Graduate Student Research

Jay Boyer (MA English)

Player or Pawn? Culpability within Found Footage Inspired Video Games

Adam Christian (MA Clinical Mental Health Counseling)

A Neuroscience-Informed Guiding Metaphor for Graduate Counseling Students

Bailey Higgins (DSW Social Work)

Without a Village: Motherhood, Child Care, and COVID-19

Lakshmi Nair Kanangottu (MA Marriage, Couple and Family Counseling)

Radical Engagement of Refugee Families within a Collaborative, Community-Base Clinical Trauma Counseling Program: Three Case Illustrations

Heather Miller (DSW Social Work)

Connections is Key! Supporting Older Youth Transitioning from Foster Care

Jordan Pettit (MS School Counseling Licensure)

Motivating Factors for Kindness in High School Youth; Does Observation of Kind Acts Increase Subjective Happiness and Optimism?

Victoria Smurthwaite (MA English)

Dead at the Mountain’s Feet: Blame and Vengeance in Dwarven and Human Ruins

Melissa Stough (Student Affairs in Higher Education)

From Private to Public: The Transfer Student Experience

Brian Fritz (Clinical Mental Health Counseling)

Money Scripts in Counseling: Empowering Clients to be Financially Well

Emonie Reviere (Clinical Mental Health Counseling)

Money Scripts in Counseling: Empowering Clients to be Financially Well

Mike Turrell (School Counseling Licensure)

Money Scripts in Counseling: Empowering Clients to be Financially Well

Alexis Williams (Student Affairs in Higher Education)

Closing the Loop from Honors Students to Honors Professional

Rachel Bernini (DSW)

Understanding the Impact of Education on the Effectiveness of Supervision

Erin Brown (EdD)

The Effect of Differentiated Instruction on Education Trainees at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary

Megan Deptula (Mental Health Counseling)

Effects of Experiential Education Processes Upon Different Types of Learning

Marlene Fares (EdD)

Using Our Voices: Advocating for Community and Social Justice

Amanda Fink (School Counseling Licensure)

The Four A Model for Addiction Treatment

Barbe Fogarty (DSW)

Understanding the Impacts of Mutual Solidarity Microfinance Groups on Community Well-being in Rural Haiti

Paige Lilly-Ivens (School Counseling Licensure)

The Four A Model for Addiction Treatment

Leila Little (EdD)

Using Our Voices: Advocating for Community and Social Justice

Ikechukwu Okorji (School Counseling Licensure)

The Four A Model for Addiction Treatment

Emily Pisco (EdD)

Using Our Voices: Advocating for Community and Social Justice

Eric Rusiewicz (Mental Health Counseling)

Effects of Experiential Education Processes Upon Different Types of Learning

Megan Stehman (English)

The Purple Man and His Words: Consent and Agency in Marvel’s ‘Jessica Jones’

Nikki Talarico (Mental Health Counseling)

Anxiety in Athletes: Not all are the same

Cesar Velasquez (School Counseling Licensure)

The Four A Model for Addiction Treatment

Ian Wagner (Mental Health Counseling)

Transgender Emergence: A Journey Toward Leadership and Advocacy

Amber Weber (MSW/MPA)

Sensory Rooms: What We Know and What is to Come

Maria Aguiar (Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling)

The Ethics of Disaster Mental Health: Disillusionment Among First Responders

David Eltz (English)

(Super) Collisions of the Static and Moving Image

Marlene Fares (EdD)

Advising as Teaching: The Effect of Academic Advising on the Success of Freshmen Exploratory Studies Students

Barbe Fogarty (DSW)

Utilizing a Multi-disciplinary Framework for Analyzing and Developing Family-centered Public Policies

Diane Irish (DSW)

Educational Intervention with Families Experiencing Homelessness

Laura Johnson (Mental Health Counseling)

The Ethics of Disaster Mental Health: Disillusionment Among First Responders

Judy Lin (School Counseling Licensure)

The Ethics of Disaster Mental Health: Disillusionment Among First Responders

Leila Little (EdD)

How we got Here: Testimonios of Latina Educators

Evelyn Lopez (Mental Health Counseling)

The Ethics of Disaster Mental Health: Disillusionment Among First Responders

Lisa Lowrie (DSW)

Exploring the Risk and Protective Factors Surrounding Digital Communication in Human Services

Aubrey Manmiller (School Counseling Licensure)

The Ethics of Disaster Mental Health: Disillusionment Among First Responders

Bonnie Marsh (DSW)

Impact of Supervision and Management on Casework Retention

Lauren Masemore (Counselor Education)

Enhancing Pedagogy and Supervision through Neuroscience Technology

Taylor Person (MSW)

Understanding the Significance and Impacts of Historical Trauma in the Black Community

Emily Pisco (EdD)

Developing Critical Epistemologies as New Practitioner Scholars in an Ed.D. Program

Edward Probasco (English)

On Shakespeare and Sleep: A Defamiliarizing Approach to the Loss of Innocence

Felishatee Rodriguez (Mental Health Counseling)

Enhancing Pedagogy and Supervision Through Neuroscience Technology

Erica Smith (English)

The Ghost of Jim Crow is Everywhere: Women of Color in Today’s University

William Starkey (MFA)

Using Design Processes and Thinking to Ensure Usability

Megan Stehman (English)

Jessica Jones’ Kilgrave: The Villain as a Rape Allegory and Personification of Mental Disorders

Rebekah Stem (Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling)

A Pennsylvania School Counselor’s Guide to Applying for Recognized ASCA Model Program (RAMP) Using the K-12 (339) Guidance Plan

Amanda Svetlak (Arts Administration)

Tuscan Treasure – A Case Study of Object, Legend, and Culture in Chiusdino, Italy

Roxanne Taglienti (School Counseling Licensure)

A Pennsylvania School Counselor’s Guide to Applying for Recognized ASCA Model Program (RAMP) Using the K-12 (339) Guidance Plan

Patricia Tinsman (EdD)

Developing Critical Epistemologies as New Practitioner Scholars in an Ed.D. Program

Robyn Weaver (MSW)

Understanding the Impacts of Mutual Solidarity Microfinance Groups on Community Well-being in Rural Haiti

Ashley Womer (Mental Health Counseling)

Enhancing Pedagogy and Supervision through Neuroscience Technology

Taryn Bullivant (English)

She Tells Stories in the Light: Indigenous Oral Storytelling

Leann Duprey (EdD)

Building a Leadership Image: A Content Analysis of Presidential Candidates

John Feilmeier (Computer Science)

Comparing Data Analytics Platforms for Use by Beginners

Heather Flyte (English)

The Princess Bridge and Slavoj Zizek’s Fantasy of the Real

Barbe Fogarty (DSW)

Service-learning and Research Project in Puerto Rico

Christina Fogle (Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling)

Implementation and Evaluation of Open Educational and Free Resources to Replace Textbook

Megan Giles (School Counseling Licensure)

The Impact of School Shootings in Communities – The Role of Community Altruism

Kimberly Hardner (DSW)

Understanding College Students with Physical Disabilities

Diane Irish (DSW)

Brief Intervention for the Education and Empowerment of Homeless Families

Marybeth Kern (Music Education)

Teaching Techniques of Broadway and Commercial Woodwind Doublers

Krista King (DSW)

Social Workers Navigating Medicaid Patients: Care Outside of the Emergency Department

Lisa Lowrie (DSW)

Service-learning and Research Project in Puerto Rico

Bonnie Marsh (DSW)

Child Maltreatment Effects on Health Outcomes

Lauren Masemore (Counselor Education)

The Diagnosis and Treatment of PTSD in Young Children – The Role of Resiliency

The Impact of School Shootings in Communities – The Role of Community Altruism

Arashi Mesa-Melo (School Counseling Licensure)

Red vs. Blue: Dealing with Post-Election Tension Through a Guidance Lesson 

Karey Murphy (DSW)

International Study Within the DSW Program

Laura Navitsky (MSW)

Environmental Justice and Extractivist Disaster Recovery: Locating Sustainability in Post-Earthquake Haiti

Edward Probasco (English)

On Sinclair Lewis: Not the Hero we Wanted, But the Hero we Deserve

Felishatee Rodriguez (Mental Health Counseling)

An Analysis of Curative Factors in Self-Help Groups: Lessons Learned for Counselors

Khadija Salim (Mental Health Counseling)

Living Through the Sandwich Generation

James Wilkie (MSW)

Service-learning and Research Project in Puerto Rico

Sharayah Bower (English)

Approaches to Utilizing Indigenous Non-fictional Texts to Teach Awareness about Sexual and Domestic Violence

Sarah Bryski (Counselor Education)

Finding their Stories: An Interdisciplinary Approach for School Counselors and LGBT Students

Genesis Felix (MSW)

Preparedness of Senior BSW Students Serving the Hispanic/Latino Community: An Exploratory Study

Kevin Gee (School Counseling Licensure)

Small Groups to Prep Students for Success

Lauren Geldon (MSW)

An Approach to Preventative Care While Working with Older Adults Within Impatient Medical Case Management Settings

Felishatee Rodriguez (Mental Health Counseling)

Curative Factors in Self-Help Groups: A Humanistic Perspective for Training New Counselors

Khadija Salim (Mental Health Counseling)

Stress and Resiliency Factors Affecting Children and Adolescents in the Sandwich Generation

Dara Schwartz (Mental Health Counseling)

Exploring Issues, Questions and Concerns Related to the Pennsylvania Code with Graduate Students

Autumn Zackowski (MSW)

Examining the Factors Which Contribute to Youth Leaving, Re-entering, or Remaining in Foster Care After Age of Emancipation

Alfred Bronakowski (MFA)

Using the Senses to Create an Immersive Interactive Experience

Emma Brooks (MFA)

Surface Design: The History, Evolution, and Importance

Angela Carr (Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling)

Establishing New Research, Interventions, Prevention Programs, and Systemic Change for Co-occurring Violence and Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Addiction Through an Integrative Ecological/Multi-Systemic Framework

Melissa Derhammer (Student Affairs in Higher Education)

The Shaping of a Peer Mentor Program

Justina Disciullo (MFA)

Hatch Show Print, Nashville Tennessee – Research on Woodblock Printing

Lauren Geldon (MSW)

Engagement, Assessment, and Ethics in Medical Case Management

Megan Gierka (Reading Education)

Differentiated Mentoring: Enhancing Pre-service Teacher Growth Through Roll-over Supervision

Amy Horger (Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling)

A Comprehensive Literature Review of the Integration of Family Therapy with Cancer Treatment

Donna Kazahaya (Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling)

A Comprehensive Literature Review of the Integration of Family Therapy with Cancer Treatment

Ambria Liles (School Counseling Certification)

Establishing Global Relationships with Bush Alaska Through Blackboard Collaborate.  Instilling Global Perspectives While Keeping Local Heritage in Rural Native Alaska

Christopher McKeon (English)

Lost Children, Lost Land: Complex Families and Their Relationship with Southern Landscape in William Faulkner’s ‘The Sound and the Fury’

Matthew Rozzi (Mental Health Counseling)

Financial Abuse of the Elderly Perpetrated by Family Members

Christina Thrash (Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling)

A Comprehensive Literature Review of the Integration of Family Therapy with Cancer Treatment

Kira Apple (English)

There’s a Story Behind Everything: Weaving ‘Tapestries’ and the Construction of Narrative in the Dragon Age Series

Melissa Derhammer (Student Affairs in Higher Education)

Lasso in the LASSI and Rope in Student Success

Amanda Funk (English)

Language at the Horizon: Anishinaabe Perspective on Culture and Communication

Julie Gabriel (MSW)

Mindfulness and Yoga Self-Care Practices for Caregivers

Elon Gruber (Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling)

Multidisciplinary Treatment for Elder Financial Abuse

Jenna Keppel (Mental Health Counseling)

Multidisciplinary Treatment for Elder Financial Abuse

Christopher McKeon (English)

Rise of the Machines: The Death of the Pastoral and Phillip in W. Somerset Maugham’s ‘Of Human Bondage’

Katherine Pritchett (MSW)

Children in Environment: A Study of the Social Environment Affecting Child Friendliness in the Counties of Pennsylvania  

Kira Apple (English)

He Felt His Being Move in Music:  An Exploration of Society, Monarchy, and Song in Tennyson’s ‘Idylls of the King’

Megan Burr-Mecum (Counselor Education)

Development of an Online System for the Assessment of the Professional School Counseling Internship

Angela Carr (Marriage, Couple, and Family Counseling)

A Constructivist View of Creativity in Research Planning

Kenneth Rohlfing (Computer Science)

Visualization of Spatial Sound in Real Time

Ramah Steinruck (Student Affairs in Higher Education)

A Constructivist View of Creativity in Research Planning