Janet Etzi, Psy.D.

Professor of Psychology

Biography

 
Dr. Janet Etzi earned her Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from Widener University and joined Immaculata University in 1993. She earned her M.A. degree from Duquesne University. Dr. Etzi is a licensed psychologist in Pennsylvania.
 
Dr. Etzi is Coordinator of the Mentoring Program, Coordinator of the APA Sponsored Continuing Education Programs, and Co-chair of the Graduate Student Advisory Committee. Her areas of interest are theoretical and philosophical psychology (Division 24, APA), psychoanalytic psychology and psychotherapy (Division 39, APA), clinical child and adolescent psychology (Division 53, APA), and phenomenological psychology. She has written and presented on the topics including gender psychology, adolescent psychotherapy, play, clinical reasoning and critical thinking in psychotherapy practice.
 
Courses Taught:
 
Treatment of Children and Adolescents
General Psychopathology
Gender Psychology
Human Development
Psychotherapy Practicum and Seminar
 
Publications:
 
"Middle Career Psychologists: Woes and Rewards,” co-authored with Jed Yalof, PsyD, in the Pennsylvania Psychologist of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association; Nov. 2009
 
“Psychotherapy Clients as Human phenomena: Re-establishing the True Subject Matter of psychotherapy” in the American Journal of Psychotherapy, 62:1; January 2008
 
Review of “Reconceiving Schizophrenia” (Eds.) Man Cheung Chung, K.W.M. (Bill) Fulford & Goerge Graham. Oxford University Press, 2007. Selected for 2008 edition of the IUPsyS CD-ROM titled “Psychology: Global Resource”. Summer 2007
 
Review  of “Personality and Psychopathology”, by Krueger & Tackett (Eds.). Guilford, 2006. In PsycCritiques, APA Review of Books, Vol. 51:55.  Fall 2006
 
“An Existential phenomenological Analysis of Play,” The Humanistic Psychologists, Journal of Div. 32 of the American Psychological Association. Fall 2004

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