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12/09/2025

Today’s speaker for our last Clinical Colloquium presentation this Fall was clinical psychology doctoral student Saskia Jorgensen, who will be presenting her second-year research project: “Exploring identity-related behaviors in LGBTQ+ people: Associations with identity centrality, pride, and community connectedness.”

It was a very interesting presentation that helped us feel some positivity as we head towards winter break! Great job, Saskia!

12/02/2025

Today's speaker in the Clinical Colloquium Series was clinical psychology doctoral student Lauryn Hoard, who presented her second-year research project titled “Navigating online racial discrimination: A mixed methods study of protective factors among black college students.”

Thanks for sharing this interesting and ambitious study with us!

11/20/2025

Please join us in congratulating, Clinical PhD student, Maya Cook Alford, on successfully defending her dissertation, “Black Parenting Power: A Qualitative Study Examining Coparental Racial Socialization Practices in Black Families.” Maya has accepted a postdoc position at Westchester Jewish Community Services (where she completed her APA-accredited internship). In this position, she will continue training in trauma-focused interventions and will serve as project evaluator for their Certified Community Behavioral Health Center grant.

Her committee included: Drs. Christina Gee (Dissertation Director), Sherry Molock, Lionel Howard, Jody Ganiban, and Jameta Barlow.

Congratulations, Maya!

11/18/2025

The Meltzer Center is providing outreach to our community on Thursday and Friday -- please stop by if you can!

11/18/2025

This week's speaker at our Clinical Colloquium Series was Clinical psychology doctoral student Joey Green, who presented his second-year research project: "Longitudinal patterns of sexual identity, sexual attraction, and sexual behavior among Latino/a adolescents." Thanks for broadening our understanding of sexual identity development in this population!

11/13/2025

This week, we enjoyed Clinical Psychology doctoral student Sarah Cimini's presentation of her second-year research project: “Maternal Gatekeeping, Father Involvement, and Child Psychological Functioning in Low-Income, Racial Minority Families." Great job, Sarah!

11/08/2025

A belated announcement of Clinical Psyhology doctoral student, Kosy Onochie's presentation in Clinical Colloquium: "It will be everyone’s secret; he won’t tell, and I won’t tell": The impact of HIV diagnosis on serodiscordant couples in Tanzania". Great presentation, Kosy!

09/30/2025

The Meltzer Center was out today to spread awareness about depression for National Depression Screening Day. They will be out again on campus in Square 80 Thursday from 11:30-2:30! See flyer for location details. Stop by to learn more!

09/02/2025

Happy Fall semester!

Please join us in welcoming Dr. Daneele Thorpe as the new co-director for the Meltzer Center. Dr. Thorpe has a wealth of experience in both research and clinical endeavors. Her research has examined the impact of stress and trauma exposure on family health and well-being. She is clinically trained in delivering evidence-based assessments and interventions for children and families across home, school, hospital, and clinic settings. She recently completed a federal policy fellowship at NICHD. Dr. Thorpe will work alongside Meltzer co-director, Dr. Risa Broudy.

We also extend a warm welcome to our 3 first-year PhD students: Ellis DeJardin, Cheyenne Harris-Starling, and Maggie Weisblum! We hope to introduce you to each of them in the next few weeks.

Here's to a great 2025-2026!

08/24/2025

Clinical faculty had a very happy Happy Hour to welcome our new first year Clinical Ph.D. students:

Ellis DeJardin (mentor: Dr. Fallon Goodman)
Maggie Weisblum (mentor: Dr. Fallon Goodman)
Cheyenne Harris-Starling (mentor: Dr. Sharon Lambert)

Welcome to DC! We're so excited to have you join us!

06/05/2025

Please join us in congratulating clinical psychology graduate student, Alana Rule, and the Molock lab on their recent publication:

*Rule, A., Molock, SD, *Job, S & *Siff, L (in press). Perceived racial discrimination as a risk factor for suicidal ideation in Black college students. Journal of College Student Mental Health.

Well done, team!!

05/16/2025

Congratulations to the Clinical program's newest Ph.D.s!

Dr. Matthew Balaguer (Mentor: Dr. George Howe)
Dr. Jacob Hadwen (Mentor: Dr. George Howe)
Dr. Kantoniony Rabemananjara (Mentor: Dr. Mimi Le)

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