Fall 2013 Vol. 2 No. 1

Doctoral Program Receives Health Career Opportunities Program (HCOP) Grant

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The UDM Doctoral Program in

Clinical Psychology is pleased to

announce that we have received a

grant from Health Careers

Opportunity Program (HCOP)

Supplemental Interprofessional

Education Program-Behavioral

Science. The grant is for

$111,764.00 for 2013-2014. The

grant was obtained in collaboration

with the UDM Dental School’s

Summer Enrichment Program

(SEP). Funds will be utilized to

create a Psychology Summer

Enrichment Program (PSEP) to

recruit economically and

educationally disadvantaged

students and provide educational

experiences with the goal of their

applying to and being accepted by

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graduate programs in behavioral

health. Undergraduate students who

are accepted into the PSEP will

have educational experiences in

psychology, working in an inter-

professional model, preparation for

the Graduate Record Exam, and

exposure to settings in which

psychologists work. Students will

be provided with mentors from the

Doctoral Program and will have

opportunities for interaction with

students interested in other health

professions.

The grant helps the Doctoral

Program fulfill its pedagogical

goals and accreditation

requirements to demonstrate efforts

at recruiting economically and

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educationally disadvantaged students,

including under-represented

minorities. It also reinforces the goals

of the Scholarships for

Disadvantaged Students (SDS) grant

we obtained last year.

The co-investigators for the grant are

Barry Dauphin, Ph.D., Cheryl

Munday, Ph.D., Judy McCown, Ph.D.

and Linda Slowik, Ph.D. We would

also like to thank Deirdre Young,

DDS from the UDM School of

Dentistry for making us aware of this

funding opportunity and for assisting

with all aspects of our application. In

addition we would like to thank Cate

Caldwell, Ph.D. from OSPRA for her

assistance throughout this process.

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

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The 2013 Practicum/Internship

Fair was held on Tuesday October

22 in the President’s Dining

Room. The turnout from

practicum and internship settings

was impressive. Representatives

from twelve practicum sites and

one internship site attended.

Students from the first three years

of the program attended as well as

a few advanced students interested

in local internship settings.

The event is an informal meet-

and-greet format in which all sites

have a table and can bring

materials describing their

practicum experience and setting.

Our practicum sites encompass a

wide variety of experiences for

students to gain valuable

experience. We have sites that

include work with forensic

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populations,

college

counseling,

primary

healthcare, victims

of trauma, juvenile

assessment, child

therapy, eating

disorders,

neuropsychological testing, and more. The format allows for students

to spend some time with representatives of each setting to address

questions and gather information.

Students in the 2nd and 3rd years of the program will begin applying to

settings in December. Practicum placement is arranged according to a

match process similar to the internship match. Match day takes place

on Friday, February 21, 2014, which dovetails with the internship

match day.

The program continues to pursue high quality settings for our

students. Any alumni who are involved with or know of settings that

might be appropriate for practicum are invited to contact me

(dauphivb@udmercy.edu).

2013 Practicum-Internship Fair

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Internship Preparation Night

In order to help intern applicants prepare for interviews, the program held internship preparation night in November. This year it is held on November 26. Several psychologists assisted in the practice interviews. Thanks goes to James Maher, Ph.D., Kathy Moore, Ph.D., Jay Witherell, Ph.D., and Kelly Bryce, Ph.D. Their support was extremely valuable to prepping our students for internship interviewing.

We also invite students who are currently on internship locally to chat with this year’s applicants about the interview process, to consider interview strategies and to share what they learned from having gone through the experience the previous year.

The Internship Match process is highly competitive. Following the application process, students and internship programs submit ranks. The match is determined via a computerized process. The process enables students to match with their highest ranked site that selects them. This year Internship Match day is Friday February 21, 2014.

Psychology Clinic & Doctoral Program

Welcome New Administrative Assistant

Lynn McLean

Lynn McLean was hired in March of 2013 as the Psychology

Clinic Manager and Administrative Assistant to the Ph.D.

Clinical Psychology Program. Lynn graduated from MSU with

B.A. in education and has extensive experience teaching in

several Elementary school settings as well as Middle School

Science classrooms over the last 20 years. In addition, Lynn

has administrative experience working in the medical field as a

front desk coordinator.

Mark your calendars!

Annual Doctoral Program Picnic

Saturday September 6, 2014

Faculty, Students, Practicum/Internship Directors,

Clinic Supervisors, and Alumni are welcome to

attend

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Psychodynamic Research Symposium

Left: Barry Dauphin, Ph.D., Wilma Bucci, Ph.D. & Cheryl Munday, Ph.D. | Right: Dr. Bucci with Kristen Abraham, Ph.D.

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The 2013 Psychodynamic Research Symposium

was held on Tuesday Ocotber xx, 2013 in the

President’s Dining Room on the McNichols

campus. This year’s research scholar was Wilma

Bucci, Ph.D. She is Co-Chair, Committee on

Research Education and Science Advisor to the

Board of Professional Standards, of the American

Psychoanalytic Association; Member of Faculty of

the Research Training Programme of the

International Psychoanalytical Association;

Honorary Member of the American Psychoanalytic

Association, the New York Psychoanalytic Institute

and Society, and the Institute for Psychoanalytic

Training and Research; Director of Research at the

The Bernard L. Pacella Parent Child Center and

Co-Director of Research at The New York

Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; Member of

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the Organizing Committee of the Research

Associates of the American Psychoanalytic

Association (RAAPA), and Chair of RAAPA

from 2000 to 2010.

She developed the multiple code theory and the

theory of the referential process, based on

current work in cognitive psychology, affective

neuroscience, psycholinguistics, and related

fields. She attempts to work at the interface of

these fields: to develop a model of the

therapeutic process that provides a framework

for empirical research in psychodynamic and

other treatment forms; and to explore the

potential role that study of psychotherapy can

play in basic scientific research. She is the

author of Psychoanalysis and Cognitive

Science: A Multiple Code Theory.

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Practicum Sites We would like to acknowledge practicum sites utilized by our students for training. Good practicum training is crucial for the development of the next generation of psychologists. Our students have worked recently and/or will be working at the following sites: • Center for Forensic Psychiatry • David Cowan & Associates • Children’s Hospital of Michigan • Genesys Regional Medical Center • Hawthorne Center • Henry Ford Hospital • Life Stress Center @ Detroit Receiving Hospital • Oakland University Graham Health and Counseling Center • Psychological Assets • University of Michigan Dearborn Psychotherapy Externship Program in Clinical Psychology • Walnut Lake Therapeutic Preschool and Developmental Kindergarten of the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute • Wayne County Court-Center for Child Study • Wayne State University-Crittenton Family Medical Center

New Sites participating in the 2014

Match: • Federal Correctional

Institution-Milan • Oakwood Medical Center-

Wayne State University Neuropsychology Practicum

• Practice Consortium in Clinical Psychology

Practicum Match Process

The Practicum Match process has been in place in the metro Detroit

area for many years. It's a competitive process and set up to coincide

with the Internship Match Day. Students from UDM and Wayne State

have traditionally participated in the match.

Students apply to various sites in December and January for

practicum placements to begin (usually) in September of the

following year. In January and February, training sites that have

agreed to the match day process invite students to come to their sites

and interview for these positions. After interviewing potential

practicum students, sites rank them in order of preference.

On Match Day (this year Friday February 21, 2014) beginning at

10:00 a.m., sites call students and offer them a practicum placement.

Students then may accept, decline, or defer a response on the

position.

• If they accept, the match is done.

• If they decline (they may have already accepted another position), the site contacts the next student in their ranking.

• Sometimes students may defer a response because they are

waiting to hear from another site. In that case, they have a few minutes to contact the other site and see if they are still being considered. They must get back to the first site right away so the site can move on to the next applicant if necessary. Sites select students in a similar way to a job interview. Goodness of fit between student and site is important.

The process works in a very similar way to the old internship process

before the advent of computers and sophisticated algorithms. The

practicum process that we utilize emulates the internship application

process in many ways to help prepare students for that next step in

their training.

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The Ph.D. Program once again

welcomed in the new academic

year with a picnic that was held on

campus between Reno and Shiple

Halls on Saturday September 7.

Students, faculty, Psychology

Clinic supervisors and alumni

were able to enjoy good food on a

beautiful September Saturday. We

welcomed the new students to the

program and provided an

opportunity for everyone to hand

out together before the new

academic year really begins to

take off.

Students and faculty worked

together to make this event a

success. We were able to barbeque

using the grills at the university.

Lynn McLean (Psychology Clinic

Administrative Assistant), Valerie

PhD Program Holds 2nd Annual Picnic to Welcome the New Academic Year

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Williams (Psychology

Department Administrative

Assistant) and doctoral

students helped organize the

picnic and do the shopping.

Special thanks goes out to

Arthur Smith-Vaughan, a 3rd

year doctoral student, for

helping get the supplies and

coordinate activities for the

day. It was great to see folks

out with their families and

children running around the

area soaking in the sun and

fun.

We were happy to see several

program alumni in attendance.

Please mark your calendars

for the Saturday after Labor

Day 2014.

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Recent Publications and Presentations of our Students Student Names in Bold. Publications and Presentations Fall 2013 Blume, L. B., Blume, T. W., Hadied, L., Carnicom, W. & Ads, M. (2013, August). Dialectics of ethnicity: Ethnic identities of adolescents and mothers in Arab American transnational families. Poster session presented at the annual meetings of the American Psychological Association, Honolulu, HI. Arnetz, B.B., Ventimiglia, M., Beech, P., DeMarinis, V., Lokk, J., Arnetz, J.E. (2013). Spiritual values and practices in the workplace and employee stress and mental well-being. Journal of Management, Spirituality, and Religion, 10(3), 271-281. Kamson, D.O., Juhász, C., Behen, M.E., Guy, W., Chugani, H.T., & Jeong-Won, J. (2013). Patterns of structural reorganization of the corticospinal tract in Sturge-Weber Syndrome. Submitted for publication to the Journal of Pediatric Neurology. Guy, W. C., Kamson, D.O., Behen, M. E., Chugani, H. T., Juhász, C. (October, 2013). Early parietal lobe PET hypometabolism predicts non-verbal cognitive changes in children with Sturge-Weber syndrome. Poster presented at the 2013 Child Neurology Society Annual Conference. Austin, TX. Wolfe-Christensen, C., Manolis, A., Guy, W.C., Kovacevic, N., Zoubi, N., El-Baba, M., Kovacevic, L.G., Lakshmanan, Y. (August, 2013). Elimination Disorders: Evidence for Multidisciplinary Care. Abstract accepted for presentation to the 2013 American Psychological Association Meeting. Honolulu, HI. Wolfe-Christensen, C., Manolis, A., Guy, W.C., Kovacevic, N., Zoubi, N., El-Baba, M., Kovacevic, L.G., Lakshmanan, Y. (April, 2013). Bladder and Bowel Dysfunction: Evidence for Multidisciplinary Care. Moderated Poster presented at the 2013 American Urological Association Meeting. San Diego, CA. Wolfe-Christensen, C., Manolis, A., Guy, W.C., Kovacevic, N., Zoubi, N., El-Baba, M., Kovacevic, L.G., Lakshmanan, Y. (April, 2013). Parenting Stress in Bladder and Bowel Dysfunction. Moderated Poster presented at the 2013 American Urological Association Meeting. San Diego, CA. McMahon, A. (2013). Time Management Workshop October 23, 2013 Oakland University 2200 N. Squirrel Rd., Rochester, MI 48309. McMahon, A. (2013). Alcohol Workshop March 13, 2013 Oakland University 2200 N. Squirrel Rd., Rochester, MI 48309. McMahon, A. (2013). Test Anxiety Workshop October 17, 2012; November 27, 2012; Oakland University February 5, 2013; August 28, 2013; 2200 N. Squirrel Rd., Rochester, MI 48309 October 2, 2013. Frost, S. & Weisfeld, C. (2013, August). Poster-within-a-poster: Improving male-female communication regarding sexual overtures. Poster presentation at ISHE Summer Institute on Human Ethology, Ann Arbor, MI. Jamil, H., Rofa, Y., Arnetz, J.E., Ventimiglia, M., Arnetz, B.B. (2013). Resilience as a protective factor against the development of psychopathology among refugees. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.

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Ventimiglia, M. (2013) "Everyday Strategies for Coping with Stress and Depression." Presentation at Huron Valley Sinai Hospital-DMC- Bariatric Support Group. April 2013. Jaber, A. and Dauphin, B. (2013). Relationship Between Identification with Theorists and Clinical Listening. Poster presented to the annual American Psychological Association Convention. Honolulu, HI (August 2, 2013). Dauphin, B., Greene, H. and Juve, M. (2013). Cognitive Mediation and Information Processing on the Rorschach. Paper presented to the annual conference of the Society for Personality Assessment. San Diego, CA. March 23. _____________________________________________________________________________________________

Faculty News The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) has named Professor of Psychology Libby Balter Blume as the new editor of the Journal of Family Theory & Review (JFTR), one of NCFR's three family-research journals. She will begin her four-year term as editor of the peer-reviewed, quarterly journal — which publishes original contributions in all areas of family theory — with the publication of its March 2015 issue. Cheryl C. Munday, associate professor of Psychology, was appointed by the Wayne County Commission as one of 12 directors of the new Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority, an entity replacing the Detroit-Wayne County Community Mental Health Agency. Like the preceding Agency, the Authority will provide services to over 72,000 people and offer a culturally diverse network of community mental health programs, clinics, private therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists to adults with mental illness, individuals with developmental disabilities, children with serious emotional disturbances and persons with substance use disorders and their families.

The Psychology Department Welcomes a New Faculty Member: Kristen Abraham, Ph.D.

Kristen M. Abraham joined the Department of Psychology in 2013 as an Assistant Professor. In 2010, Dr. Abraham earned her Ph.D. in clinical psychology, with a specialization in community psychology, at Bowling Green State University. Prior to coming to UDM, she trained in Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMCs), first as a predoctoral psychology intern at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VAMC, and subsequently as a postdoctoral fellow at the John D. Dingell Detroit VAMC. Most recently, Dr. Abraham completed a two-year Advanced Psychology Fellowship in Mental Illness Research and Treatment sponsored by the VA National Serious Mental Illness Treatment Resource and Evaluation Center, VA Ann Arbor, and affiliated with the University of Michigan Department of Psychiatry. She is a fully licensed psychologist in Michigan.

At UDM, Dr. Abraham is teaching undergraduate courses in Introduction to Psychology and Abnormal Psychology, master’s level courses in Psychopathology and Therapeutic Interventions, and is serving on the Policies and Procedures Committee for the master’s program in clinical psychology. She looks forward to future opportunities to teach doctoral students and mentor their research. Dr. Abraham’s clinical interests include foundational clinical skills and psychotherapy integration. Dr. Abraham’s research is focused in areas of recovery-oriented mental health services and families coping with serious mental illness. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of Clinical Psychology, Journal of Family Psychology, and Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal. At UDM, Dr. Abraham has begun a clinical-community psychology research group where undergraduate and graduate students can contribute to ongoing research projects.

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Theresa Andare graduated from the University of Michigan in 2002, majoring in psychology and English. She graduated from

the Michigan School of Professional Psychology in 2005 with a M.A. in Clinical Psychology. She currently works in Private

Practice in Royal Oak, MI. She worked previously at Oakland Psychological Clinic and Eastern Michigan Counseling

Associates. Her practicum position was at Catholic Social Services-Wayne County, working with families involved with the

foster care system. From 2009-2011, Theresa worked in Dr. Ceballo's lab at the University of Michigan, on a research study of

Latino families and communities, to determine the coping mechanisms and strategies they employ, that contribute to well-being

and success. She would like to continue her clinical practice and also work in an academic or training setting, after completing

her degree. Outside of academics, Theresa enjoys spending time with her husband and three-year-old son and their pets. She is

also a competitive equestrian.

Dennis Apker obtained his BA at Arizona State University in 2011, majoring in Psychology and minoring in Criminal

Justice/Criminology. He then recieved his MA in Forensic Psychology from Argosy University in Phoenix. While completing

his MA program, Dennis volunteered with the Pheonix Fire Department's Crisis Response Team. Dennis hopes to work and do

research in the field of forensic psychology, but also has many interests in psychology outside the field of forensics.

Left to Right: Maria Christoff, Micki Weirman, Ahmar Zaman, Samantha Lewis, Dennis Apker, Lindsey

Cregan, Adrian Shier, and Theresa Andare.

First Year Class 2013-14

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Maria Christoff received her BA in anthropology from the University of Michigan, with a focus on biological anthropology.

Maria also studied Buddhism and creative writing at Naropa University. She is interested in psychoanalysis, and hopes to offer

psychodynamic therapy to underserved populations.

Lindsey Cregan graduated from the University of Michigan in 2012 with a M.S. in Cell & Developmental Biology. Her

master’s thesis focused on genes that regulate the development of the peripheral nervous system in Drosophilia larvae. She

worked as a lab manager in a lab studying brain development and cancer in the nervous system for two years. In 2007, she

graduated from Kalamazoo College with a B.A., where she majored in Biology and minored in Biopsychology. In the summer

of 2012 she volunteered in a preschool communication therapy program at U of M, where conditioning techniques were used to

encourage speech in toddlers with communication difficulties. She plans to work with children and adolescents with intellectual

and developmental disabilities after graduation.

Samantha Lewis graduated from Kalamazoo College a B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Spanish Language & Literature in

2010. Samantha received her Masters of Social Work degree with an emphasis in clinical work with children and families from

the University of Michigan in December 2011. Following graduation from U of M, Samantha worked as a bi-lingual clinician

and case manager for children with serious emotional disturbances and/or developmental disabilities for 18 months before

beginning at the University of Detroit Mercy. After she obtains her Ph.D., Samantha hopes to work as a clinical psychologist

with individuals or families.

Adrian Shier graduated from Kalamazoo College with a BA majoring in psychology and minoring in German in June of 2013.

He has several areas of experience from his undergraduate studies, including: research assistant at Wayne State University and

co-operator of a treatment group for young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the Daily Behavioral Health Center in

Cleveland, Ohio. His current interests involve the holistic integration of spirituality, exercise, and mental health. He hopes to

someday open his own practice and exercise facility.

Micki Wierman graduated from New Mexico State University in 2007 with a BA majoring in psychology with a minor in

counseling and educational psychology. She also attended Wayne State University and graduated with an MA in marriage and

family psychology in 2010. She worked in multiple outpatient settings including private practice. Micki’s clinical and research

interests range in the areas of psycho-educational assessments, relationship attunement and subsequent dynamics, and

psychodynamic psychoanalytic theory.

Ahmar Zaman is from Williamsport, PA. Ahmar graduated from Lycoming College in 2012 with a B.S. in Psychology. After

graduation, Ahmar provided one-on-one intervention for elementary school children with behavioral concerns, such as

oppositional defiance disorder and aggression. Ahmar also worked in Pittsburgh in a community mental health setting

providing direct care for adult residents with schizophrenia.

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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.

UDM accepts donations that can directly assist the mission of the PhD

Clinical Psychology Program. If you would like to make a donation to the

program, you can donate online at

https://community.udmercy.edu/donate/.

From the drop down menu, select the designation as “College of Liberal

Arts and Education” and type “PhD Clinical Psychology Program

Fund” in the comments box. This is illustrated in the picture above.

You can also donate via check by writing the donation to the College of

Liberal Arts and Education as the payee and include PhD Clinical

Psychology Program Fund on the subject line. (see above).

Donations will be used to support dissertation research, student travel to

conferences for presentation of research, program receptions and other

activities to support student progress in the program.

Donating to the PhD Clinical Psychology Program

Michael Bambery, Ph.D. Kristen Beesley, Ph.D. Jesse Bell, Ph.D. Daniel Blake, Ph.D Nick Boneff, Ph.D. B. K. Campbell, Ph.D. Thomas Cappas, Ph.D. Bradley Carroll, Ph.D. David Dietrich, Ph.D. Terry Filter, Ph.D. Patricia Gibbs, Ph.D. Susan Greenshields, Ph.D. Maxine Grumet, Ph.D. Steven Hanley, Ph.D. Deborah Harms, Ph.D Joel Harms, Ph.D Bethann Kalt, Ph.D. Paula Christian-Kliger, Ph.D. Bernadette Kovach, Ph.D Lawrence Kron, Ph.D. Nancy Kulish, Ph.D Lynn Kuttnauer, Ph.D. Leslie McNamara, Ph.D. Kathleen Moore, Ph.D. Cheryl Munday, Ph.D. Jacquelin Oliphant, Ph.D. Susan Orbach, Ph.D. Dennis Ortman, Ph.D. Douglas Park, Ph.D. Patricia Plopa, Ph.D. John Porcerelli, Ph.D. Mary Pruneau, Ph.D. Ira Schaer, Ph.D. Michael Shulman, Ph.D. Walter Sobota, Ph.D. Margaret Stack, Ph.D. Raymond Vasser, Ph.D. Ekaterina Vaysberg, Ph.D. Wendy Yost, Ph.D.

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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