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Stephanie Harter, Ph.D.
Position: Associate Professor
Education: Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, 1989. University of Memphis.
Licenses: Licensed Psychologist in Texas and Arkansas (active), and Iowa (inactive).
Contact: Phone :(806) 742-3711 ext. 241
Fax: (806) 742-0818
Email: steph.harter@ttu.edu
Professional  
service:
  • Editorial boards: Constructivism in the Human Sciences, Journal of Constructivist Psychology, Personal Construct Theory and Practice, Journal of Loss and Trauma.
  • Professional offices:  President, Constructivist Psychology Network, 2010-Present.
Research  
interests:
Constructivist and narrative approaches to creativity, human change, psychotherapy, and recovery from abusive and traumatic experiences.
Selected  
research:
  • Harter, S. L., Harter, G. W., Atkinson, B. A., & Reynolds, L. L. (2009). College students' perceptions of peers' disclosures of histories of child sexual abuse. Sex Roles , 60, 805-818.
  • Harter, S. L.  (2007).  Visual art-making for therapist growth and self-care.  Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 20, 167-182.
  • Erbes, C. R., & Harter, S. L.  (2005).  Personal constructions in therapy with child sexual abuse survivors.  In D. Winter & L. Viney (Eds.), Advances in Personal Construct Psychotherapy, pp. 177-188.  London: Whurr Publishers.
  • Harter, S. L. (2004). Making meaning of child abuse: Personal, social, and narrative processes. In J. D. Raskin & S. K. Bridges, Studies in meaning 2: Bridging the personal and social in constructivist psychology (115-135).New York: Pace University Press.
  • Harter, S. L., Erbes, C. R., & Hart, C. C. (2004). Content analysis of the personal constructs of female sexual abuse survivors elecited through Repertory Grid technique. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 17, 27-43.
  • Harter, S. L. (2001). Constructivist psychology of child abuse and implications for psychotherapy. The Humanistic Psychologist, 29, 40-69.
  • Harter, S. L. (2000). Psychosocial adjustment of Adult Children of Alcoholics: A review of the recent empirical literature. Clinical Psychology Review, 20, 311-337.
  • Harter, S. L. (2000). Quantitative measures of construing in child abuse survivors. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 13, 103-116.
  • Harter, S. L. & Vanecek, R. J. (2000). Cognitive assumptions and long term distress in survivors of childhood abuse, parental alcoholism, and dysfunctional family environments. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 24, 445-472.
  • Harter, S. L., & Vanecek, R. J. (2000). Family of origin environment and coping with situations which vary by level of stress intensity. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 19, 463-479.
  • Harter, S. L. (1995). Construing on the edge: Clinical mythology in working with borderline processes. In R. A. Neimeyer & M. J. Mahoney (Eds.), Constructivism in Psychotherapy (371-384).Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
  • Harter, S. L., & Neimeyer, R. A. (1995). Long term effects of child sexual abuse: Toward a constructivist theory of trauma and its treatment. In R. A. Neimeyer & G. J. Neimeyer (Eds.), Advances in Personal Construct Psychology (229-269).Greenwich, CN: JAI press.
  • Harter, S. L., Alexander, P. C., & Neimeyer, R. A. (1988). Long term effects of incestuous child abuse in college women: Social adjustment, social cognition, and family characteristics. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 56, 5-8.
Teaching interests  
and activities:
  • Undergraduate--Constructivist and Narrative Psychologies, Psychology of Art. 
  • Graduate--Constructivist and Narrative Therapies, Advanced Practicum in Clinical Psychology, Clinical Neuropsychology, Structural Equation Modeling.