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FCS Graduate Students

 

Amy Claridge

Amy Claridge

Program: Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy, 2nd year
Primary Research Focus: Pregnancy decisions, adoption related to birthparents and adoptees, attachment
Major Professor: Dr. Lenore McWey

Christine Collazo

Program: M.S. - thesis option in Family and Child Sciences, 2nd year
Primary Research Focus: Orphaned children, children of divorce, and different living arrangements for children
Major Professor: Dr. Christine Readdick

 

Preston Brown

Program: Ph.D. in Family Relations, 2nd year
Primary Research Focus: Family relations, adolescents, parenting, religion, and culture
Major Professor: Dr. Frank Fincham

Morgan Cooley

Program: Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy, 4th year
Primary Research Focus: Foster parenting, child welfare, family policy
Major Professor: Dr. Ann Mullis

 

Cicely Brantley

Program: Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy, 4th year, McKnight Fellow
Primary Research Focus: African American family preservation and strengthening; parent-child processes and their effects on the academic achievement gap
Major Professor: Dr. Lenore McWey

Heather Farineau

Program: Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy, 4th year
Primary Research Focus: Effects of parent-child relationship on internalizing and externalizing behaviors of adolescents in foster care
Major Professor: Dr. Lenore McWey

 

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Summer Gomez

Program: Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy
Major Professor: Dr. Ron Mullis

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Jenna Scott

Program: Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy, 2nd year

 

Mellissa Gordon

Program: Ph.D. in Family Relations, 3rd year
Primary Research Focus: Family processes influencing adolescent sexual behaviors, attitudes and experiences
Major Professor: Dr. Ming Cui

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Chance Bell

Program: Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy, 1st year
Primary Research Focus: Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) effectiveness, couple relationships, supervision
Major Professor: Dr. Wayne Denton

 

DeAnna Harris-McKoy

Program: Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy, 4th year
Primary Research Focus: the relationship between family processes and youth development ranging from delinquency to civic engagement with minority populations
Major Professor: Dr. Ming Cui

Christine Helfrich

Program: Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy, 3rd year
Primary Research Focus: At-risk adolescents that have been removed from their homes; teen parenting of adolescents in either residential treatment facilities or foster care
Major Professor: Dr. Lenore McWey

 

Becky Cobb

Program: Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy, 4th year
Major Professor: Dr. Frank Fincham

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Sung Bong Cho

Program: Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy, 1st year 

 

Mary Keller

Program: Ph.D. in Family Relations
Primary Research Focus: Qualitative research on the benefit of fathers providing infant massage
Major Professor: Dr. Marsh Rehm

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Peter Rivera

Program: Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy, 1st year
Primary Research Focus: Prevention research that focuses on interpersonal relationships for traumatized or abused youth  
Major Professor: Dr. Frank Fincham

 

Ray Petren

Program: Ph.D. in Family Relations, 3rd year
Primary Research Focus: Divorce and fatherhood
Major Professor: Dr. Kay Pasley

Ebony Okafor

Program: Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy, 2nd year
Primary Research Focus: Minority children/adolescents, military families
Major Professor: Dr. Ann Mullis

 

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Donna Elliott

Program: M.S. -  Family and Child Sciences, 1st year

Jacob Priest

Program: Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy, 3rd year
Primary Research Focus: Interpersonal processes of anxiety disorders; relational interventions for anxiety disorders
Major Professor: Dr. Wayne Denton

 

Daniel Puhlman

Program: Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy, 4th year
Primary Research Focus: Fathering and co-parenting
Major Professor: Dr. Kay Pasley

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Anthony Ferraro

Program: M.S. -  Family and Child Sciences, 1st year 
Primary Research Focus: Post-divorce identity
Major Professor: Dr. Kay Pasley

 

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Melyssa Murphy

Program: Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy, 1st year
Primary Research Focus: Single mother relations, adolescent mothers
Major Professor: Dr. Ming Cui

Armeda Wojciak

Program: Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy, 3rd year
Primary Research Focus: Sibling relationships in the foster care system
Major Professor: Dr. Lenore McWey

 

Natalie Senatore

Program: Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy, 4th year
Primary Research Focus: Impact of cancer on couples
Major Professor: Dr. Wayne Denton

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Casey Fisch  

Program: Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy, 2nd year

 

brittany horden

Brittany Horden

Program: M.S. - special project option in Family and Child Sciences 
Primary Research Focus: Psychosocial and emotional development of hospitalized children and adolescents and therapeutic interventions that can be provided to hospitalized children.
Major Professor: Dr. Christine Readdick

Sabrina Dickey

Program: Ph.D. in Family Relations, 3rd year
Primary Research Focus: Adolescents’ influence in marital relations, community based interventions on health disparities of under-served populations and religious influences on martial quality and satisfaction
Major Professor: Dr. Ming Cui

 

Brittny Martin

Brittny Martin

Program: Ph.D. in Family Relations, 3rd year
Primary Research Focus: Interracial union formation and outcomes; biracial identity development
Major Professor: Dr. Ming Cui

Kasey Cone

Kasey Longley

Program: M.S. - thesis option in Family and Child Sciences, 2nd year
Primary Research Focus: Family relations and interpersonal interactions
Major Professor: Dr. Ming Cui

 

Jessica Fish

Jessica Fish

Program: Ph.D.in Family Relations, 2nd year
Primary Research Focus: Adult attachment; identity/interpersonal relationships; effects of relationship formation/resiliency
Major Professor: Dr. Kay Pasley

Amber Havard

Amber Havard

Program: M.S. - thesis option in Family and Child Sciences, 2nd year
Primary Research Focus: Development of temperament and school readiness
Major Porfessor: Dr. Kay Pasley

 

Kaitlin Wallace

Kaitlin Wallace

Program: M.S.- special project option in Family and Child Sciences, 1st year
Primary Research Focus: Childhood abuse and trauma
Major Professor: Dr. Christine Readdick

Cassandra Lettenberger

Cassandra Lettenberger-Klein

Program: Ph.D. in Marriage and Family therapy, 2nd year
Primary Research Focus: Communication within families
Major Porfessor: Dr. Lenore McWey

 

Sharde' McNeil

Sharde' McNeil

Program: Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy, 2nd year
Primary Research Focus: Intersection of cultural diversity factors in relation to resiliency and unhealthy coping patterns
Major Professor: Dr. Frank Fincham

Ethan Schwab

Ethan Schwab

Program: Ph.D. in Marriage and Family Therapy, 2nd year
Primary Research Focus: Human sexuality; initial sexual experiences; partnership satisfaction and duration
Major Porfessor: Dr. Carol Darling

 

Rachel Savasuk

Rachel Savasuk

Program: M.S. - thesis option in Family and Child Sciences, 2nd year
Primary Research Focus: Early child development; child/family intervention
Major Professor: Dr. Christine Readdick

Hye Jung Yun

Hye Jung Yun

Program: Ph.D. in Family Relations, 2nd year
Primary Research Focus: Parent-child relationship
Major Porfessor: Dr. Ming Cui

Heather Ashley

Program: M.S. - Special Project option in Family and Child Sciences with TMH's Animal Therapy Program
Research Focus: Animal therapy and Family focused healthcare services
Major Professor: Dr. Marsha Rehm

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Melissa Weiss

Program: M.S.- Family and Child Sciences
Major Porfessor: Dr. Kay Pasley

               

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