Counseling Psychology Sample Dissertations

Sample dissertation topics of Ph.D. students

• Native American Veteran’s Perceived Barriers and Facilitators of Seeking Treatment for PTSD
• Resilience in First-Generation Colege students
• An Examination of the Mediating Relations between Traditional Mexican Cultural Values and MMPI-2 Scales L, K, and 5 with Mexican Americans
• Effects of Equine-Facilitated Psychotherapy on Mental Health Outcomes: Meta and Content Analyses
• The Influence of Adult Attachment on Relationship Satisfaction Levels Moderated by Perceptions of Text Messaging
• Relationship among Racial Identity Integration, Cognitive Processes, and Attitudes towards RAcial Issues and Diversity among Multiracial Individuals
• Posttraumatic Growth in Chicana/Latina Survivors of Sexual Assult
• Effect of Hypnosis on Phantom Limb Pain
• Friendship Selection among African Americans
• Islamophobia and the Muslim American Identity: An Exploration of Gender, SES, and Self-Esteem
• The Effect of Interaction with a Therapy Dog on College Student Stress Levels as Measured by Physiological Indications
• The CTS2: One Size Does Not Fit All
• Towards a Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Psychology: Exploring MENA identity in a Post-9/11 Global Context
• The Effects of Perceived Discrimination and Cultural Protective Factors on Latinos’/as’ Psychological Health
• A Multicultural Examination of the Relationship Between Coping and Well-Being in Parents of Children with Disabilities
• The Relationship between Psychological Flexibility, Nonattachment, and Bicultural Identity Integration
• Radically Coming To Be: The Black Masculine’s Construction of Identity, Race, and Culture, and Contextual Elements of Sexuality
• Qualitative and Narrative Assessment of Self-Concept and Identity: A Grounded Theory on Ethnic and Racial Labeling in America
• Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) and Mexican/Mexican-American Youth Career Development, with a Special Focus on STEM fields
• Gender Differences in Academic Outcomes: The Role of Self-Efficacy and Racial Identity
• Effects of Hypnosis on Regression to Primary Process Thinking
• Testing a Dialectical Model of Meaning in Life and Well-Being in Four Cultures
• Understanding and Quantifying the Roles of Perceived Social Support, Pet Attachment, and Adult Attachment in Adult Pet Owners’ Sense of Well-Being
• The Effects of Deployment Stress and Cognitive Schema Disruption on Relationship Satisfaction among Non-Marital and Marital Partners of Service Members
• Exploring the Indigenous Structure of Vietnamese Personality: A Lexical Approach
• Positive Adaptation in Women Following Sexual Assault: A Grounded Theory Study
• Comparison of a Cognitive Behavioral Plus Life Review Intervention and a Life Review Only Intervention for Retired Adults over Age 65
• Efficacy of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
• Integrating Personality and Coping in Predicting Well-Being across Cultures
• Personality and Cultural Determinants of Social Anxiety in Asian Americans
• Effects of Stereotype Threat on Low-Income Individuals
• The Relationship between Gender Role Conflict and Self and Other Awareness in Male Counselors Treating Men.
• Childhood Gender Nonconformity and Adult Drive for Muscularity
• Qualitative and Narrative Assessment of Self Concept and Identity: A Grounded Theory and Ethnic and Racial Labeling in America.
• Effects of Brief Ego State Therapy on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Manualized Approach
• Effects of Perceived Discrimination on Asian Americans: A Daily Process Study
• Understanding and Quantifying the Roles of Perceived Social Support, Pet Attachment, and Adult Attachment in Adult Pet Owners’ Sense of Well-Being
• Integrating Personality & Spirituality as Predictors of Subjective Well-Being
• The Influence of Perceived Social Support on the Relationship Between Acculturation and Subjective Well-Being among Asian Indians
• Social Cognitive Career Theory and Hispanic Youth Career Development with a Special Focus on STEM Fields
• The Effects of Yoga on Body Dissatisfaction, Self-Objectification, and Mindfulness of the Body in College Women
• Integrating Personality and African American Racial/Ethnic Identity in a Comprehensive Model of Perceived Discrimination and Well-Being
• Self-Determination and Hedonic Well-being in a Cross-Cultural Perspective
• A Psychosociocultural Investigation of Psychological Well-Being among Chicana/o Undergraduates
• Biculturalism and Personality as Predictors of Subjective Well-Being in Chinese Americans
• The Validity of the Strong Interest Inventory in Predicting College Major Choice and Academic Achievement
• Familismo, Enculturation and Acculturation as Predictors of Psychological Well-Being
• Hypnosis of Pain: Live vs. Audio Recorded Inductions
• Cross Cultural Differences in Response Styles
• Nisei, Sansei, and Yonsei: Acculturation, Ethnic Identity, and Subjective Well-Being among Three Generations of Japanese Americans
• The Structure and Measurement of Self-Construals: A Cross-Cultural study of the Self-Construals Scale
• Toward Measurement of Self-Efficacy for Cross-Cultural Research
• The Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale, Form C: Normative Data of an American Indian Sample
• The Influence of Psychological Separation and Attachment on The Career Development of Filipino Americans
• The Experiences of Latina Graduate Students in Psychology Programs
• Experimental Pain in Hypnosis Research: Ischemic vs. Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (Tens)
• Battered Women’s Evaluations of their Intimate Partners as a Possible Mediating Factor between Abuse and Self-Concept
• An Investigation of Taiwanese Norms For the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale: Form C (Mandarin Chinese Translation)
• Examining the Relationship between Race Related Stressors and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder among African American Male Vietnam Veterans
• Is Beauty In The Eye Of The Beholder Or The Dominant Culture? Acculturation, Ethnic Identity, and Facial Attractiveness Perceptions of Asian American Women
• Testing Sociocultural and Ethnocultural Models of Eating Disorder Symptomatology in Asian-Indian American Women
• Development and Validation of an Enculturation Scale For Filipino Americans
• Spirituality and Race in the Counseling Preferences of African American Adults
• Relating Implicit Theories of Personality, Self-Monitoring and Self-Construals in the United States and Japan: Testing an Integrated Cultural Trait Psychology Theory
• The Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scare, Form C: Normative Data of A Mexican Sample