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Individual home pages for each of the full-time faculty listed below can be found by clicking on their names. These home pages include information on how to contact the faculty member, his or her research interests, the undergraduate and graduate courses that person teaches at the University of Indianapolis, and a listing of selected publications and presentations.

Full-Time Faculty

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Victoria Hilkevitch Bedford, Ph.D.
Rutgers University, 1986

Life-span development; family and aging; filial caregiving; sibling relationships; social networks; qualitative methods.
bedford@uindy.edu


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Tyronn J. Bell, Ph.D.
University of Illinois, 2003

Multicultural counseling and therapy, African American mistrust issues, adjustment issues for African American students attending predominantly white universities, interracial relationships, rehabilitation counseling
tbell@uindy.edu


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Jill Booker, Ph.D.
University of Arizona, 1992

Autobiographical memory; cognitive psychology
jbooker@uindy.edu


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David L. Downing, PsyD.
Director of Graduate Programs in Psychology and Associate Professor
Wright State University, 1985; Center for Psychoanalytic Study - Chicago, 1994

Certified psychoanalyst; psychoanalytical treatment of severe psychopathology; psychoanalytical analyses of art, film, literature; psycho-diagnostic assessment; professional identity development
ddowning@uindy.edu


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William D. Essman, Ph.D.
University of Michigan, 1989

Health psychology, behavioral pharmacology, psychotherapy, smoking cessation, substance abuse counseling
wessman@uindy.edu


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Joseph E. Hansel, Ph.D.
University of Kentucky, 2006

Clinical supervision and training; quantitative research methodology; cognitive-behavioral treatment of trauma; treatment of self-injurious behaviors; positive psychology.
hanselj@uindy.edu


Jacqueline L. Hess, PsyD, HSPP
Wright State University, 1993

Mind-body interactions in chronic pain; stress management; rehabilitation counsling; depressive disorders; PTSD; dissociative and psychotic disorders
jhess@uindy.edu


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Rick Holigrocki, Ph.D.
Director of Clinical Training
University of Windsor, 1996

Parent-child interaction assessment; projective assessment; clinical child psychology; developmental psychopathology; psychodynamically informed assessment and treatment; constructivism
rholigrocki@uindy.edu


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Margaret Ann Keaton, PsyD.
University of Indianapolis, 2006

Forensic psychology, forensic psycho diagnostic assessment, conduct disorder and personality disorders, juvenile delinquency, cognitive-behavioral therapy and ethnography.
keatonma@uindy.edu


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E. John McIlvried, Ph.D.
Dean of the School of Psychological Sciences
University of Akron, 1982

Depression/mood disorders; schizophrenia; clinical gerontology; cognitive processes and intellectual functioning in the aged; graduate training and professional development
jmcilvried@uindy.edu


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Daniel J. Munoz, Ph.D.
University of New York at Albany, 2006
Eating disorders, child obesity, behavioral weight management, psychological aspects of weight loss surgery, child and adolescent psychopathology and dialectical behavior therapy.
munozd@uindy.edu


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Michalis Poulakis, Psy.D.
University of Indianapolis 2002
Assistant Professor & Athens Campus Academic Liasion
Multicultural issues & diversity, addictions & binge drinking, interracial relationships, eating disorders & body image issues, elderly immigrants, cyberspace psychology.
poulakism@uindy.edu


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Nicole M. Taylor, Ph.D.
Psychological Services Center Director
University of Toledo, 1999

Coping and illness, religion and psychology, women's issues, cognitive-behavioral therapy
ntaylor@uindy.edu


Jacqueline Wall, Ph.D.
Director of Undergraduate Programs
University of Tulsa, 1989; Illinois Institute of Technology, 1995

Neuropsychology, rehabilitation psychology, industrial psychology, clinical geropsychology
jwall@uindy.edu


Debbie M. Warman, Ph.D.
University of Memphis, 2001

Cognitive-behavioral therapy; schizophrenia; reasoning and decision-making by individuals with psychosis; psychosocial treatments for the severely mentally ill
dwarman@uindy.edu


Adjunct/Part-Time Faculty

 

William Alexy, Ph.D.
State University of New York - Buffalo, 1981

 

Jessica A. Bissey , Psy.D.
University of Indianapolis, 2005

 

Dianna G. Cooper, Ph.D.
Purdue University - Lafayette, 2003

 

Gregory J. Eaken, Ph.D.
Indiana University - Bloomington, 2001

 

Kevin Hardin, Psy.D.
Indiana State University - Terre Haute, 1994

 

William Kallman , Ph.D.
University of Georgia, 1975

 

Steven Koch, PhD.
Indiana University - Bloomington, IN, 1996

 

Keith Magnus, Ph.D.
University of Rochester, 1996

 

David Polizzi, Ph.D.
Duquesne University, 2002

 

Elizabeth Polizzi, Ph.D.
Duquesne Univeristy, 2003

 

Christine M. Raches, Psy.D.
University of Indianapolis, 2004

 

Charles R. Ridley, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota - Minneapolis, 1978

 

Steven R. Rumble, Ph.D.
Indiana State University, 1985

 

Rosalind Schmutte , PsyD.
University of Indianapolis, 2002

 

Martha Simcox, Ph.D.
Indiana University - Bloomington, 1980

 

Jeramy Townsley, Ph.D.
Graduate Theological Union - Berkeley, 2004

 

Roger Ware, Ph.D.
University of Kentucky, 1972

 

 





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