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Research Training

In the Clinical Psychology Program at 헤라카지노 주소, research training is based on a mentorship model. Students are admitted to a specific core faculty member's lab, and that faculty member then serves as the student's advisor for the duration of his or her graduate training. Students often develop working relationships with the other student members of their lab — collaborating on projects, receiving advice from older students, and sharing experience and advice with younger students. Format of research supervision varies from advisor to advisor, but all mentors meet regularly with their students.

Per program requirements, all clinical students must complete coursework in psychological research and statistics as well as a master's thesis project and a doctoral dissertation, which must be defended orally to the projects' committees. Students present their master's thesis proposals to core faculty and the other clinical students at a "celebration of research" event at the end of their first year.
Many students exceed program research requirements by publishing in peer-reviewed journals and becoming active in professional organizations (such as the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, the Association for Psychological Science, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, the American Evaluation Association, the Anxiety Disorders Association of America, etc.). They routinely attend and present their research findings at conferences.

Research Highlights by Lab

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The Parenting Approaches to Healthy Socialization (PATHS) Lab

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Nicole Lorenzo
Research Interests: The interaction between parent mental health, parenting practices, and child development in ethnically diverse families.

Doctoral Student Research

  • Greighson Rowe – The role of the school in supporting parenting practices among Black and Latine families.
  • Isaac Morales – The interaction between environmental contexts and system level disparities on parent and child mental health.
  • Allison Tietz – Identifying neurological, cognitive and environmental correlates of youth psychopathology that inform risk and resilience factors to better individualize mental health treatments.

Selected Publications:

Lorenzo, N., Bui, H.N., Degnan, K. et al. The Developmental Unfolding of ADHD Symptoms from Early Childhood Through Adolescence: Early Effects of Exuberant Temperament, Parenting and Executive Functioning. Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol 52, 621–634 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-023-01140-2

Rowe, G.M., Bagner, D.M., & Lorenzo, N.E. (2023). Cumulative risk & externalizing behaviors during infancy in a predominantly Latine sample. Behavioral Science, 13 (5), 363. 


Emotions and Positive Psychology Lab

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Anthony Ahrens
Research Interests: Moral injury, contemplative practices, character and well-being, religion and mental health, gratitude.
EPPL Website

Doctoral Student Research

  • Amy Berger - The relationship between alcohol-related shame and motivation for behavior change among individuals with excessive alcohol use
  • Ryan Smout
  • Lauren Woodard - How beliefs about emotions influence emotion response processes.  

Selected Publications

Curlee, M. S., & Ahrens, A. H. (2023). An exploratory analysis of the Ignatian Examen: Impact on self-transcendent positive emotions and eudaimonic motivation. Journal of Positive Psychology, 18, 733-742.

Ahrens, A. H., & Cloutier, D. (2019). Acting for good reasons: Integrating virtue theory and social cognitive theory.  Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 13, 1-12. 

Parker, S. C., Majid H., Stewart, K. L., & Ahrens, A. H. (2017). No thanks!Autonomous interpersonal style is associated with less experience and valuing of gratitude. Cognition and Emotion, 31, 1627-1637.


Clinic for Youth Anxiety & Related Disorders Lab

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Nicole Caporino
Research Interests: child anxiety; treatment outcomes; family variables; treatment personalization; dissemination of EBPs
Child Anxiety Website

Doctoral Student Research

  • Kara Kelley
  • Zoë Laky

Selected Publications

Wong, J. & Caporino, N. (2023). Youth Intolerance of Uncertainty–Parent-Report (YIU-PR): A developmentally sensitive measure of intolerance of uncertainty in children and adolescents. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 45, 194-206.

Kelley, K., Caporino, N., & Falkenstein, M. (2024). Family accommodation in intensive/residential treatment for adults with OCD: A cross-lagged panel analysis. Behavior Therapy, 55(2), 391-400.


Optimizing Psychosocial Treatments Lab

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Alice Coyne
Research Interests: Strategies for personalizing treatment selection, intervention delivery, and therapist selection to the unique needs of each individual patient

Doctoral Student Research:

  • Crystal Liu -- dyadic, interpersonal, and process factors in psychotherapeutic contexts, with a particular emphasis on advancing precision care for multicultural and historically underserved communitie
  • Maria Abapolnikova -- therapist effects, alliance rupture repair, trainable therapist skills, and the role of patient-therapist matching in enhancing the effectiveness of psychological interventions
  • Arianna Cifone -- client and clinician match, the process and outcome of psychotherapy, marginalized identities, and intersectionality

Selected Publications

Coyne, A. E., Constantino, M. J., Boswell, J. F., Gaines, A. N., & Kraus, D. R. (2024). Therapist-level moderators of patient-therapist match effectiveness in community psychotherapy. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Research. 

Gómez Penedo, J. M., Errázuriz, P., Coyne, A. E., & Flückiger, C. (2024). Individual risk of not responding to psychotherapy in Latin America: Bringing data-informed precision care to under-resourced clinical settings. Advance Online Publication. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.  10.1037/ccp0000931

Coyne, A. E., Gaines, A. N., Liu, C., Abapolnikova, M., & Constantino, M. J. (2024). Integrating motivational interviewing into cognitive behavioral therapy to address patient resistance. In A. Okamoto (Ed.), Alliance Rupture Repair in Cognitive Behavioral Therapies. Springer Nature.


Stress & Emotion Lab

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Kate Gunthert
Research Interests: Everyday Stress and Emotion Regulation, Depression and Anxiety, Sleep, and Women’s Mental Health
Stress & Emotion Website

Doctoral Student Research

  • Alice Cohen – The effect of sleep and depression on daily interpersonal processes
  • Alice Fan – The effect of perceived stress and cortisol on daily hot flash severity among women of menopausal age, and the moderating role of neuroticism

Selected Publications

Provolo, N., Yap, D. L., Behar, E., & Gunthert, K. (2023). The Moderating Role of Age Beliefs on the Relationships Between Physical Symptoms, Depression, and Irritability in Menopausal Women. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 47(6), 980-989.

Murphy, E. R., Cox, D. J., Fisseha, F., & Gunthert, K. C. (2023). Category-specific stress mindsets: beliefs about the debilitating versus enhancing effects of specific types of stressors among young adults. Behavioral Sciences, 13(9), 709.

Taouk, L., Schulkin, J., & Gunthert, K. (2022). The moderating effect of stress mindsets on associations between stress during pregnancy and symptoms of depression and anxiety. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 35(3), 313-322.


Clinical Psychology Research Lab

Faculty Advisor: Dr. David Haaga
Research Interests: Cognitive behavior therapy; body-focused repetitive behaviors
Clinical Research Website

Doctoral Student Research

  • Jacob Gustaveson-- Program evaluation of integrated care models and applied research in health psychology with a focus on psychosocial oncology
  • Molly Nadel-- Assessing the impact of novel exposure therapy approaches on treatment outcomes for individuals with anxiety, OCD, and stress-related disorders.

Selected Publications

Carlson, E. J., Malloy, E. J., Brauer, L., Golomb, R. G., Grant, J. E., Mansueto, C. S., & Haaga, D. A. F. (2021).  Comprehensive behavioral (ComB) treatment of trichotillomania: A randomized clinical trial. Behavior Therapy, 52, 1543-1557.

Flannery, M. K., Falkenstein, M. J., & Haaga, D. A. F. (2024). Improving web-based self-help adherence for body-focused repetitive behaviors using self-control training. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 48, (1), 52-65.


Interpersonal Emotion Lab

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Nathaniel Herr
Research Interests: emotion regulation; interpersonal functioning; identity disturbance; borderline personality disorder (BPD).
Interpersonal Website

Doctoral Student Research

  • Ramya Ramadurai - Using culturally responsive models of emotion dysregulation and risk to inform the development and implementation of accessible, scalable, and effective therapeutic interventions.
  • Kelly Klein – Examining transdiagnostic mechanisms related to identity, emotional, and interpersonal processes, in individuals with BPD and MDD using ambulatory assessment and idiographic network modeling to guide personalized interventions. 
  • Ella Sudit-Exploring Interpersonal Emotion Differentiation and its relation to psycho-social well-being across close relationships including close friendships, couples, and sexual-minority individuals using EMA methodology
  • Paloma Zabala - Transdiagnostic factors typically seen in borderline personality disorder as they relate to ethnicity, race, and culture within mental health, particularly among Latine populations.
  • Elsa Baumgartner—Etiology of borderline personality disorder, mechanisms of emotion regulation and dysregulation, internalized and externalized aggression, and suicide prevention strategies.

Selected Publications

Ramadurai, R., Sudit, E. S., Gunthert, K.C., & Herr, N. R. (2025). The Impact of Depressive Symptoms on Overidentification of Anger in Couples: A Daily Diary Study. Behavior Therapy.

Herr, N.R., Klein, K.V., & Zabala, P.K. (2025). Interpersonal dysfunction as the defining characteristic of borderline personality disorder. In S.Sauer-Zavala & M.W. Southward (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of borderline personality disorder. Oxford University Press.

Herr, N., Kivity, Y., Ramadurai, R., Covington, A., & Gunthert, K. (2024). Empathic accuracy of romantic partner negative affect is influenced by borderline personality symptoms. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 15(1), 74.


Behavioral Pharmacology & Health Promotion Lab

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Laura Juliano
Research Interests: Cognitive, behavioral, and social mechanisms underlying problematic drug use and effective treatments.
BPHP Website

Doctoral Student Research

  • Eric Turnquist- The development and evaluation of cognitive interventions for individuals dependent on nicotine vapes.
  • Ananias Hayes-The effects of racial discrimination on health-related behaviors and outcomes.

  • Darian Weaver- Health disparities  

Selected Publications

Turnquist, B. E., & Juliano, L. M. (2024). Episodic future thinking reduces delay discounting among persons who use e-cigarettes. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology.

Juliano, L. M., Ferré, S., Weaver, D., Griffiths, R. R. (2024). The pharmacology of caffeine. In Miller, S. C., Fiellin, D. A., Rosenthal, R. N., Saitz, R., (Eds.) The American Society of Addiction Medicine Principles of Addiction Medicine, Seventh Edition. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer.

Harris, J. and Juliano, L.M. (2023). Mindful attention to breath with or without yogic breathing decreases smoking choice: A preliminary laboratory investigation. Integrative Medicine Reports, 2, 51-59.

Muench, C., Malloy, E.J. & Juliano, L.M. (2020). Lower self-efficacy and greater depressive symptoms predict greater failure to recover from a single lapse cigarette. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 88, 965-.