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Faculty Highlights

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Dr. Annemarie Slobig Dr. Anne Flanagan

Annemarie Slobig, Psy.D, Dean
Illinois School of Professional Psychology
Areas of Special Interest

  • Intrapsychic Humanism
  • Group Relations Training
  • Personal and Professional Development of Clinical Psychologists
Dr. Penny Asay

Penny Asay, Ph.D, Assistant Professor
University of Maryland
Areas of Special Interest

  • Sexual orientation & gender identity issues
  • Multicultural competence
  • Women’s career development
  • College student mental health
Dr. Sue Bae Dr. Sue Bae

Sue Bae, Ph.D, Associate Professor
University of Chicago
Areas of Special Interest

  • Cross-cultural psychology
  • Professional development
  • Multicultural psychotherapy
  • International psychology
  • Anxiety related disorders
Dr. Jenine Chiles Dr. Peter Reiner

Jenine Chiles, Psy.D., Consortium Director/Assistant Professor
Illinois School of Professional Psychology
Areas of Special Interest

  • HIV/AIDS
  • Community mental health
  • Underserved populations
  • GLBTQ
  • Diversity
  • Clinical Training and Supervision
Dr. Charles Davis

Charles Davis, Ph.D, Associate Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Areas of Special Interest

  • Multicultural Psychology
  • Ethnic Racial Identity Development
  • African-American Psychological Issues
  • Child and Adolescent Development and Psychotherapy
  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Sports Psychology
Dr. Judith Flaxman

Judith Flaxman, Ph.D., Professor
Northwestern University
Areas of Special Interest

  • EMDR
  • Sleep Disorders
Dr. Kathy Goggin

Kathy Goggin, Psy.D., Associate Professor
Illinois School of Professional Psychology
Areas of Special Interest

  • Psychoanalytic Theory & Psychotherapy
  • Spiritual and Transpersonal Issues in diagnosis and treatment
  • Consciousness Studies
  • Substance Abuse
  • Clinical Supervision
  • Integral Psychology
  • Indigenous/Cultural Healing Perspectives
Dr. Leah Horvath

Leah Horvath, Ph.D, Associate Program Chair
University of Kentucky
Areas of Special Interest

  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy
  • Treatment of individuals with self-harming behaviors and eating disorders
  • Relationship satisfaction
  • Treatment outcome research
Dr. Mark Kiel

Mark Kiel, Psy.D, Assistant Professor
Illinois School of Professional Psychology
Areas of Special Interest

  • Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic theory and application pieces
  • Clinical readiness for trainees in clinical psychology
  • Group Relations/Tavistock models of group/organizational psychology
  • Group Psychotherapy research, theory and application pieces.
  • Program development and interventions for organizations (particularly regarding diversity).
  • Projective/psychoanalytic interpretation of art forms
  • Institutional Research in the Personal and Professional Development program
Dr. Myra Lawrence

Myra Lawrence, Psy.D, Professor
Illinois School of Professional Psychology
Areas of Special Interest

  • Attachment issues in development, parenting and foster/adoptive parenting
  • Narrative Storytelling [to resolve trauma, promote attachment, facilitate interpersonal attunement, etc.]
  • Adoption, Cross-Cultural Adoption
  • Clinical Prevention & Intervention Program Development and Evaluation
  • School-based Program Development and Evaluation
  • Social Aggression, Bullying & Teasing

Myra Leifer, Ph.D., Professor
University of Chicago
Areas of Special Interest

  • Research in all areas of Child Maltreatment
  • Child & Family Issues
  • Attachment Issues Intervention with Children & Families
Dr.Robert Marshall

Robert Marshall, Ph.D., Director of Clinical Training, Assistant Professor
University of Chicago
Areas of Special Interest

  • Psychological Assessment
  • Use of therapists’ internal responses to guide interventions
  • Commonalities of therapists’ actions across theoretical orientations

Steven Miller, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Loyola University Chicago
Areas of Special Interest

  • Quantitative Studies
  • Personality and Individual Differences
  • Emotion
Dr. Kathleen O'Brien Dr. Marge Witty

Kathleen O'Brien, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Arizona State University
Areas of Special Interest

  • Forensic Psychology
  • Assessment for Forensics
  • Ethics
Dr. Scott Pytluk

Scott Pytluk, Ph.D., Associate Professor
University of California
Areas of Special Interest

  • Psychoanalytic Topics
  • Sexuality and Gender-Related Topics
  • Eating Disorders
  • Qualitative (e.g.: Grounded Theory, Case Studies) and Some Quantitative Methodologies
Dr. Mirjam Quinn

Mirjam Quinn, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Purdue University
Areas of Special Interest

  • Cross-cultural psychology
  • Social justice
  • Personality and individual differences
  • Women’s issues
  • Child development
  • Group therapy
  • AD/HD
  • Identity development
  • Quantitative studies
  • Mindfulness
Dr. Sandra Zakowski

Peter Reiner, Ph.D., Associate Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Areas of Special Interest

  • Psychoanalytic Theory and Therapy
  • Family Systems Theory and Therapy
  • Couple and Marital Dynamics and Treatment
  • Clinical Supervision
  • Integrative Psychotherapy
Dr. Neal Rubin Dr. Neal Rubin Dr. Steven Miller Dr. Steven Miller

Neal Rubin, Ph.D., Professor
University of Chicago
Areas of Special Interest

  • Psychoanalytic Case Studies
  • Therapy of Severe Disorders
  • Topics in International Psychology
Dr. Eli Schwartz

Eli Schwartz, Ph.D., Professor
Illinois Institute of Technology
Areas of Special Interest

  • Neuropsychological Assessment
  • Psychotherapy with Neurologically Impaired
  • Psychotherapy with ADD/LD
  • Psychopharmacology and Psychotherapy: combined treatment paradigm
  • Psychology and Spirituality

Margaret Smith-Zoeller, Psy.D., Associate Director of Clinical Training, Assistant Professor
Chicago School of Professional Psychology
Areas of Special Interest

  • Neocolonialism
  • Cross-cultural psychology
  • Native Americans
  • Clinical Competency areas
  • Clinical Supervision
Dr. Rahul Sharma

Rahul Sharma, Psy.D., Assistant Professor
Chicago School of Professional Psychology

Areas of Special Interest

  • Multicultural/Ethnic Diversity
  • South Asian issues
  • Domestic Violence (including batterer intervention)
  • Qualitative Research related to Diversity Topics
Dr. Andrew Suth

Andrew Suth, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
University of Chicago
Areas of Special Interest

  • Mourning and Loss
  • Assessment
  • Clinical treatment issues
  • Theoretical underpinnings of psychology, and psychodynamic and contemporary psychoanalytic theory
  • Adolescent parenting
  • Gay/Lesbian Identity Development
  • Neuropsychology
Dr. John Tirado

John Tirado, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Illinois Institute of Technology
Areas of Special Interest

  • Culture
  • Community Mental Health
  • Neuropsychology
  • Clinical Supervision

Courtland Tisdale, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Northwestern University
Areas of Special Interest

  • Intersection between basic cognitive psychology and psychotherapy
  • Practical use of formal psychological assessment
  • Outcomes research
Dr. David Van Dyke

David Van Dyke, Ph.D., Associate Professor
University of Georgia
Areas of Special Interest

  • Family psychology
  • Medical Family Therapy
  • Juvenile Delinquency
Dr. Margaret Warner

Margaret Warner, Ph.D, Professor
University of Chicago
Areas of Special Interest

  • Research on Person-Centered Groups
  • Client-centered or humanistic approaches to therapy with severe developmentally-based disorders
  • Gay-Lesbian issues
  • Spirituality
  • Schizophrenia
Dr. Julia Wernke

Julia Wernke, Ph.D., Associate Director of Clinical Training, Assistant Professor
University of Cincinnati

Areas of Special Interest

  • Organization Development
  • College mental health
  • Mental health care for veterans
Dr. Torrey Wilson

Torrey Wilson, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Loyola University Chicago
Areas of Special Interest

  • Health Psychology/Behavioral Medicine
  • Public Health/Prevention
  • Diversity/Multicultural Issues
  • Couples Treatment
  • Systems/Organizational Development
  • Student Development of Empirical Research

Marjorie Witty, Ph.D., Professor
Northwestern University
Areas of Special Interest

  • Client-centered therapy and the person-centered approach

Sandra Zakowski, Ph.D., Associate Professor
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Areas of Special Interest

  • Traumatic Stress
  • Refugee Issues
  • Health Psychology

Kaveh Zamanian, Ph.D., Associate Professor
California School of Prof. Psych:Fresno
Areas of Special Interest

  • Psychoanalytic Theory and Practice
  • Child and Adolescent Development
  • Addictions and Compulsive Disorders
  • Diversity with an Emphasis on Immigration and Acculturation
  • International Psychology and Relations
Dr. Susan Zoline

Susan Zoline, Ph.D., Associate Professor
DePaul University

Areas of Special Interest

  • Professional Ethics
  • Psychology and Judaism
  • Boundary Issues
  • Clinical Supervision
  • Special Needs in Children

 



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