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Spring 2013 Vol. 1 No. 2
The Newsletter for the University of Detroit Mercy Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology
Another Year of Excellent Doctoral Training We have had another great year for
research.
the doctoral psychology program. Ten students have matched with
Several students defended their
APA accredited internships,
dissertations this year and have
spanning the country from Texas to
published and presented papers in a
Alaska to North Carolina. Faculty
variety of forums.
and students have been highly productive clinically and via research. Unlike many scientistpractitioner programs across the country, our faculty actually practice. Too often these days, many academics do not value the practice of clinical work, preferring to focus almost exclusively on
Through Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students, the program was able to provide additional funding for 10 students. We have recently completed the admissions process for 2013-14 with an incoming class of 8 students, who have excellent credentials for doctoral training.
We hosted the Psychodynamic Research Symposium and Visiting Professor. Our Psychology Clinic continued to serve as an excellent source of training and a valuable community resource. We also welcome your feedback about this newsletter including ideas about what you would like to see covered. So please let me know what you think about the newsletter by contacting me at: phdclinicalpsychology@udmercy.edu .
The UDM Psychology Clinic We can see individuals with limited or no insurance coverage for a fee based on gross household income | Doctoral candidates in the Clinical Psychology Program provide comprehensive care, treatment and assessment, supervised by fully licensed psychologists | Open year round with evening and weekend hours | We partner with many organizations throughout the Detroit metropolitan area | We accept referrals 313-578-0570.
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Alumni News We provide a forum for alumni to let the Doctoral Program community know what you’re doing. If you’d like to let us know what professional activities you have been involved with and to share pertinent information with your colleagues, then go to the link: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/990255/3272906f1cad You could also send alumni news to the program via email: phdclinicalpsychology@udmercy.edu. If you know of any alumni who did not receive a copy of the newsletter, please feel free to forward a copy to them and encourage them to get in touch with us, so that we can update the alumni database. Lynne M (formerly Charlet) Agar, Ph.D. (1993) is retiring in June 2013. She has worked as a clinical psychologist in a hospital setting and a public school. Vickie L. Bergen, Ph.D. (1996) is a clinical psychologist with Advanced Counseling Services located at 20600 Eureka Road, Ste, 819 in Taylor, MI 48180. Josephine Johnson, PhD (1980) has been elected to serve a 3-year term as Member-at-Large on the American Psychological Association (APA) Board of Directors. Her term runs from January 2012 until December 2014. Dr. Johnson has been active in governance and advocacy at the national and state levels. She was named "Distinguished Psychologist of the Year" for 2009 by the Michigan Psychological Association (MPA). She has served as MPA's President, Secretary, and is currently its Federal Advocacy Coordinator. Dr. Johnson is a consultant to Community Mental Health agencies, children's residential facilities, schools, and businesses. She has a private practice in Livonia, MI providing assessment and treatment to individuals, couples, and families. She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Northwestern University; a Master's Degree in School Psychology, and Doctoral Degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Detroit. She has also been an adjunct professor at UDM, teaching graduate courses in Clinical Psychology; and has served as an off-site supervisor to the School Psychology program. Paul Kaye, Ph.D. (1976) is serving as the Co-Chair of the Annual Meeting of the American Group Psychotherapy Association and was recently awarded the distinction of Fellow of AGPA. Diana Mendez, Ph.D. (2012) obtained a Postdoctotal Psychology Fellowship at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences c/o Jackson Memorial Hospital. John Monroe, Ph.D. (1981) has decided to leave the profession after practicing psychology for 18 years and begin a new career as a nurseryman, a love and desire he had since childhood. His nursery, Architectural Trees, is located in Bahama, NC. Margaret Sartori, PhD (1992) is an Associate Professor of Psychology and clinical supervisor at the Michigan School of Professional Psychology. She has an adult private practice and does psychological assessments for students K-12 at a variety of schools. Patricia Smith, Ph.D. (1980) has worked as a clinical psychologist for the past 32 years. She has really enjoyed living and working abroad as well as serving the U.S. military.
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Visiting Professor 2013 Salman Akhtar, M.D.
Dr. Akhtar joined students and faculty for dinner sponsored by the UDM Psychology Clinic. Dr. Akhtar is the book review editor of the Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis and is an editorial reader for the Psychoanalytic Quarterly and seven other journals. He is a prolific psychoanalytic writer with over 300 publications that include 36 edited books and authorship of 12 books. His edited works include “New Psychiatric Syndromes” (1983), “Intimacy and Infidelity” (1996), “Real and Imaginary Fathers” (2004), “Severe Personality Disorders” (2007) and “The Mother and her Child” (2012). He has authored books exploring the development and treatment of severe psychopathology in “Broken Structures” (1992) and “The Damaged Core” (2009), cultural issues in “Immigration and Identity” (1999), and “Immigration and Acculturation” (2011) and a comprehensive exploration of technique in “Turning Points in
Above: Carrie Nantais, M. Div. and Salman Akhtar, M.D. following the presentation. Below: Dr. Akhtar shares a meal with students and faculty at Anita’s Kitchen. Salman Akhtar, M.D. is Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He is a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and the American College of Psychoanalysts. Dr. Akhtar discussed a case presented by Carrie Nantais, M.Div., a second year Doctoral Student in Clinical Psychology on Wednesday March 20, 2013. Prior to the presentation,
Dynamic Psychotherapy: Initial Assessment, Boundaries, Money, and Suicidal Crisis” (2009). Further attesting to his talents as a writer, speaker and teacher Dr. Akhtar has received numerous awards including Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association's Best Paper of the Year Award (1995), Columbia University’s Robert Liebert Award for Distinguished Contributions to Applied Psychoanalysis (2004), the APA’s Irma Bland Award for being the Outstanding Teacher of Psychiatric Residents (2005), and most recently the APA’s Nancy Roeske Award for Outstanding Teacher of Medical Students in 2012.
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Program Distributes Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students Funds for 2012-13 The UDM Doctoral Program was a recent recipient of a Scholarships for Disadvantaged Students (SDS) Grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the Department of Health and Human Resources (HHS). The SDS is a grant program that provides funds to eligible accredited U.S. health professions schools to make scholarships to students from disadvantaged backgrounds who have financial need and are enrolled or accepted for enrollment as full time students. The program is scheduled to receive $142, 852 per year for 4 years for a total of $571,408. Funding for student scholarships is under way for the 2012-13 academic year. Students submitted applications for grants, and funding is based upon criteria determined by the Federal Government for either economic and/or environmental disadvantage, with demonstration of financial need being essential to receive funding. Grants must be for at least half of the student’s tuition in a given year but can also cover expenses related to training, including living expenses. Institutions that receive awards must develop and implement a program for recruiting and retaining students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Schools are required to give preference to students for whom the cost of attendance would constitute a severe financial hardship and to former recipients of scholarships. Ten UDM students met criteria for funding. The program has submitted its first progress report to HRSA, which will inform programs about funding for the 2nd year of the program. Assuming the funding proceeds according to plan, students will be able to apply for funding for the 2013-14 during the summer.
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2013 Graduates and Dissertation Chairs Top: (L) Drs. Schuster & Stack | (C) Drs. MacDonald & Ventimiglia | (R) Drs. MacDonald & Witherell Bottom: (L) Drs. Abell & Wheeler | (C) Drs. Abell & McCormick | (R) Drs. Mims & Munday
Commencement 2013 and Dissertations from the past year John Thomas Huber II. An Investigation of the Relations Between Aggression and Spirituality. Douglas MacDonald, Ph.D. (Chair) Matthew McCormick. A Retrospective Analysis of the Influence of the Father-Child Relationship On Adult Anxiety and Individuation. Steven Abell, Ph.D. (Chair) Koyonne Mims. An Association of Health Attitudes with BMI and Blood Pressure Among African American Weight Loss Participants. Cheryl Munday, Ph.D. (Chair) Lisa Schuster. Maternal Risk and Protective Factors as Predictors of Case Outcome for Young Children in Foster Care. Margaret Stack, Ph.D. (Chair) Matthew Ventimiglia. Determinants of Mental Health in a Refugee Population: The Impact of Trauma and Resiliency Factors in Newly Arrived Refugees From Iraq. Douglas MacDonald, Ph.D. (Chair) Joseph Wheeler. Differentiating Adaptive and Pathological Narcissism: Variance in Personality Traits and Etiological Factors. Steven Abell, Ph.D. (Chair). Jay Witherell. Evaluation of the Utility of the MMPI-2 and MMPI-2-RF in Criminal Responsibility Assessments. Douglas MacDonald, Ph.D. (Chair)
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Left to Right: Linda Slowik, Ph.D. (Psychology Department Chair), Matt Ventimglia, Ph.D., Jay Witherell, Ph.D.
Internship News 10 UDM students matched with APA accredited pre-doctoral internships for 2013-2014. MONISHA BERKOWSKI BROUGHTON HOSPITAL MORGANTON, NC PSYCHOLOGY INTERNSHIP JULIA DELEKTA PINE REST CHRISTIAN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES GRAND RAPIDS, MI PSYCHOLOGY INTERNSHIP SHANNON FOWLER ALASKA PSYCHOLOGY INTERN CONSORTIUM FAIRBANKS, AK ALASKA FMLY MDCNE RES HAILEY G HEGLAND SOUTHEAST HUMAN SERVICE CENTER FARGO, ND PSYCHOLOGY INTERNSHIP
Distinguished Student Practice Award Matt Ventimiglia, Ph.D. Jay Witherell, Ph.D. At the Honors Convocation on March 24, 2013 the UDM
enthusiasm.” He completed a predoctoral internship at St.
ADAM LORINCZ JOHN D. DINGELL VA MEDICAL CTR DETROIT, MI PSYCHOLOGY INTERNSHIP
Doctoral Program in Clinical
ADAM LYNCH UNIV TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER-SAN ANTONIO SAN ANTONIO, TX PSYCHOLOGY INTERNSHIP
Award to co-recipients, Matt
Dr. Ventimiglia “distinguished
Ventimiglia and Jay Witherell.
himself for his
This award is for distinguished
professionalism, competence,
clinical service as recognized by
and ability to manage his cases
faculty and supervisors. One of the
at a level exceeding our
special aspects of the award is that
expectations for an intern.” He
the program invites clinical
completed his predoctoral
supervisors to be part of the
internship at the Wayne State
nominating process.
University Medical School
KATHERINE M. MCCULLOCH JESSE BROWN VA MEDICAL CENTER CHICAGO, IL GENERAL INTERNSHIP STACEY NEFOUSE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN DETROIT, MI PSYCHOLOGY INTERNSHIP
Psychology presented the Distinguished Student Practice
ANNA C PETTWAY HAWTHORN CENTER NORTHVILLE, MI PSYCHOLOGY INTERNSHIP
Both of these students have
ZHANNA ROZENBERG MENDOTA MENTAL HEALTH INSTITUTE MADISON, WI PSYCHOLOGY INTERNSHIP
Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, DC.
UPC Jefferson program.
demonstrated excellence in
Linda Slowik, Ph.D.
clinical work. Dr. Witherell was
(Psychology Department
noted to be “outstanding” in
Chair) presented the awards.
clinical work and showed “remarkable commitment and
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Recent Publications of Psychology Department Faculty Faculty Names in Bold. Doctoral Students/grads in italics. Lorincz, A. C. & Abell, S. (in press). Understanding neuroticism in emerging adulthood: Integrating the contributions of Erickson and Fromm. In F. Columbus (ed.). The psychology of Neuroticism. Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publications. Blume, L. B. (2012). (Series Ed.). Groves Monographs on Marriage & Family, Vol. 2. Groves Conference on Marriage & Family: History and impact on family science. Ann Arbor, MI: MPublishing. Blume, L. B. (2013). [De]forming the figure: Spatial embodiment in architectural representation. Dichotomy, 19, 116-135. Blume, L. B., & Weatherston, R.W. (In press). Queering the campus gender landscape through visual arts praxis. In E. McNeil, J. Wermers, & J. O. Lunn (Eds.), Queer landscapes: Mapping queer space(s) of praxis and pedagogy. New York: Palgrave. Dauphin, B., & Greene, H. H. (2012). Here’s looking at you: Eye movement exploration of Rorschach images. Rorschachiana, 33(1), 3-22. doi:10.1027/1192-5604/a000025. Dauphin, B. (2013). Therapists' Resistance to Understanding the Importance of Technology for Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy, 21 (1), 45-50. Greene, Harold, H., Brown, James M. & Paradis, Bryce, A. (2013). Luminance contrast and the visual span during visual target localization. Displays, 34, 27-32. Greene, Harold H., Simpson, Deborah, & Bennion, Jennifer (2012). The perceptual span during foveallydemanding visual target localization. Acta Psychologica, 139, 434-439. Pardo, Y., Weisfeld, C., Hill, E., & Slatcher, R. B. (May 08, 2012). Machismo and Marital Satisfaction in Mexican American Couples. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. Hill, E.M. & Monahan, M. (2012) Naturalistic observation in public settings: applying for Institutional Review Board approval. Human Ethology Bulletin, 27, 1-14. Hill, E.M. (2013). An Evolutionary Perspective on Addiction. In Peter Miller (Ed.) Principles of Addiction. Academic Press. Huber, J., & MacDonald, D. A. (2012). An investigation of the relations between altruism, empathy, and spirituality. Journal Of Humanistic Psychology, 52(2), 206-221. doi:10.1177/0022167811399442.
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Faculty Publications Continued Lijewski, Angela, MacDonald, Douglas, and Panyard, Christine (2013). Examination of the Psychometric Properties of the MMPI-2 Restructured Clinical (RC) Scales with a Sample of Public Safety Officer Candidates, International Journal of Educational and Psychological Assessment, Vol 13(2). Gauci, M. A., & MacDonald, D. A. (2012). Confirmatory factor analysis of the posttraumatic stress disorder checklist. Journal Of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 21(3), 321-330. doi:10.1080/10926771.2012.665429. Ventimiglia, M., & MacDonald, D. A. (2012). An examination of the factorial dimensionality of the Marlowe Crowne Social Desirability Scale. Personality And Individual Differences, 52(4), 487-491. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2011.11.016. MacDonald, D. A. (in press, 2013). Philosophical underpinnings of transpersonal psychology as a science. In H. L. Friedman & G. Hartelius (Eds.). Wiley Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology. New York: Wiley. MacDonald, D. A., & Friedman, H. L. (in press, 2013). Quantitative assessment of transpersonal and spiritual constructs. In H. L. Friedman & G. Hartelius (Eds.). Wiley Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology. New York: Wiley. MacDonald, D. A., Walsh, R., & Shapiro, S. L. (in press, 2013). Meditation: Empirical research and future directions. In H. L. Friedman & G. Hartelius (Eds). Wiley Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology. New York: Wiley. Mendez, D. M, & MacDonald, D. A. (2012). Spirituality and the MMPI-2 Restructured Clinical Scales. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies 31(1), 1-10. Migdal, L., & MacDonald, D. A. (2013). Clarifying the relation between spirituality and well-being. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 201(4), 274-280. Munday C. , Abelson, J., Jackson, J. Melancholic Depression. In J. W. Barnhill (Ed.), DSM-5 Clinical Cases. Washington DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, in press Munday C. , Abelson, J., Jackson, J. Adjustment Disorder. In J. W. Barnhill (Ed.), DSM-5 Clinical Cases. Washington DC: American Psychiatric Publishing, in press Panyard, Christine (2013). The Sistine Chapel: A Biblical Tour, New York: Paulist Press.
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Recent Presentations of Faculty Blume, L. B., Blume, T. W., De Reus, L. A., Hadied, L., Carnicom, W. & Ads, M. (2013, August). Dialectics of ethnicity: Ethnic identities of adolescents and mothers in Arab American transnational families. Poster presented at the annual meetings of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, Hawaii. Dauphin, Barry, Greene, Harold H., & Juve, Mindee. Cognitive Mediation and Information Processing on the Rorschach. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, San Diego, CA, 2013 Greene, Harold, H., Brown, James M. & Paradis, Bryce, A. Saccade Amplitudes: A Window on Visual Span Properties. Poster presented at the annual conference of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL, 2012. Dauphin, V.B., Greene, H.H., Juve, M., & Burnett, V. Eye movement responses across the Rorschach cards. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, Chicago, IL, 2012 Juve, M., Dauphin, V.B., Greene, H.H., & Burnett, V. Emotional responsiveness to the Rorschach is reflected in eye movement responses. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality Assessment, Chicago, IL, 2012 Bernasconi, C., Greene, H. H., Hoback, A. What are you looking at? Applying eye-tracking techniques to landscape evaluation, towards an understanding of walkability perception. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, Champaign, IL, 2012 Munday, C. Self care, colleague support and career trajectory among women professional psychologists, Presentation, Association of Psychology Training Clinics, San Diego , CA. March 2012
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Presentations Continued. Munday, C., Escamilla, M., Lawson, W., Lesser, I., Neighbors, H., Strakowski, S., M.D., Vega, W., Thomas, B. Patient race, ethnicity, gender and reliability of self-report in psychiatric diagnosis. Poster presentation, Division 12, American Psychological Association, Orlando, FLA. August 2012 Munday C. Professional development for training clinic directors: Pathways and strategies Panel presentation, Association of Psychology Training Clinics Miami, FLA. March 2013. Hill, E.M., Becerra, L.A., & Ventimiglia, M.R. (2012). Retrieval behavior of mice when pups have been exposed to fox urine. Presented at the annual meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, New Orleans, LA. Boonstra, T., Strongin, E., Lilley, S. C., Gedge, E. R., Barbat, S., Switzer, K. A., McMahon, A., Wright, B., Golla, M. M., Ikanga, J., Lewitzke, K. A., Martin, C. A., Kadrich, M. R., MacDonald, D. A., & Deering, D. E. (2012, February). The five factor model and the brain: Personality and resting brain states via qEEG. Poster presented at the 40th Annual meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Friedman, H., & MacDonald, D. A. (2012, March). Knowing when to get out of the way: Research musings on transpersonal therapies. Workshop given at the 4th annual Israeli Conference for the Study of Contemporary Spiritualities (ICSCS). University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel. Ikanga, J., MacDonald, D. A., McMahon, A., Lilley, S. C., Gedge, E. R., Barbat, S., Switzer, K. A., Wright, B., Golla, M. M., Strongin, E., Boonstra, T., Lewitzke, K. A., Martin, C. A., Kadrich, M. R., & Deering, D. E. (2012, February). Spirituality and resting brain activity in a sample of university students. Poster presented at the 40th annual meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. MacDonald, D. A. (2012, March). The study of spirituality using quantitative methods: An evaluation of their usefulness for transpersonal science. Paper presented at the 4th annual Israeli Conference for the Study of Contemporary Spiritualities (ICSCS). University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel. Shattuck, K., Dillon, L., Weisfeld, G. & Weisfeld, C. "Mediators of the association between number of children and lower marital satisfaction: A cross-cultural analysis" has been accepted for presentation as a TALK at the 2013 ISHE SUMMER INSTITUTE that is being held 2013-08-06 in Ann Arbor, MI. Frost, S., Weisfeld, C. & Keiser, S., "Poster-within-a-poster: Improving male-female communication regarding sexual overtures" has been accepted for presentation at the ISHE SUMMER INSTITUTES that is being held 2013-08-06 in Ann Arbor, MI.
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Donating to the PhD Clinical Psychology Program
UDM accepts donations that can directly assist the mission of the PhD Clinical Psychology Program. If you would like to make a donation to the program, you can donate online at https://community.udmercy.edu/donate/. From the drop down menu, select the designation as “College of Liberal Arts and Education” and type “PhD Clinical Psychology Program Fund” in the comments box. This is illustrated in the picture above. You can also donate via check by writing the donation to the College of Liberal Arts and Education as the payee and include PhD Clinical Psychology Program Fund on the subject line. (see above). Donations will be used to support dissertation research, student travel to conferences for presentation of research, program receptions and other activities to support student progress in the program.
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Alumni News We would like to provide a forum for alumni to let the Doctoral Program community know what you’re doing. If you’d like to let us know what professional activities you have been involved with and to share pertinent information with your colleagues, then go to the link below: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/990255/3272906f1cad If you know of any alumni who did not receive a copy of the newsletter, please feel free to forward a copy to them and encourage them to get in touch with us, so that we can update the alumni database.
The UDM doctoral program in clinical psychology is based on a practice-oriented scientist-practitioner model and its application to clinical practice resting upon a broad-based theoretical perspective with significant emphasis on a psychoanalytic viewpoint, including both classical and contemporary approaches.
University of Detroit Mercy Doctoral Psychology Program Barry Dauphin, Ph.D. Director of Clinical Training 248 Reno Hall 4001 W. McNichols Rd. Detroit, MI 48221