Derner Student Accomplishments

Third-Year Students Laura Eidlitz M.A., Kirby Weinberg M.A., and Aleksandra
Goncharova M.A. (from left to right) at this year’s Annual American Psychological
Association Convention in Washington, DC

Publications and Presentations:

• Bender, P. (2014, April). The effect of subliminal psychodynamic activation on implicit racial bias. Poster presented at the 2014 Annual Spring Meeting of Division 39 of the APA.
• Bloch-Elkouby, S. (2014, April). One complex case: Three integrative theory options. Panel presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Montreal, Canada.
• Bloch-Elkouby, S., Gold, J. (2014, April). Assimilative psychodynamic psychotherapy: A case study. In S. Bloch-Elkouby (Chair), One Complex case: Three Integrative Theory Options. Montreal, Canada.
• Bloch-Elkouby, S., Muran, J.C., Knopf, L., Safran, J. (2014, April). Deterioration in psychotherapy and incongruence between therapists and patients subjective experience. In C. Eubanks-Carter (Chair), When the best laid plans go awry: an exploration of patient deterioration and therapist noncompliance. Panel submitted for the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration. Montreal, Canada.
• Bloch-Elkouby, S., Taylor, J., Muran, J.C., Eubanks-Carter, C., Safran, J. (2014, June). Treatment deterioration and psychotherapy process: A case study. In A. Werbart (Chair), Treatment Failures and Non-responding Patients: Lessons from Qualitative and Quantitative Studies. Paper in a panel presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Borovikova, M. (2014, April). When a man loves a beer: Gender differences in attitudes toward substance use. Poster presented at the 2014 Annual Spring Meeting of Division 39 of the APA.
• Denckla, C. A., Fiori, K. L., Vingerhoets, A. J. J. M. (2014). Development of the crying proneness scale: Associations among crying proneness, empathy, attachment, and age. Journal of Personality Assessment.
• Dinger, U., Zilcha-Mano, S., Dillon, J. & Barber, J.P. (2014). Treatment adherence and competence in psychotherapy research. In R. Cautin & S Lilienfeld (Eds). (Eds.). The Encyclopedia of Clinical Psychology. Malden, Oxford:, United Kingdom: John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (In press).
• Eubanks-Carter, C., Bloch-Elkouby, S., Hungr, C., Muran, J.C., Safran, J. (2014, April). A closer look at deterioration and noncompliance: An evidence-based case study. In C. Eubanks-Carter (Chair), When the best laid plans go awry: An exploration of patient deterioration and therapist noncompliance. Paper in a panel presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration, Montreal, Canada.
• Forrester, E., & Szymanski, K. (2014, May). The Effect of trauma integration on the use of metaphors and sentence structure: A narrative approach. Poster presented at the annual conference of the New York State Psychological Association, Ronkonkama, NY.
• Giuseppone, K. R., Johnson, H.A, & Brumariu, L. E., Lyons-Ruth, K. (2014, April). Patterns and predictors of child and adolescent mental health. Poster presented at the 2014 Annual Spring Meeting of Division 39 of the APA.
• Goncharova, A., & Josephs, L. (2014, August). Don’t leave me or else: Pathological narcissism and mate retention. Poster presented at the annual conference of the American Psychological Association: Division of Social and Personality Psychology, Washington, D.C.
• Goncharova, A., Kwon, J.L., Lopatyuk, Y., Qizilbash, A., Tanis, T., & Cohen, L. (2014, May). Childhood trauma in an inpatient sample: Associations with personality vs. major mood and psychotic disorders. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, New York, NY.
• Heilman, S. DeRose, L. (April, 2014). An exploratory analysis of reflective functioning in parents involved in the child welfare system. Poster presented at the 2014 Annual Spring Meeting of Division 39 of the APA.
• Hien, D., Ruglass, L.M., Lopez-Castro, T., Eidlitz, L., Pedersen, A., & Yoon, P. (2014, February). Working at the crossroads: Clinical findings from a combined medication and psychotherapy trial for co-occurring PTSD and AUD. Symposium at the Collaborative Perspectives on Addiction Conference, Atlanta, GA.
• Hien, D., Ruglass, L.M., Lopez-Castro, T., Papini, S., Eidlitz, L., Pedersen, A., Yoon, P. (2014, August). At the crossroads — findings from an integrative treatment for comorbid PTSD and alcohol use disorder. Poster presented at the annual conference of the American Psychological Association: Division of General Psychology, Washington D.C.
• Hungr, C., Muran, J. C., Small, R., & Safran, J. (2014, April). Therapist non-compliance to manualized techniques: A factor of struggling therapeutic relationships? Poster presented at the Society for Psychotherapy Integration annual conference, Montreal, QB.
• Johnson, H.A. (2014). I will not eat! A review of the online pro-ana movement. Graduate Student Journal of Psychology, 15 (In press).
• Johnson, H.A., Giuseppone, K.R., Lyons-Ruth, K., & Brumariu, L.E. (August, 2014) Role confusion in mother-adolescent dyads and BPD traits among older adolescents. Poster presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Washington, D.C.
• Kaminskaitė Dillon, J., & O‟Loughlin, M. (Ed.). (2014). Questions unasked: The legacy of childhood trauma in the life narratives of lithuanian women survivors of the 1941 soviet deportations. In M. O‟Loughlin (Ed.), The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting: Trauma, History and Memory. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
• Kuprian, N., Solomonov, N., Zilcha-Mano, S., & Barber, J. P. (2014, June) Could the TV Series “In Treatment” Be an Example of Modern Psychotherapy Integration? Paper presented at International Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Copenhagen
• Medvedow, O., & Josephs, L. (2014, May). Take me home tonight: Personality styles and hooking up. Poster presented at the annual conference of the New York State Psychological Association, Ronkonkama, NY.
• Paul, E., Eidlitz, L., Ernhout, C., & Whitlock, J. (2014, August). Identifying unique correlates of suicidal ideation, suicide plans, and serious suicide attempts in a young adult sample. Poster presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Conference, Washington D.C.
• Reyes, M., Shevoykin, A., John, G., & Silver, E. (2014, August). Cognitive factors related to marijuana use disorder among an urban population. Poster presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Conference, Washington D.C.
• Scholom, E., Marion, J., Rice, B., Lombardi, K., & Newirth, J. (2014). Love is (not) enough: The subjective experience of adolescents in residential treatment at the orthogenic school. Poster presented at the 2014 Annual Spring Meeting of Division 39 of the APA.
• Solomonov, N. (June, 2014). The use of therapeutic techniques by giants of the field. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Solomonov, N., Kuprian, N., Zilcha-Mano, S., & Barber, J. (2014, June). What therapeutic approach is portrayed in the TV series “In Treatment?” Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Stone, J. H. (2014). Psychosocial media: An argument for the utilization of online social networks as clinical adjuncts in psychotherapy. Graduate Student Journal of Psychology, 15 (In press).
• Taylor, J., Muran, J. C., Gardner, J. R., Safran, J. D., & Winston, A. (2014, June). What we talk about when we talk about the therapeutic relationship. Poster presented at the International Society for Psychotherapy Research Meeting, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• Tufekcioglu, S., & Muran, J. C. (2014). A relational approach to personality disorder and alliance rupture. In Livesley, J.W., Dimaggio, G., & Clarkin, J.F. (Eds.). Integrated Modular Treatment for Personality Disorders. Guilford Press.
• Weinberg, K. & Josephs, L. (2014, August). Hiding your true self: Gender, playing hard to get, and the false self. Poster presented at the annual conference of the American Psychological Association: Division of Psychoanalysis, Washington, D.C.
• Zecevic, L., & Szymanski, K. (2014, May). Interrelatedness of risk factors in a sample of individuals with a history of suicidal behavior. Poster presented at Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.

Honors and Awards:

• Rachel Goldman received the George Stricker Research Fellowship.
• Nadia Kuprian received a Kenneth Howard Student Travel Award in June, 2014. She used this award to travel to Copenhagen, Denmark for the Annual Meeting of the Society for Psychotherapy Research.
• Olivia Medvedow was awarded the $500 student prize for the best poster presentation on a psychoanalytic research topic or a psychoanalytic clinical topic presented at the New York State Psychological Association’s Annual Convention in May, 2014.
• Martina Robotham was awarded $500 for the poster she presented at the New York State Psychological Association’s Annual Convention in May, 2014.
• Jackson Taylor was selected as an APA Division 39 Scholar and recipient of a Graduate Student/Early Career Professional Travel Award sponsored by the Sexualities and Gender Identities Committee to attend the Division 39 conference in Spring, 2014.
• Jackson Taylor won the 2014 APA Division 29 Psychotherapy Diversity Student Paper Award for his paper, From the Match Equation to the Intersubjective Sphere: Negotiating Identities of the Sexual Kind.