Diseertations

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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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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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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Cooper-White, Pamela

Therapist's 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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Dennis, Patrica Kyle

Fat in the countertransference: Clinical social worker's relations to fat patients. 2005
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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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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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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

he experience of spirituality of midlife adults and its clinical implications. 1999
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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 adolescent's 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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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-Beck, 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

Senoritas and princesses: The quinceneara 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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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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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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