Faculty Research Interests

Bryan Cafferky

PhD, Marriage and Family Therapy - Kansas State University, 2015

• Meta-analysis
• Structural equation modeling
• Qualitative research
• Bowen family systems
• Family violence
• Military families

Brian J. Distelberg

PhD - Michigan State University, 2009

• Health
• Chronic illnesses
• Translational research
• Family systems
• Research methodologies
• Statistics
• Multivariate analysis

Zephon D. Lister

PhD, Marriage and Family Therapy - Loma Linda University, 2010

• Couples and chronic illness
• Medical family therapy/integrated behavioral health
• Religion and family functioning
• Global mental health
• Low dose interventions for acute and low resource settings

Lena Lopez Bradley

PhD, Marriage and Family Therapy - Loma Linda University, 2013

• Couples therapy
• At-risk youth
• Anger management
• Crisis intervention and trauma
• Clinical training and supervision
• School-based programs
• Mandated clients
• Program development

Michelle A. Minyard-Widmann

MS, Child Life Development/Child Life - University of La Verne, 1995

• Child development
• Stress and coping in the hospital environment
• Grief and loss
• Program development

Mary E. Moline

DrPH, Preventive Health - Loma Linda University, 1994
PhD, Marriage and Family Therapy - Brigham Young University, 1979

• Treatment of couples
• Legal and ethical issues
• Family theory
• Group therapy

Winetta A. Oloo

PhD, Marriage and Family Therapy - Loma Linda University, 2006

• Recovery-oriented care
• Clinical supervision
• Adolescent and transitional-aged youth development
• Treating severe mental illness

Nichola Ribadu

DMFT, Marriage and Family Therapy - Loma Linda University, 2008

• At-risk youth
• Group homes for at-risk youth
• Program development
• Staff development and trainings (group home, managed care, community mental health)
• Community mental health
• Professional mentoring
• Narrative therapy
• Diversity
• Self-of-therapist

Alisha Saavedra

MA, Psychology (emphasis in Child Development) - California State University, San Bernardino, 2009

• Child development
• Stress and coping in the hospital environment
• Grief and loss
• Clinical training and supervision
• Promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in child life

Randall Walker

MS, Counseling - California State University, Fullerton, 1983

• Substance use treatment and recovery
• Mindfulness-based relapse prevention
• Clinical supervision

Jacqueline M. Williams-Reade

PhD, Medical Family Therapy - East Carolina University, 2011

• Medical family therapy
• Adult and pediatric illness
• Palliative and hospice care
• Grief
• Qualitative research
• Narrative therapy
• Spirituality and meaning-making
• Women's professional development in academia