Office: Beatty Hall, Room 222D
Telephone: 410-617-5498
E-mail: MKirkhart@loyola.edu - B.A. (Magna Cum Laude),
West Virginia University, 1987 - M.A. (Clinical Psychology),
West Virginia University, 1991 - Ph.D. (Clinical Psychology),
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1997 - Pre-doctoral Internship, Department of Clinical
and Health Psychology
Shands Hospital, University of Florida
College of Health Professions - Licensed Psychologist in Maryland
Teaching Awards: - Mentor of the Year Award (2007)
Awarded by the Maryland Psychological Association
for Graduate Students (MPAGS)
I have two primary research interests and several secondary
interests. My first primary research interest is in medical/health
psychology, primarily focusing on those who have a serious or
chronic medical condition. This includes such things as factors
that affect general adaptation and adjustment to the medical
conditions (i.e., adjustment to chronic pain conditions,
adaptation to lifestyle changes necessary to manage diabetes,
etc.), and in the prediction of adjustment and adaptation to
future medical procedures (i.e., predicting adjustment post
organ transplantation). My second primary research interest is in basic research examining
learning and memory. Primarily my interest in this area lies in
conscious and unconscious learning and memory, rule-governed
behavior, and a functional analysis of language in efforts to
understand how verbal behavior affects other behavior. I have several secondary research interests some of which include
mentoring and teaching in psychology, adult psychopathology, and
interpersonal psychotherapy models and methods. Konig, A., Lating, J., & Kirkhart, M. W. (2007). Content of disclosure
and health: Autonomic response to talking about a stressful
event. Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention,
doi: 10.1093/brief-treatment/mhm012. Stapleton, A. B., Lating, J., & Kirkhart, M., Everly, G. S. Jr.
(2006, September 6). Effects of Medical Crisis Intervention on
Anxiety, Depression, Posttraumatic Symptoms: A Meta-analysis.
Psychiatric Quarterly, published on:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/e660376273175657/ Christopher, M. S., Skillman, G. D., Kirkhart, M. W., & D'Souza, J. B.
(2006). The effect of normative and behavioral persuasion on
help seeking in Thai and American college students. Journal of
Multicultural Counseling and Development, 34, 80-93. Kirkhart, M. W. (2002). Validation of an explicit learning paradigm.
Psychology and Education, 39, 40-45. Sentz, D. S., Kirkhart, M. W., LoPresto, C., & Sobelman, S. (2002).
Intrusive effects of implicitly processed information on explicit
memory. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 94, 241-250. Kaminsky, K. J., & Kirkhart, M. W. (2001). A step beyond: Adding
behavior analysis to the discussion of evolution, natural selection,
and the law. Florida Law Review, 53(5), 947-964. Kirkhart, M. W. (2001). The function of declarative knowledge in
implicit and explicit learning. Journal of General Psychology, 128(4),
447-461. Eyler, V. A., Diehl, K. W., & Kirkhart, M. (2000). Validation of the
Lees-Haley Fake Bad scale for the MMPI-2 to detect somatic
malingering among personal injury litigants. Archives of Clinical
Neuropsychology, 15(8), 834-835. Kirkhart, M. W. (2000). The effects of schizotypal thinking content
on implicit and explicit learning. Psychology: A Journal of Human
Behavior, 37(2), 10-28. PY101: Introduction to Psychology
PY221: Psychology of Learning
PY222: Cognitive Psychology
PY622: Interpersonal Psychotherapy
PY707: Introduction to Clinical Experiences-Adult Intake Rotation
PY820: Cognition and Learning Theory
PY845: Therapy Models-Interpersonal Psychotherapy |
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