All eighteen full-time faculty have a Ph.D. or Ed.D. in clinical, school or some other area of psychology, and all teach undergraduate and graduate courses. In addition to teaching, faculty are actively involved in research and professional and community service. Numerous opportunities exist for student participation in faculty research and service.
STEPHEN R. ARMELI, Ph.D.
University of Delaware, 1998
AREAS OF INTEREST: Social, Personality, and Health Psychology; Statistics.
RESEARCH PROJECTS: Application of daily process research methods (e.g., daily diaries, experience sampling methodology) in understanding the stress and coping process and its relationship to health-related behaviors such as alcohol use, measurement of implicit attitudes regarding well being, and substance use.
JANE BRADEN-MAGUIRE, Ph.D.
Columbia University, Graduate Faculties 1972
AREAS OF INTEREST: Experimental-Social Psychology, Statistics
RESEARCH PROJECTS: Simulated Jury Research; Sexual Harassment; Violence in Schools.
Email: jane_braden_maguire@fdu.edu
KATHLEEN DAVIS, Ph.D.
Ball State University, 2007
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE: Cognitive-Behavioral
PRACTICE SPECIALTIES: Psychoeducational Assessment, Psychological Assessment, Family Assessment, Child and Adolescent Therapy
RESEARCH PROJECTS: Child/Adolescent Anxiety Disorders, Neurodevelopmental Disabilities
Email: kmdavis@fdu.edu
RON DUMONT, Ed.D., NCSP
Boston University 1985
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE: Psychoeducational.
PRACTICE SPECIALTIES: Learning Disabilities; Serious Emotional Disturbances; Congnitive Functioning; Psychoeducational Assessment; Intellectual Constructs and Assessment; Technology for School Psychology.
RESEARCH PROJECTS: Use of the Differential Abilities Scales in Psychoeducational Evaluations; Comparisons of Standardized IQ Tests; Use of Cross-battery Assessment.
Email:dumont@fdu.edu
URL: http://alpha.fdu.edu/psychology
ANDREW R. EISEN, Ph.D.
State University of New York at Albany, 1992
THEORETICAL ORIENTATION: Cognitive-Behavioral.
PRACTICE SPECIALTIES: Child Behavior Disorders; Child Anxiety Disorders; School Refusal Behavior.
RESEARCH PROJECTS: Prescriptive Treatment of Childhood Anxiety Disorders; Role of Family Variables in the Etiology and Maintenance of Child Anxiety; Dimensional and Categorical Classification Models; Parent Training Strategies.
Email: eisen@fdu.edu
SAMUEL FEINBERG, Ph.D.
New York University, 1981
THEORETICAL ORIENTATION: Eclectic.
PRACTICE SPECIALTIES: Supervision; Suicide/Violence/Child Abuse Prevention; Parenting/Childrearing; Harassment and Bullying; At-risk Children and Adolescents; Pre-referral Interventions; Disabilities; Special Education.
RESEARCH PROJECTS: Sexual Harassment; Humor; Social Facilitation; Home/School Collaboration; Program Evaluation.
Email: feinberg@fdu.edu
JUDITH KAUFMAN, Ph.D.
Yeshiva University, 1970
THEORETICAL ORIENTATION: Psychodynamic/Eclectic.
PRACTICE SPECIALTIES: Adolescent/Young Adult Development; School Learning Problems; Pediatric Psychology.
RESEARCH PROJECTS: Risk and Resilency in Adolescents; Psychosocial Consequences of Chronical Illness; Diversity Issues in Assessment and Treatment.
Email: judith_kaufman@fdu.edu
JULIANA RASIC LACHENMEYER, Ph.D.
Columbia University, 1976
THEORETICAL ORIENTATION: Cognitive-Behavioral.
PRACTICE SPECIALTIES: Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Eating, Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders; Behavioral Medicine (e.g., Failure to Thrive, Seizure Disorders); Parenting.
RESEARCH PROJECTS: Medical Compliance; Behavioral Pediatrics; Eating Disorders; Failure to Thrive; Assessment and Treatment Outcomes in Obsessive-Compulsive and Panic Disorders.
Email: jrlphd@aol.com
NEIL A. MASSOTH, Ph.D.
Washington University, 1966
THEORETICAL ORIENTATION: Psychodynamic/Cognitive.
PRACTICE SPECIALTIES: Therapy with Head-injured Patients and Their Families; Men's Issues; Neuropsychological Evaluation; Geriatrics; Marital and Family Therapy.
RESEARCH PROJECTS: Comparison of Male Role Norms Inventory and The Gender Role Conflict Scale With Several Populations (Head-injured; Gay; Asian). Development of a Scale for the Measurement of Functional Skills in a Brain-injured Population; Empathy Development in Children (Boys in Particular).
Email: massoth@fdu.edu
ROBERT McGRATH, Ph.D.
Auburn University, 1984
THEORETICAL ORIENTATION: Eclectic/Psychodynamic.
PRACTICE SPECIALTIES: Children; Depressed Adults.
RESEARCH PROJECTS: Test Development; Personality Assessment.
Email: mcgrath@fdu.edu
URL: http://inside.fdu.edu/pt/mcgrath.html
DAVID L. POGGE, Ph.D.
University of New Mexico, 1986
PRACTICE SPECIALTIES: Diagnostic Assessment; Neuropsychological Assessment; Assessment and Treatment of Sex Offenders and Paraphilic Disorders; Forensic Assessment.
RESEARCH PROJECTS: Neuropsychological and Psychopathological Factors in Adolescents; Psychodiagnostic Assessment of Adolescents; Outcome of Inpatient Psychiatric Treatment; Impulsivity and Attentional Control.
Email: dlpogge@aol.com
ROBERT PRENTKY, Ph.D.
Northwestern University 1975
AREAS OF INTEREST: Assessing risk of dangerousness in juveniles; pre-adolescent and adolescent boys and girls with sexually inappropriate behaviors; attachment disorders and other adverse life events and proximal clinical features of psychopathy in juveniles; female adult sex offenders; “peculiar” expressions of extreme violence – anomalous homicide.
PRACTICE SPECIALTIES: Forensic assessment and evaluation of criminal offenders; expert witness testimony; ethical practice of psychology in the criminal justice system.
RESEARCH PROJECTS: Predictive validity of risk protocol for juvenile sex offenders; caregiver instability, attachment disorder and emotional detachment in abuse-reactive youngsters with sexually inappropriate behaviors; a multi-prong study of child cyber pornography focusing on offender etiology & risk, and apprehension; public policy and social amplification of risk in a high voltage population.
CYNTHIA L. RADNITZ, Ph.D.
State University of New York at Albany, 1990
THEORETICAL ORIENTATION: Cognitive-Behavioral.
PRACTICE SPECIALTIES: Substance Abuse; Dual Diagnosis; Spinal Cord Injury; Headache; Panic Disorder.
RESEARCH PROJECTS: Dual Diagnosis: Spinal Cord Injury; Substance Abuse; Posttraumatic Stress Disorder; Behavioral Medicine.
Email: cynthia_radnitz@fdu.edu
JOHN C. SANTELLI, Ph.D.
City University of New York, 1971
AREAS OF INTEREST: Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness, and Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience; Vision Science.
PRACTICE SPECIALTIES: Personality Assessment; Olfaction, Emotion and Memory; Computer-based Instrumentation Techniques in Personality and Behavioral Assessment.
RESEARCH PROJECTS: Computer-based Monitoring of Organism Motility as an Index of Toxic Exposure; Olfaction and Anxiety Management; Cognitive Mechanisms in Second Language Acquistion; Language and Cognition.
Email: santelli@fdu.edu
URL: http://inside.fdu.edu/pt/santelli.html
JANET SIGAL, Ph.D.
Northwestern University, 1967
AREAS OF INTEREST: Social; Applied Social; Experimental; Cross-cultural Diversity; Community Psychology.
PRACTICE SPECIALTIES: Jury Decision-making Behavior and Forensic Psychology; Group and Family Dynamics; Cross-cultural Psychology.
RESEARCH PROJECTS: Sexual Harassment in the United States and Other Countries; Simulated Jury Research (e.g., Child Homicide); Domestic Violence; Violence Prevention; Relationships.
Email: jsigal@fdu.edu
LANA A. TIERSKY, Ph.D.
California School of Professional Psychology-Los Angeles, 1995
THEORETICAL ORIENTATION: Psychodynamic.
PRACTICE SPECIALTIES: Psychoanalysis; Neuropsychological Evaluation and Cognitive Rehabilitation.
AREAS OF SPECIALTY: Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (MTBI); Adult Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS); Psychosomatic Illness.
RESEARCH PROJECTS: Assessing the Efficacy of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in MTBI; Assessing Disability in CFS; Assessing Disability, Psychiatric Status and Neuropsychological Functioning in Adult ADHD; Examining the Efficacy of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in Adult ADHD.
Email: tiersky@fdu.edu
STEFANIE ULRICH, Ph.D.
Fordham University 1996
THEORETICAL ORIENTATION: Psychodynamic/Integrative
PRACTICE SPECIALTIES: Depression, grief and loss; cultural issues in diagnosis and treatment; trauma, PTSD, and veterans services; women's issues; acute care; adults and adolescents.
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Therapy and supervisory processes; veterans and trauma, Asperger's and college, women and leadership; attachment; program evaluation; gender and cultural issues in psychotherapy.
JAMIE ZIBULSKY Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley 2009
THEORETICAL ORIENTATION: Developmental; Eclectic
PRACTICE SPECIALTIES: School-based prevention and intervention programs; Psychoeducational assessment; Educational consultation
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Early literacy development; Early social-emotional development; Teacher knowledge and professional development
Email: Jamie_Zibulsky@fdu.edu