Clinical Poster Presentations for Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology

Presentations

Below is a select list of first-author posters and presentations from recent years. Bolded text indicates a current student.

Ali, A. (2025, March 13-15) Predictors of deliberate self-harm and other forms of institutional misconduct at central prison, Rawalpindi, Pakistan – an archival study [Poster presentation]. Annual Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society, San Juan, Puerto Rico. 

Bayeh, R., Setti, F., Rasmussen, A., Sunohara, M., Ryder, A. G. (2024, September). Development of the International Student Distress Scale: Preliminary results from a sample of international students in an Anglophone university in Quebec [Oral presentation]. 3rd International Forum of the Latino-European Social Psychological Research Network focused on Migration, Displacement and Inclusion (LaEuMiDI 2024). Migration & Diversity Lab, University of Limerick, Ireland.

Bayeh, R. (2024, July). Autism in mental health care settings: Unpacking culture, power, and privilege [Oral presentation of book chapter]. Desiring Autism and Neurodivergence in Education: Critical, Creative, and Decolonial Perspectives Symposium. Re-Storying Autism and Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Benda, M. S. (2024 November). An investigation of the neural basis of anger attribution bias in irritable youth [Symposium talk presentation]. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA.

Benda, M. S., Somekh, M., & Roy, A. K. (2024, September). Neural correlates of positive and negative emotion dysregulation in children [Poster presentation]. FLUX Society for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Annual Congress, Baltimore, MD.

Bezahler, A., Kuckertz, J. M., Falkenstein, M. J., & Van Kirk, N. (2025, April). Identifying the role of Post-Traumatic Stress Severity on Sexual Minority Adults with OCD: A Step-Wise Approach [Poster presentation]. Annual Conference of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, Los Vegas, NV.

Bezahler, A. (2024, November). OCD among sexual minority adults: machine learning [Invited talk]. Tic and OCRD special interest group, Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.

Bezahler, A., Falkenstein, M. J., & Kuckertz J. M. (2024, November). Evaluating the longitudinal reliability of the Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale Among Sexual Minority Adults with OCD [Poster presentation]. Annual Conference for the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.

Bezahler, A., Falkenstein, M. J., Wilkerson, S., Kuckertz J. M. (2024, April). What do you believe? Differentiating obsessive beliefs between Bi+, Gay/Lesbian, and Heterosexual adults with OCD [Poster presentation]. Annual Conference of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, Boston, MA.

Bezahler, A., Falkenstein, M. J., Wilkerson, S., Kuckertz J. M. (2024, April). Clinical and demographic differences between adults with OCD presenting for initial versus additional exposure and response prevention treatment [Poster presentation]. Annual Conference of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America, Boston, MA.

Bidopia, T. & Burke, N.L. (2024, September 26-28). Exploring disparities in eating disorder risk across intersecting identities: A scoping literature review [Poster presentation]. Eating Disorders Research Society Annual Meeting, Sitges, Spain.

Bidopia, T., Yermash, J., Wong, A., Jose-Ruiz, R., Rasmussen, A., & Burke, N.L. (2024, March). The development of disordered eating and body image issues in Latina adolescents: A grounded theory [Oral presentation]. The Academy for Eating Disorders International Conference on Eating Disorders, New York, NY, United States.

Calcetas, A.T., Arentoft, A., Guzman, V. A., Lee, H., Cham, H., Culhane, J. E., Oleas, D. S., Slaughter, A. W., Ajayi, A., Ayo, O., Ashford, M.T., Di Benedetto, J., Diaz, A., Kubo Germano, K., Parkins, S., Talavera, S., Nosheny, R., Rivera Mindt, M. (2025, February 12-15). Study partner types and prediction of neuropsychological test performance: Implications for underrepresented populations in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Cohort [Poster presentation]. International Neuropsychological Society Conference, New Orleans, LA, United States.

Calcetas, A.T., Arentoft, A., Lee, H., Cham, H., Ashford, M.T., Diaz, A., Ajayi, A., Ayo, O., Camuy, A., Culhane, J. E., Kubo Germano, K., Guzman, V. A., Parkins, S., Talavera, S., Rivera Mindt, M. (2024, July 28-August 1). Study partner-reported decline as a predictor of diagnostic progression in underrepresented populations in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) Cohort [Poster presentation]. Alzheimer's Association International Conference, Philadelphia, PA, United States. 

Calcetas, A. T., Chen, C., Bordyug, M., Membreno, R., Rantis, P., Gonzalez, A., Edwards, L.,Thomas, K. R., Liu, T., Bangen, K. J. (2024, February). Carotid stiffness is associated with poorer language abilities in older adults without dementia [Poster presentation]. International Neuropsychological Society Conference, New York, NY.

Callahan, P. (2025, March). Believing everything you read but trusting no one: Dimensions of belief in misinformation and political conspiracy theories [Paper presentation]. American Psychology-Law Society Annual Conference, San Juan, PR.
 
Callahan, P., Ardesia, M., & Rosenfeld, B. (2025, March). Approaches to evaluating people accused of violent extremism [Paper presentation]. American Psychology-Law Society Annual Conference, San Juan, PR.

Callahan, P.A., Ardesia, M., Rivers, F., & Rosenfeld, B. (2024, June). A grounded theory approach to ideological radicalization [Paper presentation]. International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services, San Francisco, CA.

Callahan, P.A, & Rosenfeld, B. (2024, March 20-24). Moderators of the relationship between beliefs and behavior among ideological extremists [Paper presentation]. American Psychology-Law Society Annual Conference (AP-LS), Los Angeles, CA.

Callahan, P.A, Rosenfeld, B., & Rotter, M. (2024, March 20-24). The role of ideology in targeted violence: A systematic review [Paper presentation]. American Psychology-Law Society Annual Conference (AP-LS), Los Angeles, CA. 

Callahan, P.A, Jeglic, E.L., & Calkins, C. (2023, June 20-22). Comparing the predictive validity of sexual recidivism risk assessment instruments for individuals with and without intellectual disabilities [Paper presentation]. Annual meeting of the International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services (IAFMHS), Sydney, Australia.

Culhane, J.E., Arentoft, A., Guzman, V. A., Cham, H., Slaughter, A. W., Lee, H., Oleas, D. S., Byrd, D.A., Calcetas, A.T., Rivera Mindt, M. (2025, February 12-15). Patterns of neuropsychological impairment among ethnoculturally diverse adults with young-onset dementia [Poster presentation]. International Neuropsychological Society Conference, New Orleans, LA, United States.

Culhane, J.E., Arentoft, A., Guzman, V.A., Cham, H., Byrd, D.A., Calcetas, A.T., Rivera Mindt, M. (2024, July 28-August 1). Young onset neurocognitive impairment, amyloid positivity, and psychiatric symptoms in underrepresented populations in the Health and Aging Brain Study: Health Disparities (HABS-HD) Cohort [Poster presentation]. Alzheimer's Association International Conference, Philadelphia, PA, United States.

Dougher, C., Lin, T., Fernandez, K., & Zimmerman, M. (2025, February 12-15) Dream recall, sleep quality, and cognitive performance [Poster presentation]. 2025 International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Conference, New Orleans, LA.

Dougher, C., Watson, M.E. Lin T., & Zimmerman, M.E. (2024, June). Gender and age differences on verbal and visual memory tasks in a college-level population [Poster presentation]. American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology Conference, Scottsdale, AZ.

Dougher, C., Watson, M.E., Lin, T., & Zimmerman, M.E. (2024, March). Sleep quality, visual and verbal memory performance, and head injury [Oral presentation]. Eastern Psychological Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA.

Dougher, C., Watson, M.E., Lin, T., & Zimmerman, M.E. (2024, February). Sleep wake chronotype, congruency of testing time, and cognitive performance [Oral presentation]. International Neuropsychological Society Conference, New York City, NY.
Fishbein, N., Pastro, B., Kimble, S., Hoyt, L., Cham, H., & Andover, P. (2025, April). Predicting negative urgency through depression and anxiety: the role of suicidal ideation and attempts [Poster presentation]. 2025 Suicide Research Symposium, held online.

Hosgor, M., Minami, H., Lee, Z., Shah Z, Brown R. (2025, March). The impact of secondary substance use diagnoses and quit history on motivation to quit smoking among adults with serious mental illness [Poster presentation]. Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, New Orleans, LA, United States.

Hu, S.X., Karvay, Y., Bidopia, T., & Burke, N.L. (2024, September 26-28). Acculturative stress and loss of control over eating: Exploring the moderating effect of impulsivity [Poster presentation]. Eating Disorders Research Society Annual Meeting, Sitges, Spain.

Hosgor, M., Nicholas J., Denning D., Brown T. (2024, November). The association of intraminority stress with substance use among sexual minority men: Moderating roles of community connectedness and coping self-efficacy [Oral presentation]. Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA, United States.

Hu, S. X., Karvay, Y., Yermash, J., & Burke, N. L. (2024, November). Weight-based teasing and eating disorders symptoms: Exploring the moderating effect of anxiety sensitivity [Poster presentation]. 58th Annual Convention of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia.

Ilagan, G. S., Conway, C. C. (2025, April). Mapping interpersonal vulnerabilities onto dimensions of suicidal ideation in a racially diverse sample of adults [Paper presentation]. In E. Ilyaz & V., Vine (Chairs). Lean on me: Expanding our idea of interpersonal processes in suicide for more inclusive and prevention-focused research. Suicide Research Symposium, Online.

Ilagan, G.S. (2024, November). Borderline personality disorder and interpersonal stress in adult daily life: A systematic review of experience sampling research [Poster presentation]. Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Personality/Personality Disorders Special Interest Group, Philadelphia, PA.

Jacoby, R. J. (Moderator), Forrest, L., Ilagan, G. S., Sarfan, L., Sweeney, M. (2024, November). How to secure funding for your research: Panel discussion spotlighting past winners of ABCT's Graduate Student Research Grant [Invited panel presentation]. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.

Karvay, Y., Hu, S., & Burke, N.L. (2024, November). Fear of evaluation, externalizing symptoms, and disordered eating behaviors and cognitions [Poster presentation]. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Conference, Philadelphia, PA, United States.

Karvay, Y., Burke, N.L. (2024, March). A systematic scoping review of conceptual models of Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder [Poster presentation]. The Academy for Eating Disorders International Conference on Eating Disorders, New York City, NY, United States.

Karvay, Y., Yermash, J., Bidopia, T., Jarcho, J.M., & Burke, N.L. (2024, September 26-28). Anorexia nervosa (AN), atypical AN, and healthy controls: Differences in disordered eating, depression, and anxiety by race/ethnicity [Poster presentation]. Eating Disorders Research Society Annual Meeting, Sitges, Spain.

Kramer, J., Cruise, K., & Curto, S. (2025, March). Do trauma reactions mediate the relationship between traumatic events and delinquency risk? Gender-based differences and additional mental health correlates [Paper presentation]. American Psychology-Law Society Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Kramer, J., Curto, S., Cruise, K., & Ford, J. (2024, September). Caregiver and youth agreement on reported traumatic event exposures among adolescents experiencing polyvictimization [Symposium presentation]. In J. Ford (Chair), Trauma screening and assessment with adolescents experiencing systems involvement: Challenges and opportunities in supporting adolescents identified as polyvictims. Annual Conference of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, Boston, MA, United States.

Kramer, J., Curto, S., Ford, J., & Cruise, K. (2024, June). Evaluating caregiver and youth agreement on reported traumatic event exposure and PTSD symptoms in a juvenile justice sample [Symposium presentation]. In K. Cruise (Chair), Trauma screening in juvenile justice. Annual Convention of the International Association of Forensic Mental Health, San Francisco, CA, United States.

Kimble, S., Pastro, B., Fishbein, N., & Andover, M.S. (2025, May). Investigating the relationship between help-seeking attitudes and perceived burdensomeness on suicidal ideation among LGBTQ+ individuals [Poster presentation]. 4th Annual Suicide Research Symposium, online.

Kimble, S., Mason, G., Germain, E., Gadi, A., Lynch, A., Hughes, C.D., Bozzay, M., Armey, M.F., & Schatten, H.T. (2024, November). Exploring the moderating role of LGBTQ+ identity and borderline personality disorder symptoms on the relationship between perceived burdensomeness and suicidal ideation [Poster presentation]. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies 58th Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA.

Lee, Z., Hosgor, M., Lee J., Shah Z., Minami H. (2025, March). Cigarette smoking initiation in adulthood: The roles of E-Cigarette use history and internalizing symptoms [Poster presentation]. Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, New Orleans, LA, United States.

Lee, Z. and Minami, H. (2024, November). Changes in depressive symptoms during smoking cessation attempt among adults receiving outpatient psychiatric treatment for mood disorders [Poster presentation]. Annual conference of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.

Lin, T., Dougher, C.C., Fernandez, K., Zimmerman, M.E. (2025, February). Sleep disordered breathing and processing speed in healthy young adults [Poster presentation]. International Neuropsychological Society Conference, New Orleans, LA.

Lin, T., Dougher, C.C., Watson, M.E., Zimmerman, M. (2024, March). Sleep disordered breathing, cognition, and stress in young adults [Poster presentation]. Eastern Psychological Association annual 2024 conference, Philadelphia, PA.

Lin, T., Dougher, C.C., Watson, M.E., Zimmerman, M. (2024, February). Sleep disordered breathing, cognition, and body mass index in young adults [Poster presentation]. International Neuropsychological Society annual 2024 conference, New York, NY.

Morgan, R. M., Conway, C. C. (2024, November). Within-person change in distress tolerance and generalized anxiety disorder symptoms: A daily diary study of high-neuroticism adults [Poster presentation]. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies 58th Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA, United States.

Murphy, M., Goldman, M., & Annunziato, R. (2025, April). Scoping review of quality of life and mental health among individuals affected by ichthyosis [Poster presentation]. Society of Pediatric Psychology Annual Conference, Phoenix, AZ.

Murphy, M.A. & Annunziato, R.A. (2024, November). Post-traumatic growth among pediatric transplant recipients and their caregivers: A scoping review [Poster presentation]. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA.

Oleas, D. S., Arentoft, A., Lee, H., Cham, H., Breen, E. A., Slaughter, A. W., Soto, A., Talavera, S., Guzman, V. A., Zimmerman, M. E., Arniella, G., Gebhardt, Y., Robinson Papp, J., & Rivera Mindt, M., for the SALUD Project. (2025, February). The immigrant health paradox and neurocognitive test performance in an ethnoculturally diverse group of U.S. immigrants [Paper presentation]. International Neuropsychological Society Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA.

Oleas, D.S., Rivera Mindt, M. (2024, May). The immigrant health paradox and cognition [Invited speaker]. The Study of Aging African American/Latinas/os for Understanding Dementia (SALUD)'s Community-Science Partnership Board Quarterly Meeting, New York, NY.

Pastro, B., Kimble, S., Schuttenberg, E., Blossom, J., & Andover, M.S. (2025, May). Online victimization and suicidality in LGBTQ+ youth: Exploring social support mechanisms [Data blitz presentation]. 4th Annual Suicide Research Symposium, online.

Pastro, B., Kimble, S., Schuttenberg, E.M., Blossom, J., & Andover, P. (2025, April). Online victimization and suicidality in LGBTQ+ youth: Exploring social support mechanisms [Data blitz presentation]. 2025 Suicide Research Symposium, held online.

Pastro, B., Schuttenberg, E.M., Blossom, J., & Andover, P. (2024, November). Exposure to self-harm online: Are LGBTQ+ youth at higher risk? [Poster presentation]. 2024 conference of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Philadelphia, PA.

Pastro, B. Schuttenberg, E.M., Blossom, J., & Andover, P. (2024, June). Digital resilience for rural LGBTQ+ adolescents: Can online LGBTQ+ community buffer risk for NSSI? [Data blitz presentation]. 2024 conference of the International Society for the Study of Self Injury, Ontario, Canada.

Rivers, F. R., Callahan, P., & Rosenfeld, B. (2024, June). The impact of distorted response style on offender needs and improvement [Paper presentation]. International Association of Forensic Mental Health Services, San Francisco, CA.

Rueppel, M., Eisenberg, A., Mulligan, V., Benda, M., Roy, A.K. (2024, November). Parental flooding predicts unsupportive parenting in mothers and fathers of young children with high irritability [Poster presentation]. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapy (ABCT) Annual Convention, Philadelphia, PA, United States.

Rueppel, M., Eisenberg, A., Mulligan, V., Benda, M., Roy, A.K. (2024, September). Maternal executive functioning, emotional flooding, and parenting behaviors during child tantrums [Poster presentation]. Flux Society for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Annual Congress, Baltimore, MD, United States.

Rueppel, M., Gordon, D., Moser, J.S., & Fitzgerald, K.D. (2024, April). Influence of effortful control on anxiety and irritability in preschool-aged children [Poster presentation]. Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) Annual Conference, Boston, MA, United States.

Shah, Z., Hosgor, M., Lee Z., Minami H. (2025, March). Smoking specific experiential avoidance reporting among smokers with mood disorders undergoing a quit attempt [Poster presentation]. Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, New Orleans, LA, United States.

Slaughter, A.W., Arentoft, A., Guzman, V., Cham, H., Lee, H., Oleas, D.S., Culhane, J.E., Calcetas, A.T., Rivera Mindt, M. (2025, February 12-15). Teleneuropsychology compared to in-person administration of a brief neurocognitive battery in the Study for Aging Latinas/os and African Americans for Understanding Dementia (SALUD) [Poster presentation]. International Neuropsychological Society Conference, New Orleans, LA, United States.

Wilkerson, S., DiCamillo, L., McKay, D. (2024, November). Development of an ultra brief version of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS-6) [Poster presentation]. Annual Conference of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies 2024, Philadelphia, PA, United States.

Yermash, J., Karvay, Y.G., Bidopia, T., Granemann, L., & Burke, N.L. (2024, November 14-17). Examining the relationship between generational status, acculturation, and disordered eating behaviors and cognitions [Poster presentation]. Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Yermash, J., Bidopia, T., Karvay, Y., & Burke, N.L. (2024, September). An exploration of generational status and acculturation as putative protective factors for disordered eating among college students [Poster presentation]. Eating Disorder Research Society Annual Meeting, Sitges, Spain.

Yermash, J., Bidopia, T., Karvay, Y., & Burke, N. L. (2024, March 14-16). Generational status and disordered eating: A systematic review [Paper presentation]. The Academy for Eating Disorders International Conference on Eating Disorders, New York City, NY, United States.