Working Alliances - Fall 2012

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Working Alliances

Fall 2012 Vol. 1 No. 1

The Newsletter for the University of Detroit Mercy Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology

We launch our inaugural issue of the program newsletter We begin a new feature for the

Among the things we look forward

Psychoanalytic Visiting Professor,

program in launching this

to presenting are: bios of incoming

the presentation to the Students and

newsletter. We believe this will be

classes, titles of dissertations of

Trainees Association, the practicum-

a valuable source of information

graduating students, student

internship fair, grants obtained by

for current and former students, as

awards, practicum and internship

members of the program and

well as faculty and supervisors for

experiences of our students,

psychology department and more..

our program. Over time we hope to

research generated by the program,

facilitate the connection between

clinical service of members of the

alumni and current students/faculty.

UDM community, news from

We want to inform alumni about the activities of the program and to keep folks up to date about our accreditation maintenance and accomplishments of the program.

alumni, information about the UDM Psychology Clinic, news about presentations involving UDM, such as the Psychodynamic Research Symposium, The

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 .

Interesting Facts about 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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Internship News 7 UDM students matched with APA accredited pre-doctoral internships for 2012-2013.

KELLY LYNN BAAS HENRY FORD HEALTH SCIENCES CTR DETROIT, MI CONSULTATION-LIAISON WHITNEY ALEXIS CARNICOM WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY DETROIT, MI GENERAL INTERNSHIP BRYAN ALFRED DOVICHI WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY DETROIT, MI GENERAL INTERNSHIP LEENA HADIED JOHN D. DINGELL VA MEDICAL CTR DETROIT, MI PSYCHOLOGY INTERNSHIP

2012 Practicum-Internship Fair

Each year the program invites

about settings and help them

representatives from practicum

decide the types of settings to

sites and local internship settings

which they would like to apply. A

for the Practicum-Internship Fair.

friendly atmosphere with coffee

This year the fair was held on

and cookies enables everyone to

rd

October 23 . For the past several

become more familiar with each

years, we have been able to hold

other.

the event in the President’s Dining Room, which is located in the

MIRA KHOUCHANE GRAND VALLEY STATE UNIV ALLENDALE, MI PSYCHOLOGY INTERNSHIP BARACHIUS C THOMAS BROUGHTON HOSPITAL MORGANTON, NC PSYCHOLOGY INTERNSHIP JAMES S VILLANUEVA SAINT ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL WASHINGTON, DC PSYCHOLOGY INTERNSHIP

Student Union Building.

Subsequently, students apply to settings and interview at the sites that invite them. In February

The event is a meet-and-greet

students are placed according to a

activity. Practicum and internship

match process that is similar to the

sites have a table and nameplate.

internship match. Students and

Students circulate from setting to

sites rank their preferences. On the

setting and have a chance to

last Friday in February (the same

discuss the specifics of each

day as internship match), sites

setting with a representative,

contact students to offer positions.

usually the practicum or internship

The practicum match process

director. This is meant to be an

helps prepare students for the

informal experience, which allows

internship match.

students to gather information

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APA Site Visit

and standards. The site visit team

2014

department faculty members, key

will meet with program and administrative personnel, such as

The program received a 5-year

the Dean of CLAE, the Provost &

accreditation in 2009 from the

Vice President of Academic

APA Commission on

Affairs, and President Garibaldi,

Accreditation. The UDM program

as well as with students, and

is accredited as a Scientist-

external practicum directors. The

Practitioner Program. APA will

site visit team also reviews

conduct its next site visit in 2014.

dissertations, program files, and

We will be busy preparing the

the facilities of the Psychology

self-study report in 2013, which

Clinic and the university. Each site

serves as the basis for

visit team consists of three

demonstrating our program’s goals

members, 2 clinical psychologists and 1 generalist psychologist.

Psychodynamic Research Symposium Jacqyes Barber, Ph.D. (pictured above with students and with Cheryl Munday, Ph.D.) gave a presentation and discussion entitled ““What Do We Know about the Empirical Study of Dynamic Therapy for Depression? And Where Do We Go from Here?” (Co-sponsored by Eastern Michigan University and Michigan State University) on October 1, 2012. Dr. Barber is the Dean of the Derner Institute at Adelphi University.

This was the 3rd annual event in the series. The Psychodynamic Research Symposium is open to all members of the UDM community and to the public.

Internship Preparation Night In order to help intern applicants prepare for interviews, the program holds internship preparation night in November. This year it is held on November 27. James Maher, Ph.D. (above with Diana Mendez, Ph.D.) has graciously volunteered his time to conduct mock interviews with applicants and provide insight into the interview process. Dr. Maher was director of the Wyandotte internship program for many years.

We also invite students who are currently on internship locally to chat with this year’s applicants about the interview process, to consider interview strategies and to share what they learned from having gone through the experience the previous year.

The Internship Match process is highly competitive. Following the application process, students and internship programs submit ranks. The match is determined via a computerized process. The process enables students to match with their highest ranked site that selects them.

This year Internship Match day is Friday February 22, 2013.

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Visiting Professor 2012 Rosemary Balsam, M.D.

SPOTLIGHT ON… PARTNERSHIPS THAT WORK UDM Psychology Clinic and HFCC Henry Ford Community College (HFCC) has over 16,000 students enrolled in its programs representing a very diverse population from over 200 communities in the metropolitan Detroit area.

The Henry Ford Community College Counseling

Rosemary Balsam, M.D. provided live supervision for

Service provides a myriad of services to students

a clinical case of UDM doctoral student Mindee Juve,

including academic advising, career counseling,

M.A. (above) in her role as visiting professor in March

transfer counseling and advising, personal growth

2012. The visiting professor is sponsored by the

and development courses, and brief counseling in

Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute, and UDM is one of

time management or stress management, as well

the co-sponsors. Dr. Balsam is an Associate Clinical

as career/life planning and management. However,

Professor of Psychiatry in the Yale Medical School

HFCC refers those in need of extended

where she has taught psychotherapy at the Department

psychological counseling to outside clinics. The

of Student Health since coming to New Haven from

UDM Psychology Clinic is proud to be a clinic

Belfast, N. Ireland in the early 1970s. A Training and

HFCC entrusts with its students.

Supervising analyst at the Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis, she is also in private practice. Her special interest is in female development, and she recently published Women's Bodies in Psychoanalysis (Routledge), about how the body is represented and theorized in analysis.

SATA Presentation

Referrals come out of their Counseling Office, Assisted Learning Services, and Focus on Women groups. HFCC sees UDM as providing a myriad of counseling services that support the needs of the greater community while doing so at a reduced rate. The UDM Psychology Clinic’s sliding fee scale and flexible hours work well for their student population, who has busy schedules and limited funds. We are happy that HFCC feels

UDM Doctoral student Tyler Boonstra

the students who have been referred to the

presented a case to the Students’ and Trainees’

psychology clinic have had their needs met by us.

Association of the Michigan Psychoanalytic

The clinic is very pleased to have this alliance

Society on February 25, 2012. Bernadette

with HFCC and hopes to continue serving the

Kovach, Ph.D. served as discussion facilitator.

needs of their student population in the future.

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Doctoral Program Receives Large Grant to Assist Disadvantaged Students The UDM Doctoral Program is proud to announce that we are 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 will receive $142, 852 per year for the next 4 years for a total of $571,408. Funding for student scholarships will begin during the 2012-13 academic year. Students apply for the grants, and funding is based upon criteria determined by the Federal Government for either economic or environmental disadvantage. 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.

This grant was changed to a competitive grant process for this funding cycle, meaning that the program submitted an extensive level of justification for the request for funding. HRSA required programs to demonstrate recruitment and retention of disadvantaged students, including ethnic minorities. In addition, HRSA required programs to demonstrate a commitment to psychology training in primary care settings. UDM has practicum relationships with Wayne State Family Medicine program at Crittenton Hospital, as well as with Genesys Health System and McLaren Health System in Flint. We believe that our training in psychoanalytic work is a benefit to working in primary healthcare settings, and the feedback we have received from supervisors reinforces that.

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Grads line up for walk to Calahan Hall.

Judy McCown , Ph.D. with grad Holly Hale, Ph.D. Post commencement celebration

Commencement 2012 and Dissertations from the past year Marni Anne Gauci: An Examination of the Interrelationship between Trauma, PTSD Symptomotology, Personality, and Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors. Chair: Douglas MacDonald, Ph.D. Holly Katherine Hale: Playing with Stress: Perceived Stress Among World of Warcraft Players. Chair: Judy McCown, Ph.D. Grant Matthew Heller: Psychopathology, Adaptive Functioning and Motivational Needs as Predictors of Video Game Use and Engagement. Chair: Barry Dauphin, Ph.D. Diana Maria Mendez: An Evaluation of the Relstion of Spirituality to Pastraumatic Stress and Depressive Symptomotology in a Sample of Child and Adolescent Survivors of the 2007 Earthquake in Ica-Peru. Chair: Douglas MacDonald, Ph.D. Jennifer Marie Mohorovic: Understanding How Age Affects the Relationship Between Well-known Predictors of Volunteerism and the Duration and Intensity of Volunteering. Chair: Elizabeth Hill, Ph.D. Alajandra Rita Ogando: Supervisees’ Ethical Sensitivity and Professional Wisdom. Chair: Cheryl, Munday, Ph.D. Amanda Lee Peake: Patients’ Understanding of their Mental Illness and How They Cope. Chair: Christine Panyard, PhD. Sara Helene Rizzo. Predictive Factors of Juvenile Delinquents Who Become Adult Offenders. Chair: Margaret Stack, Ph.D. Annamaria Silveri. Implications of Physical Attractiveness for Long Term Marital Satisfaction: Universal Findings and Cultural Variations. Chair: Carol Weisfeld, Ph.D. Andrinee Alene Wilson: Juvenile Sex Offenders: An Evaluation of Complex Trauma. Chair: Margaret Stack, Ph.D.

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Practicum Sites We would like to acknowledge practicum sites utilized by our students for training. Good practicum training is crucial for the development of the next generation of psychologists. Our students have worked recently and/or will be working at the following sites: •

Center for Forensic Psychiatry

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David Cowan & Associates

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Children’s Hospital of Michigan

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David Drasnin, Ph.D./Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital

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Genesys Regional Medical Center

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Hawthorne Center

The Ph.D. Program welcomed in

helped organize the picnic and

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Helfman & Associates

the new academic year with a

Henry Ford Hospital

do the shopping. Special

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picnic that was held on campus

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Life Stress Center @ Detroit Receiving Hospital

thanks goes out to Arthur

between Reno and Shiple Halls on

Smith-Vaughan, a 2nd year

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McLaren Behavioral Medical Education

Saturday September 15. Students,

doctoral student, for helping

faculty and Psychology Clinic

get the supplies and coordinate

PhD Program Holds Picnic to Welcome in the New Academic Year

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Neurobehavioral Consultants

supervisors were able to enjoy

activities for the day. Also,

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Oakland University Graham Health and Counseling Center

good food on a beautiful

Psychology Department Chair

September Saturday. We

Dr. Linda Slowik brought a

welcomed the new students to the

number of outdoor “toys” for

program and provided an

folks to enjoy. It was great to

John Dingell VA Center

opportunity for everyone to hand

see folks out with their

Walnut Lake Therapeutic Preschool and Developmental Kindergarten f the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute

out together before the new

families and children running

academic year really begins to

around the area soaking in the

take off.

sun and fun.

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Wayne County Court-Center for Child Study

Students and faculty worked

We look forward to holding

together to make this inaugural

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Wayne State UniversityCrittenton Family Medical Center

this event again and expanding

event a success. We were able to

the invitation list to include

barbeque using the grills at the

alumni and practicum

university. The Doctoral

directors.

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University of Michigan Dearborn Psychotherapy Externship Program in Clinical Psychology

Wyandotte Hospital

Psychology Student Association

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Recent Publications of our Students Student Names in Bold.

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.

Blume, L. B., Sani, A., & Ads, M. (2011). Family life education with Arab immigrant families. In S. M. Ballard & A. C. Taylor (Eds.), Family life education with diverse populations (pp. 211-233). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. Porcerelli, J.H., Cogan, R., Markova, T., Miller, K., & Mickens, L. (2011, March- April). The DSM-IV Defensive Functioning Scale: A Validity Study. Comprehensive Psychiatry, Volume 52, 225 – 230.

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.

Arfken, C. L., Arnetz, B. B., Fakhouri, M., Ventimiglia, M. J., & Jamil, H. (2011). Alcohol use among Arab Americans: What is the prevalence?. Journal Of Immigrant And Minority Health, 13(4), 713-718. doi:10.1007/s10903-011-9447-8.

McKechnie, J. and Hill, E.M. (2011). Risk factors for alcoholism in Women Religious: Affect Regulation. Pastoral Psychology 69, 693-703.

Weisfeld, C., Dillon, L., Nowak, N., Mims, K., Weisfeld, G., Imamoglo, E.O., Butosvkaya, M. and Shen, J. (2011).

Sex Differences and similarities in Married Couples: Patterns Across and Within Cultures. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 40 (4), 1-8.

Leventhal, A. M., Brightman, M., Ameringer, K. J., Greenberg, J., Mickens, L., Ray, L. A., & ... Sussman, S. (2010). Anhedonia associated with stimulant use and dependence in a population-based sample of American adults.

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 18(6), 562-569. doi:10.1037/a0021964.

Leventhal, A. M., Mickens, L., Dunton, G. F., Sussman, S., Riggs, N. R., & Pentz, M. (2010). Tobacco use moderates the association between major depression and obesity. Health Psychology, 29(5), 521-528. doi:10.1037/a0020854 Mickens, L., Ameringer, K., Brightman, M., & Leventhal, A. M. (2010). Epidemiology, determinants, and consequences of cigarette smoking in African American women: An integrative review. Addictive Behaviors, 35(5), 383-391. doi:10.1016/j.addbeh.2009.12.014.

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Student Publications Continued Leventhal, A.M., Brightman, M., Ameringer, K.J., Greenberg, J., Mickens, L., Ray, L.A., Sun, P., & Sussman, S. (2010, December). Anhedonia Associates with Stimulant Use and Dependence in a Population-Based Sample of American Adults. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, Volume 18, 562 – 569.

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.

Malcore, S. A., Windell, J., Seyuin, M., & Hill, E. (2010). Predictors of continued conflict after divorce or separation: Evidence from a high-conflict group treatment program. Journal Of Divorce & Remarriage, 51(1), 50-64. doi:10.1080/10502550903423297 Dauphin, B., & Heller, G. (2010). Going to other worlds: The relationships between videogaming, psychological absorption, and daydreaming styles. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 13(2), 169-172.

González-Prendes, A., Hindo, C., & Pardo, Y. (2011). Cultural Values Integration in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for a Latino With Depression. Clinical Case Studies, 10, 5, 376-394.

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.

Porcerelli, J.H., Cogan, R., Markova, T., Miller, K., & Mickens, L. (2011, March- April). The DSM-IV Defensive Functioning Scale: A Validity Study. Comprehensive Psychiatry, Volume 52, 225 – 230.

Aldhalimi, A., & Sheldon, J. P. (2012). Stigmatic attitudes of Arabs and Arab Americans toward schizophrenia.

Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies, 10(2), 223-226. doi:10.1080/15562948.2012.674328 In case of any missed or upcoming publications or presentations, students and alumni should send notification to Dr. Dauphin (dauphivb@udmercy.edu).

(Center) Grant Heller presents a poster.

(Right) Tyler Boonstra and Eric Strongin chat with Robert Bornstein at the 2011 Psychodynamic Research Symposium.

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We’re on Facebook.

We’ve created a Facebook page for the program to help students, alumni and faculty stay connected. If you would like to be added to our Facebook group, search for the UDM PhD Clinical Psychology Program and ask to be added.

Recent Presentations of Students Our students have presented posters and papers during the past year in various forums, including the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Annual Meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, the UDM Research Fair among others. Doctoral students’ names in bold.

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.

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. Poster presented at the 40th Annual meeting of the International Neuropsychological Society, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. (2012, February).

CA Munday, C., Escamilla, M., Lawson, W., Lesser, I., Neighbors, H., Strakowski, S., M.D., Vega, W., Thomas, B. (2012, August ). Patient race, ethnicity, gender and reliability of self-report in psychiatric diagnosis. Poster session presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Orlando, FLA. Shinne, E., Slowik, L. H., & Weisfeld, C.C. (2012). Let’s Talk: College men and women discuss sexual issues. Poster presented at the annual Research Fair, University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, MI, April 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.

1111 (Left to Right) Molly Gabriel and Hailey Hegland chat with Nancy McWilliams, Ph.D. Joseph Coleman and Sylvia Malcore, Ph.D. present posters

Presentations Continued.

Meade, J. A., Nefouse, S.R., Rothermel, R., & Secord, E. (2012). Left handedness in a perinatally HIV infected population. (Accepted for presentation at the 2012 American Psychological Association Convention, Orlando, Florida).

Aldhalimi, A. & Munday, C. (March, 2012). Dealing with Patients’ Anger. Presented at Staff Developmental Day at the University of Detroit Mercy Dental School, Detroit, MI. McMahon, A. (2012). What Is Psychological Assessment? February 17, 2012 Glengarda Child and Family Services 3896 Connaught St. Windsor, Ontario N9C 2C1.

Heller, G. M. & Dauphin, V. B. (2012, August 3). Predictors of Self-Reported Interfering Video Game Use. Poster session presented at the American Psychological Association, Orlando, FL. Gabriel, M., Dauphin, V., & McCown, J. (2011). The Development in Clinical Judgment in Beginning Graduate Students. Poster presentation at the Annual American Psychological Association Conference in Washington, D.C.. (August 5, 2011).

Heller, G. M., & Dauphin, V. B. (2011, August). Video game use, attachment style, and self-esteem. Poster presented at the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC. (August 7, 2011).

Hale, H., & McCown, J.A. (May 2012). Multidimensional social support experienced within World of Warcraft: Gender differences. Poster presented at annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL. McCown, J.A., & Coleman, J.P. (May 2012). Upping the ante: Using penalties to increase student attendance.

Poster presented at the annual conference of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL. Hale, H., & McCown, J.A. (August 2012). Predictors of self-reported benefits among World of Warcraft players.

Poster presented at the annual conference of the American Psychological Association, Orlando, FL. Juve, M., Dauphin, B., Greene, H. and Burnett, V. (March 2012). Emotional Responsiveness to the Rorschach is Reflected in Eye Movement Responses. Paper presented to the annual conference of the Society for Personality Assessment. Chicgao, IL.

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Meet the 2012 First Year Class

From right-to-left: Carter Comrie, Sarah Frost, Rebecca Jacobs, Haley Lotter, Shirley Rosario , John Jones, Anthony Tamborello, Yen-Ju Lee.

Carter Comrie was born and raised in Atlanta, GA., where he attended Emory University. While there, he participated in a study aboard in Scotland. There he worked with a research group that performed a small study looking for a relationship between pro-social and antisocial behaviors with cognitive abilities. He worked at the BUILD lab at Emory, where they focused on biosocial factors on autism. Also, he worked at the Emory Autism Center, where he gained hands on experience with autism. He has a passion for psychology and hope to be successful in the field.

Rebecca Jacobs received an MS in Clinical Health Psychology from the University of Michigan-Dearborn in August of 2012. She also holds an MBA in International Management from Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management and a BA from Purdue University. She made a career change to focus on Clinical Psychology after spending over 8 years working in Human Resources Management for companies like Bayer Corporation, Cummins Engine Company and The Pepsi Bottling Group. Aside from school, she enjoys spending time with my husband of ten years and our two young children.

Sarah Frost graduated Summa Cum Laude from Adrian College with a BA in Psychology and Spanish. While

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there she conducted a study, The Placebo Effect and Relation Between Blood Pressure and Pain Sensitivity, which was published in the Psi Chi Journal of Undergraduate Research. She also has an MA in General Psychology from The New School. While there, she worked at the Center for Attachment Research with troubled families. She also interned at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore as a member of the Behavior Consultation Team. She worked with adolescents who have chronic illness and comorbid psychological disorders. After she obtains her PhD, her goal is to work as a clinical psychologist with children and families in a medical setting.

John Jones graduated from Rochester College with a BS majoring psychology in May of 2012. He has several areas of experience from his undergraduate studies; these include research lab assistance at Henry Ford Health System and practicum work at South Oakland Shelter. He was a wide range of clinical research interests that focus on child psychology, mother-child relationship dynamics, and adult psychopathology. Upon obtaining his degree he hopes to continue research, teaching, and opening his own practice.

Yen-Ju Lee originally comes to UDM from Taiwan. In 2010, he received his master's degree in Clinical Psychology the UDM Clinical MA program. He is very glad to be able to continue his education at UDM. He is interested in cross-cultural research, and has conducted experiments in information processing with UDM professor Harold Greene, Ph.D. attempting to understand the eye movement strategies of individuals across various cultures. He would like to further develop more research in this area.

Haley Lotter completed three years of undergraduate study at Ferris State University, obtaining a BS in Psychology with minors in Sociology and Criminal Justice. Her practicum experiences included work with a local shelter for abused women and children and a rotation with the Department of Human Services. She also had the opportunity to work in an animal behavior lab. From her undergraduate experiences, she developed a great interest in inner-city youth. Her current goals include expanding my experiences into work with and research surrounding children.

Shirley Rosario received a Bachelor’s degree in psychology and two minors, religious studies and philosophy, at Ferris State University. While there, she assisted with two research studies and held one practicum position.

Her practicum was at New Journey Clubhouse, which works to integrate people who suffer from mental illness back into the community. She is interested in research involving spirituality, schizophrenia, and minorities. She hopes to someday work in a hospital setting.

Anthony Tamborello graduated with his master’s degree in clinical psychology from Sam Houston State University in December of 2006. He worked for two years at Rusk State Hospital in Rusk, Texas as a master level psychologist where he worked with women suffering from chronic sever mental illness. He spent two semesters in a PsyD program in Chicago before being accepted into the Clinical Psychology PhD program here at U.D Mercy. Anthony’s research interests currently involve the mental health of medical residents and the effects this has on their work.

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Supervisors of the UDM Psychology Clinic One of the cornerstones of the clinical training in our program is the opportunity for students to work with patients in long term therapy through the Psychology Clinic. Our supervisors provide great training in psychoanalytic work, and we would like to acknowledge their valuable contribution to the success of our students. Below are supervisors who have worked with our students over the last several years.

Susan Birndorf, Ph.D. Daniel Blake, Ph.D Nick Boneff, Ph.D. B. K. Campbell, Ph.D. Thomas Cappas, Ph.D. Bradley Carroll, Ph.D. Barry Dauphin, Ph.D. David Dietrich, Ph.D. Terry Filter, Ph.D. Kathryn Frerichs, Ph.D. Susan Gendein-Marshall, Ph.D. Patricia Gibbs, Ph.D. Susan Greenshields, Ph.D. Maxine Grumet, Ph.D. Steven Hanley, Ph.D. Deborah Harms, Ph.D Joel Harms, Ph.D Deanna Holtzman, Ph.D. Bethann Kalt, Ph.D. Bernadette Kovach, Ph.D Lawrence Kron, Ph.D. Nancy Kulish, Ph.D Lynn Kuttnauer, Ph.D. Leslie McNamara, Ph.D. Kathleen Moore, Ph.D. Jacquelin Oliphant, Ph.D. Susan Orbach, Ph.D. Patricia Plopa, Ph.D. John Porcerelli, Ph.D. Mary Pruneau, Ph.D. Mark Rosen, Ph.D. Ira Schaer, Ph.D. Michael Shulman, Ph.D. Walter Sobota, Ph.D. Franklin Sollars, Ph.D. Gale Swan, Ph.D. Raymond Vasser, Ph.D. Ekaterina Vaysberg, Ph.D.

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