Sharon Green-Hennessy, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Psychology
Director of Masters Education, Practitioner Track

Office: Beatty Hall, Room 222C
Telephone: 410-617-2641
E-mail: SGreenHennessy@loyola.edu

Education:

• B.A. (Psychology, Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa), Clark University, 1988
• M.A. (Clinical Psychology), University of Rochester, 1991
• Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology), University of Rochester, 1994
• Predoctoral Internship, Tulane Medical Center, 1994
• Postdoctoral Internship, University of Maryland Medical
  Center, Department of Pediatrics, 1995
• Licensed Psychologist in Maryland

Teaching Award:

• Psychology Teacher of the Year (2000-2001)
  Awarded by the Maryland Psychological Association

Scholarly Interests:

My research involves access to mental health care, particularly
forchildren and adolescents. Specifically, I am interested in what
keeps those in need of mental health care from receiving it.
I also am interested in attachment theory, child maltreatment,
and psychological assessment of children.

Representative Publications:

Green-Hennessy, S., & Hennessy, K. D. (2004). The recovery 
     movement: Consumers, families, and  the mental health system. 
     In B. L. Levin,  J. Petrila, & K. D. Hennessy (Eds.), Mental health 
     services: A public health perspective (2nd ed.) pp. 88 – 105. 
     New York: Oxford.

Hennessy, K. D., Green-Hennessy, S., Buck, J. A., & Miller, K. (2003). 
     Psychotropic drug use and expenditures among medicaid 
     beneficiaries with and without other mental health or substance 
     abuse services. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 191(7), 
     476-478.

Green-Hennessy, S. (2002). Factors associated with receipt of 
     behavioral health services among persons with substance 
     dependence. Psychiatric Services, 53(12), 1592-1598.

Hennessy, K. D., Green-Hennessy, S., Buck, J. A., & Miller, K. (2002). 
     Use of psychotropic drugs by mentally ill medicaid beneficiaries. 
     Psychiatric Services, 53(9), 1070.

Hennessy, K. D., Green-Hennessy, S., & Hijjazi, K. (2002). State 
     variations in complaint rates to protection and advocacy 
     systems. Psychiatric Services, 53(5), 535.

Hennessy, K. D., & Green-Hennessy, S. (2000).  Estimates of 
     children and adolescents with school-related behavioral problems. 
     Psychiatric Services, 51(5), 591.

Green-Hennessy, S., & Hennessy, K. D. (1999). Demographic 
     differences in medication use among individuals with self-reported 
     major depression. Psychiatric Services, 50(2), 257-259.

Green-Hennessy, S., & Reis, H. R. (1998). Openness in processing 
     social information among attachment types. Personal Relationships, 
     5(4), 449-466.

Hennessy, K. D., & Green-Hennessy, S. (1997). An economic and 
     clinical rationale for changing utilization review practices for 
     outpatient psychiatry. Journal of Mental Health Administration, 
     24(3), 340-349.

Nitz, K., Green-Hennessy, S., Goleta, F., & Felice, M. E. (1996). 
     Adolescent pregnancy and parenting: The association between 
     parenting stress, repeat pregnancy, and pregnancy outcome in 
     urban, adolescent mothers. Journal of Adolescent Health, 18(2), 126.

Course Offerings:

PY607: Assessment of Children
PY615: Advanced Abnormal
PY815: Child Psychopathology
PY816: Lifespan Development
PY920: Clinical Supervision