Theses and Dissertations
This is a select list of works produced by the students of the Center for Psychological Studies (CPS) at Nova Southeastern University
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Impact of Psychotropic Medication Use among Individuals Deferred into Felony Mental Health Court, Jeannine K. Baca
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Get Ready To Read!: Assessing the Efficacy of an Emergent Literacy Screening Tool, Eva Benmeleh
Dissertation: Home Literacy Factors Affecting Emergent Literacy Skills, Robyn Valerie Cassel
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Prescription Privileges for Psychologists: General Practitioners' Attitudes and Referral Behaviors, Heather Jo Crabtree
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Mother-Child Perceptions of Family Environment and Sexually Abused Children's Adjustment, Janine Furdella
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Co-occurrence of Substance Abuse and Trauma Between Community and Incarcerated Samples of Female Victims of Domestic Violence, Kelley Anne Gill
Dissertation: Using the Timeline Followback to Identify Time Windows Representative of Annual Posttreatment Drinking, Christopher J. Gioia
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Subliminal Priming of Implicit Associations of Social Anxiety, Jeffrey Mandelkorn
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Findings in Mildly to Severely Traumatic Brain Injured Patients, Allison Myers
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Power of Love: Attachment Style in the Battered Woman Syndrome, Aleah Leann Nathan
Dissertation: Attitudes Toward Psychological Tele-Health: Current and Future Psychologists' Opinions of Internet-Based Interventions, Jonathan Perle
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Recidivism and Participation in Court Diversion Programs by Mentally Ill Offenders, Maria Rosario Tate
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Examining Coping as a Mediator Between Perceived Stress and Alcohol Consumption in Older Adults, Andrew Craig Voluse
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Sensitivity and Specificity of the Static-2002 in a Diverse Population, LeighAnn S. Wong
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Firefighter Stress: Association between Work Stress, Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Cardiovascular Disease Risk, Amy J. Angleman
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Effect of PTSD on Weight and Metabolic Factors among an Overweight and Obese Veteran Population, Greta Sachs Apterbach
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: An Investigation into the Interaction of Psychopathology, Personality, and Sleep Disturbances in Clients from a Community Mental Health Center, Allison Lynn Bates
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Validity of the Medical Symptom Validity Test in a Mixed Clinical Population, William Howard Buddin Jr.
Dissertation: Identification of Effective Strategies to Promote Language in Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants, Ivette Cruz
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Childhood Sexual Abuse Experiences and Their Correlates Among Female Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence, Susan Etkind
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Nova Multilingual Neuropsychological Battery: Traumatic Brain Injury Pilot Study, Maritza Jeannette Figueroa
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Lateralized and Overall Olfactory Identification Ability in Frontotemporal Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease, Daniel Heyanka
Dissertation: Assessing Burnout in Mental Health Providers of Chronic Clients: An Exploration of Predictors, Jessica Karle
Dissertation: Attributional Style, Presenting Symptoms, And Readiness to Change in Female Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivors, Eric Ford Kebker
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Effect of Eating Rate on Food Consumption, Michael Joseph Kellen
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Executive Function In Pediatric Patients With Intractable Epilepsy Following Hemispherectomy, Jennifer Lundmark
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Trail Making Test Quotient (Trails B/ Trails A): A comparison with measures of executive functioning, Stephanie Lei Renfrow
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Parent-Child Estrangement in High-Conflict Divorce, Sara Salter
Dissertation: The Relationship Between the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth Edition and the Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Abilities in a Clinically Referred Pediatric Population, Lindsay Anne Shaw
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Nova Multilingual Neuropsychological Battery: A Pilot Study, Michelle Elena Stack
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Abuse Severity, Family Environment, and Caregiver Distress as Predictors of Adjustment Among Sexually Abused Youth, Lindsay McKenna Stewart
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: An Examination of Competency Restoration in a South Florida Community-Based Setting, Josephine Jessica Tang
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Performance Analysis on the WISC-IV Working Memory and Processing Speed Index Among ADHD subtypes, Stephen Francis Zieman
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Analyzing the Relationship between Non-clinical Narcissism and Creativity, and the Development of Two Creativity Measures, Blake Bazel
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Psychological Factors in Weight Loss Following Bariatric Surgery, Jessica Biren-Caverly
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Cognitive Behavioral Stress Management Program for Correctional Officers, Brandi Booth
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Use of Hyperbaric Oxygenation Therapy to Change Cerebral Metabolism Rates in Patients with Chronic Brain Damage, Michael J. Collins
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Evaluating the Efficacy of the Parents Activate Literacy Skills Program, Amii Corbisiero
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Barring the Mentally Ill from the Death Penalty: A National Survey, Ronald Joseph Dahl
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Influence of Education and Age on Neurocognitive Test Performance in Alzheimer's Disease and Vascular Dementia, Nicholas Paul DenBesten
Dissertation: A Longitudinal Approach to Understanding Individual Differences Affecting the Drinking Behavior Change Process, Mariam Dum
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: "Post-Mortum" Analysis of a Multiple Baseline across Subjects Assessment of Contextual Therapy for Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Robert Cory Fanto
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Relationship of Reproductive Hormone Levels and Menstrual Distress With Indices of Stress, Kristie DeBlasio Feehely
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Neuropsychological Constructs Assessed by the Family Pictures Subtests, Kristen M. Harris
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Relationship between Executive Functioning and Attention in a Clinically Referred Pediatric Sample, Lindsay June Hines
Dissertation: Teaching Problem-Solving to Improve Family Functioning and Decrease Suicidality, Erin Shae Johns
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Impact of Culture on the MCMI-III Scores of African American and Caribbean Blacks, Althea Marjorie Lloyd
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Efficacy of Felony Mental Health Court Combined With Mental Health Probation, Gretchen Michelle Moy
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Relationship Between Childhood Sexual Abuse and Subsequent Parenting, Ana M. Rodriguez
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Domestic Violence Within Asian-Indian Communities: Does Acculturation Affect The Rate of Reported Domestic Violence?, Tarmeen K. Sahni
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: The Relationships of Locus of Control, Service Connection, and Time Since Injury with Depression and Quality of Life for Veterans with Spinal Cord Injury, Silvia Patricia Bermudez
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Illness Intrusiveness in Veterans with Congestive Heart Failure, Ashley Walton LeMaire
Dissertation - NSU Access Only: Personality Characteristics of Stockbrokers: Implications for Job Success, Stress, and Burnout, Jessica Martineau
Dissertation: Differences Between Male Perpetrators of Child Homicide, Isabel Perez-Morina
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Dissertation: Role of Trauma in Social-Cognitive Adjustment Strategies and Moral Disengagement among African-American Urban Youth, Kendell Lamonte Coker
Dissertation: The Roles of Exercise Habits, Gender Stereotype of Exercise, and Self-Esteem in Sexual Victimization, Nicole Rene Harder
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Dissertation: The Brazilian-Portuguese MCMI-III: Diagnostic Validity of the Alcohol Dependence and Drug Dependence Scales, Cristina Lilian Magalhaes
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Dissertation: A Study of the Effectiveness of the Planetarium and the Classroom in the Teaching of Constellations, Theodore V. Smith
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Dissertation: A Study of the Personality Characteristics of Patients in Methadone Maintenance Programs, Robert J. Zielinski
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
Dissertation: Effects of four different modality training programs on IQ and reading readiness performance in the lower socio-economic level kindergarten child, Marilyn Segal