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The 65th AAMFT Annual Conference
 
Healing Fractured Relationships in the 21st Century
 Long Beach, California
  t  October 11-14, 2007
 

Poster Sessions
Friday, October 12, 2007
4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

The poster session is an opportunity to view and discuss the latest work in the marriage and family therapy field and develop meaningful contacts. Poster authors will be available to discuss their research and answer questions.

 

Addiction/Substance Abuse

1. African American Mothers in Recovery: A Qualitative Analysis
Peaches Jones
Brent A. Taylor

2. Parental Alcohol Use and Relationship Satisfaction
Andrea S. Meyer

Adoption/Foster Care

3. A Phenomenological Exploration of Transracial Adoption
Bobbi J. Miller
Karen S. Wampler

4. Parental Attachment Development to International Adoptees
Ji-Hyun Kim
Jerry E. Gale

5. Preventing Foster Care Placement with In-Home Family Therapy
Lenore M. McWey
Melissa G. Bolen

6. Training of MFTs in Adoption and Foster Care
Kyle N. Weir
Stephen T. Fife
Jason B. Whiting

Aging

7. Bridging the Gap: Grandmother Adult-Granddaughter Relations
Desiree M. Seponski
Denise C. Lewis

Assessment

8. Clinical Cut Off Scores for Family Implicit Rules Profile
James M. Harper
Mark Mauzy
Kevin S. Figuerres

9. Instrument Translation: Development of Japanese RELATE
Narumi Taniguchi
Dean M. Busby
J. Maria Bermudez

10. Major Premarital Inventories: Feminist and Diversity Critiques
Gary H. Bischof
Casey J. Coker
Joshua E. Jacobs

11. Marital Satisfaction and Offspring’s Psychological Symptoms
Kyung Hee Lee
Richard S. Wampler

12. MFTs’ Ability to Diagnosis Asperger’s: A Vignette Study
Thomas Stone Carlson
Christine R. McGeorge
Sarah E. Halvorson

13. Personality Traits of Women Married to Hypersexual Men
Rory C. Reid
Jessica Cromar

14. The ESQ: Development of a Measure of Emotional Intelligence
Kyle D. Killian

Career Options

15. Cost-Effectiveness of Family-based Treatment for Anxiety
D. Phillip Scoville
D. Russell Crane

16. The MFT Assistant Professor Job Search: Fact and Fiction
Sean D. Davis
Andrew S. Brimhall
Jennifer L. Matheson
David B. Ward

Children/Adolescents

17. Adolescent Group Therapy: Delinquency, Attachment and Alliance
Michele L. Parker

18. Adolescent Social Initiative in a Cross-Cultural Sample
Robb E. Clawson
Roy A. Bean

19. Alliance and Retention in Family Therapy with Runaway Youth
Natasha Slesnick
Tatiana N. Glebova

20. Dating is Hard Work: Gendered Definitions of Relationships
Jamie E. Banker
Katherine Allen
Christine Kaestle

21. Family Relations and the No Child Left Behind Legislation
James O. McNulty
Marion McNulty
Amy J. Barbee
Stephen W. Brown

22. Family Therapy in Treatment of Childhood Obesity
Keeley J. Pratt
Angela L. Lamson

23. Grandchild Problem Behavior: Predictors of Agreement
Megan L. Dolbin-MacNab
Nicole M. Sanford

24. How Parents and Adolescent View Conservative Jewish Identity
Michelle S. White
David J. Van Dyke

25. Influential Variables on Youth Behavior in Latino Families
Stephen V. Stutzman
Roy A. Bean

26. Parenting Capacities and Youth-related Health Issues
Silvia Echevarria-Doan
Ana Puig
Erin L. Kelley
Adrienne Baggs
Kevin Tate
Harmony Lenas
Kathryn M. Williams
Caronne Rush
Jungeuen Lee

27. Reducing ADHD Symptoms in Children through Reflexology
Kim C. Swain
Mistie E. Wagner

28. Relationships in CPS: A Healing Dialogical Group Process
Amy R. Tuttle

29. Researching Cohesion, Adaptability and Human Energy Fields
Geoffrey K. Leigh
Jean Metzker
Sara Pierce

30. Stress, Resilience and Support: Parents of Children with Cancer
Chai B. Benson

31. The Cost of Treating ADHD With and Without Family Therapy
D. Russell Crane
Triston B. Morgan
Stanley D. Hall
D. Phillip Scoville

32. Varying Pathways to Adolescent Outcomes After Divorce
Mary S. Green
Brenda Lohman

Clinical Techniques

33. Assessing Physicians’ Counseling Skills: A Tool for MFTs
C. Elaine Willerton

34. Discrepancies in Therapeutic Alliances in Couple Therapy
Tatiana N. Glebova
Rashmi Gangamma
Suzanne Bartle-Haring
Robin A. Ostrom Delaney

35. Technologically Assisted Interventions for Depressed Women
D. Kim Openshaw
Jennifer A. Morrow
Scott Roper

36. Worldview Influences in a Cross-Cultural Relationship
Luis Vargas

Couples

37. An Investigation of Attitudes Towards Marital Therapy
Benjamin R. Erwin
Jessica Cromar
Deena D. Strong
Ami M.H. Frost

38. Black and White Couples' Communication and Criticism Perception
Serena C. Galloway
Carol A. Werlinich
Jaslean J. La Taillade
Norman Epstein

39. Common Components of Forgiveness of Marital Infidelity
Spencer B. Olmstead
Ryan Blick
Lilbourne Mills

40. Communication as Power: Relationship to Marital Satisfaction
Amber E. Hines
Megan J. Murphy
Amber J. Bergman
Ronald J. Werner-Wilson
David Vogel

41. Congruence Couple Therapy with Problem Gamblers: A Case Study
Bonnie K. Lee
Jennifer L. Cleary

42. Counseling Effectiveness on Heterosexual and GLB Couples
Art C. Tolentino

43. Does Premarital Education Help, Prevent, or Aid in Break Up?
Karl N. Meng
James M. Harper
Stephen V. Stutzman

44. Dyadic Adjustment and Biophysiology in NIDDM
Michael M. Olson
Larry Denner

45. Effects of Life Stressors on Intimate Partner Relationships
April R. McDowell

46. Exploring Cultural Values and Communications in Relationships
Karen Mui-Teng Quek
Jacki A. Fitzpatrick

47. Healing: From Therapeutic Alliance to Marital Satisfaction
Katie S. Adkins
Erika L. Grafsky
Suzanne Bartle-Haring

48. How Couples Therapists Stay Hopeful During Difficult Cases
David B. Ward
Karen S. Wampler

49. How the History of a Relationship Impacts Marital Therapy
Matthew Williams

50. Infidelity and Couple Therapy in a Community-Based Sample
Tracy Lo
Rebeca Marin
David C. Atkins

51. Marital Discord and Depression in a Community-Based Sample
Kirsty Bortnik
David C. Atkins
Notker Klann
Kurt Hahlweg

52. Marital Satisfaction, Individual Distress and Intimate Justice
Kay Bradford
Jason B. Whiting
Joshua D. Johnston
Erik L. Carlton

53. Marriage is Good For You: Voices of Experience
Karla E. Huhn
Paul A. Lee

54. Mediators Between Psychopathology and Relationship Distress
Janey E. Cunningham
Elise M. Resnick
Norman Epstein

55. MFTs’ Attitudes Toward Marriage
Benjamin E. Caldwell
Scott R. Woolley

56. Positive Behavior, Attachment, and Satisfaction in Couples
Laura M. Evans
Norman Epstein

57. Predicting Relationship Satisfaction of Neurotics and Partners
Ryan Blick
Jeffry H. Larson
Thomas Holman
Jeffrey B. Jackson
Larry L. Smith

58. Relationship Investment, Social Support, and Stability
Gunnur Karakurt
Douglas H. Sprenkle

59. Systemic Nature of Eating Disorders and Marital Relationships
Rebecca J. Kenyon
Scott R. Woolley

60. The Effect of Decision-Making on Relational Satisfaction
Megan J. Murphy
Mary S. Green
Amber J. Bergman
Tara D. Dekkers

61. Trends in Newlywed Marital Satisfaction, 1980-2005
Benjamin E. Caldwell
Shelly A. Kunker

62. TV Aggression and Relational Aggression in Couples
Karl N. Meng
James M. Harper
Sarah M. Coyne

63. Understanding and Treating Couples with Attachment Injuries
Allegra N. Klacsmann
Martin Hsia
James L. Furrow

64. Understanding Change in Enactments: A Qualitative Study
G. Bowden Templeton
Shayne R. Anderson
Meagan Goodwin
Nedra Owens
Nicole M. Childs
Lee N. Johnson

Death/Loss

65. Caring for Dying Children: The MFT’s Experience
Ileana Ungureanu
Jonathan G. Sandberg

Delivery Systems

66. Health Care Costs for Medicaid Patients with Schizophrenia
Jacob D. Christenson
D. Russell Crane
Harvey Hillin

Depression

67. Relational Therapy for Depression: Costs and Benefits
Sareta Head
D. Russell Crane

Divorce/Mediation/Custody

68. Group Therapy Program for the Divorced Families
Moon J. Chung
Jiny Kim
Hyunju Kim Lee

Education/Training/Supervision

69. Client, Trainee and Supervisor Views of Core Competencies
Becky R. Davenport
Dan A. Ratliff

70. Clinical Experience Predicting MFT Students’ Effectiveness
Austin W. Houghtaling
Scott A. Ketring

71. Common Factors in Training Therapists' Views of Change
Melissa G. Bolen
Raquel Delevi
Andrea S. Meyer
Paul Stanford

72. How do MFT Students Decide Between an MA or PsyD degree?
Kelli R. Jarvis
Amy L. Roberson
Rajeswari Natrajan

73. How Do We Know It’s Family Therapy?
Richard J. Bischoff
Allison M. J. Reisbig

74. Perceptions Among College Students of MFT Effectiveness
Luke M. Tse
Richard Wantz
Michael Firmin

75. Power Induced Fracturing in Supervision Relationships
Alicia C. Lemire
Stephen W. Brown

76. Related Needs: Family Relationships and MFT Graduate Studies
Amber L. Brewer
Ruth C. Neustifter
Ji-Hyun Kim
Desiree M. Paulin
Luciana Silva
Jerry E. Gale

77. Socializing Undergraduates to the MFT Field
Christopher R. Latty
Jeffrey J. Angera
Kathleen B. Jager

78. The Next Generation of MFTs: Ready for our Changing Society?
Jennifer M. Mato
Linna Wang
Narumi Taniguchi
Stephen W. Brown

79. Will Work For ?: Minnesota Employer and Internship Shortages
Kenneth L. Stewart
John G. Souza

Ethics/Legal

80. MFT’s Practices Concerning Family Secrets
Aleksandra C. Drecun
Stephen W. Brown
Darryl Freeland
Robin D. Bullette

Gender

81. Raising Relative Children: Male Caregiver’s Narratives
Jay E. Burke
Whitney A. Brosi

Medical/Physical

82. Dyadic Satisfaction Among Younger Women with Breast Cancer
Stephanie R. Burwell
G. Bowden Templeton
Kelly Stidham

83. Families of Persons with Disabilities: A Qualitative Study
David J. Cordova
Kendal Holtrop
Jose Ruben Parra Cardona

84. Healing Ties for Patients with Chronic Lung Disease
Arpita Lal
Suzanne Bartle-Haring

85. MFTs Attitudes and Beliefs Regarding Psychotropic Drugs
Paul Springer
Steven M. Harris

Models/Theory

86. Client Emotional Experience and EFT Blamer Softening Events
Yok Choi
James L. Furrow

87. Empirically-Supported Marriage and Family Therapy Models
Richard B. Miller
Stanley D. Hall
Jeffrey B. Jackson
D. Phillip Scoville

88. Family Diagram: A Connective Self in Bowen and Existentialism
Minh-Ha Pham
Darryl Freeland
Stephen W. Brown
Barbara Filippone

89. Further Development of the Solution Building Inventory
Sara A. Smock

90. MFTs Use of Alternative Therapies: Qualitative Factors
Gregory W. Brock
Marcia L. Michaels
Hee-Sun Cheon

91. Stages of Marital Change and Relationship Adjustment
Kay Bradford
Jacob A. LaCoursiere
Amanda M. Veldorale-Brogan
Jason B. Whiting
Matthew D. Roberts

Practice Development

92. Latinos in the U.S.: Common Ancestry, Unique Experiences
Ana Rocio Escobar-Chew
Sheena R. Horsford
Kendal Holtrop
David J. Cordova
Jose Ruben Parra Cardona

93. Violent and Non-violent Conflicts in Gay Male Couples
Rashmi Gangamma
Deanna Wilkinson
Julianne M. Serovich

Race/Culture/Ethnicity/Class

94. Adjustment in Asian International Students and Their Spouses
Mei-Ju Ko

95. Albanian Immigrant Families’ Perceptions of Mental Health
Helena Dano Dow
Scott R. Woolley

96. Diversity and Social Justice Issues in MFT Literature
Iva Kosutic
Teresa McDowell

97. Influences of Cultural Values in Attachment
Lin Shi

98. Re-constructions of Independence by Mothers on Welfare
Wan-Juo Cheng
Megan J. Murphy

99. The Influence of Cultural Health Beliefs on Mental Health in an Ethnically Diverse Sample of Older Adults
Elise Marie Cole
Brandon E. Rodgers
Michelle L. Stevenson

100. Two Worlds, One Identity? Ethnic Identity in Immigrant Family
Pei-Hsuan Liu
Mona Mittal

101. Use of Movies in MFT Diversity Training
Janna Griggs
Narumi Taniguchi
Liyan J. Lagevardi
Edith Pont
Maria S. Gosula
Scott A. Elizondo

Remarriage/Stepfamilies

102. The Development of the Remarital Assessment Questionnaire
Derrel J. Higgins
Heath A. Grames
Robert F. Stahmann

Self-of-Therapist

103. MFTs’ Experiences with Client Suicide: The Healing Process
Brandon C. Silverthorn
Marsha T. Carolan

104. Personal Agency and Therapist Development
Matthew S. Mutchler
Stephen A. Anderson

105. Therapist Effects in Behavioral Couple Therapy
Michelle Doeden
David C. Atkins
Andrew Christensen

Severe Mental Illness

106. Family Therapy and Schizophrenia: A New Era?
Stanley D. Hall
D. Russell Crane

Sexual Orientation

107. Family Support, Homophobia and Coping of Straight/Bi HIV+ Men
Erika L. Grafsky
Tiffany L. McDowell
Shonda M. Craft
Julianne M. Serovich

108. Reconciling Gay and LDS Identities
Daman D. Reynolds
Sandra M. Stith

109. The Coming Out Process: A Family’s Perspective
Joyce A. Baptist
Katherine Allen

Sexuality/Sex Therapy

110. Reconstructing the Meaning of Fidelity
Kourtney T. Vaillancourt
April Few

111. The Dangers of Withholding Sexual Information
Marlo Rouse-Arnett
Jennie Dilworth

112. The Effects of Sexual Timing During Emerging Adulthood
Chad D. Olson

113. The Lived Experiences of Children of Cross-Dressing Fathers
Allison M. J. Reisbig
Jessica L. Garlock
Anthony P. Jurich

114. The Multidimensional Nature of Women’s Sexual Functioning
Tiffani S. Kisler

Spirituality

115. Spirituality and Training: A Study of MFT Faculty Beliefs
Christine R. McGeorge
Thomas Stone Carlson
Winnie April Grams

Trauma/Violence/Abuse

116. Abuse and its Effects: Cognitive Appraisal Distortions
Derek B. Feldman
Jason B. Whiting
Mei Ling Cecilia Ho

117. An SEM of Home Life on Violent Behavior in Adolescence
Damon L. Rappleyea
Roy A. Bean

118. Becoming Mother: Sexual Trauma and the Pregnancy Experience
Kami L. Schwerdtfeger
Karen S. Wampler

119. Challenges and Implications of Treatment Efficacy Research
Catherine L. McMonigle
Sandra M. Stith
David Linkh

120. Couple Violence Assessment: Practices among MFT Trainees
Adam S. Froerer
Tiffany B. Brown
Brandy M. Lucas

121. The Impact of 21st Century War Trauma on Military Couples
Erin Sanders-Hahs
Briana S. Nelson Goff

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