Recent and Upcoming Faculty, Student, and Alum Publications and Presentations

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Recent and Upcoming Faculty and Student Publications​​​​​​​

  • Akinsulire, J., Fass, T. L., Powell, S., & Larson, K.(2022, March). The effect of media source on public opinion of police-involved shootings of African American and White men. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society, Denver, CO.
  • Babcock Fenerci, R. L., Jenkins, G. A., Gilbert, A. C., Schettini, E., Musella, K., MacPherson, H. A., Kim, K. L., Kudinova, A. Y., Radoeva, P. D., & Dickstein, D. P. (2022). Maltreatment history and reasons for self-injurious behavior among adolescents engaged in non-suicidal self-injury vs. adolescents who attempted suicide. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1111/sltb.12887
  • Barreto, S.J. and Parker, M. (2022) Evidence-Based Assessment and Treatment of Children Who Misuse Fire. Practice Innovations, 7:2, 138-153.
  • Barreto, S.J. (2022) Introduction to Special Issue: Embracing Clinical Complexity. Practice Innovations, 7: 2, 71-73.
  • Bezahler, A., Kuckertz, J., Schreck, M., Narine, K. O., Dattolico, D., & Falkenstein, M. (2022). Does Intensive/Residential Treatment Work for Everyone? Examination of Outcomes in Sexual Minorities in Treatment for Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders.
  • Brown, L.A., Zhu, Y., Narine, K. O., Simon, S., & Akpoduado, E. (2022). Timing of Suicidal Ideation among Persons Living with HIV. the Behavior Therapist, 45(8), 298-306.
  • Carper, M.M., Silk, J.S., Ladouceur, C.D., Forbes, E.E., McMakin, D., Ryan, N., & Kendall, P.C. (2022). Changes in affective network variability among youth treated for anxiety disorders. Child Psychiatry and Human Development. doi: 10.1007/s10578-021-01141-6
  • Cersonsky, T.E.K., Mechery, S., Carper, M.M., Thompson, L., Lee, A., Alber, J., Sarkar, I.N., & Brick, L.A.D. (2022). Using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment to identify individuals with subtle cognitive decline. Neuropsychology. doi: 10.1037/neu0000820
  • Daulat, N., & Wadhwa, H. (2022). Examining Indian American women’s relationship to work engagement through self-identity acceptance and positive mental health. Asian American Journal of Psychology. doi.org/10.1037/aap0000279
  • Davis, L. S., García-Leeds, C., Youngman, Y., Rothery, C., & Grafsky, E. (2022). Stress from microaggressions and discrimination: A focus on Asian American, African American, Latina/o/x, and queer families. In Treating contemporary families: Toward a more inclusive clinical practice. (pp. 29-60). American Psychological Association.
  • Davis, L. S., & Cohen, L. (2022, May). Understanding and supporting LGBTQ+ youth in the family courts. Workshop presented at the 2022 Association of Family and Conciliation Courts Conference. Chicago, IL.
  • Edens, J. F., Smith, S. T., Sörman, K., Kelley, S. E., Rulseh, A., & Mowle, E. N. (2022). Can the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality be used to measure the triarchic constructs of boldness, meanness and disinhibition? A scale derivation study. Journal of Personality Disorders. doi:10.1521/pedi_2020_34_493​​​​​​​
  • Fass, T. L., & Larson, K. (2022). Teaching mental health graduate students to create change through policy reform. In H. Scherschel (Ed.), Teaching tips: A compendium of conference presentations on teaching, 2021-2022. Society for the Teaching of Psychology.
  • Fass, T. L., & Larson, K. (2022, March). The impact of language on juvenile justice-involved youth. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society, Denver, CO.
  • Feurer, C., McGeary, J.E., Brick, L.A., Knopik, V.S., Carper, M., Palmer, R.H., & Gibb, B.E. (2022). Associations between depression-relevant genetic risk and youth stress exposure: Evidence of gene-environment correlations. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science.
  • Fialkov, C. & Haddad, D. (2022). Education as a Path to Gender Justice for Maasai Youth. African Journal of Gender, Society and Development, Vol. 11, No. 1, 119-130. doi.org/10.31920/2634-3622/2022/v11n1a6
  • Graham, KL & King, KD. (2022). Evaluating the Working with Older Adults Scale with Clinical Psychology Doctoral Students. The Gerontologist. DOI: 10.1093/geront/gnac044
  • Kazantzis, N., Carper, M.M., McLean, C., & Sprich, S. (2022). Applications of cognitive and behavioral therapy in response to COVID-19. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice. doi: 10.1016/j.cbpra.2021.09.001
  • Khanna, M.S. & Carper, M.M. (2022). Digital mental health interventions for child and adolescent anxiety. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice. Doi: 10.1016/j.cbpra.2021.05.003
  • Kudinova, A. Y., Brick, L. A., Barthelemy, C. M., MacPherson, H. A., Jenkins, G. A., DeYoung, L. L. A., Gilbert, A. C., Radoeva, P. D., Kim, K. L., Armey, M., & Dickstein, D. P. (2022). Sex and age moderate the trajectory of guilt among children and adolescents with and without recent suicidal ideation. Cognition and Emotion, 36(3), 512-526. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2022.2029359
  • Larson, K., & Fass, T. L. (2022, March). Confidentiality & expungement/sealing of juvenile records: Creating evidence-based policy. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society, Denver, CO.
  • Levitt, H. M. & Morrill, Z. (2023). Silences in psychotherapy: An integrative meta-analytic research review. Psychotherapy. Advance online publication. doi.org/10.1037/pst0000480
  • Levitt, H. M. & Morrill, Z. (In press). Silence. In C. Hill & J. Norcross (Eds.), Psychotherapy skills and methods that work. Oxford.
  • Levitt, H. M. & Morrill, Z. (In press). Elements of Power in Humanistic and Existential Psychotherapy. In APA Handbook of Humanistic and Existential Psychology.
  • Levitt, H. M., Collins, K., & Morrill, Z. (2023). A functionalist theory of gender, gender identities, and sexuality: A Humanistic exploration of experiences of LGBTQ+ gender communities in S. Simpson, M. Racho, B. D. Robbins, & L. Hoffman (Eds.), Eros & Psyche: Humanistic and Existential Approaches to Sex and Sexuality. University Professors Press.
  • Levitt, H. M., Grabowski, L. M., Minami, T., & Morrill, Z. (2023). An initial validation of the Clients’ Experience of Therapy Scale (CETS): assessing the quality of psychotherapy process and outcome from clients’ perspectives. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 1-25. doi.org/10.1080/09515070.2023.2191171
  • MacPherson, H. A., Kim. K. L., Seymour, K. E., Wolff, J., Esposito-Smythers, C., Spirito, A., & Dickstein, D. P. (2022). Cognitive flexibility and impulsivity deficits in suicidal adolescents. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s10802-022-00952-y
  • MacPherson, H. A., Kudinova, A. Y., Schettini, E., Jenkins, G. A., Gilbert, A. C., Thomas, S. A., Kim, K. L., Radoeva, P. D., Babcock Fenerci, R. L., Yen, S., Hower, H., Hunt, J., Keller, M. B., & Dickstein, D. P. (2022). Relationship between cognitive flexibility and subsequent course of mood symptoms and suicidal ideation in young adults with childhood-onset bipolar disorder. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 31(2), 299-312. doi: 10.1007/s00787-020-01688-0
  • Morrill, Z. & Comas-Dìaz, L. (In press). Liberation Psychotherapy. Women & Therapy.
  • Morrill, Z. & Hernandez, J. G. L. (In press). Branches of Humanistic and Existential Psychology. In APA Handbook of Humanistic and Existential Psychology.
  • Morrill, Z. (2022). Humanistic psychotherapy. In H. Friedman & C. Markey (Eds.), Encyclopedia of mental health (3rd ed.). Elsevier.
  • Nathanson, R., Messina, E., & Larson, K. (2022, March). Preparing children for court during COVID:
    Evaluation of remote delivery of a model program. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society, Denver, CO.
  • O’Connor, E.E., Carper, M.M., Schiavone, E., Frankin, M., Sapyta, J., Garcia, A.M., & Freeman, J.B. (2022). Trajectory of change in parental accommodation and its relation to symptom severity and impairment in pediatric OCD. Child Psychiatry and Human Development. doi: 10.1007/s10578-021-01240-4
  • Rabin, C. (2023). Longitudinal study of theory-based predictors of COVID-19 vaccination. Psychology, Health & Medicine, 1 - 10. doi: 10.1080/13548506.2022.2160873. Epub ahead of print.
  • Sager, Z.S., Nathan S., Doherty, K., Pless Kaiser, A., King, K., Topor, D.R., Morrison, N., & Moye, J. (2022). Traumatic Disclosures in the Life Stories of Older Vietnam Era Veterans. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. doi.org/10.1111/jgs.17918
  • Stark, K., Daulat, N., & King, S. (2022). A vision for teachers’ emotional well-being. Phi Delta Kappan. kappanonline.org/teachers-emotional-well-being-stark-daulat-king/​​​​​​​
  • Yeterian, J. D., & Dutra, S. J. (2022). Psychologist veteran status as a predictor of veterans' willingness to engage in psychotherapy. Military Psychology.
  • Zhu, Y., Rodebaugh, T., Narine, K. O., & Brown, L. (2022). Idiographic Dynamics between Suicide Ideation and Depression, Anxiety and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Persons Living with HIV: A Pilot Study. Journal for Person-Oriented Research, 8(2), 71-86. doi.org/10.17505/jpor.2022.24856

Recent and Upcoming Faculty and Student Presentations​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

  • Aronson, S. (2023, February 9). Promoting the Academic and Social-Emotional Success of DHH Students. NASP 2023 Annual Convention at William James College, Newton, MA.
  • Bratica, R. (2023, February 9). Steps to Establish a GSA. Presented at NASP 2023 Annual Convention at William James College, Newton, MA.
  • Brown, S., Fass, T. L., Larson, K., & Burda, T. (2023, March). The effects of race, parental supervision, and socioeconomic status on jurors’ verdicts and ratings of parental blame. at the Annual Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Chakar, Z., Fass, T. L., Larson, K., & Burda, T. (2023, March). The effect of exoneree immigration status on public opinion of wrongfully convicted individuals. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society, Philadelphia, PA.
  • DuBose, LA, & King, KD. (2023). Teaching Clinical Trainees to Informally Resolve Ethical Violations across Power Differences. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association.
  • Ferguson H. D., Coolbrith, N., Krengel, M. Bennett, K., Lawson, J., Ciccone, J., Hohler, A. D., & Piryatinsky, I. (2023). Parkinson’s Disease and Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Device Settings: Effects of Amplitude, Pulse Width, and Frequency on Cognitive Performance. Poster presentation at the National Academy of Neuropsychology’s 43rd Annual Neuropsychology and Neurorehabilitation (NAN) Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Ferguson H. D., Coolbrith, N., Bennett, K., Lawson, J., Krengel, M., & Piryatinsky, I. (2023). Changes in Cognitive Functioning following Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) for Parkinson’s Disease. Poster presentation at the Massachusetts Neuropsychological Society’s Annual Science Symposium and Student Poster Session, Waltham, MA.
  • Ferguson H. D., Bennett, K., Coolbrith, N., Lawson, J., Krengel, M., & Piryatinsky, I. (2023). A New Normative Sample of Pre-Surgical Deep Brain Stimulation Patients with Parkinson’s disease in Massachusetts. Poster presentation at the Massachusetts Neuropsychological Society’s Annual Science Symposium and Student Poster Session, Waltham, MA. *Winner of the 2nd annual Karen Postal “Relevance 2050 Award”
  • Galera, P., Fass, T. L., & Davis, L. S. (2023, March). The effect of type of cognitive deficit and memory of a crime on the public’s opinion of the appropriateness of capital punishment versus life without parole. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society, Philadelphia, PA.
  • George, S., Fass, T. L., Larson, K., & Burda, T. (2023, March). The effect of delusion content and mental status during trial on jury decision making in cases involving the insanity defense. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Gottlieb, S. (2023, March 31). SPAGS Presents: From Supervision to Classrooms: Where do we go when conversations on diversity go awry? Society for Personality Assessment Convention in Austin, TX.
  • Hernandez, A., Fass, T. L., Jacobs, D., & Larson, K. (2023, March). The public’s sentencing preferences for juveniles who sell opioids. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Huerta, E. & Jacobs R. (2023, February 7). Delving into Bilingual and Bicultural Factors Impacting Student Substance Usage. NASP 2023 Annual Convention at William James College, Newton, MA.
  • Levitt, H. M. & Morrill, Z. (August, 2023). Silence in psychotherapy. Accepted for presentation by Division 29 at the annual American Psychological Association (APA) convention in Washington, DC, August 3-6.
  • Levitt, H. M. & Morrill, Z. (June, 2023). Silence in psychotherapy: An integrative meta-analysis. Presented at the 54th International Annual Meeting for the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) in Dublin, Ireland, June 21-24.
  • Loehr, C., Fass, T. L., Contreras, P. (2023, March). Public opinion of the death penalty: Effects of defendant race and trauma history on jurors’ sentencing preferences. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Mainiero, S, Walukevich, A, & King, KD. (2023). The impact of an in-class mindfulness activity on clinical psychology graduate students. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Virtual.
  • Morrill, Z. (August, 2023). Psychotherapy as a technology of the self. Accepted for presentation by Division 24 at the annual American Psychological Association (APA) convention in Washington, DC, August 3-6.
  • Morrill, Z. (June, 2023) Liberatory aims and ethical stakes in critical qualitative research. Presented at the annual Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology (SQIP) conference in Santa Cruz, CA, June 29-30.
  • Morrill, Z. (April, 2023). Liberation and the psychological humanities. Invited Keynote Address at the annual Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology Spring Meeting in Chestnut Hill, MA, April 21-23.
  • Morrill Z. (April, 2023). Adapting and facilitating Hearing Voices Network Groups within an inpatient setting. Presented at the annual Spring Meeting of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology in Chestnut Hill, MA, April 21-23.
  • Morrill Z. (April, 2023) Philosophy, psychology, and social justice. Presented at the annual Spring Meeting of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology in Chestnut Hill, MA, April 21-23.
  • Pestritto, TN, Black, A, Lawrence, M, Malette, H, & King, KD. (2023). What Accounts for the Increase of Altruism with Age? Exploring the Impact of Religious Beliefs. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association.
  • Roach, S. et al. (2023, February 8). Who Let the Dogs In? Animal Assisted Interventions in Schools. NASP 2023 Annual Convention at William James College, Newton, MA.
  • Silvia, M., Davis, L., & Fass, T. L. (2023, March). Public opinion of formerly incarcerated individuals who attend treatment for substance use. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society, Philadelphia, PA.
  • Uretsky, M, Ferguson, H.D., Mainiero, S, Piryatinsky, I, & Krengel, M (2023). Tele-Neuropsychological Evaluation of Bariatric Surgery Candidates: Cognitive Profiles and Recommendations for Future Practice. Poster presentation at the International Neuropsychology Society’s (INS) 50th Annual Conference, San Diego, CA.​​​​​​
  • Wolkoff, E. (2023, February 8). Conversations About Race Between Students and K-12 Educators: Results of a Research Study. NASP 2023 Annual Convention at William James College, Newton, MA.
  • Wolkoff, E. (2023, February 7). Using Data to Increase Equity. NASP 2023 Annual Convention at William James College, Newton, MA.

Recent and Upcoming Alum Publications

  • Church, M. J., Mangen, K. H., Stiede, J. T., Spencer, S. D., & Storch, E. A. (2023). The role of between-session homework in cognitive-behavioral therapy for comorbid obsessive-compulsive disorder and autism: A case vignette. Journal of Clinical Psychology.
  • Minahan, J.R. (2023, August). Making Sense of Pension Liability Measurement Using Organizational Psychology. Journal of Investing.