowel identification, Christopher James Becker
The role of country music in homonegativistic aggression, Alex Manuel Borgella
Intercollegiate cross-country competition: Racing is associated with a substantial increase in salivary levels of cortisol and testosterone in men and women, Kathleen Virginia Casto
Crisis supervision: A qualitative study of the needs and experiences of licensed professional counselors, Madeleine Ann Dupre
Program evaluation of a suicide prevention walk: finding postvention opportunities for promoting resilience in survivors of suicide loss, Lisa A. Cooper Ellison
Measuring cost: The forgotten component of expectancy value theory, Jessica Kay Flake
A public dialogue on child sexual abuse: Hope for healing and prevention, Hanna Louise Foster
Longitudinal invariance of the Scale of Ethnocultural Empathy, Jerusha Joy Gerstner
Assessing the utility of a brief Abstinence Test for initiating caffeine abstinence, Bradley T. Joachim
Examining the bifactor IRT Model for vertical scaling in K-12 assessment, James Koepfler
Response to Intervention (RTI) implementation in the social-emotional domain: A survey of available resources in schools, Marissa Ann Madalis
Investigation of personal and collective mortality threats in individualistic and collectivist cultures: A cross cultural study., Catherine Munns
Demonstrating validity evidence of meta-assessment scores using generalizability theory, Chris D. Orem
Measuring employability among college students: A validity study, Megan Rodgers
Individual differences and basic logic ability, Christopher R. Runyon
Should we change the way we model change? Comparing traditional and modern techniques in modeling change in sense of identity over time, Kelli Marie Samonte
Validity of the PATHS student evaluation as a universal screener: Utilization within a social-emotional response to intervention framework, Emily Anne Smithson
Identity development and the construction of self: Findings and implications from the Forum BEVI Project, Jessica Christine Spaeth
Perceived responsibility for learning in college students: A construct validity study, Matthew S. Swain
Evaluating contemporary sources of stress in middle school teachers, Erin Thompson
Examining the efficacy of the same sky sharing program on worry and academic performance in military children experiencing parental deployment, Francine E. Torres
Brains, beads and boulders: Trauma-informed sensory interventions for adolescents, Gini Christine Trotter
Training practicum students in child-directed interaction: Efficacy of modeling versus bug-in-the-ear feedback, Sarah Elisabeth Vasquez
Supporting a parent driven video self modeling intervention for a student with autism, Lindsey Visbaras
Gathering validity evidence for the Community Service-Learning Assessment Test (CSAT), Tanja N. Waugh
Formative assessment: Comparing immediate and delayed feedback, Jacob W. Williams
Building group resilience: A three-day curriculum, Andrew Willis Garcés
Women and military sexual trauma, a resilience study, Lauren Sloan Zapf
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Finding balance: School-based yoga programs for the prevention and reduction of anxiety, Jessica Dawn Aaron
Recruitment and retention of African-Americans in school psychology in a social justice context: practitioners' perspectives, Marlana Ashe
Substance abuse and school counseling, Katherine A. Baird
Religion, spirituality, and school psychology: A national survey of training programs, Jessica Marie Bass
The relationship between acculturation status, goal orientation, and self-efficacy in adolescents, Thi Beam
Resilience through attending to the power of the mind, Jennifer Dawn Behm
Teachers' perceptions of a universal screener and progress monitoring tool within an RtI framework, Dale Bostwick
Trust betrayed: Counseling girls who have been sexually abused by educators, Courtney Paige Boyd
The relationship between self-esteem and social Influence: An empirical comparison of two theoretical models, Chauncy Thomas Brinton
Perceptions of acceptability and effectiveness of interventions for ADHD: A comparison of teachers and school psychologists, Bradley Call
An exploration of two couples workshop approaches: Getting the Love You Want by Imago Relationships International and The Art and Science of Love by The Gottman Institute, Dessie Morgan Canelakes
The effects of mental and physical wellness promotion programs on students’ well-being, Jamie Constantz
Study strategies in high school students with specific learning disabilities, Mikaela Renee Cribbs
Introducing the unified measure of university mattering: Instrument development and evidence of the structural integrity of scores for transfer and native students, Megan Katharine France
Giving a voice to adolescents Hip-Hop Therapy: “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent,”Victor Hugo., Amanda Gaye Francis
Grief and resilience in children and families: Resources for counseling professionals, parents, and children, Ashley Smith Hall
Extra-curricular activity participation and psychological school engagement in ethnically diverse middle school students, Andrew Intagliata
Nonresponse bias in online course evaluations, Cassandra Jones
The impact of cheating on IRT equating under the non-equivalent anchor test design, Daniel Pacheco Jurich
Attachment and resilience in military families throughout the deployment cycle, Jason A. Kacmarski
