Derner Student Accomplishments

Publications and Presentations:

• Balbert, T. proposed her dissertation Construct Validity of the Social Styles Scale: A Self-
  Report Measure of Counterdependency. September 23rd, 2014.
• Borovikova, M. (2014, October). Bi-curious, so to speak: Linguistic considerations within
  the therapeutic whole. Paper presented at the Association for the Psychoanalysis of
  Culture and Society, Annual Conference, New Brunswick, NJ.
• Collins, H. proposed her dissertation Experiences of Adopted Persons Who Maintain
  Relationships With Birth Relatives Following Reunion: A Qualitative Study. June 18th, 2014.
• Conway, F., & Lyons, S. (2014). Object relations of hospitalized adolescents engaged in
  self-injurious behaviors. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 13.
• Curtis, R. C., & Ladha, A. (2014). Overview of group therapies, personal growth groups,
  and support groups: Theories and research support. In Derrickson, H. (Ed.), Group
  therapy: Theory, practices, and effectiveness. Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science.
• Dillon, J., & O’Loughlin, M. (2015). Questions unasked: The legacy of childhood trauma in
  the life narratives of Lithuanian women survivors of the 1941 Soviet deportations. In
  O’Loughlin, M. (Ed.), The ethics of remembering and the consequence of forgetting:
  Essays on Trauma, history, and memory. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Eidlitz, L., Szymanski, K., Paul, E., & Hien, D. (2014, November). The impact of childhood
  abuse on treatment effectiveness in a sample with comorbid PTSD and alcohol misuse.
  Poster presented at the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Annual Meeting,
  Miami, FL.
• Fiori, K. L., & Denckla, C. A. (2015). Friendship and happiness among middle-aged adults.
  In Demir, M. (Eds), Friendship and happiness: Across the life-span and cultures. Springer.
• Gerber, A. J., & Knopf, L. E. (2015). An empirically-based psychoanalytic curriculum.
  Psychoanalytic Inquiry, 35(sup1), 115-123.
• Goldman, R. proposed her dissertation Psychotherapy Integration and Alliance: An
  Examination Across Treatment Outcomes and the Exploration of Borderline Personality
  Pathology. October 21st, 2014.
• Holder, C. (2014, November). Assimilation, Ethnic Identity, and Personality Characteristics
  of People of Caribbean Descent. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the
  Caribbean Alliance of National Psychological Associations. Paramaribo, Suriname.
• Ladha, A., Chin, J. L., & Desormeaux, L. (2015). Diversity leadership. The Feminist
  Psychologist, 42(1), 11.
• Levy, S. R., Hilsenroth, M. J., & Owen, J. (in press). Relationship between interpretation,
  alliance and outcome in psychodynamic psychotherapy: Control of therapist effects and
  assessment of moderator variable impact. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.
• Lombardi, K., & Gordon, A. (2014). Life after “death”: An empirical and clinical perspective
  on trauma. In O’Loughlin, M., & Charles, M. (Eds.), Fragments of trauma and the social
  production of suffering: Trauma, history, and memory. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Miller, S. proposed her dissertation When It’s Over: Post-Termination Contact following
  Psychodynamic Psychotherapy. October 27th, 2014.
• Marion, J. proposed her dissertation Serious Games: Women’s Participation in Consensual
  Sadomasochism. June 18th, 2014.
• O’Loughlin, M., & McLeod, B. A. (2015). “Thinking beyond our means”: Engendering a
  depth understanding of trauma. In O’Loughlin, M., & Charles, M. (Eds.), Fragments of trauma and the social production of suffering: Trauma, history, and memory. Lanham, MD:
  Rowman & Littlefield.
• Paul, E., Tsypes, A., Ernhout, C., Eidlitz, L., & Whitlock, J. (in Press). Frequency and functions of non-suicidal self-injury: Associations with suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Psychiatry Research.
• Siegel, D. proposed her dissertation Patient Characteristics an Early Treatment Gains As
  Predictors of Functional Outcome and Symptom Change at Discharge in Patients with
  Treatment Resistant Schizophrenia in a Social Learning Program. October 23, 2014.
• Taylor, J. proposed his dissertation Never Had a Friend Like Me: An Exploration of
  Friendship in the Therapeutic Alliance. October 15th, 2014.
• Tufekcioglu, S., & Muran, J. C. (in press). Case formulation and the therapeutic
  relationship: The role of therapist self-reflection and self-revelation. Journal of Clinical
  Psychology: In Session.
• Ugwumba, N. proposed her dissertation Once a Bully, Always a Bully? Stability and
  Change in Patterns of Bullying and Victimization during the Transition from Middle School
  to High School. June 18th, 2014.
• Zecevic, L. proposed her dissertation The Role of Mentalization as a Mediating Mechanism
  between Childhood Trauma and History of Suicidal Behaviors in Young Adults. October
  29th, 2014.
• Zecevic, L., & Szymanski, K. (2014, November). Early childhood trauma impact on
  suicidality: A relationship between risk factors and suicidal ideation. Poster presented at
  the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Annual
  Meeting, Miami, FL.