Spring 2024​

• Syed Aajmain successfully defended his Master's thesis, "Social determinants of health as a correlate of patient and clinical characteristics in community mental health care".

• Bethany Crawford matched and will complete her internship at the VA Western New York in Buffalo, NY.

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FALL 2023​

• Bethany Crawford received the Sol Garfield Memorial Student Award from the North American Society for Psychotherapy Research (NASPR).

• Ashleigh Smith received the Kenneth Howard Memorial Student Award from the North American Society for Psychotherapy Research (NASPR).

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Spring 2023

• Adela Scharff successfully defended her dissertation, "Community perceptions of therapist support after media coverage of anti-Black violence." (April 24, 2023)

• Adela Scharff began her postdoctoral internship at the Perinatal Mental Health and Trauma Center at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, IL.

• Ashleigh Smith received the Enrico Jones Memorial Award from the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR).

• Brittany King completed her postdoctoral fellowship at McLean Hospital’s Klarman Eating Disorders Center.

• Carly Schwartzman competed her postdoctoral fellowship at the MindWell Center in Albany, NY.

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FALL 2022

• Adela Scharff matched and is completing her internship at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, IL.

• Bethany Harris successfully defended her Master's thesis, "Intensive eating disorder progress monitoring: A baseline comparison of three diagnostic groups using the Progress Monitoring Tool for Eating Disorders".

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SPRING 2022

• Brittany King successfully defended her dissertation, "Reviewing Recorded Teletherapy Sessions For Homework: Proximal Impacts on Client Insight." ((April 22, 2022)

• Carly Schwartzman successfully defended her dissertation,  "Therapist Facilitative Interpersonal Skills in Simulated Text-Based Telepsychotherapy with Cultural Minority Clients." (May 3, 2022)

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FALL 2021

• Brittany King matched and is completing her internship at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York, NY.

• Carly Schwartzman matched and is completing her internship at the James J. Peters VA Hospital in Bronx, NY.

• Brittany King received the 2021 Melanie Merola O’Donnell Memorial Scholarship, her second time receiving this award

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FALL 2020

• Adela Scharff successfully defended her Masters Thesis, "Therapy expectations and preferences, the role of identity, and help-seeking attitudes among racially diverse college students: a qualitative study."

• Carly Schwartzman received the University at Albany Dissertation Fellowship Award to fund her dissertation project.

• Brittany King received the American Psychological Foundation/Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology (APF/COGDOP) 2020 William and Dorothy Bevan Scholarship to fund her dissertation project.

• Jennifer Oswald began her Post-Graduate Position as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University / Providence VA Medical Center (Post-Deployment and Readjustment Program).

• Jennifer Oswald completed her Predoctoral Internship at the VA Central Western Massachusetts, Integrated Outpatient Behavioral Health Track (Worcester, MA)

 

SPRING 2020

• Jennifer Oswald successfully defender her dissertation, "Developing a clinician self-report fidelity measure for a transdiagnostic, evidence-based protocol at a residential eating disorders treatment center." (May 15, 2020).

• Carly Schwartzman successfully proposed her dissertation, "Therapist Facilitative Interpersonal Skills in Simulated Text-based Telepsychotherapy with Cultural Minority Clients." 

 

FALL 2019

• Brittany King received the 2020 Melanie Merola O’Donnell Memorial Scholarship

 

SPRING 2019

• Brittany King was awarded a 2019 SPR International Student Travel Award for her brief paper presentation, "The Influence of Client Interpersonal Traits on Therapist Intervention Use in the Early Phase of Treatment for Generalized Anxiety Disorder".

• Carly Schwartzman was elected for the 2019-2020 term as the chair of the Student Development Committee for APA Division 29: Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy.

 

FALL 2018

• Matteo Bugatti successfully proposed his dissertation, "A Comparison of Nomothetic and Idiographic Approaches to Routine Measurement and Feedback: Clinician Perceptions and Decision Making."

• Jennifer Oswald successfully proposed her dissertation, "Developing a clinician self-report fidelity measure for a transdiagnostic, evidence-based protocol at a residential eating disorders treatment center." 

• Carly Schwartzman successfully defended her Masters Thesis," Feasibility and Acceptability of a Novel Tool for the Study of Interpersonal Processes in Psychotherapy". 

• Brittany (Iles) King successfully defended her Masters Thesis, "The Importance of Early Treatment Response: What Interventions are Being Delivered in the Early Phase of Treatment for Generalized Anxiety Disorder". 

 

SPRING 2017

• Jennifer Oswald was awarded the 2017 Mathilda B. Canter Education and Training Award associated with APA Division 29: Society for the Advancement of Psychotherapy, for her manuscript, “A Qualitative Analysis of Clinician Attitudes and Experiences Learning and Implementing Transdiagnostic Evidence-Based Practices for Eating Disorders”. 

• Matteo Bugatti successfully defended his Masters Thesis, "Intra-Exposure Levels of Anxious Arousal in a Lab-Based Exposure Intervention for Fear of Public Speaking". 

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FALL 2016​

• Jennifer Oswald successfully defended her Masters Thesis, "A Qualitative Analysis of Clinician Attitudes and Experiences Learning and Implementing Transdiagnostic Evidence-Based Practices for Eating Disorders". 

• Jennifer Oswald was awarded a 2016 Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI) Student Travel Award for her research poster, "Interpersonal subtypes and trajectories of change in adolescent cognitive-behavioral substance abuse treatment".