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