Undergraduate Alumni

Benjamin Stevenson

Thesis Title: So to Speak, So to Think, So to Feel: Metaphor and the everyday poetics of coping with cancer
After York Psychology: York University, Department of Psychology, History, Theory and Critical Psychology Graduate Program
Today: Graduate Student

 

Megan Dunkley

Thesis Title: Where do we stand? Social recalibration and the cancer experience
After York Psychology: University of Ottawa, Counselling Psychology
Today: Registered Psychotherapist, Ottawa

 

 

David Herman

Thesis Title: Cancer survivorship, positivity, meaning-making & posttraumatic growth: A qualitative investigation into the post-treatment juncture
After York Psychology: University of Ottawa Medical School
Today: Medical Resident, The Ottawa Hospital

 

Adina Tanen

Thesis Title: Treatment satisfaction with an online couple-focused intervention for breast cancer
After York Psychology: University of Toronto Medical School
Today: Medical Student

 

Jason Isaacs

Thesis Title: Couples living with a permanent ostomy: A grounded theory analysis
After York Psychology: Dalhousie University, Department of Psychology, Clinical Psychology Graduate Program
Today: Clinical Psychologist, Toronto

 

Kristina Shatokhina

Thesis Title: Couples’ coping with breast cancer: Congruence in perception of support and relationship satisfaction
After York Psychology: Ontario Tech University, Forensic Psychology Graduate Program
Today: PhD Student

 

Victoria Sparrow-Downs

Thesis Title: ‘Getting Physical’ after treatment for breast cancer: Young couples’ experiences participating in an online exercise to help restore physical intimacy
After York Psychology: University of Ottawa Medical School
Today: Physician, University of Saskatchewan

 

Robin Back

Thesis Title: The formation of the therapeutic alliance in an online intervention for young couples facing breast cancer
After York Psychology: University of Toronto, Masters of Social Work Program
Today: Social Worker, Robin Back Therapy

 

Masha Koroleva

Thesis Title: Robust versus problematic relationship trajectories after breast cancer: A narrative analysis
After York Psychology:
Today: Literacy, Math and Special Education Specialist

 

Lyndsay Crump

Thesis Title: Understanding couple adjustment to cancer through the lens of “I-We” boundary fluctuations
After York Psychology: University of New Brunswick, Clinical Psychology Graduate Program
Today: Clinical Psychologist, New Brunswick