The Muran Lab
The Muran Lab began in 2010 at the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University and functions in collaboration with the Brief Psychotherapy Research Program (“The Brief”) at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, which has been under the direction of Dr. Muran (as Principal Investigator) since 1990. Established by Dr. Arnold Winston in the mid 1980s and funded by several grant awards from the National Institute of Mental Health and private foundations, the Brief has involved various clinical trials towards the study of patient and therapist interactions –more specifically, alliance rupture repair as a critical change process.
Our Members
Conor Shanahan, MA, Research: Rhythm and rupture: Assessing verbal and nonverbal organization.
Sophie Cassell, MA, Research: Rupture in an attachment-based treatment for suicidal adolescents
Adelya Urmanche, MA, Research: Rupture and ambivalence, alliance-focused training, and alliance in a seeking-safety treatment
Liqiaonan (Minna) Chen, MA, Research: Rupture and micro-aggression in racial mismatch
Andrew Lokai, MA, Research: Rupture and micro-aggression in racial mismatch
Stephanie Soultanian, MA, Research: Therapist and patient emotional involvement
Kendra Terry, MA, Research: Narrative analysis of rupture process
Sam Podell, BS. Research: TBD
Yocheved Rabinowitz, MA, Research: TBD
Our Graduates
Rachel Small, MA, Dissertation: The eye of the storm through the therapist's eyes: A grounded theory study of how therapists experience alliance ruptures (2021)
Di Liu, PhD, Dissertation: How therapist and patient personality styles influence therapeutic process and outcome (2020)
Lauren Lipner, PhD, Dissertation: Needle in the haystack: The identification of ruptures in the therapeutic alliance with implications for psychotherapy outcome (2020)
Lauren Knopf, PhD, Dissertation: Client agency as a potential common factor in psychotherapy: The case of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (2019)
Sarah Bloch-Elkouby, PhD, Dissertation: Toward a better understanding of psychotherapy outcome assessment: Congruence among instruments, raters and measures of change (2018)
Jerry Gardner, PhD, Dissertation: Temporal proximity in alliance rupture repair events: Relevance to overall outcome (2017)
Jackson Taylor, PhD, Dissertation: Never had a friend like me: An exploration of friendship in the therapeutic relationship (2016)
Sumru Tufekcioglu, PhD, Dissertation: Personality disorder and therapeutic alliance in two short-term therapies (2015)
Clara Hungr, PhD, Dissertation: The relationship of patient interpersonal problems to the alliance and outcome in cognitive behavioral and alliance-focused therapies (2015)
Amy McCue-Negri, PhD, Dissertation: Assessing the impact of an alliance-focused training on patient- and therapist-rated alliance (2014)
Since 1990, many other students from other schools served as program assistants at MSBI and completed their dissertations in the research program there with support from Dr. Muran. These included Drs. Gitte Bak, David Banthin, Sarai Batchelder, Elizabeth Berk, Kelly Bolger, Catherine Boutwell, Anthony DeMaria, Medea Elvy, Eloise Erasmus, Melanie Fox-Borisoff, Mark Francis, Roueida Ghadban, Peter Glick, Willa Hall, Helen Hanning, Meghan Jablonski, Robin Jilton, Adrienne Katzow, Gaianne Kazariants, Janet Matsunaga, Sandra Mays, Madeleine Miller-Bottome, Jake Nagy, Lianne Nelson, Beryl Nightingale, Souha Nikowitz, Jenny Patton, Lisa Peyton, Bella Proskurov, Romy Reading, Eyal Rozmarin, Lisa Samstag, Ally Shaker, Dalia Spektor, Chris Stevens, Kelcey Stratton, Lynne Twining, Lucia Vail, Patricia Watts, Elizabeth Winkleman, and Amy Zimet.
The Muran Lab began in 2010 at the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University and functions in collaboration with the Brief Psychotherapy Research Program (“The Brief”) at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, which has been under the direction of Dr. Muran (as Principal Investigator) since 1990. Established by Dr. Arnold Winston in the mid 1980s and funded by several grant awards from the National Institute of Mental Health and private foundations, the Brief has involved various clinical trials towards the study of patient and therapist interactions –more specifically, alliance rupture repair as a critical change process.
Our Members
Conor Shanahan, MA, Research: Rhythm and rupture: Assessing verbal and nonverbal organization.
Sophie Cassell, MA, Research: Rupture in an attachment-based treatment for suicidal adolescents
Adelya Urmanche, MA, Research: Rupture and ambivalence, alliance-focused training, and alliance in a seeking-safety treatment
Liqiaonan (Minna) Chen, MA, Research: Rupture and micro-aggression in racial mismatch
Andrew Lokai, MA, Research: Rupture and micro-aggression in racial mismatch
Stephanie Soultanian, MA, Research: Therapist and patient emotional involvement
Kendra Terry, MA, Research: Narrative analysis of rupture process
Sam Podell, BS. Research: TBD
Yocheved Rabinowitz, MA, Research: TBD
Our Graduates
Rachel Small, MA, Dissertation: The eye of the storm through the therapist's eyes: A grounded theory study of how therapists experience alliance ruptures (2021)
Di Liu, PhD, Dissertation: How therapist and patient personality styles influence therapeutic process and outcome (2020)
Lauren Lipner, PhD, Dissertation: Needle in the haystack: The identification of ruptures in the therapeutic alliance with implications for psychotherapy outcome (2020)
Lauren Knopf, PhD, Dissertation: Client agency as a potential common factor in psychotherapy: The case of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (2019)
Sarah Bloch-Elkouby, PhD, Dissertation: Toward a better understanding of psychotherapy outcome assessment: Congruence among instruments, raters and measures of change (2018)
Jerry Gardner, PhD, Dissertation: Temporal proximity in alliance rupture repair events: Relevance to overall outcome (2017)
Jackson Taylor, PhD, Dissertation: Never had a friend like me: An exploration of friendship in the therapeutic relationship (2016)
Sumru Tufekcioglu, PhD, Dissertation: Personality disorder and therapeutic alliance in two short-term therapies (2015)
Clara Hungr, PhD, Dissertation: The relationship of patient interpersonal problems to the alliance and outcome in cognitive behavioral and alliance-focused therapies (2015)
Amy McCue-Negri, PhD, Dissertation: Assessing the impact of an alliance-focused training on patient- and therapist-rated alliance (2014)
Since 1990, many other students from other schools served as program assistants at MSBI and completed their dissertations in the research program there with support from Dr. Muran. These included Drs. Gitte Bak, David Banthin, Sarai Batchelder, Elizabeth Berk, Kelly Bolger, Catherine Boutwell, Anthony DeMaria, Medea Elvy, Eloise Erasmus, Melanie Fox-Borisoff, Mark Francis, Roueida Ghadban, Peter Glick, Willa Hall, Helen Hanning, Meghan Jablonski, Robin Jilton, Adrienne Katzow, Gaianne Kazariants, Janet Matsunaga, Sandra Mays, Madeleine Miller-Bottome, Jake Nagy, Lianne Nelson, Beryl Nightingale, Souha Nikowitz, Jenny Patton, Lisa Peyton, Bella Proskurov, Romy Reading, Eyal Rozmarin, Lisa Samstag, Ally Shaker, Dalia Spektor, Chris Stevens, Kelcey Stratton, Lynne Twining, Lucia Vail, Patricia Watts, Elizabeth Winkleman, and Amy Zimet.