Spring 2013 Vol. 1 No. 2

Another Year of Excellent Doctoral Training

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We have had another great year for

the doctoral psychology program.

Ten students have matched with

APA accredited internships,

spanning the country from Texas to

Alaska to North Carolina. Faculty

and students have been highly

productive clinically and via

research. Unlike many scientist-

practitioner 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

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research.

Several students defended their

dissertations this year and have

published and presented papers in a

variety of forums.

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.

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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.

Working Alliances

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

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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.

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,

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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

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.

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.

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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.

Program Distributes Scholarships for

Disadvantaged Students Funds for 2012-13

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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)

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

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At the Honors Convocation on

March 24, 2013 the UDM

Doctoral Program in Clinical

Psychology presented the

Distinguished Student Practice

Award to co-recipients, Matt

Ventimiglia and Jay Witherell.

This award is for distinguished

clinical service as recognized by

faculty and supervisors. One of the

special aspects of the award is that

the program invites clinical

supervisors to be part of the

nominating process.

Both of these students have

demonstrated excellence in

clinical work. Dr. Witherell was

noted to be “outstanding” in

clinical work and showed

“remarkable commitment and

Distinguished Student Practice Award Matt Ventimiglia, Ph.D.

Jay Witherell, Ph.D.

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enthusiasm.” He completed a

predoctoral internship at St.

Elizabeths Hospital in

Washington, DC.

Dr. Ventimiglia “distinguished

himself for his

professionalism, competence,

and ability to manage his cases

at a level exceeding our

expectations for an intern.” He

completed his predoctoral

internship at the Wayne State

University Medical School

UPC Jefferson program.

Linda Slowik, Ph.D.

(Psychology Department

Chair) presented the awards.

Left to Right: Linda Slowik, Ph.D. (Psychology Department Chair), Matt Ventimglia, Ph.D., Jay Witherell, Ph.D.

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

ADAM LORINCZ JOHN D. DINGELL VA MEDICAL CTR

DETROIT, MI PSYCHOLOGY INTERNSHIP

ADAM LYNCH

UNIV TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER-SAN ANTONIO

SAN ANTONIO, TX PSYCHOLOGY INTERNSHIP

KATHERINE M. MCCULLOCH

JESSE BROWN VA MEDICAL CENTER CHICAGO, IL

GENERAL INTERNSHIP

STACEY NEFOUSE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF MICHIGAN

DETROIT, MI PSYCHOLOGY INTERNSHIP

ANNA C PETTWAY

HAWTHORN CENTER NORTHVILLE, MI

PSYCHOLOGY INTERNSHIP

ZHANNA ROZENBERG MENDOTA MENTAL HEALTH

INSTITUTE MADISON, WI

PSYCHOLOGY INTERNSHIP

Internship News 10 UDM students matched with

APA accredited pre-doctoral internships for 2013-2014.

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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 foveally-

demanding 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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Donations will be used to support dissertation research, student travel to conferences for presentation of research,

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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

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.