Assumption College Graduate Program

M.A. in Counseling Psychology

Faculty

Leonard A. Doerfler

Leonard A. Doerfler
Director of the Counseling Psychology Program
Director of the Aaron T. Beck Institute for Cognitive Studies
Professor of Psychology, 1989
Fellow, Academy of Cognitive Therapy
B.S., University of Pittsburgh
M.A., Ph.D., University of Missouri-Columbia, 1982
Phone: (508) 767-7549, Office: Kennedy 133

Dr. Doerfler’s clinical and research interests include cognitive-behavioral and interpersonal models of mood disorders, predictors of psychiatric hospitalization, psychotherapy outcome assessment, psychosocial adjustment to life-threatening illness, and assessment of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder in heart attack survivors. Dr Doerfler is Director of the Counseling Psychology Program’s Aaron T. Beck Institute for Cognitive Studies. In addition, he is Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. Dr. Doerfler is a clinical psychologist.

Paula FitzpatrickPaula Fitzpatrick
Associate Professor of Psychology, 1996
B.A., Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1993
Phone: (508) 767-7550, Office: Kennedy 138

Dr. Fitzpatrick’s research focuses on understanding the function of perception and cognition in movement, the acquisition of new skills, and becoming proficient in performing these skills. Her current research investigates the role of touch in using hand-held tools, the perceptual and cognitive principals that foster the development of manual skills, and the kinds of movement control strategies that reduce cognitive effort in the production of skilled manual actions. Dr. Fitzpatrick is an experimental psychologist.

Maria D. KalpidouMaria D. Kalpidou
Assistant Professor of Psychology, 1998
B.A., Aristotle University (Thessalonki, Greece),
M.A., Tufts University,
Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1997
Phone: (508) 767-7294, Office: Kennedy 137

Dr. Kalpidou’s interests focus on socio-emotional development of young children. Her work examines the co-regulation of aversive behaviors in the mother-child interactions, the relationship of behavioral and emotional self-regulation in preschool age children, and psychosocial adjustment in immigrant children. Dr Kalpidou is a development psychologist.

Amy LyubchikAmy C. Lyubchik
Assistant Professor of Psychology, 2002
B.A., Clark University,
M.A., Ph.D., University of Rochester 1998
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Harvard Medical School
Phone: (508) 767-7390, Office: Kennedy 125

Dr. Lyubchik's clinical and research interests include the development of prosocial behaviors, such as the formation of secure attachments, social referencing, empathy and moral development in infancy and early childhood. Her current research explores the contribution of specific distortions in parent-infant interaction to the disorganization of the infant's attachment strategies. Dr. Lyubchik is a clinical psychologist.

Edmund F. O’ReillyEdmund F. O’Reilly
Coordinator of the Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies Concentration
Associate Professor of Psychology, 1975
A.B., Boston University,
M.A., Kent State College,
Ph.D., State University of New York at Albany, 1971
Phone: (508) 767-7554, Office: Kennedy 134

Dr. O’Reilly’s clinical and research interests center on how the social variables of self-disclosure and apology affect forgiveness. He is currently investigating the gravity of various personal offenses within the contexts of discovery versus disclosure. These are construed as contextual factors that may influence apology and forgiveness. Dr. O’Reilly is a clinical psychologist and is Coordinator of the Counseling Psychology Program’s Concentration in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies.

Peter F. Toscano, Jr.Peter F. Toscano, Jr.
Coordinator of the Child and Family Intervention Concentration
Practicum and Internship Program Coordinator
Associate Professor of Psychology, 1976
A.B., Clark University,
Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1976
Phone: (508) 767-7460, Office: Kennedy 124

Dr. Toscano’s clinical and research interests include adoption issues in children and adolescents, child maltreatment, and development psychopathology. He is a clinical psychologist and Coordinator of the Counseling Psychology Program’s Practicum and Internship Program and the Concentration in Child and Family Interventions. He is also Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and the Director of Child and Adolescent Services in the Ambulatory Psychiatry Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.