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GSEP Professor and Graduates Published in Child and Youth Services & The North American Journal of Psychology

Pepperdine University Graduate School of Education and Psychology (GSEP) professor Dr. Susan Hall and graduate Dr. Keegan Tangeman were published in the Child & Youth Services journal. 

The Article Self-Efficacy in Incarcerated Adolescents: The Role of Family and Social Supports investigates the role of general and specific self-efficacy factors in positive family relationships and perceived social support within an U.S. incarcerated adolescent population.

Child & Youth Services is an international academic journal devoted to advancing knowledge and thinking about relational engagement with children, youth, their families, and communities.

Dr. Hall was also published alongside alumna Meghan Owenz in the North American Journal of Psychology. The article entitled Bridging the Research-practice Gap in Psychotherapy Training: Qualitative Analysis of Master’s Students’ Experiences in a Student-led Research and Practice Team explores the experiences of master’s students in a psychotherapy training program who participated in a student-led team designed to bridge a perceived research-practice divide. Qualitative analyses of three team meeting transcripts revealed that students experienced the meetings as a place for mentoring and support, suggesting that master’s psychotherapy programs should support novel teaching and training opportunities for students to integrate research and clinical practice.

Keegan Tangeman graduated from Pepperdine’s doctoral program in Clinical Psychology in 2008, and is an adjunct professor for the master’s program.

Meghan Owenz graduated from Pepperdine with an MA in Clinical Psychology in 2008, and is currently getting her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology at the University of Miami.