TITLES OF RECENT STUDENTS’ DISSERTATIONS

Some students have prepared summaries of their studies that can be accessed by clicking on the title of the thesis or dissertation. Students who have available summaries have an asterisk after their name.

 Melissa O’Connell (2007)

Maternal Sensitivity in a High-Risk, African American Preterm Sample: An Ecological Approach to Predictors and Effects of Intervention

 Wendy Miller (2006) *

Adult Attachment, Father Involvement, and Relationship Satisfaction and Maintenance Among Low-Income African-American Mothers of Premature Infants

 Adrianna Amari (2005)

Ketogenic Diet Palatability: Caregiver Predictions and Actual Preferences Among Children with Epilepsy

 Margo Candelaria (2005) *

The Impact of Psychosocial Risk on Infant Attachment

 Brenda Haynes (2005)

African American Boys and School Achievement: The Role of Academic Self-Concept, Racial/Ethnic Identify Attitudes and School Satisfaction

 Hemalatha Ganapathy Coleman (2004)

Cultural Conceptions of the Child: A Study of Indian American, African American and European American Ethnotheories

 Linda Gorham(2004)

Relationships Between Children’s Participation in The Black Church and Their Academic Development: An Investigation of the Ecocultural, Opportunity to Learn, and Program Quality Dimensions of Church-Based Academic Support Programs

 Keng-Yen Huang (2004)

The Role of Mother-Infant Conflict in Toddler’s Development of Attachment and Problem Behaviors

 Care L. Udell (2003)

Early Literacy Tutoring After School: An Exploration of the Impact of a Cross-age Tutoring Program

 Yolanda C. Vauss-Berry (2003)

Parents’ Educational Expectations and Practices: Hearing Parents with Hearing Impaired or Hearing Children

 Amie Ashley Hane (2002)

A Dyadic Approach to the Interactional Context of Language Acquisition: The Direct and Indirect Effects of Early Mother-Infant Vocal Coordination in Predicting Language Outcomes at 24 Months

 Hibist Astatke (2001)

HIV-Hazardous Behaviors Among Adolescents in Nazareth, Ethiopia

 Susan M. Hill (2001)

Epistemological Development of Urban Elementary School Students

 Betty Rigney (2001)

The Relationship between Religiousness, Social Support, Readiness for Behavior Change and Continued Substance Abuse in Mothers who have used Illegal Drugs during Pregnancy

 Kathleen J. Rogers-Senuta (2000)

Constructing Formal Education’s Meaning and Value by a Group of Low SES, Urban, African-American Women: An Iterative and Integrative Process

 Diane C. Schmidt (2000)

Fear of School Violence in Middle School Students

 Laureen Teti (2000)

Boundary Disturbances in Low-Income, African American Mother-Daughter Relationships

 TITLES OF RECENT STUDENTS’ MASTER’S THESES

 Lisa Beall (2007)

Relations Between Instructional Practices, Reading Comprehension, and Reading Motivation

 Rose Belanger (2007) *

Postpartum Mother-Infant Separation: Maternal Depression and Maternal Sensitivity in a Preterm Sample

 Stacy Buckingham-Howes (2007) *

Gender Responsive Therapy for Adolescent Girls Who Abuse Substances: Understanding Loss of Voice and Social/Relational Aggression

 Colleen Sullivan (2007) *

The Influence of Stress and Social Support on Young Canadian Mothers

  Andrea Anushko (2006) *

Nonliteral Language Comprehension in African American and European American Children: Who Can Bust a Grape in Fruit Fight?

 Amy Benson (2006) *

Ethnicity, Socioeconomic, and Gender Differences in Second Graders’ Math Fact Fluency and Confidence

 Olena Prachenko (2006)

Reported Parental Involvement in their Children's Schooling: Beliefs and Practices

 Brian M. Morrison (2004)

Validation of the Prenatal Report Portion of the Best Beginnings Developmental Screen

 Anna Quigg (2004)

The Impact of Food Insecurity and Maternal Depression on Child Development

 Patricia A.Tenowich(2004)

Motivation and Academic Achievement of First-Time University Students with and Without Learning Disabilities

 Anna Burns (2003)

Teaching Children with Developmental Disabilities to Communicate for Preferred Items: The Role of Iconicity in Acquisition

 Christine Reiner Hess (2002)

Parenting Competence Among Mothers Of High-Risk Infants: Relation of Parental Self-Efficacy and Parent Knowledge of Child Development

 Margo Candelaria (2001)

The Role of Parental Locus of Control in Parental Participation in Early Intervention

 Kirsten Mackler (2001)

Relations between Television Viewing and Reading Achievement

 Melissa O'Connell (2001)

Predictors of Maternal Sensitivity in a High-Risk Preterm Sample

 Dewi P. Smith (2001)

A Multi-Method Investigation of the Nature of Co-Counteractive Literacy Strategies of Mothers and Children

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