Faculty

master's 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

  • Lisa Goodman: Institutional and community responses to intimate partner violence; the role of coercion in domestic violence; the effects of violence against underserved women, including homeless, low-income, and severely mentally ill populations; innovative models of mental health intervention for low-income women.

  • 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: Community intervention and prevention from cross-cultural and developmental perspectives (social support and mentoring in adolescence and young adulthood); trauma recovery and resiliency

  • James R. Mahalik: Contributions of gender role socialization and social influence as they affect psychological and physical well-being including health behaviors.

  • Guerda Nicolas: Spirituality and religion in the lives of adolescents, effective intervention for ethnic minority adolescents, mental health treatment for depressed Haitian adolescents, social support network and health of ethnic minorities

  • Elizabeth Sparks: Prevention and intervention with children affected by community violence; multicultural issues in counseling psychology; the intersection of culture, race, and feminist psychology.

  • 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.