The Targeted Violence Research Team currently has a 100% match success rate to APA-accredited internship sites. Following graduation, past graduate students from the Targeted Violence Research Team have received gainful employment within local, state, and federal agencies across the United States. Graduates from the team are currently serving in positions within correctional institutions, the judicial system, federal law enforcement (e.g., FBI), psychiatric hospitals, research centers, and independent practice.
Name | Internship Site | Internship Site Location | Year of Completion | Dissertation Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Patrick McGonigal* | Patton State Hospital (Forensic Track) | Patton, CA | 2024 | Identity-driven targeted violence: Attending to identity, emotion, and personality-related predictors of attitudinal and behavioral prejudice |
Maddie Eyer* | Office of Forensic Mental Health Services (OFMHS) | Tacoma, WA | 2024 | Harrasment, stalking, and violence on campus: An examination of persistent cases |
Elisha Chan | Oregon State Hospital | Salem, OR | 2024 | Risk factors for online and in-person stalking, intrusive harassment, and violence within a community sample |
Kyle Siddoway | Oregon State Hospital | Salem, OR | 2021 | Targeted violence on campus: A comparison of exposure and response to bias and otherwise motivated potential pre-incident behavior on a college campus |
Jessie Semmann | Phoenix VA Health Care System | Phoenix, AZ | 2020 | Targeted violence in schools: Warning behaviors of physical violence and other concerning behaviors in a public-school system |
Elizabeth Low | University of North Carolina School of Medicine (Forensic track) | Chapel Hill, NC | 2019 | Risk factors for co-occurring violent and suicidal behaviors among psychiatric inpatients |
Rosa Viñas-Racionero | Atascadero State Hospital | Atascadero, CA | 2018 | A multifactorial model of threat assessment activity applied to educational settings |
Heath Hodges* | US Medical Center for Federal Prisoners | Springfield, MO | 2017 | Weapon-Involved Violence and Mental Ilness: An Empirical Examination of the Policy Assumptions for Firearm and Other Dangerous Weapon Prohibitions |
Brandon Hollister | Mendota Mental Health Institute | Madison, WI | 2016 | Pre-Incident Behavior in a Collegiate Student Sample |
Sarah Hoff* | Patton State Hospital | Patton, CA | 2015 | Self-protective behaviors and campus threat assessment |
Charles Darrow | US Medical Center for Federal Prisoners | Springfield, MO | 2013 | Targeted Threats: An examination of thematic content and approach behavior displayed by mentally ill and non-mentally ill contactors |
Larry Golba | VA Central Iowa | Des Moines, IA | 2013 | Decision making processes of informant handlers |
Allissa Marquez* | Federal Correctional Complex | Butner, NC | 2013 | Emotional, social, & cognitive correlates of stalking and intrusive harassment |
Michelle Giresi | Western State Hospital | Tacoma, WA | 2012 | Mental health and needs assessment in juvenile justice: The use of the YLS/CMI and MAYSI-2 with a diversion sample |
Douglas Cacialli | US Medical Center for Federal Prisoners | Springfield, MO | 2010 | Predicting problematic approach towards politicians: Exploring the potential contributions of control theory |
Veronica Chavez | West Virginia University School of Medicine | Morgantown, WV | 2010 | Is everyone rated equal? An examination of factors related to sexual risk in ethnically diverse male adolescents who have sexually offended |
Valerie Gonsalves* | Mendota Mental Health Institute | Madison, WI | 2010 | Exploring online sexually explicit material: What is the relationship to sexual coercion? |
Julia McLawsen | Western State Hospital | Tacoma, WA | 2010 | Factors associated with the civil commitment of sex offenders: A comparison between four states |
Katherine Schoeneman | VA Portland | Portland, OR | 2008 | Targeted violence toward political figures: Identifying violence risk factors through thematic content analysis |
Grace Chang | West Virginia University School of Medicine | Morgantown, WV | 2008 | Effectiveness of content analysis in assessing suspect credibility: Counterterrorism implications |
Shannon Bader | Patton State Hospital | Patton, CA | 2007 | Antisocial thinking as a dynamic risk factor in rapists and child molesters |
Stephanie Bruhn | Munroe-Meyer Institute | Omaha, NE | 2006 | To change or not to change: An examination of factors related to willingness to change in sex offenders |
Richard Soto | Wilford Hall Medical Center/Lackland Air Force Base | San Antonio, TX | 2004 | Criminogenic personality and behavioral characteristics in substance abusers: An examination of the lifestyle model of substance abuse |
Russell Palarea | St. Elizabeth's Hospital (Forensic unit) | Washington, DC | 2004 | Stalking as a risk factor for domestic violence |
Jerome Baumgartner* | N/A - Psychology and Law PhD | N/A | 2003 | Protective security cases: An examination of characteristics related to multiple approach contact behavior towards the U.S. Congress |
Christmas Covell | Western State Hospital | Tacoma, WA | 2002 | Empathic deficits in sexual offenders: An integration of affective, social and cognitive constructs |
Mary Hatch-Maillette | VA Puget Sound | Seattle, WA | 2002 | Perception of workplace violence in psychiatric settings: Does gender play a role? |
William Reay | N/A - Psychology and Law PhD | N/A | 1999 | The relationship between restrictiveness of care and behavioral impairment |
David Washington* | Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital | Cambridge, MA | 1999 | Non-fatal workplace violence: Epidemiology, risk factors, and legal implications |
*Indicates a student who completed the joint MLS/PhD program with the Nebraska College of Law