Faculty

master of arts (m.a.) in counseling

  • David Blustein: Psychology of working; work-based transitions; unemployment; school-to-work transitions; career development; relational perspectives in psychotherapy; Public policy implications of psychological research
  • Anderson J. Franklin: Psychological well-being, resilience and health of African Americans, the impact of stereotypes and invisibility upon African American males and females. Psychotherapy and counseling interventions with adolescent and adult men and families, with a specialty on men of African descent. Developing support networks for community-based programs
  • Lisa Goodman: Institutional and community responses to intimate partner violence; the effects of partner violence on marginalized women, including homeless, low-income, and severely mentally ill populations; and, innovative community-based mental health practices for low-income women
  • Nettie Kurtz Greenstein: Psychotherapy with children, adolescents and adults; treatment of depression, anxiety, trauma; parenting issues; developmental and adjustment issues; clinical supervision and training
  • Margaret (Penny) Haney: Child maltreatment, trauma and exposure to violence; child and adolescent development and psychopathology; intervention and advocacy with children and families (particularly typically underserved populations); family and community systems (including systemic interventions); forensic evaluation, consultation, and advocacy (including juvenile delinquency, child protection, sexual abuse, and custody/visitation issues)
  • Janet Helms: Racial identity; psychological testing and assessment; racial and cultural counseling and psychotherapy
  • Maureen Kenny: Adolescent-family relationships; psychosocial factors and adolescent depression; preventive interventions for promoting positive youth development
  • Belle Liang: Mentoring and relational health in adolescence and young adulthood; building global youth mentoring networks via the Internet and new media (GenerationPulse.org); and, trauma recovery and resiliency
  • Julie Paquette MacEvoy: Children’s social and emotional development, gender differences in children’s experiences of peer aggression, children’s emotional reactions to transgressions of their friendship expectations, and challenges children living in urban settings face in forming and maintaining friendships
  • James R. Mahalik: Contributions of gender role socialization and social influence as they affect psychological and physical well-being including health behaviors
  • Sandra Morse: Loss and grief, women's issues, survivors of suicide
  • Paul Poteat: Peer group social networks and the socialization processes within peer groups that influence the prejudiced attitudes and behaviors of individuals; developmental trajectories of prejudice from early adolescence to adulthood; social norms and ideology beliefs connected to homophobic and racist attitudes and behaviors
  • Usha Tummala-Narra: Multicultural psychology, psychological trauma, ethnic and racial discrimination among immigrant communities, race and ethnicity in the psychotherapeutic process
  • Mary Walsh: Developmental conceptions of illness (including AIDS) across the life-span; psychosocial functioning of homeless mothers and children; interprofessional collaboration/integrated services in urban schools and agencies