Theses and Dissertations from Molloy's Graduate and Doctoral Programs; current programs include Business, Clinical Mental Health, Criminal Justice, Education, Music Therapy, Nursing, Social Work, and Speech-Language Pathology. All dissertations have been published through ProQuest's ETD Administrator software. The copyright for all thesis and dissertations is held by the author.
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
A Phenomenological Investigation of Academic Momism: Perceptions of Female College Faculty’s Role Expectations in High-Stakes STEM Courses, Donna Cempa-Danziger
A Thematic Analysis of the Clinician's Experience of Individual Music Therapy in Skilled Nursing Facilities with Older Adults, Jaycie Perretta
Decolonizing my Classroom During the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Autoethnographic Study, Nadia Khan-Roopnarine
‘Let Them Be Who They Are’: Discovering Special Education Teachers’ Perceptions of Oppressive Normativity and Their Practice of Celebrating Neurodiversity, Caitlin Sweetapple
Mixed Method- How Do Medical-Surgical Nurses Provide Compassionate Care to Patients in the Face of Adversity?, Diane D. Kret
Music Therapist Experiences of Meaningful Moments in Short-term Medical Settings: A Thematic Analysis, Haojie Lyu
Passing the Camel through the Eye of the Needle: Documenting a Culture of Teacher Praxis at an Affluent Catholic High School, Nicholas S. Vasiliades
Perceptions of Secondary Music Educators on the Transition to, and First Years of the Every Student Succeeds Act, Thomas Rizzuto
Professional Development For Veteran Teachers: Let Them Speak!, Livia M. Gama Fagundes
Seeing the World Through Their Eyes: The Impact of Place Attachment on Teachers' Understanding of Worldviews, Kathleen Murray
The Connections in Relationships Among Autistic and Neurotypical Adolescents Participating in a Virtual, Inclusive, Performative Music Therapy Group, Laura Silvestain
The Experiences of an Individual with Parkinson's Engaging in a Relationship-based, Improvisational Music Therapy Group, Daniel DeLucia
The Non-verbal Expressions and Experiences of an Autistic Adolescent in Improvisational, Relationship-based Music Therapy, Naoko Funahashi
The Role of Affinity Group Membership For Marginalized Music Therapy Students and Professionals, Fakoya A. Jack-Vilmar
Toward a Transdisciplinary Model of Social Justice in Academic Librarianship: Promoting Critical Awareness within Advocates and Privileged Allies, Judith L. Brink Drescher
Understanding the Homesick Experience Through the Narratives of First-Year College Residential Students, Talita Santos Ferrara
Women in the Superintendency: A Phenomenological Study of Women Superintendents’ Perceptions of Social Capital, Victoria Catalano
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
A Meaningful Paradox of Color-Blind Racism and Racial Literacy: Understanding the Phenomena of White Women Teachers Educating Students of Color, Alaisa Rigoni Grudzinski
A Narrative Inquiry: What Does It Mean to Be a Black Male Teacher?, Nathaniel Marner
An Exploration of Music Therapists' Experience of Simultaneous Trauma During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Phenomenological Inquiry, Nadia Mary Flutie
A Quantitative Analysis of Newly Practicing Nurses' Perceived Self-Efficacy, Assertiveness, and Interprofessional Collaboration, Janice Baglietto
A Study on the Perception and Influence of Whiteness in White Music Therapists, Maria Abramovich
Co-Creating a Culture of Belonging through the Relational Co-Teaching Framework: A Critical, Transformative Auto|Ethnography, Elizabeth L. Stein
Deconstructing the Clinician: An Auto-Ethnographic Study, Nicole Moy and Natalia Alvarez-Figueroa
Inpatient Pediatric Nurses’ Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs, and Practices of Infant Safe Sleep, Francince Bono-Neri
Parents Raising Children with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities in Jamaica: A Grounded Theory Approach, Maureen Lowers-Roach
Positioning Co-Teachers in an Integrated English as a New Language Class: Making Sense of Teaching Roles, Kelley E. Cordeiro
Puppets in Music Therapy: A Qualitative Study, Kaitlyn Lewis
Racial and Ethnic Representation in Music Therapy Education, Eden M. Medina
Should Private Prisons in the U.S. be Abolished, Nancy Anzalone
The Development of Therapeutic Alliance in Long-Term and Short-Term Music Therapy Treatment, Brooke Morris
The Experience of Music Therapists in Delivering Telehealth During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Nicole Gelfand
The Influences of Language Barriers in Music Therapy, Kohei Mori
The Music Therapist’s Experience of Flow During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Phenomenological Inquiry, Kaitlyn Upshaw
The Music Therapist's Experience of the Client-Therapist Relationship in Improvisational Voicework: An Interpretive Phenomenological Inquiry, Samantha Schick
The Prevalence of Hip Hop Music in Music Therapy Education & Practice, Dannyele C. Crawford
The Role of Telehealth in Music Therapy Practice During the COVID-19 Global Pandemic Through the Lens of the Music Therapist: A Survey, Brianne Brunick
Toward an Understanding of Student Agency Within Institutional Dis/ableism: A Critical Phenomenological Study, Shalinie Sarju
Understanding the Lived Fertility Preservation Experience from Diagnosis to the Start of Adjuvant Therapy: A Study of Young Breast Cancer Survivors, Kristine Ferrucci-Egan
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
A Culturally Situated Perspective of Music Therapy in Hungary, Sylvia E. Foldes-Berman
A Narrative Analysis of Psychological Adjustments of Professionals Transitioning to Work Following Cerebral Vascular Accident (CVA), Mabel Munachiso Korie
A Phenomenological Study of the Therapeutic Relationship in Tele-Music Therapy in the US, Kiyomi Kamiya Glover
From Student to Practitioner: Formal Music Education’s Influence on The Practitioner’s Informed Music Therapy Practice, Daniel M. Salaway
Global Citizens in the 21st-Century Classroom: A Mixed-Methods Study of Motivational Aspects of Global Awareness, Robert James Windorf
Individual Characteristics and Shared Decision Making for Stroke Prevention in Atrial Fibrillation, Patricia Nadraus
Navigating the Experience of Burnout of Immigrant Music Therapists in the United States, Naeun Lee
Neonatal Nurses' Perceptions of Providing Palliative Care in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Susan Di Nonno Chin
Temporal Pain Pattern Sequencing in the Older Adult After Joint Replacement Surgery, Jennifer B. Withall
The Relationahips between Health Behaviors of Women and Health Locus of Control among Black Caribbean Women and Black American Women with Hypertension, Camelle Charles
The Role of Music in Personal Therapy in Advanced Music Therapy Training: A Self-Inquiry, Jan Mark Casco
The Role of Personal Therapy for Chinese-Speaking Music Therapy Students: A Survey, Xinrui Liu
The Role of Verbal Skills in Analytical Music Therapy, the Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music, and Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy, Elizabeth Ingram
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Dialogic Teaching in a Detracked High School ELA Class: "We Talk Here", Signy Emler
Exploring the Use of Marimba in Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy with Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Lucas McCarren
Male Nurses’ Experience Of Gender Stereotyping Over The Past Five Decades: A Narrative Approach, Michael W. Finnegan
Religious Sister Educators: A Narrative Study Through a Feminist Lens, Lisa Peluso
The Experience of Female Veterans’ Transitioning to Post—Active— Duty Health Care, Sarah A. Bradwisch
The Experience of Songwriting in Music Therapy for Adults with Intellectual Disability, Jasper Lewis
The Roles of Absorption in Music Therapy, Michael John Russo
Towards an Understanding of the Testing Opt-Out Movement: Why Parents Choose to Opt Out or Opt In, Margaret Paladino
Understanding Group Dynamics in DIR-Based Improvisational Music Therapy with Autistic Children, Anne Therese Crean
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
A Phenomenological Inquiry into an Autistic Adolescent's Experience in Relationship-based Music Therapy from the Perspectives of the Adolescent and Parent, Diana N. Abourafeh
Factors Associated with College Students' Willingness and Readiness to Act in a Food Allergic Emergency, Olga Kagan
Health Information Security and Privacy: A Social Science Exploration of Nurses' Knowledge and Risk Behaviors with Security and Privacy Issues Focusing on Mobile Device Usage, Keith Richard Weiner
Maternal Child Health Nurses' Care of the Opioid Addicted Mother and Infant: A Grounded Theory Study, Alice Marie Nash
Millenial Nurses Connecting with Patients in the 21st Century: A Phenomenological StudyH, Heather Caramanzana
The Relationship of Breastfeeding Self-Efficacy to Breastfeeding Duration and Breastfeeding Exclusivity of Full-Term Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Mixed Method Study, Karen Hylton-McGuire
The Role of Entrainment on an Older Adult’s Stress and Anxiety: A Mixed Methods Study, Francesca Brennan
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
A Closer Exploration of Therapeutic Relationship through a Musical Mediuem: An Arts-Based Research Study, Michael Kelliher
An Analysis of Burnout and Music Therapy Methodologies, Samara Berry
An Exploration of Creative Arts-Based Self-Care Practices among Music Therapy Students, Marion Kaiser
A Teacher's Experience in Improvisational Music Therapy with her Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Phenomenological Inquiry, Inbar A. Kaplan
Factors Influencing the Perceived Stressors of New Graduate Nurses Transitioning into Acute Care Settings: A Secondary Data Analysis, Eileen K. Mahler
Middle school students’ knowledge of skin cancer, sun protective behaviors, and perceptions of acquiring skin cancer., Anna George
Mothers Voices: The Lived Experience of the Human Milk Banking Association of North America Milk Donor, Laura Marie Dambra-Candelaria
Psychometric Evaluation of the Professional Moral Courage (PMC) Scale in a Nurse Executive Population, Joanne Connor
The Impact of a Degree in Music Education on Music Therapy Professional Practice: A Qualitative Interview Study, Katherine Glathar
The Lived Experience of Relationship Transition in Significant Others Caring for a Partner with Younger Onset Dementia, Diane Peyser
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
An Exploration of Music Therapists' Perspectives on Preventing and Treating Postpartum Depression, Chengcheng Du
Exploring the use of the bass guitar as a clinical instrument within music-centered practice, Matthew J. Brady
Faith-Based Leaders Caring for Older Adults in a Natural Disaster: A Study of Hurricane Sandy, Mercy Joseph
Music Therapy with Adolescents in Crisis in America and Korea : A Cross-Cultural Analysis, Seulgi Kim
Parents’ Experiences of Music Therapy in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), Naoko Mizutani
Patient Complexity Factors and their Influence on Nurses' Perception of Staffing Adequacy, Margaret M. Duffy
The Experience of Countertransference for Music Therapists when Working with Children with Developmental Disabilities, Carly Caprioli
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
A Grounded Theory Study of How Parents Made the Decision about Residential Group Home Placement for their Adult Child with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities, Laura A. Sardinia-Prager
Clinical Supervisors' Experience with Conflict with Music Therapy Interns, Joanna M. Kelly
Exploring the Implications of Resource-Oriented Music Therapy for Medical Practice, Jacqueline M. Christen
The Experiences of Music Therapists Developing Music Therapy Programs in New York State Public Schools, Michelle Kovacs
