Hannah Rasmussen, Ph.D., 2023
Dissertation Title: Aggression in close relationships and responses to stress
Current position: Psychologist, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle Division, Primary Care and Women’s Health
Yehsong Kim, Ph.D., 2023
Dissertation Title: Links between discrimination and sleep difficulties: Romantic relationships as risk and resilience factors
Current position: Post-doctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Geoffrey Corner, Ph.D., 2021
Dissertation Title: Relationships and meaning: Examining the roles of personal meaning and meaning-making processes in couples dealing with important life events
Current position: Psychologist, VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle Division, Mental Health Clinic/Couple & Family Program
Sohyun Han, Ph.D., 2020
Dissertation Title: Young adult dating couple interactions in daily life: Links to family aggression and physiological processes
Current position: Psychologist, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Psychiatry Department
Kelly F. M. Kazmierski, Ph.D., 2019
Dissertation Title: Effects of childhood adversity on physiology and health in emerging adulthood
Current position: University of California, Irvine
Adela Timmons, Ph.D., 2018
Dissertation Title: Ambulatory assessment methods for capturing naturalistic couple interactions in daily life
Current position: Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, University of Texas, Austin
Ilana Kellerman Moss, Ph.D., 2017
Dissertation Title: Using observed peer discussions to understand adolescent depressive symptoms and interpersonal interactions
Current position: Psychologist, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Larissa Del Piero, Ph.D., 2016
Dissertation Title: Biological and behavioral correlates of emotional flexibility and associations with exposure to family aggression
Current position: Director, VA Puget Sound Healthcare System Center for Polytrauma Care; Clinical Program Manager, VISN 20 Polytrauma System of Care; Assistant Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine
Aubrey Rodriguez, Ph.D., 2016
Dissertation Title: Parental military service and adolescent mental and behavioral health:
Current position: Staff Psychologist at Southern Arizona VA Health Care System; head of the PTSD Residential Rehabilitation and Treatment Program (RRTP).
Esti M. Iturralde, Ph.D., 2015
Dissertation Title: Not just talk: Observed communication in adolescent friendship and its implications for health risk behavior
Current position: Research Scientist at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research & Associate Director of the Kaiser Permanente Delivery Science Fellowship Program
Lauren Spies Shapiro, Ph.D., 2014
Dissertation Title: Risky behaviors, interpersonal conflict, and their relation to fluctuation in adolescents’ diurnal HPA rhythms
Current Position: Assistant Professor of the Practice of Psychology & Director of the Psychology Services Center, University of Southern California
Katrina Vickerman, Ph.D., 2010
Dissertation Title: Spouse aggression, mental and physical health: A longitudinal examination
Current position: Research Scientist at Optum (formerly Alere Wellbeing), Center for Wellbeing
Sarah Duman Serrano, Ph.D., 2010
Dissertation Title: Parental attunement and its relation to marital conflict and youth outcomes
Current Position: Staff Psychologist, VA Greater Los Angeles, Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center; GLA Local Evidence Based Psychotherapy Coordinator; Health Science Clinical Instructor, UCLA Department of Psychiatry
Deborah Chien, Ph.D., 2006
Undergrad: University of Michigan
Dissertation Title: Linkages between marital aggression and sibling conflict: Moderating roles of marital conflict resolution and children’s attitudes condoning aggression
Angéle Fauchier, Ph.D., 2006
Dissertation Title: Marital conflict and parenting: Moderating effects of ethnicity and parent sex
Current Position: Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Denver – Anschultz Medical Campus, where she also works at the Child Trauma Program at the Kempe Cente
Michelle Ramos, Ph.D., 2006
Dissertation Title: Daily marital conflict and children’s daily mood and behavior: The moderating roles of marital violence exposure and children’s psychological distress
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Child & Adolescent Studies, California State University, Fullerton
Martha Rios, Ph.D., 2005
Dissertation Title: Hostile family environments and children’s perceptions of social support
Current Position: Private practice, Los Angeles
Laura Proctor, Ph.D., 2004
Dissertation Title: Children’s and parents’ exposure to community violence: Links with neighborhood disadvantage and parenting
Current Position: Research Scientist at the Child & Adolescent Services Research Center & Research Assistant Professor, San Diego State University
Catherine Haudek Delsol, Ph.D., 2003
Dissertation Title: Emotion regulation as a mediator between family-of-origin aggression and marital aggression
Current Position: Occupational Psychologist, Medical Services Division-Personnel Department, Psychology Section, City of Los Angeles
Anna Marie Medina, Ph.D., 2002
Undergrad: Stanford University
Dissertation Title: The influence of family context on intrachild variables: Examining linkages among interparental conflict, supportive parent-child relationships, and children’s appraisals, coping and attention regulation
Current Position: Professor of Psychology, Gonzaga University
Pamella Oliver, Ph.D., 2001
Dissertation Title: Parental psychological distress and child temperament as moderators of the effects of daily job stress on parent-child interactions
Current Position: Professor, Child and Adolescent Studies, California State University, Fullerton
Mark Laumakis, Ph.D., 2000
Dissertation Title: The effects of family environment variables on young children’s school behavior and peer interaction
Current Position: Lecturer, Department of Psychology, San Diego State
Holly Garcia O’Hearn, Ph.D., 1999
Dissertation Title: Daily patterns of anger and withdrawal in violent and nonviolent Couples
Current Position: Independent Practice, Thousand Oaks, CA
Norine Smiley, Ph.D., 1999
Dissertation Title: A behavioral-analytic model for assessing social competence in male batterers
Current Position: Independent Practice, Scottsdale, AZ
Elana B. Gordis, Ph.D., 1998
Dissertation Title: Observed dyadic marital and triadic family conflict and child internalizing and externalizing behavior problems
Current Position: Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Albany SUNY
Chandra Ghosh Ippen, Ph.D., 1998
Dissertation Title: Testing the feasibility and effectiveness of a multi-component program: Including parent-training, child competencies training, and tutoring
Current Position: Associate Research Director of the Child Trauma Research Program at the University of California, San Francisco and Director of Dissemination and Implementation for Child-Parent Psychotherapy
Louise Foo, Ph.D., 1996
Dissertation Title: Physical and psychological aggression in marriage: An analysis of risk factors
Current Position: Director of Clinical Services, Conard House, San Francisco
Diana Doumas, Ph.D., 1995
Dissertation Title: The relationship between daily marital interaction and interference processes and health behavior
Current Position: Distinguished Professor and Chair of Counselor Education and Director for the Institute for the Study of Addiction at Boise State University
Elizabeth Halloran, Ph.D., 1994
Dissertation Title: The impact of marital conflict on children
Current Position: Assistant Professor, The Medical College of Ohio
Osnat Erel, Ph.D., 1993
Dissertation Title: Marital discord and background anger: Links with child behavior
Current Position: Clinical Psychologist and Training Psychoanalyst in the Tel Aviv
Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis. Teacher and Supervisor at the School
of Psychotherapy at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University.
Mary O’Brien, Ph.D. 1992
Dissertation: The influence of child coping and parent-child relationship factors on the association between marital conflict and child adjustment
Current Position: Director of Clinical Training and Clinic Director, Senior Lecturer and Research Scientist, Department of Psychology, Yale University
Cheryl-Jean Chan, Ph.D., 1991
Dissertation Title: The relationship between dual-earner couples’ daily work mood and their daily marital satisfaction and home affect
Bonnie Burman, Ph.D., 1989
Dissertation Title: The relationship between marital interaction patterns and marital conflict styles: An analysis of home observational data.
Current Position: Boston University Tanglewood Institute Advisory
Council and is a Board Member of the Barrington Stage and an Overseer of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Lisa Gleberman, Ph.D., 1988
Dissertation Title: Family interaction in maritally violent families
Joseph A. Michelli, Ph.D., 1988
Dissertation Title: Observational bias in spouse observation integrating cognitive and behavioral approaches to marital distress
Current Position: Chief experience officer and founder of Lessons for Success
Lisa Krueger, Ph.D., 1988
Dissertation Title: Marital conflict and children’s cognitive and emotional processes.
Current Position: Clinical practice, Pasadena, CA
Patricia Baltazar, Ph.D., 1987
Dissertation Title: Valence of marital self-disclosure as related to relationship satisfaction
Current Position: Clinical practice, Hermosa Beach, CA
Linda Gorin-Sibner, Ph.D., 1986
Dissertation Title: Marital satisfaction as related to type A behavior in wives and husbands
Current Position: Clinical practice, Torrance, CA
Vivian Fernandez Credidio, Ph.D., 1985
Dissertation: Relative resources of spouses and the relationship to conflict tactic and marital satisfaction
Current Position: Independent Practice, Manhattan Beach
Monica Ramirez Basco, Ph.D. 1986
Dissertation Title: The conflict management styles of married couples displaying potentially problematic personality characteristics
Current Position: Author of The Bipolar Workbook, The Procastinator’s
Guide to Getting Things Done ,and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Bipolar
Disorder, Second Edition. She was Associate Director for Science Policy, Planning, and
Analysis at the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the National Institutes of Health. She
served as Assistant Director for Neuroscience, Mental Health, and Broadening Participation at
the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2014 to 2015. Dr. Basco is an
internationally recognized expert in cognitive-behavioral therapy and a founding fellow of the
Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies. She was formerly on the faculty of the
University of Texas at Arlington, where she was awarded the University of Texas Regents’
Outstanding Teaching Award.
Charles Weinstein, Ph.D., 1983
Dissertation Title: Therapist and client session behaviors and their relationship to client between session behaviors in marital and family therapy: A microlevel analysis
Current Position: Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Keck School of Medicine, USC; Private practice, Sherman Oaks, CA
David Hattem, Ph.D., 1983
Dissertation Title: The search for structure: A comparison of systems and social learning theory models of family interaction
Current Position: Faculty, UNC Forensic Psychiatry Program and Clinic; Director, Forensic Screener Program, Central Regional Hospital, NC; Internship Director, Central Regional Hospital, NC
Jana Kahn, Ph.D., 1982
Dissertation Title: Depression in the marital context
Current Position: Private Practice, Los Altos