Clinical-Community Alumni
Here is a list of graduates of our program with a concentration in clinical – community psychology whose research was supervised by Dr. Catherine Stein. Listed are alumni names, date of graduation, name of their research project (dissertation or masters or postmasters research) and their first position immediately following graduation.
Ph.D. Students
Graduation Date: 2023
Job Title: Post-doctoral Fellow. Division of Prevention and Community Research. The Consultation Center Yale University. Department of Psychiatry.
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Dissertation: Can Social Media Contact Reduce Stigma? Promoting Empathy with the Art and Writing of People Experiencing Mental Illness
Graduation Date: 2022
Job Title: Staff Psychologist, VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System Lous Stokes Cleveland VAMC
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Dissertation: Understanding Families of Adults with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Measure of Service and Support Needs Grounded in Family Members' Experience
Masters Title: First-Generation and Continuing-Generation College Students: The Role of Perceived Parental Interactions and Support in Individual and College-Related Well-Being
Graduation Date: 2022
Job Title: Staff Psychologist, VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System Lous Stokes Cleveland VAMC
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Dissertation: Communication Privacy Management Among Emerging Adult Children of Mothers with Depression
Masters Title: Maternal Relationship, Social Stigma, and Advocacy Among Young Adult Children of Mothers Living with Depression
Graduation Date: 2021
Job Title: Women Veterans' Mental Health Fellow at the VA Ann Arbor University of Michigan Postdoctoral Clinical Psychology Consortium.
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Dissertation: Women's Accounts of Their Experiences with the #MeToo Movement
Master Title: Social justice and citizen participation on Tumblr: Examining the changing landscape of social activism in the digital era
Year: 2021
Job Title: Team Lead for Individualized Addictions Consultation Team Residential Program
Location: Clement J. Zablocki VA Medical Center, Milwaukee, WI
Dissertation: How I See Things: Older Adults Living with Serious Mental Illness Describe their Experiences Using Photovoice
Master Title: Psychiatric Hospitalization and Resiliency: Experiences of Adults with Serious Mental Illness Upon Reentering their Communities
Year: 2020
Current Location: Postdoctoral Fellow at Tufts University Counseling and Mental Health Service in Medford, MA
Dissertation: Conflict or Solidarity: Understanding Sibling Relationships in Families Coping with Parental Mental Illness
Master Title: Familial Caregiving, Role Reversal, and Social Ties: Experiences of Young Women with Mothers with Mental Illness
Year: 2018
Current Location: Staff Psychologist, Chillicothe VA Medical Center, Chillicothe, OH
Dissertation Title: "Not your typical Queer...": Applying an Intersectional Framework to the Identity Development of Low-Income, First-Generation, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer College Students
Masters Title: Parental Involvement in the Lives of Adult Children with a Serious Mental Illness
Year: 2017
Current Location: Staff Psychologist, Dorn VA Medical Center, Columbia South Carolina
Dissertation Title: Understanding Factors Related to Surviving a Disaster: The Survival Attitude Scale
Masters Title: University disaster preparedness: A network approach
Year: 2017
Current Location: Clinical Psychology Postdoctoral Residency with emphasis in Psychosocial Rehabilitation
Dissertation Title: Citizen participation to promote social justice and individual well-being in Detroit Michigan
Masters Title: Attachment style, perceived life events, and psychological well-being in adults coping with bipolar disorder: a longitudinal study
Year: 2015
Current Location: Licensed Clinical Psychologist at Commonwealth of Virginia Eastern State Hospital Williamsburg
Dissertation Title: The provider-consumer relationship and individual well-being: perspectives of adults with serious mental illness and their mental health care providers
Masters Title: Recovery-oriented services and the provider-consumer relationship: Interdisciplinary perspectives of community mental health care providers in Virginia
Year: 2015
Current Location: Intern at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland
Dissertation Title: Secondary stigma for professionals who work with marginalized client groups: A comparative study
Year: 2014
Current Location: Psychology Fellow in Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Recovery Program, US Department of Veterans Affairs, Durham, NC
Dissertation Title: Recovery and transformations from loss in adults with serious mental illness
Masters Title: Personal loss in well siblings of adults with serious mental illness: Implications for caregiving, growth and sibling needs
Year: 2012
Current Location: Psychologist and Training Program Manager at Native American Health Center, Oakland, CA
Dissertation Title: From discrimination to action: Understanding empowerment in the deaf community
Masters Title: Empowerment in the Deaf Community: Analyzing the Posts of Internet Weblogs
Year: 2011
Current Location: Clinical Assistant Professor, New York University, New York City, NY
Dissertation Title: Living in the community with serious mental illness: Community integration experiences of clubhouse members
Year: 2010
Current Location: Providence Psychology, RI Clinical Psychologist, Providence, RI
Dissertation Title: “It’s About Give and Take”: The Importance of Parental Felt Obligation in Adolescence
Masters Title: Optimism and loss: The experiences of children in foster care.
Year: 2010
Current Location: Staff Psychologist at VA Maine Health Care System, Augusta, ME
Dissertation Title: Community-based theater and persons with psychiatric disabilities: An investigation of individual and group development, social activism, and community integration
Masters Title: Comparing live and video-taped theatrical performance in changing stigmatizing attitudes towards people with serious mental illness
Year: 2010
Current Location: Assistant Professor at University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI
Dissertation Title: When mom has a serious mental illness: The mother-young adult relationship, caregiving, and psychosocial adjustment
Masters Title: How employable are people with serious mental illness? Case managers’ and undergraduates’ expectations
Year: 2008
Current Location: Licensed Psychologist and Training Coordinator at the University of Missouri- St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Dissertation Title: Social networks of NCAA Division I college athletes: Relationships between network structure, personal goal orientation, and well-being
Masters Title: Social networks of young adults coping with serious mental illness: Network stability and well-being correlates
Year: 2008
Current Location: Clinical Psychologist at Healtheast St. Joseph’s Hospital, Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area
Dissertation Title: Living with serious mental illness: The role of personal loss in recovery and quality of life
Year: 2005
Current Location: Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg, PA
Dissertation Title: Religious meaning-making coping for young adults with serious mental illness: A longitudinal study
Year: 2005
Current Location: Associate Director, VA Northeast Program Evaluation Center, West haven, CT; Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Dissertation Title: We are what we do: Examining social roles of people with serious mental illness and their parents
Masters Title: Perceptions of the significance of hip fracture: well elders' reports of fear of hip fracture, fear of falling, and functionality
Year: 2004
Current Location: Director of Psychological Service Center, Bowling Green State University
Dissertation Title: Not as different as you might think: The psychosocial development of collegiate student-athletes and student-musicians
Masters Title: Felt obligation, allocation of resources, and guilt correlates in adult children of retirement and assisted living community residents
Year: 2002
Current Location: Director of Research and Evaluation for the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health, New Haven, CT; Assistant Professor at Yale University, Department of Psychiatry, New Haven, CT
Dissertation Title: What do you think about me thinking for myself? : Views from two Ohio communities on psychiatric advance directives
Masters Title: The development of a measure of case manager expectations about the abilities of clients with schizophrenia: the case manager expectancy inventory
Year: 2002
Current Location: Site Supervisor in the Lancaster Clinic at Mid-Ohio Psychological Services, Inc., Lancaster, OH
Dissertation Title: Beyond burnout and stress: Personal growth experiences of case managers who work with people with serious mental illness
Masters Title: Perceptions of professional burnout and perceived effectiveness: a study of rural and urban case managers
Year: 2001
Current Location: Clinical Psychologist, Toledo, OH
Dissertation Title: Schizophrenia: An examination of the beliefs and attitudes of practicing clinical psychologists.
Year: 2000
Current Location: Clinical Psychologist, Comprehensive Psychiatric Services, Holland, MI
Dissertation Title: Mine and ours: Two methods for examining shared networks of married couples
Masters Title: The assessment of reciprocity of support exchanges through use of multiple perspectives data
Year: 1999
Current Location: President of Resources for Healthy Living, Inc., Perrysburg, OH;
Medical staff at St. Luke’s Hospital
Dissertation Title: The role of race, diagnosis, and chronicity in describing community tenure and length of psychiatric inpatient stay over a ten year period
Masters Title: Felt obligation, enactment, and individual psychological well-being correlates in non-distressed married couples
Year: 1999
Current Location: Director of Evaluation and Services Research at University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
Dissertation Title: Adult siblings of people with serious mental illness: The relationship between self-and-sibling-care beliefs and psychological adjustment
Masters Title: Parental influence on sibling caregiving for the severely mentally ill
Year: 1998
Current Location: Director, Community Services Goodwill/Easter Seals Minneapolis MN
Dissertation Title: Describing Mexican-American migrant farmworker parents: A cluster analytic approach
Masters Title: Felt obligation: a study of Mexican American and Anglo American adult family relationships
Year: 1998
Current Location: Psychologist, Western State Hospital Staunton, Virginia
Dissertation Title: Relationships between etiological beliefs about schizophrenia, involvement with ill sibling, and psychological well-being.
Masters Title: Personal network delineations: Methodology and individual factors
Year: 1991
Current Location: President, Welcoming Heart Meditation, Savannah, GA
Dissertation Title: Divorced single mothers: Their social relationships and psychological well-being.
Masters' and Post-Masters Students
Year: 2018
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Masters project: The Role of Social Networks in Helping Adults Cope with the Death of a Sibling
Year: 2017
Location: Whole Brain Solutions, LLC, Morgantown, WV
Master's Project: What it's like for me: Transgender students' accounts of college life
Year: 2013
Current Location: Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Preliminary Research Title: Recovery-oriented services for individuals with mental illness and case managers’ experience of professional burnout
Year: 2008
Current Location: Arvada, CO
Masters Title: Coping with the personal loss of having a parent with mental illness: Young adults' narrative accounts of spiritual struggle and strength
Year: 2007
Current Location: Court Liaison at FEGS, New York City, NY
Masters Title: Personal loss and mental illness: Can social networks help young adults and parents cope?
Year: 2003
Current Location: School Psychologist at Lynn Public Schools, Greater Boston area
Masters Title: Qué necesitan?: A needs assessment of migrant farmworker children and families
Year: 1989
Current Location: Licensed Psychologist, Fort Collins, CO
Masters Title: A social network approach to the study of friendship for working and middle class married adults
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