UCA School Psychology and Counseling Psychology Doctoral Dissertations

2025

Rachlin, Beth M.

The Relationship of State Hope, Trait Hope, Connectedness, and Positive Religious Coping with Psychological Distress in University Students with and Without Trauma Symptoms

Kelley, John-Scott B.

The Primacy of Eudaimonia in Predicting Life Satisfaction

2024

Braziel, Heath L.

Juvenile Gang Involvement: A Qualitative Study Examining the Process of Joining and Leaving a Gang

Philippon, Victoria

A Qualitative Study on the Factors of Job Maintenance on Desistance Among Justice-Involved Males

2023

Taylor, Autumn Donielle

Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy, Postpartum Depression, and Partner Support: A Moderation Analysis

Allen, Catherine

A Qualitative Study of Female Justice-Involved Youths’ Career Attitudes and Needs

Dyer, Deven J.

Preliminary Examination of the Effectiveness of Motivational Interviewing With Feedback for Academically At-Risk Students

Christie, Christina Nellena

A Preliminary Study of the Effectiveness of Adding Better Outcomes Now to Outpatient Therapy for Child and Adolescent Clients

Alexander, Kira MaLeigha

College Students on First-Time Academic Probation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Effects of a Virtual Peer Coaching Intervention

Young, David

Applying Fluency and Comprehension Reading Interventions to College-Aged Developmental Education Students

Ray, Kristina Fain

Black American Perspectives on Systemic Racism and Disproportionate Minority Contact: A Strengths-Based Qualitative Analysis

Simmons, Jordan M.

Preliminary Development of a Measure of the Righting Reflex in Motivational Interviewing

Ding, Fan

Cultural Specificity in Common Factors: Client’s Traditionality and Modernity as Moderators of the Relationship Between Therapist Authority Perceived by Client and Working Alliance Among a Chinese Sample

2022

Skaggs, Sydney N.

Episodic Future Thinking to Reduce Temporal Discounting in College Students

Goodhart, Laura

Investigating the Effects of a Parent-Child Intervention on the Listening Comprehension of English Language Learners and the Parental Self-Efficacy of Their Parents

Graves, Lorianne T.

Day Treatment to School Transition Survey: Program Directors’ Perceptions of Interagency Collaboration

Bull, Chelsey E.

Criminal Thinking and College Student Engagement in Illegal Behaviors: Influence in Career Development

Bogoslavsky, Mattie Rose

Heteronormativity and Victim Gender: University Students’ Perceptions of Sexual Assault

2021

Hunter, Robyn Ann

The Role of Instagram Use in Eating Pathology: An Examination of Instagram Investment and Involvement

Wingfield, Rachel A.

Program Evaluation of a Behavior Training Initiative Following the Implementation Science Model: Issues for School-Based Consultants

Owen, Carley E.

An Investigation of the Relationship Between Explicit Instruction and the Literacy Achievement of Students from Low-Socioeconomic Backgrounds

2020

Hicks, Sherese Evette Sullivan

Examining the Influence of Friendship and Popularity on Cyberbystanders’ Behavioral Intentions

Henley, Dierdre Lynn

The Role of Ethnic Identity, Outgroup Comfort, and Racial Composition of School Setting on the Academic Achievement of Black College Students

Black, Taylor

The Effectiveness of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Incarcerated Youth

Warnick, Kyla

Psychosocial and Biological Effects of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy for Children with Internalizing Problems

Baca, Lilli-Anna R.

A Meta-Analysis of Therapeutic Alliance, Therapist Empathy, and Psychotherapy Outcomes

Branscum, Ann M.

Strengths-Based Assessment of Adolescents: A Multi-Informant Approach

Slaton, Chayla Rutledge

How School Belongingness in Diverse Students Moderates the Importance of Student Perceptions of Teacher’s Cultural Humility in Predicting Student-Teacher Working Alliance

Horn, Hannah Louise

Brief Mindfulness Intervention and Autobiographical Memory Specificity Among College Students with Depressed Mood

Hufstedler, Amy

A Bidimensional Approach to Veterans’ Acculturation: The Impact of the Connection With Military and Civilian Cultures

2019

Nolan, Jon

Effectiveness, Feasibility, and Acceptability of a Mindfulness Based Mobile Application for Undergraduate Health Science Students

Southerland, Timothy Ryan

A Qualitative Study of Clinician Experience Using the Partners for Change Outcome Management System

Callaway Gentry, Kimberly A.

Examining the Effects of a Weekly Behavior Report Card on Assignment Completion by Middle Level Students with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Murray, Sarah E.

Grit and Exercise: The Development, Preliminary Validation, and Investigation of the Psychometric Properties of a Domain-Specific Grit-Exercise (Grit-E) Scale Using University Students

Lindeman, Sarah M.

Motivational Interviewing as a Supplement to Incentives for Increasing and Maintaining Physical Activity in an Undergraduate Course

Cobb, Cory L.

Examining the Advisory Working Alliance Within a Relational Efficacy Framework

2018

Wierzbicki, Tiffany

Jealousy and Relationship Quality: Relations Between Perceptions of Self and Partner’s Level of Jealousy

Anderson, Evan

Externalizing Behavioral Symptoms in Adjudicated Youth and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Delivered Through Video Conferencing

Reddig, Alexis C. N.

The Adolescent’s Relationship with Animals: Empathy, Mental Health, and Animal Bonding

Warwick, Daniel T.

An Approach to Assessment-Guided Intervention: The Impact of Daily Value Journaling on Self-Control

2017

Umland, Danielle

Influence of Hormones on Drinking Behavior and Risky-Choice in College-Age Women

Anderson, Kendra Michelle

Racial and Ethnic Identity Among African American Male Inmates: Risk and Protective Factors for Criminal Thinking and Recidivism

Mitrani, Nicholas

Examining the Relationship between Victimization History, Resiliency Factors, and Trauma-Related Symptoms Using Structural Equation Modeling

Pickard, Matthew

Diagnostic Overshadowing, Essentialism, and Intellectual Disability: Lay Persons’ Perceptions

2016

Patterson, De’Von

The relation between phonological working memory and word reading in college students

Ivy, Lenora Denise

Effect of teacher self-disclosure via facebook on student-instructor rapport, state motivation, and academic achievement

Mikael, Cindy W.

A Dismantling Study of the Partners for Change Outcome Management System

James, Maggie J.

The relationship between state transportation, personality traits and symptom reduction after a movie intervention: Implications for cinematherapy

Watson, Michael DeWayne, II

The roles and functions of secondary special education teachers and licensed psychology professionals in transition planning with students with emotional disturbance in Arkansas

2015

Wood, Mara

The effect of graphic novel supplements on reading comprehension and motivation in secondary students

Kellybrew-Miller, Ayisha

The impact of systematic client feedback on client outcomes in a community mental health center

Thomas, Allen D.

The relationship of identity, discrimination, and life-satisfaction for Black LGBPQ individuals

2014

Staton, Cathy Lynn

Attachment styles, obsessive beliefs, and thought suppression

Marsden, Troy Michael E. 

Client expectations and pretreatment attrition at a community mental health center

Mitchell, Kristen Claire

The effects of a Concrete-Representational-Abstract intervention on the algebra performance of students in a private school setting

Horton, Laura B.

Predicting self-monitoring task compliance with delay discounting

Stout, Elizabeth

Effects of client resistance on counselor verbal responses

2013

Dodd, Amy Carole

Act 1220 reviewed: An examination of the effect of parent attitude toward the Child Health Report

 

2012

Sullivan, Talia C. 

Validity of Session Rating Scale scores with adolescent clients in a school setting

Lester, Mindy Chaky

The effectiveness of client feedback measures with adolescents in an acute psychiatric inpatient setting

 

2011

Hodge-Selig, Alison E

Temchenko, Iryna

Windsor, Eva Pauline

2010

Elizandro, Angie Renee

Grass, Kasey Nicole

2009

Benish, Tricia M
McChristian, Chrystal L

 

Long, Sarah Louise

2008

Savina, Elena

 

2005

Carter,Leah M

Moore,Stacy E

2004

Banks,Krameelah Marshae

Davis,Michael W

Pollard,Amy G

Smith,Shelia Marie