Smith School for Social Work provides students with a focus on clinical social work, integrating comprehensive educational theories, skills and practices of clinical work. This collection includes full-text access to theses and dissertations, as follows:

  • Smith College School for Social Work Theses, 2007-present Available to anyone both on and off-campus (some with a 5 year restriction limiting access to the Smith community), anyone via interlibrary loan
  • Smith College School for Social Work Dissertations, 2009-present Available to the Smith community including off-campus access with a current Smith login, anyone on campus, and anyone via interlibrary loan

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2021

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Affect-laden lessons in relationality : a study of forced termination in the internship setting, Catherine Balletto, Dissertation

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"About the brokenness, and the darkness, and the light" : an exploratory study on the effects of the correctional environment on correctional mental health professionals, Stephanie A. Gangemi, Dissertation

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The deinstitutionalization of minds : what does deinstitutionalization mean for Bulgarian social workers, Dimitar Andreev Germanov, Dissertation

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Too close to home : intergenerational trauma and a caregiver's ability to provide support to their child during trauma treatment, Heather Gregory, Dissertation

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Am I there yet? : emerging adulthood for women in an American Orthodox Jewish context, Shira Kessler, Dissertation

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Experiences of transgender and non-binary people of color in psychotherapy, Silvia L. Sandoval, Dissertation

2020

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An exploratory study of primary caregivers' knowledge of the risks and effects of adolescents' exposure to intimate partner violence, Jean Clarke-Mitchell, Dissertation

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Closer to home : the influence of parenthood on child trauma therapists' countertransference, Lisa Kennedy, Masters Thesis

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A story of identity construction : the example of social work and the North Carolina eugenics program, Dominica Francesca Lizzi, Dissertation

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The problem and the solution : the potency of relationships in addressing rural opioid use, Alison Smith Mitchell, Dissertation

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Efficacy and feasibility of a tele-mental health intervention to support caregivers caring for a child dependent on mechanical ventilation at home (DMVH), Yudy F. Muneton-Castano, Dissertation

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Teaching advocacy to second year Master of Social Work students in clinical field placements, Michael J. Rogers, Dissertation

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Awareness and understanding of internalized racial oppression by African American women clinicians and the influence on psychotherapy with African American female clients : a relational liberatory approach, LaTasha L. Smith, Dissertation

2019

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Culture, gender, and the social construction of borderline personality disorder, Allegra L. Comas, Masters Thesis

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System enactment : how do we understand this co-constructed phenomenon and the impact on clinicians, treatment processes and organizational climate?, Cathleen Morey, Dissertation

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BSW faculty perceptions of their gatekeeping role, Lynn Raine, Dissertation

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College counseling center clinicians who work with suicidal clients : an examination of negative countertransference and training, supervision, anxiety, and attitudes, Vasiliki Hallas Torres, Dissertation

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Factors associated with LGBTQ adolescents' seeking mental health services in school settings, Nichole C. Wofford, Dissertation

2018

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Behavioral neuroscience applied : a practice intervention with college students using orienting and interoception for stress management and self-regulation, Elizabeth Steck Anable, Dissertation

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The ethics of dying : an exploration of the right to suicide and clinician response to self-determination and suicidal ideation among adults who struggle with mental illness, Shelley Bair, Masters Thesis

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Living well in the lives of African American women with chronic illness, Gabrilla Ballard, Masters Thesis

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Program evaluation of a transitional age youth program : a project based upon an investigation at ServiceNet, Northampton, Massachusetts, Andrea Carnegie Chester, Masters Thesis

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Veterans' stories of substance use, recovery, and moral injury : an exploratory study, Chelsea Faria, Masters Thesis

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They will never understand : the challenge of returning to civilian life, Dane Christopher Frost, Dissertation

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I'll hang around as long as you will let me : hard country music, the white working class, and the experience of loss in the American neoliberal context, Nicholas Johnston, Masters Thesis

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The influence of protective factors on substance use severity when depression and trauma symptoms are reported by rural female opioid abusers, Judith Avery Josiah-Martin, Dissertation

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Mental health interventions for homeless young children through an attachment theory lens : a review and analysis of the literature, Kimberly McKittrick, Masters Thesis

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Stuck, suffering, and struggling to launch : building typologies of psychopathology from a clinical sample of millennial emerging adults : an exploratory study, Marki L. McMillan, Dissertation

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Factors influencing transgender Latina immigrants' decision to immigrate to the United States : a qualitative study, Olivia Mora-Lett, Dissertation

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In the wake of vicarious traumatization : making meaning through Jungian theory and engaged Buddhism, Angel Haydn Reed, Masters Thesis

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Socioeconomic status and autism spectrum disorder : caregivers' solutions to overcoming service barriers, Rachel Rodriguez, Masters Thesis

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Exploring the implementation of restorative practices in Bay Area schools, Vanessa Shea, Masters Thesis

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Caregiver experiences of a therapeutic nursery program : an exploratory study, Jaimie Tyler, Masters Thesis

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Being Asian and American : bi-cultural subjectivity of therapists in clinical social work practice, Rosie Yap, Dissertation

2017

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A mixed-method study examining the intersection of race and sexual violence among LGBTQ prisoners, Sarah J. Aftab, Masters Thesis

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Natural Lifemanship trauma-focused equine assisted psychotherapy model : is there a change in children's feelings and behaviors over time?, Julia M. Alexander, Masters Thesis

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The impact of Islamophobia on the Muslim American community : accounts of psychological suffering, identity negotiation, and collective trauma, Areeza Ali, Masters Thesis

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Two-sided healing : an exploration of Jewish women psychotherapists' experience, Aviva Bellman, Masters Thesis

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"As if" : an exploration of the relationship between clincians' theoretical orientations and their conceptualizations of patient-generated metaphors in psychotherapy, Joe Berlin, Masters Thesis

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Exploring clinical best practices for working with the co-occurrence of psychosis and a trauma history, Sierra Leah Black, Masters Thesis

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Gestalt therapists' perspectives on gender in the therapeutic relationship : implications for anti-oppressive practice, Benjamin Philip Borkan, Masters Thesis

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Experiences of first generation college students, Eleanor Grace Stulting Bradley, Masters Thesis

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A qualitative study to explore Puerto Rican caregiver needs and supports to better feed their children, Nelly E. Carmona, Masters Thesis

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Queer women's sexual experiences after sexual violence in a non-heterosexual relationship, Amee Catalano, Masters Thesis

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Exploring refugees' sense of belonging in Chittenden County, Vermont : retrospective accounts of the resettlement process, Sam Chalfin, Masters Thesis

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An exploration of the relationship between religion and spirituality and acculturation stress among international students in the western Massachusetts, Mun Ying Kennis Cheng, Masters Thesis

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From social work to sex therapy : increasing clinicians' sexual intervention self-efficacy beliefs, Kijao Corbett, Masters Thesis

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Educator perceptions of student mental health services in high-performing charter schools, Gabriel Friedl Corens, Masters Thesis

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Kinship diversion : exploring experiences of relative probate guardianship in Los Angeles, CA., Alison Davies, Masters Thesis

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Do characteristics of children and families influence reported caregiver burden? : a secondary data analysis of the 2009-2010 national survey of children with special health care needs, Chelsea Davies, Masters Thesis

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Patient perspectives on mental health therapy for myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and chronic fatique syndrome (CFS), Brooke Denmark, Masters Thesis

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The problem of evidence : philosophy of science and evidence based practice in clinical social work, Bronwyn Deprés, Masters Thesis

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Understanding the connection between the supervisory relationship in social work field education and early career social workers' self-efficacy beliefs in the work place : a relational study, Jean-Paul Des Pres, Dissertation

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Provider perceptions of people who inject drugs and harm reduction approaches, Ciara DeVozza, Masters Thesis

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The voices of survivors of suicide : experiences with forms of support after a suicide loss, Nicole Dietze, Masters Thesis

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The celebration of Black beauty in online spaces as a form of social and political resistance, Sabriya Dillard, Masters Thesis

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Perinatal depression screening : using antenatal depression screens and patient demographics to predict risk for postpartum depression :, Jackson Doyle, Masters Thesis

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Found in translation : how social work education can support student practice with language-discordant client systems, Martha Ann Early, Masters Thesis

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Barriers to mental health treatment for refugees in Maine : an exploratory study, Hayley Fitzgerald, Masters Thesis

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Navigating romantic relationships among individuals aging out of foster care, Margaux E. Flood, Masters Thesis

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Mapping the sexuality-health-technology nexus : an arts based exploration, Adam Joseph Gaubinger, Masters Thesis

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"They don't say it up front" : immigrant-origin high school students' experiences of disrespect and racial microaggressions by teachers : a project based upon a group research investigation, Leah A. Gold, Masters Thesis

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Race and the internet : ǂb social media and multiracial identity development, Pilar Hailé-Damato, Masters Thesis

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The role of spirituality in the reconstruction of identity in older women, Elin Hardenberg, Masters Thesis

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How our service systems impact resiliency and recovery of domestic violence survivors : clinical perspectives, Emily Riddle Jacobs, Masters Thesis

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"We were all kind of learning together" : the emergence of LGBTQ affirmative psychotherapy & social services, 1960-1987: oral history study, Boston, MA, Sarah Blair Jenkins, Masters Thesis

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"if you lived in your body, you'd be home by now" : clincians' perspectives on somatic practices in psychotherapy, Natasha Sunil Jeswani, Masters Thesis

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The impact on college students of sexual assault disclosure by a peer : an exploratory study, Margaret Klein, Masters Thesis

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Substance abuse and recovery : does peer recovery coaching reduce frequency of crisis, relapse, hospitalization, incarceration, DCF involvement, and other public services use in substance abusers? : a project based upon an agency-based investigation, Stephanie Koenig, Masters Thesis

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Compassion fatigue, compassion satisfaction, and mindfulness among social workers and graduate-level social work interns, Brian Kornobis, Masters Thesis

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"Translating the language of the body" : engaging individuals who self-harm in psychodynamic psychotherapy, Dani Kowalski, Masters Thesis

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Looking for ghosts everywhere : the effects of vicarious traumatization on mental health interpreters who work with refugees, Sophie Anna Lembeck, Masters Thesis

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Working with trauma : a qualitative and retrospective exploration of the experiences of clinicians who work with trauma, Allyson Rebecca Lent, Masters Thesis

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Benefits and challenges of offering peer support to student survivors of campus sexual violence, Zoe Amanda Levenson, Masters Thesis

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Exploring the impact of mental health on infant growth in urban West Bengal, India :: a retrospective cohort study exploring the association of mental health status of parents with a deterioration in weight for age z score (as an indicator of under-nutrition) of children under the age of 4 in a cohort living in an impoverished urban community in West Bengal, India, Noah E.C. Levinson, Masters Thesis

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Reimagining the past, present, & future: science fiction, fantasy, and Afrofuturism as modes of healing for communities of color, Kai Teresa Atacador Lynch, Masters Thesis

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Gender identity and childhood experiences : an introductory quantitative study of the relationship between gender identity and adverse childhood experiences, Liam P. Malone, Masters Thesis

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Clinicians' perspectives on somatic interventions in the treatment of trauma, Margaret Rose Malone, Masters Thesis

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Understanding and negotiating access to preventative sexual health care biotechnology in online communities : a thematic analysis of the Facebook group ""PrEP Facts: rethinking HIV prevention and sex, Dorothy Manley, Masters Thesis

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Understanding the impact of shame in designing a psychodynamically oriented therapy model to assist formerly incarcerated African American women, Laverne Marks, Dissertation

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Social climate in social work training : the influence of the learning environment on the emerging social worker's professional identity as an agent of social justice, Tatiana Martínez, Masters Thesis

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And fetus makes three :a theoretical exploration of clinician pregnancy in psychoanalytic and relational frameworks, Christian Anne McCarroll, Masters Thesis

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The experience of resident assistants encountering nonsuicidal self-injury use by a resident : a mixed methods investigation, Katherine M. McCarthy, Dissertation

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Alexithymia and comparison of alternative treatments to talk therapy for people who have a mental health diagnosis, Rebekah Milhoan, Masters Thesis

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Classism in the therapeutic alliance : implications for clinical social work practice, Taylor Millard, Masters Thesis

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The retrospective narratives of young adults with ADHD : how self-concept development impacts psychosocial functioning, Malcolm B. Miller, Masters Thesis

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A correlative analysis of mystical experiences and lasting symptom improvement from MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for treatment-resistant PTSD : a project based upon an investigation sponsored by Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), Michiko A. Mitsunaga-Whitten, Masters Thesis

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From yellow peril to model minority : ǂb deconstruction of the model minority myth and implications for the invisibility of Asian American mental health needs, Lynda Anne Moy, Masters Thesis

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Playing together : a clinician's perspective on the use and value of play in therapy with couples, Teresa Musick, Masters Thesis

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Examining therapist attachment style in clinical work : an exploratory study, Mallory Nesburg, Masters Thesis

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The translation of anti-racism values from the professional into the personal for white social workers who have lived in north or west Philadelphia, Lauren Hope Newman, Masters Thesis

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Innocent until proven guilty : ǂb not for the families vicarious incarceration within a county jail, Molly O'Connor, Masters Thesis

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An examination of gratitude among the elderly : a qualitative research project based upon an independent investigation, Jaymie E. Oppenheim, Masters Thesis

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Anti-racist and trauma-informed institutional change : a process evaluation of professional learning communities at one charter high school : a project based on an investigation at a charter high school, Zoë Page, Masters Thesis

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An exploration of the relationship of obsessive-compulsive disorder symptoms and traumatic experiences in adult clients, Sasha Pansovoy, Masters Thesis

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Exploring experiences of, and responses to, microaggressions as disrespect from teachers in high school classrooms : a person-centered approach, Emily Ann Peck, Masters Thesis

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Clinician vulnerability : openness to influence in relational therapy, Christine Powers, Masters Thesis

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Mass-Health (Medicaid) clinicians' perceptions of training and preparedness for practicing in-home therapy with children and families, Tiffany Renée Privat, Masters Thesis

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You don't know how strong you are until being strong is your only option : examining resiliency in survivors of a parent or caregiver's suicide, Haley A. Rice, Masters Thesis

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The paradox of play : an exploration of clinicians' experiences of play in the workplace, Nina Rossello, Masters Thesis