Psychology Department:  Current Staff

Patricia Adams, Ph.D.
St. John's University
Individual, group and family psychotherapy of children and adolescents.  School-based interventions.

Allen L. Carter, Ph.D.
Staff Psychologist
University of Georgia
Child psychotherapy, family therapy, psychotherapy with developmentally impaired children. Learning disability assessment. Clinical information systems-computer applications. Developmental lines in developmentally impaired children. Adolescent drug and alcohol abuse treatment.

Cristina Ciocca, Psy.D. (adjunct)
University of Miami
Neuropsychological and psychological assessments of adolescents through geriatrics with specific interest in cross-cultural issues in assessment. Research in attention training of schizophrenic patients.

Susan D'Ambrosio, Psy.D.
Program Manager of the West Grad Clinic
Nova Southeastern University
Psychodynamic psychotherapy; individual therapy for severe character disorders; object relations approaches for individual, group, marital, and family therapy; cognitive-behavioral individual and group therapy of anxiety disorders; brief treatment of depression and anxiety

James DeGiovanni, Ph.D.
Assistant Director, Psychology Department
Director of Training
Temple University
Psychodynamic psychotherapy, group psychotherapy of severe personality disorders; object relation approaches to marital and family therapy. Efficacy of long-term group therapy in treatment of resistant and character-disordered patients. Brief treatment of depression and anxiety. Ericksonian and hypnotherapeutic models of psychotherapy.

Gretchen Diefenbach, Ph.D.
Psychologist
Louisiana State University
Behavioral and cognitive-behavioral therapies for anxiety disorders; research interests include the psychopathology, assessment, and treatment of anxiety and related disorders, in particular generalized anxiety disorder, trichotillomania, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Ellen Dornelas, Ph.D.
Director of Behavioral Health Programs, Preventive Cardiology
Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Health psychology. Individual and group therapy for smoking cessation, stress management and psychological adjustment to medical illness. Research in areas of smoking cessation, weight reduction and exercise adherence.

Jennifer Ferrand, Psy.D.
Staff Psychologist
University of Hartford
Psychological assessment of adults, with a focus on health psychology. Individual psychotherapy with medical patients, clinical hypnosis, behavior change, coping with pain.

Lori Folk-Barron, Psy.D., ABPP
Neuropsychologist
The Virginia Consortium Program for Clinical Psychology (College of William & Mary, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk State University, & Old Dominion University)
Neuropsychological and psychological assessment of adults; traumatic brain injury; cognitive rehabilitation; psychotherapy with patients with acquired brain injury and their caregivers.

Lawrence Haber, Ph.D.
Director, Family Resource Center
University of Tennessee
Severe mental illness, caregiver issues, community acceptance and integration for the mentally ill, as well as staff and family education, community and program confutations in the area of psychosis.

Fiona C. Kehoe, Ph.D.
Child and Adult Neuropsychology
Nova Southeastern University
Neuropsychological and psychological assessments of children, adolescents, young adults, and older adults; rehabilitation; traumatic brain injury.

Joseph F. Kulas, Ph.D.
Child and Adult Neuropsychology
Purdue University
Neuropsychological and psychological assessments of children, adolescents, young adults, and older adults; Developmental Disabilities; Academic Problems, Traumatic Brain Injury, Multiple Sclerosis.

Richard Lautenbach, Ph.D. 
Program Manager, Adult Partial Hospital Program
Kent State University
Treatment of patients with severe and  prolonged mental illness, eating disorders, dually-diagnosed patients; Group psychotherapy;. Effects of gender-role socialization on behavior.

Leslie Lothstein, Ph.D., ABPP
Department Head
Director of Psychology
Duke University
Psychotherapy of gender identity disorders and distressed and impaired professionals and clergy,
short-term psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy; group therapy; treatment of paraphilias and sexual dysfunction; Specialty consultations in forensic sexuality; Research in gender identity disorders and paraphilias, object relations and self psychology approaches as applied to psychological issues in group therapy.

Mary Anne Lothstein, Ph.D., M.Ed.
Coordinator, Grace S. Webb School
Case Western Reserve University
Individual and group child psychotherapy, family psychotherapy, assessment of borderline children, assessment and treatment of attention deficit disorders in children. Research on maternal depression.

David W. Lovejoy, Psy.D.   
Staff Neuropsychologist
The Virginia Consortium for Clinical Psychology (College of William & Mary, Eastern Virginia Medical School, & Old Dominion University).
Neuropsychological assignment and treatment of Adult ADHD, traumatic brain injury, and stroke. Brief treatment of post-injury adjustment disorder.

Howard Oakes, Psy.D., ABPP/ABCN
Director, Postdoctoral Program in Clinical Neuropsychology
Associate Director, Head Injury Program
University of Hartford
Neuropsychological and psychological assessment; traumatic brain injury; rehabilitation and consultation.

Barbara Rzepski, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Co-morbid physical and emotional disorders in children and adolescents. Consultation-liaison services to primary medical care. Cognitive behavioral approaches to treatment.  Rehabilitation of children with traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury. Pediatric psychology.

Laura M. I. Saunders, Psy.D.
Child Psychologist
University of Hartford
Child, adolescent, and family psychotherapy; behavioral management strategies; clinical interests in children with attentional, hyperactive, impulsive, and disruptive behaviors; research in gay/lesbian youth issues.

James C. Seltzer, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Senior Consultant, Schizophrenia Initiative 
University of Virginia
Research and rehabilitation training with schizophrenia.

Dana Shagan, Psy.D.
Coordinator of Diversity Issues and Cultural Competence for the Psychology Department
Clinical Psychologist, Schizophrenia Rehabilitation Program
University of Hartford
Chronic mental illness, assessment, groups; adult and geriatric population.

Warren Thime, Ph.D. 
Program Manager, Schizophrenia Rehabilitation Program
Fordham University
Severe mental illness; group, family and individual psychotherapy, assessment.

David Tolin, Ph.D. 
Director, Anxiety Disorders Center
University of Arkansas
Behavioral and cognitive-behavioral therapies for anxiety disorders, particularly OCD and PTSD; treatment outcome research; experimental psychopathology; cognitive models of anxiety; clinical psychopharmacology.