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Spring 2022

Martinovich, Vincenza

To date, our understanding of the parenting experiences of immigrant fathers with a history of intimate partner violence (IPV) is severely limited. Given the cultural considerations and circumstances of immigration associated with IPV and recent emergence of separate interventions for immigrant...

Spring 2022

Shiva Zarezadeh Kheibari

Fatigue can have a long-lasting impact on psychosocial, cognitive, and educational outcomes for students who are Deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH). Unfortunately, fatigue itself and the importance of educational supports to minimize its impact on D/HH students is poorly understood by many...

Spring 2022

Hoover, Michelle NM

Play therapy is an effective form of psychotherapy typically used with children under the age of 12. Numerous meta-analyses amalgamating the results of hundreds of play therapy research studies have shown that children who engage in play therapy are better off than nearly 80% of those who do not...

Spring 2022

Okungbowa, Eki

Parenting is a socially and culturally constructed role and experience. Parenting practices vary across and within communities yet most of what we know about parenting in the literature stems from Western worldviews on what ideal parenting and child-rearing looks like in practice. Taking a...

Spring 2022

Gilmour, Laura Lynn

This study aimed to understand the lived experience of school-aged children engaging with a diversity-positive chapter book in a classroom setting. Participants were 9 third-grade students and 26 sixth-grade students and their respective teachers in a Canadian urban school. An interpretive...

Spring 2022

Violato, Efrem M

The research in this dissertation draws on theories from psychology to address the issue of obedience as it relates to medical error and patient harm in healthcare settings by developing a model of obedience, analyzing the environment of application through survey research, and testing obedience...

Fall 2021

Spaans, Rianne, E.

This dissertation consists of three separate papers that contribute to the field of social skills intervention design and implementation with a specific focus on how to support adolescents with identified social skills difficulties. The first paper is a review paper of important topics related to...

Fall 2021

Johnson, Adrian

Research has found that perfectionism is associated with intense rumination about making mistakes, constant self-doubt, harsh self-criticism, as well as unreasonably high expectations (Rice, Richardson, & Clark, 2012), and these tend to significantly increase over time if treatment is not...

Spring 2021

Day, Lita L.

The current study examined the extent that fathers’ authoritative parenting style (APS) and father–child mutually responsive orientation (MRO) explained children’s moral conscience. Two dimensions of child temperament, fearfulness and effortful control, were investigated for moderating effects of...

Fall 2021

Zhou, Hansen

Routine outcome monitoring (ROM) has been shown to have a significant effect on clinical outcome. However, the process behind the effect of ROM intervention is not well understood. In this qualitative dissertation study, the process of experienced users of ROM was explored. A multiple case study...