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Clinical Faculty
Allan Berman,
Ph.D.
(Louisiana State University) Professor, Diplomate,
American Board of Professional Neuropsychology, Director of Clinical
Psychology Training
Research Interests:
Neuropsychological approaches to the understanding of learning disorders,
behavioral problems, and adjustment disorders of children and adolescents;
effects of physical abuse, sexual abuse and/or chronic disability in the later
adjustment of children and families.
Professional
Interests:
Provision of direct clinical services, including psychological and
neuropsychological assessment, and psychotherapy to children, adolescents, young
adults and families; humanistic and cognitively-oriented approaches to
psychotherapy and family therapy. Special focus on sexually-abused and ADHD
children and their families.
Henry Biller, Ph.D.
(Duke University) Professor, Fellow: APA, APS
Research Interests:
Role of the father, the father/mother relationship and the two-parent advantage
in child, adult and family development. Gender, body-type, physical fitness,
self-esteem and sex role development issues, the centrality of hope in coping
with the vicissitudes of life.
Professional Interests:
Parent and
family life education and prevention of psychological problems related to
paternal deprivation and child maltreatment; family therapy and consultation
with regard to issues of child custody and visitation, encouraging helping
professionals to take better care of themselves and integrating a concern about
fitness into their work with clients.
David Faust, Ph.D.
(Ohio
University) Professor,
Diplomate, American Academy of Assessment Psychology
Research Interests:
Philosophy/psychology of science, clinical judgment, neuropsychology, and
psychology and law. Current research includes such topics as the formation of
false beliefs among clinicians and methods for correcting these and other
sources of judgment error. Other studies have addressed psychologists and
psychiatrists as expert witnesses, the capacity of mental health experts to
detect simulated or malingered symptoms, and methods of neuropsychological
assessment.
Professional
Interests:
Consultation and expert testimony in courtroom cases involving psychiatrists,
psychologists and neuropsychologists.
Paul Florin, Ph.D.
(George
Peabody/Vanderbilt University) Professor
Research Interests:
Research interests focus on community change, particularly planned change which
is designed as part of community wide prevention or health promotion
programming. General questions revolve around how community conditions and
individuals interact, how changes in community conditions, institutions and
process are brought about and the effects of such changes on individual and
collective well being. Current efforts centered around three federally funded
evaluations of community level alcohol and other drug abuse prevention programs.
Professional
Interests:
Primary
professional identity and practice is focused on community level prevention and
health promotion. Consultation, training and technical assistance are provided
to communities; agencies and governmental units wishing to plan, implement or
evaluate community approaches to prevention programming.
Ellen
Flannery-Schroeder, Ph.D.
(Temple
University) Diplomate, American Board of Professional Psychology
(Clinical) Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Research interests include the nature of anxiety and depressive disorders in
children and adults; efficacy of cognitive-behavioral treatment and prevention
programs for children at risk for anxiety; parent training and the role of
family factors in the onset, maintenance, and treatment of anxiety disorders.
Professional
Interests:
Professional interests include cognitive-behavior therapy for anxiety and
depressive disorders; individual, family, and group approaches to treating
anxious youth; indicated prevention for children at risk for anxiety.
Shanette Harris,
Ph.D.
(Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University) Associate
Professor
Research Interests:
Focus on the psychology of diversity and multiculturalism including
race/ethnicity, gender, social class, and sexual orientation. Current research
relates to eating disorders and disturbances, violence as a health issue, and
cultural variation in health behavior. Most recent projects examine
sociocultural-ecological correlates of eating behavior among African-American
females and cultural moderators of the race/ethnicity-personality hardiness
relationship.
Professional
Interests:
Primary
activities and interests relate to multiculturalism. Consultation, training and
supervision provided to agency and institutional members that serve minority
adolescents and their families. Multicultural and cognitive-behavioral
orientations to therapy with families/couples, individuals and groups.
Secondary interests involve minority college students' needs, progress,
retention, and graduation.
Dr. Harris is not
currently mentoring graduate students.
Patricia J. Morokoff, Ph.D.
(S.U.N.Y., Stony
Brook) Professor
Research Interests:
Gender
issues in sexuality; sexual assertiveness; HIV/AIDS prevention: prediction of
risky sexual behaviors and interventions to increase safer sex behaviors;
psychophysiological and hormonal factors affecting sexual functioning.
Professional
Interests:
Feminist therapy for couples and individuals with special emphasis on sexual and
physical abuse problems; HIV/AIDS prevention through population-based
intervention programs.
James 0. Prochaska,
Ph.D.
(Wayne State University) Professor
Research Interests:
Development of a transtheoretical model of behavior change that integrates
stages, processes and levels of change. Applications of this model to
understanding how people change health related behaviors such as smoking, diet,
exercise, and safe sex practices and mental health related behaviors, such as
alcohol and drug abuse, stress and distress. Development of interventions based
on this model to accelerate changes in problem behaviors. Development of an
integrative model of psychotherapy for eclectic therapists. Currently directs
several funded projects through the Cancer Prevention Research Center.
[Cancer Prevention Research Center
Website]
Professional
Interests:
Health promotion and cancer prevention through population based
intervention programs, psychotherapy with individuals and couples.
Mark L. Robbins, Ph.D. (Rutgers
University) Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Research interests focus on health promotion,
disease prevention and decision-making particularly for planned change at both
the individual level and on a population basis. Current efforts centered on a
program of research utilizing the Transtheoretical model to understand
decision-making and behavior change in stress management, organ donation &
transplantation, & blood donation.
[Cancer Prevention Research Center
Website]
Professional Interests: Clinical health psychology emphasizing a
cognitive-behavioral framework to develop and deliver behavioral medicine and
health psychology interventions to adults in individual and group settings.
Additional interests are in training development and delivery, motivational
interviewing, stress reduction, including relaxation training and meditative
techniques.
Lynda Stein, Ph.D.
(Kent State University)
Assistant Professor
Research Interests:
Dr. Stein is a faculty member in the
Psychology Dept at the University of RI (URI) and part of the Cancer Prevention
Research Center of URI. She is also currently a Senior Research Associate
within the Dept of Psychiatry and Human Behavior of Brown University and is a
member of the training faculty at Brown’s Center for Alcohol and Addiction
Studies (CAAS). Prior to taking a position at URI, Dr. Stein was a faculty
member of CAAS for 8 years, were she served on the selection and training
committees for the Center’s research fellowships sponsored by the National
Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) and National Instituted on
Drug Abuse (NIDA). She is founder and director of Brown University’s Juvenile
Forensic Psychology Post-Doctoral Training Program. Her primary area of
interest is in substance abuse and other risky behaviors in forensic
populations, especially juveniles. Specifically, she studies treatment and
assessment of these behaviors, including issues related to ethnic/racial bias.
Recent publications include detection of under-reported substance abuse in
juvenile correctional facilities, methods for enhancing treatment engagement
during incarceration, family treatment for incarcerated juveniles, and reduction
of at-risk behaviors after release. Dr. Stein is a licensed clinical
psychologist and is Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on several NIDA-funded
grants studying assessment and treatment of incarcerated juveniles. Targeted
phenomena in these grants include group processes, reduction of substance use
and risky sexual behavior, motivation to change, and more.
Professional Interests:
Treatment integrity;
assessment and treatment issues, including ethnicity/race as a moderator
variable; bias in sample selection; treatment processes; drug and alcohol abuse;
group processes; health disparities and public policy; professional training and
development; substance abuse and crime; service delivery.
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