Student Accomplishments

Alumni Achievements

• Congratulations to Lauren Mills for winning the 2020 PsyD in Clinical Psychology Alumni Award! Read More.

Selected Dissertations

Attachment

• Attachment and Parental Invalidation Contributes to Borderline Personality Disorder Symptoms in a College-aged Sample by Jeanette Vienna Rendina (2018)

• The Relationship Between the New Attachment Script Assessment and the ECR-RS, Using an Online Format by Keighlynn Nichole Adlof (2018)

Child and School Psychology

• School-Based Mindfulness Interventions in Promoting Resilience in Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis by Molly Kolquist (2021)

• Persistence, Hope, and Academic Self-Efficacy: The Academic Success of Elementary School Students by Amanda Lawrence (2018)

Culture, Diversity, and Social Justice

• Historical Trauama and the Boarding School Experience: The Lived Experience of Seneca Indian School Attendees by Junaita Bigheart (2021)
• Human Trafficking in Ventura County: Prevalence, Process, and Intervention by Sarah Kappen (2021)
  

• Examining the Relationship Between Acculturation Level and Self-Stigma Toward Seeking Professional Psychological Help Among Vietnamese Americans by Ivy Luc (2018)

• The Evidence for School-Based Mental Health Screening with Latino Youth by Lara Buckley (2018)

• Qualitative and Quantitative Verbal Fluency Performance Analysis: Overall Word Production, Clusters, and Switching as They Relate to Demographic Variables Among a Sample of Spanish-Speaking Latino Adults in Ventura County, California by Lizeth Lopez (2018)

• Non-Indigenous Mexican and Indigenous Mixteco Immigrant Farmworkers - A Comparative Quality of Life Analysis by Ruth D. Arviso-Richmond (2016)

Dialectical Behavior Therapy

• Effects of Graduate Training in Dialectical Behavior Therapy: Changes in Skill Acquisition by Patricia Kay Wright (2016)

• Interpersonal Change during Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: An Evidence-Based Case Study by Ashley De Layne Ribeiro (2015)

Exercise and Sport Psychology

• Personality Predictors of Athletic Performance in Collegiate Athletes by Jennifer Kraska (2021)

• Athlete Motivation and Leadership Preferences in a Collegiate Football Team by Taylor Sorenson (2018)

• Knowledge, Attitude, and Behaviors of University Professors toward Students with Concussion by Desiree Lynn Howard (2017)

• Traits of Performance Excellence: Are They Also Risk Factors for Eating Disorders Among Sub-Elite Female Athletes? by Nicole M. Priester (2017)

Forensics

• Distinguishing Between Child Abuse and Corporal Punishment: The Perspective of Mandated Reporters by Amy Marianne Johansson (2019)

• Juveniles who Sexually Offend: A Systematic Review of Manualized Treatments Through the Lens of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers Treatment Standards by Shauna Marsh (2019)

• Methods for Evaluating Competency to Stand Trial: Reviewing the Literature and Standardizing the Process by Lauren Mills (2016)

• An Examination of the Possible Use of Attachment Assessments for Making Child Custody Decisions by Miranda Sager (2015)

Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine

• A Content Analysis of Online Social Support Behaviors Given Among Individuals Coping with Ectopic Pregnancy by Shayna Perry (2019)

• Predicting Post-Bariatric Surgery Compliance and Success by Shirah Bale (2018)

• Boredom Proneness and Distracted Driving Behavior by Sodah Minty (2018)

Intimate Partner Violence

• Children Witnesses of Domestic Violence: Environmental Correlates of Externalizing or Internalizing Behaviors by Kristen Switaj (2017)

• Who is the Parent and who is the Child? Attachment, Role Reversal, and Child Behavior in IPV Survivors and their Young Children by Lauren Jensen (2017)

• Cultural Values and Beliefs among an Intimate Partner Violence Population by Kristina Laura Rodriguez (2015)

• Heterogeneity amongst Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: A Typological Approach by Daniel Paul Charles Knauss (2015)

• Identifying Factors that Contribute to Staying or Leaving a Violent Relationship by Sharon Cuff (2015)

Psychopathology and Psychotherapy

• Understanding the Nature of Negative Symptoms by Examining Their Relationship to Stressful Life Events in Recent-Onset Schizophrenia by Holly Joelle McKinley (2018)

• Physiological Responses and Gaze Patterns to Animals in Individuals Endorsing Autistic Characteristics by Joelle Georgeff Martino (2018)

• The Connection Between Psychogenic Symptom Susceptibility and Paranormal Belief: Shared Paranoid Thought Processes by Susie Michelle King (2017)

• Moral Reconation Therapy and its Effect on Moral Reasoning by Laura Townsend Townsend (2017)

• The Relationship Among Emotional Vulnerability, Invalidating Experiences, and Borderline Personality Symptoms by Jacqueline Mary Henretig (2016)

• The Association between Emotion Regulation Strategies and Symptoms of Binge Eating Disorder by Jenissa D. Mac Vie (2016)

Selected Conference Presentations

• Sharma, R. N., Casas, R. N., & *Crawford, N. M. (2015, April). Geographic distribution of Californian psychologists in relation to socio-demographic variables. Poster presented at the Annual Convention of the California Psychological Association, San Diego, CA.

• *Buckley, L., *Howard, D. & Twyford, J. M. (2015, October). The effects of school day structure on school climate. Poster presentation at the California Association of School Psychologists convention, Riverside, CA.

• Camacho, C., *Wilson, D., & Casas, R. (2013, April). Patterns of social media use as an advocacy tool in a community sample. Poster presented at the Festival of Scholars, California Lutheran University.

• Lechuga, D., *Wilson, D., & Casas, R. (2014, March). Neuropsychologists' critical role in the post-concussion/brain injury return-to-school process. Presentation at the California Psychological Association Convention, Monterey, CA.

• *Minty, S., & Twyford, J. M. (2015, April). A defense against burnout: Psychology Graduate Students. Poster presentation at the California Psychological Association Conference, San Diego, CA.

• *Ornelas, L., & Casas, R. (2015, September). Midiendo La salud neuroconductual y el compromiso civil en comunidades de campesinos inmigrantes en California. Presentation at the Mexican Psychological Society MEeting, Cancun, Mexico.

• Twyford, J. M., *Marsh, S. K., *Buckley, L., & *Good, S. (2015, March). Interdisciplinary restorative justice implementation: The role of psychologists. Poster presentation at the American Psychology-Law Society Conference, San Diego, CA.

• Twyford, J. M., & *Buckley, L. (2013, August). Latino youth on probation, positive psychology, and protective factors against recidivism: A first look. Paper presentation at the American Psychological Association Convention, Honolulu, HI.

*Denotes Cal Lutheran Student