Capstone Presentations
The following titles represent a rich sample of diversity in scholarly topics analyzed by William James College students from the Counseling Department.
- A Closer Look at Family Dynamics as it Relates to Incest
- A Comprehensive Evaluation of Prison Mental Health
- A Holistic Perspective in Developing Strengths-based Batterer Interventions (CFT)
- A Proposed Treatment Method for Pedophilia: Testosterone Binding Agents and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Response to Sexual Deviance in Adult Males Diagnosed with Pedophilia
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy as an Effective Treatment Method for Anorexia Nervosa
- Acculturation & Religiosity: The Immigrant Families Experience
- Adjunctive Treatments in Schizophrenia
- Adult Children of Alcoholics: Lasting Effects of Growing Up with an Alcoholic Parent
- An Exploration of Burnout and Coping in Correctional Officers
- An Exploration of Food Addiction and the Obesity Epidemic: The Potential of ACT as a First Line of Adjunct Treatment
- An Exploratory Study Examining the Relationship and Risk Factors Associated with Childhood Trauma in Adult Violent Offending
- Anorexia and Feminism
- Barriers to Maintaining Physical Health in Individuals with Schizophrenia
- Changing Our Perceptions of "Local Teen Prostitutes" Using a Complex Trauma Framewor
- Clinical Implications for Working with Mixed-Status Latino Families (CFT)
- Clinical Implications of Social Pain Overlap Theory
- Coming Out: LGB Adolescents
- Communicating Violence Risk Assessments
- Correlation Between Community Violence, Mental Illness, and Delinquent Behaviors
- Cyber-Infidelity: When Infidelity is No Longer Three Dimensional (CFT)
- Denial in Sex Offender Treatment
- Diagnosing Antisocial Personality Disorder and Considerations of Differential Diagnoses Between Women and Men in the Community
- Diagnosis and Treatment Issues for African American Women with ADHD
- Effective Treatment of Negative Symptoms of Schizophrenia
- Effective Treatments for Individuals Who Abuse Prescription Medication
- Efficacy of the Maudsley Approach Family Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa in Adolescents
- Emerging Adulthood
- Enhancing Resilience in U.S. Latino Youth (LMHP)
- Ethnic Differences in Sexual Attitudes
- Examining Females' Disclosure of Sexual Victimization and the Impact of Social Responses
- Examining the Relationship Between Substance Abuse and Criminal Behavior
- Exercise & Depression
- Exploring the Relationship Between Immigration and Ego Development
- Exploring the Success of Social Skill Treatment Programs for Individuals with Asperger's Disorder & High Functioning Asperger's Disorder
- Expressive Arts Therapy and Foster Care
- Family Dynamics and Borderline Personality Disorder Features (CFT)
- Female Prostitution: Risk Factors and the Impact on Mental Health
- Harm Reduction and Adolescent Substance Abuse
- Health Implications and Rape in Male Prisons: How Research Can Improve the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)
- Identifying and Preventing Social Anxiety Within The Adolescent Population (CFT)
- Jumping the Chasm: How African-Americans Can Go Beyond "Narrowing the Gap" Through Positive Parenting (CFT)
- Juveniles Mandated to Register as Sex Offenders
- Meditation and The Training of Mental Health Professionals
- Mental Health Needs of Female Offenders and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: Implications for Trauma-Informed and Gender-Responsive Correctional Care
- Mindfulness and Self-Regulation
- Mindfulness Matters: Enhancing Emotion Focused Couple's Therapy Through Mindfulness Practices (CFT)
- Mindfulness, Vulnerability, Safety, and Connection: Where Therapeutic Holding and Healing Meet
- Motivational Interviewing: Implications on Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment
- Nonverbal Communication & the Therapeutic Relationship
- Panic Disorder Review: Diagnostic and Treatment Implications
- Parenting With Mental Illness
- Poly-Victimization in Abused Children: Expanding Assessment and Treatment Beyond Presenting Problems
- Presentation and Treatment of Depression in An Aging Population
- Prison Suicide Prevention
- Psychological Effects of Parental Incarceration on School-Aged Children
- Psychological Effects of Segregation Units
- Reconceptualizing Bulimia Nervosa as an Addictive Behavior
- Resiliency Training for OIF/OEF Veterans
- Risk and Protective Factors for Acculturative Stress in Latino/a Adolescents Living in the U.S. (LMHP)
- Risk Factors within Latinos That Lead to Gang Involvement: Why are Gangs So Attractive? (LMHP)
- Sexual Communication and Relationship Satisfaction: Methodological Issues and Treatment Implications
- Shifting from Secular to a Religious/Spiritual Paradigm in Psychotherapy
- Should Therapists Recovered from an Eating Disorder Work with Clients with Eating Disorders?
- Sibling Relationship and Eating Disorders: A Call for an Integrative Approach in Family-Based Treatment
- Social Anxiety and Internet Use
- Surrogate Families: A Comparative Review of Latino Culture's Influence on Gang Affiliation (LMHP)
- Tailored Treatment Approaches for Latinas with PTSD: Differences in Immigrant and US-Born
- Technology, Creativity, Cognition, and Critical Thought (LMHP)
- The Application of Couples and Family Therapy in Aphasia (CFT)
- The Effects of Adolescent Cannabis Use
- The Effects of Identity Play in the Virtual World on Transgender Adjustment, Quality of Life, and Self-Esteem for Gender-Variant Individuals
- The Impact of Having an Autistic Sibling on the Neurotypical Sibling (CFT)
- The Impact of Internet and Cell Phone Use on Social Engagement
- The Impact of Managed Care on Psychotherapy Practice
- The Impact of Pediatric Cancer on Parents
- The Impact of School-Based Mindfulness Programs on Emotion Regulation in Children and Adolescents
- The Impact of Sexual Abuse on the Intimate Relationship: How Survivors and Partners Experience Trauma (CFT)
- The Influence of Juvenile Risk Assessments on Disproportionate Minority Clients
- The Mechanisms of Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma
- The Obscured Voice: An Argument for the Recognition of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD)
- The Psychological Impact of Cults on Ex-Member
- The Relationship Between Trauma and Juvenile Sex Offenders: Implications for Treatment
- The Use and Effectiveness of Child Centered Play Therapy
- The Use of Clubhouse Treatment Program in Managing Mental Health Needs
- Therapeutic Models and their Effectiveness at Reducing Recidivism in Convicted Sex Offenders
- Transgender Children and Adolescents: Promoting Health and Acceptance (CFT)
- Understanding Media Violence: A Risk and Resilience Approach
- Understanding Racism as a Form of Complex Trauma
- Using Culturally Competent Services to Improve Parenting Among Latino Parents (LMHP & CFT)
- Using Equine Therapy with At-Risk Adolescents
- Using Expressive Arts Therapy to Facilitate Positive Youth Development
- Using Mindfulness to Enhance Cultural Competence
- Using Traditional Martial Arts Training with Aggressive or At-Risk Male Adolescents
- Using Yoga to Enhance Mental Health
- Vicarious Trauma Among Counselors
- Working With Couples who Experience Infidelity (CFT)
- Youth in Foster Care and the Link to Delinquency