David M. Fresco, PhD
Associate Professor
Curriculum Vitae
Department of Psychology
226 Kent Hall Annex
Phone:  330-672-4049
Fax:  330-672-3786
Email:fresco@kent.edu
Personal Website:http://www.personal.kent.edu/~dfresco

Nina K. Rytwinski
Clinical Psychology Graduate Student (Entered: Fall 2004)
Undergraduate Institution: Queen's University
Curriculum Vitae
Email:  nrytwins@kent.edu
Personal Website:
Research Interests: 
Master's Thesis: A Test of the Depressive Evenhandedness Hypothesis for Attentional Biases to Word and Pictorial Stimuli (Defended: September 2006)
Doctoral Candidacy Exam: A meta-analytic study: Is depression associated with a negative attentional bias? (Defended: October 2007)
Dissertation: Do People with Symptoms of Depression Exhibit a Negative Attentional Bias or Depressive Evenhandedness? (Prospectus Defended: July 2008; Dissertation Defended: June 2009)
Internship: Eastern Virgina Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA (July 2009 to June 2010)

Eftihia-Effie Linardatos
Clinical Psychology Graduate Student (Entered: Fall 2005)
Undergraduate Institution: University of Oregon
Previous Experience: Portland VAMC
Curriculum Vitae
Email:  elinarda@kent.edu
Personal Website:
Research Interests: 
Master's Thesis: Qualitative and quantitative differences of worry among individuals with and without generalized anxiety disorder (Defended: July 2008)
Doctoral Candidacy Exam: Facial emotion recognition in major depressive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis (Defended: September 2009)
Brittain E. Lamoureux
Clinical Psychology Graduate Student (Entered: Fall 2005)
Undergraduate Institution: University of Georgia
Master's Institution: New York University
Previous Experience: Bellevue Hospital
Email: blamoure@kent.edu
Personal Website: (none)
Research Interests: psychological and relationship functioning of women who have experienced interpersonal violence; women's health; posttraumatic stress disorder; depression; the identification and treatment of depression and anxiety by primary care physicians
Master's Thesis: Coping with the anticipation of uncontrollable aversive events
Doctoral Candidacy Exam: Treating Comorbid Posttraumatic Stress and Substance Use Disorders: A Meta-Analytic Review (Defended: September 2009)
Shauna Clen
Clinical Psychology Graduate Student (Entered: Fall 2007)
Undergraduate Institution: University of Connecticut
Previous Experience: University of Connecticut Psychology Department, Yale University Department of Psychology, and Hawaii Clinical Research Center
Curriculum Vitae
Email:  sclen@kent.edu
Personal Website:
Research Interests:  The etiology, maintenance and treatment of major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder. The influence of personality variables, self-appraisals, self-esteem, hopelessness, hopelessness specificity, explanatory flexibility, emotional regulation, and emotional reactivity on the onset and course of MDD. The influence of anxiety sensitivity, emotion dysregulation and emotional reactivity on GAD, social anxiety disorder, panic disorder and agoraphobia. The different manifestations and functions of worry and rumination in GAD and MDD.
Master's Thesis:
Jessica Flynn
Clinical Psychology Graduate Student (Entered: Fall 2009)
Undergraduate Institution: Queen's University
Master's Institution: Queen's University
Curriculum Vitae
Email:  jflynn12@kent.edu
Personal Website:
Research Interests:  The development of emotion dysregulation and the role of dysregulated emotions in the expression and emergence of mood and anxiety disorders; primarily generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive disorder. The effect of acceptance and mindfulness techniques on emotion dysregulation, anxiety, and depression. Physiology of emotion. Dynamic systems.
Master's Thesis: The relations between emotion regulation and emotional acceptance in adolescent girls.