Gary Fireman, PhD

Professor and Chair
Department of Psychology

Currently accepting students for Fall 2014

Phone: 617-305-6368
Fax: 617-367-2924
Email: gfireman@suffolk.edu
Office: Donahue Building, Rm. 610

Education

  • PhD, Long Island University
  • MA, Long Island University
  • BA, University of Michigan

Internship: Long Island Jewish Medical Center/Hillside Hospital; Postdoctoral Fellowship: City University of New York, Graduate Center; Licensed Clinical Psychologist, MA, TX, NY.

Specialty Areas

Developmental psychopathology; child and adolescent treatment; social competence.

My research interest is in the role of emotional complexity, intensity and experience in relation to judgment, social reasoning, personal narrative, and sleep quality. I am particularly interested in applying these research concerns to understanding at-risk children and adolescents and the prevention of psychopathology. Specifically, the high risk youth include children and adolescents who are identified as aggressive, rejected, victimized, and as having poor emotional regulation and limited pro-social skills. I am also interested in emotion functioning in relation to sleep quality, nightmares and disturbed dreaming, and related cognitive processes. My clinical interests include child, adolescent, and adult therapy; family therapy; psychological and psycho-educational assessment.

Selected Publications

Levin, R., Fireman, G., Spendlove, S. & Pope, A (2011). The relative contribution of affect load and affect distress as predictors of disturbed dreaming. Behavioral Sleep Medicine.

Horner, S. B., Fireman, G. D., Wang, E. W. (2010). The relation of student behavior, peer status, race, and gender to decisions about school discipline using CHAID decision trees and regression modeling. Journal of School Psychology. 48(2), 135-161.

Fireman, G. D. & Kose, G. (2010). Perspective Taking. In E. H.Sandberg & B. L. Spritz (Eds.), A clinician's guide to normal cognitive development in childhood (pp. 85-100). New York, NY: Routledge.

Larsen, J.T., To, Y. M. & Fireman, G. (2007). Children's understanding and experience of mixed emotions. Psychological Science, 18, 186-191.

Dempsey, J. P., Fireman, G. D. & Wang, E. (2006). Transitioning out of peer victimization in School Children: Gender and Behavioral Characteristics. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 28, 271-280.

Courses Taught

PSYCH 408 - Senior Seminar: History and Systems of Psychology
PSYCH 719 - History and Systems of Psychology
PSYCH 738 - Clinical Practicum and Ethics IA