L.K. Fisher Library: Dissertations
We are very proud of the common thread that runs through all the dissertations produced at ICSW—they are grounded in clinical practice and tend to be highly useful in furthering our understanding of human beings. As you will see from this listing, a wide range of topics have been explored by students using numerous research methods and grounded in a variety of epistemologies. All of our research is original and reflective of each student's interests. At ICSW, faculty support students in the research process by offering expertise and assistance from the first year of classes until completion of the dissertation.
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Ammerman, Paula Lorig
Functions of countertransference in psychotherapy of borderline
disorder: The clinician's experience. 1996
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Aronson, Judith
Praying in the face of life-threatening illness. 2008
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Auslander, Gary
The experience of grandchildren of holocaust survivors. 1995
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Bailey, Nancy J.
The experience of latency age children with intermittent
fluctuating hearing problems. 1995
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Bank, Judith M.
Decorated commissioned officers from the Vietnam War: A study of
heroism. 1994
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Batten, Steven L.
The wound that never heals: Narratives of losing a loved one in a
homicide. 1998
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Baumann, Carol M.
Adoptive fathers' attitudes toward birthfathers. 1998
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Berger, Barbara
On the clinical and theoretical significance of repetitive
signifiers as exemplified by proper names. 1992
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Bizzarro, Michael R.
Lifetime patterns of maternal substance abuse as a predictor of
child maltreatment and child developmental outcomes. 2003
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Blackburn, Noel
Identity and the new mother. 2006
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Boxer, Wendy E.
The sibling experience during adolescence. 1993
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Bradham, Kelly
Empathy and burnout in nurses. 2008
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Breckenridge, Chad C.
Empathy and reconciliation in the aftermath of violent crime.
2002
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Brown, Alexander S.
And therapist makes three: The experience of having a significant
other in psychotherapy. 2003
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Carolan, Marilyn C.
Grandparents raising grandchildren: Heroism, idealism, and family.
2004
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Caulfield, Ann M.
Determinants of social workers' treatment modality preferences in
marital therapy. 1993
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Cebulko, Susan S.
The experience of women whose husbands use Internet pornography.
2005
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Cole, Marcy L.
The experience of never-married women in their thirties who
desire marriage and children. 1999
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Connolly, Lolly
Mothers and Their School-Age Daughters. 2009
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Cooper-White, Pamela
Therapists' use of self: Countertransference in pastoral
counseling and clinical social work. 2001
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Coughlin, Barbara
The subjective experiences of first-time motherhood for career
women. 1995
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Cox, Gail
The relationship between chemical dependency and eating disorders.
1991
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Craven, Shirley
The experience of older adults looking back. 1998
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Cromie, Thetis R.
The construction of the sexually aggressive child: A sociology of
representations—An interpretive interactionist study. 2004
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Cunningham, Kenneth J.
An autobiographical approach to the psychological study of hope.
2004
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Curren, Sheila C.
Problem-solving and coping strategies leading to salutary
outcomes of hemodialysis in well-functioning adults. 1997
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Delyser, Gail
Experiences at Midlife of Intentionally Childfree Women. 2007
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Dennis, Patrica Kyle
Fat in the countertransference: Clinical social workers'
relations to fat patients. 2005
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Duval, Denise
Affect Regulation: Homeless Youth Once in the Child Welfare System. 2007
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Eldridge, Amy
Transcending adolescence: An ethnographic study of early
adolescence. 1991
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Ellis, Helene Rita
Being a kid: Children's experience of childhood. 1996
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Epple, Dorothea M.
The creative inner voice: A study of the Intensive Journal (TM)
process. 2003
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Fish, Betty
Meaning and attachment between mothers and toddlers. 1991
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Frank, Marjorie Allen
The experience of mothers of twins. 1997
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Friedman, Freda B.
Siblings of a certain age: The impact of aging parents on adult
sibling relationships. 2002
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Friedman-Daugherty, Lana R.
What do borderlines say they want from their therapists? 1998
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Fulton, June Elizabeth
Traumatic persecutory internal presences. 2003
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Fung, Elizabeth Hahn
Impact of hemophilia on the father. 1997
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Gearity, Anne Redmond
Exploratory study using self-regulation of arousal and mutual
regulation as a paradigm for child treatment and staff training.
2003
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Gieseke, William D.
Contested stories: Self-narrativesof children of divroced parents.
2006
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Glass, Sharon A.
Factors which impact the amount and type of contact adoptive
parents have with their child's birth mother. 1997
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Grajeda, Sergio V.
Cultural considerations: Latino males in aberrant sexual
relationships. 2002
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Grunnet-Alden, Vicki
The meaning of her child's death: A mother's experience of grief.
2008
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Gudorf, Gerald E.
The effects of life review therapy with elderly nursing home
patients. 1991
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Hampson, Edward George
Postpartum self-experiences of first time fathers. 1997
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Hellerstein, Deborah
The impact of internal dialogues on the artist's creative process.
2009
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Hill, Sally A.
The experience of the clinical social worker treating multiple
personality disorder. 1993
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Himrod, Lola K.
Protective vigilance: The experience of parenting an adolescent
who has learning disabilities. 1995
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Holt, Jo Goehl
The experience of spirituality of midlife adults and its clinical
implications. 1999
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Hyde, Curtis
Listening for the falconer: Teens, attachment, &
psychopathology. 2009
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Inbinder, Francine C.
A descriptive study of the relationship between mental health and
sexual functioning in the older adult. 1993
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Inch, Leslie Joseph
Aspects of Foster Fathering: The Reported Experience of Foster
Fathers. 1998
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Koch, Barry J.
The psychological impact on police officers of being the first
responders on the scene of a completed suicide, and how they mediate
this experience. 2005
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Kristovich, Donna
Late adolescents' use of music as transitional space. 2001
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Kryder, Sandra
Self and alma mater: A study of adopted college students. 1997
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Kurz, Barry Frank
A study of the development of object representations in the
treatment of borderline personality disorder. 1992
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Leamy, Diane
The lived experience of young adolescents with learning
disabilities. 2008
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Ledesma, Beatriz
Art-making and traditional psychodynamic treatment of adults.
2009
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Leonard, Erin
Attachment, depression, and medication in adolescents with HIV
infection. 2007
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Levenstein, Angela
The experiences of first time expectant fathers. 1992
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Levis, Shirley
Transitional objects and phenomena: Existence and uses across the
life span. 1994
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Lipusch, Joseph
An exploration of influences of staff responses to adolescents on
a twenty-four hour treatment milieu: With special emphasis on self
psychology. 1989
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Mahoney, Donna
Panic disorders and self states: An ethnomethodological approach.
2000
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Mardirossian, Robert M.
The perceived impact of personal therapy on clinical social
workers' professional identity and clinical practice. 1993
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Marotta, Susana
Intergenerational transmission of abuse. 2003
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Marton, Jacqueline Vick
Identifications: Sources of career choice in successful young
women. 1991
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McCohnell, Joan
Experience of African-American grandmothers in fostering relative
adolescents. 2000
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McDaniels, Susan A.
Identity construction through narrative: The impact of chaotic
environments and negative affective experiences of childhood. 1995
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McIntyre, Lynn
The good enough couple. 1995
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McMahon, Mary Newman
A study of selfobject functions among heterosexual couples.
1991
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McNulty, Michael
Life stories of adults diagnosed with dyslexia as children.
2000
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Mervis, Bonnie Aaron
Going back and forth: The child's experience of joint custody.
1997
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Meyers, Jean G.
Adult mothers and their daughters: A study of mutuality. 2002
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Miller, Sidney E.
Women's experience of power. 2001
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Mirabella, Jean
The relationship between maternal history of victimization,
current social supports, and abusive parenting behaviors: A
Winnicottian perspective. 1999
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Mishel, Leslie A.
Exploring the career motivations of health professionals: Impact
of experience with an ill or handicapped sibling. 2004
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O'Dell, Susan L.
Living and dying: The impact and implication of HIV/AIDS on
psychotherapeutic process. 1996
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Okeke, Timothy C.
Foster mothers' experiences and perceptions of their
relationships with caseworkers. 2003
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Orenstein, Myrna
Imprisoned intelligence: The discovery of undiagnosed learning
disabilities in adults. 1992
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Pantell, Marcia Snell
Dreaming and storytelling: Narrative process life stories
following reflections on the use of night dreams. 2000
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Phalen, Lizanne Brickman
The experiences of spouses of psychotherapists. 1997
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Preston, Jo Ann Burson
An AIDS/STD prevention course for African-American adolescent
females between the ages of 11–14 years: An exploratory study. 2002
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Rainey, Diane L.
Behind closed doors: The experiences of advanced clinicians in
supervision. 1997
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Rich, Mary
Women who gamble. 1998
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Rickle, Robert B.
Craft and culture: Clinical social workers' perception of the
impact of personal therapy on clinical supervision and their
professional growth. 2002
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Rohn, Madeleine
Identity priorities and identity complexities in self-defined
lesbians. 1993
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Roiter-Eash, Jane
An exploratory study of fathers' and adult daughters' perceptions
of their relationship. 1997
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Roldan, Ida
The Puerto Rican family's experience when a family member has
HIV/AIDS. 1999
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Rose, Scott H.
Difficulties in gay men's intimate relationships: The impact of
unconscious derivatives from childhood male figures. 2004
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Ross, Julie W.
The experience of mother at the crossroads of self and school.
2004
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Ruyle, Roberta L.
Understanding therapists' views of the construct of evil and its
usefulness in creating meaning: A phenomenological study. 2002
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Ryan, Katherine
The development of empathy in children and adolescents. 1990
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Sattell, Marie Joan
Self-sustaining experiences and relationships reported by social
work and clinical psychology doctorates during dissertation completion.
2001
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Schmorr, Gloria R.
The therapeutic uses of music with inpatient chemically dependent
males. 1998
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Schwind, Janet M.
What do mothers in deprived environments articulate about the
hopes and aspirations they hold for their children? 1998
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Sclufer, Anne
Social-emotional disturbance in children with learning problems
and a 15-point Wechsler performance IQ deficit. 1996
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Segal, Eleanor
Mothering a child with ADHD: Learned mothering. 1994
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Seghers, Patricia A.
Deconstructing television: Teaching adults to mediate violent
television programming for the young child. 2003
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Shelby, R. Dennis
The experiences of gay men whose partners contract Acquired
Immune Deficiency Syndrome. 1989
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Sparacio, Charlene W.
A longitudinal study of the impact of individual, familial, and
community violence on child behavioral outcomes. 2004
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Stewart, Heather
Señoritas and princesses: The quinceañeara as a
context for female development. 2004
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Sweet, Michelle
Formation and features of a stepparent identity. 2001
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Tartof, Linda Yee
Schizophrenia and human lives: A narrative perspective. 1992
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Terrell, Billie P.
Impact of ethnic socialization, ethnic identity, and
discrimination on self-esteem and parenting attitudes of middle-class
African-American men. 2003
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Thomas, Boris
In his own words: Longevity of the commited gay male relationship.
2009
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Tolleson, Jennifer Anne [Faculty]
The transformative power of stress: The psychological role of
gang life in relation to chronic traumatic childhood stress in the
lives of urban adolescent males. 1996 [Smith College School of
Social Work]
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Tylke, Lynne K.
The use of magical thinking as a mediator of stress in parents of
children with cancer. 1992
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Weber-Young, Mary A.
Exploratory study of intimate relationships on and translated
through the Internet. 2001
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Westbrook, Leslie A.
Experience of mid-life women in the years after the deaths of
their parents. 2001
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Weuste, Micheal
Critical incident stress and debriefing with child welfare
workers. 2005
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White, Bret A.
A study of the self-deficits in sexual offenders. 2000
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Wilda, Thomas
A phenomenological study into long-term friendships among men.
2006
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Wineman, Dorris
Divorce: Its impact on the older female. 1999
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Wittenberg, Dorothy
The effects of parental divorce in adolescence on the
consolidation of the ego ideal. 1996
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Wolter, Linda
Self experiences in parents who adopt traumatized children.
2009
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Yapo, Marie-Michelle
Hatian-born mothers raising American-born daughters. 2005
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Zummo, Joseph C.
Measuring the impact of milieu therapy for students excluded from
public schools. 2007
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