Associate Professor

Organization:

West Virginia University School of Medicine

Department:

Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry

Classification:

Clinical Faculty

Doyle A, Perlman S. Trauma experienced in adolescence, Chapter 9 in Trauma Counseling: Theories and Interventions. 2nd Edition. (Linda Lopez Levers, editor). 2023. New York: Springer Publishing.

Doyle A, Levers L. Trauma experienced in early childhood, Chapter 8 in Trauma Counseling: Theories and Interventions. 2nd Edition. (Linda Lopez Levers, editor). 2023. New York: Springer Publishing.

McMillen C, Doyle A, Claypool E. Validation as a clinical strategy. Journal of Social Work Practice 2022;37(3):325-338. DOI: 10.1080/02650533.2022.2128311

Blum LD, Horenstein A, Carper MM, Stange JP, Cohen JN, Doyle A, Smith V. A new instrument to assess counterdependency, evaluated in the context of postpartum depression. Psychoanalytic Psychology 2021;38(1):49-57. DOI: 10.1037/pap0000317

 

Peer Reviewed Journals – National and International 

Blum, L.D., Carper, M.M., Stange, J.P., Cohen, J.N., Doyle, A., & Smith, V.E. (2020). A    New Instrument to Assess Counterdependency, Evaluated in the Context of Postpartum Depression. Psychoanalytic Psychology

Murray, G., Hart., T., Doyle, A., Bohrman, C. & Toth, C. (2019). There’s No Cure for Brain Injury: Work-Related Stress in Brain Injury Rehabilitation Professionals. Brain Injury, DOI: 10.1080/02699052.2019.1644374

Lewis, C., Darnell, D., Kerns, S., Monroe-DeVita, M., Landes, S. J., Lyon, A. R., …Doyle A., … Dorsey, C. (2016). Proceedings of the 3rd Biennial Conference of the Society for Implementation Research Collaboration (SIRC) 2015: advancing efficient methodologies through community partnerships and team science: Seattle, WA, USA. 24-26 September 2015. Implementation Science : IS, 11(Suppl 1), 85. http://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-016-0428-0

Rhodes, K.V., Rodgers, M., Summers, M., Hanlon, A., Chittams, J., Doyle, A., Datner, E., & Crits-Christoph, P. (2015). Brief Motivational Intervention for
Intimate Partner Violence and Heavy Drinking in the Emergency Department: A Randomized Controlled Trial. JAMA, 314(5), Aug. 4. 

Hartocollis, L., Solomon, P., Doyle, A., and Ditty, M. (2015). A Summative Evaluation of the University of Pennsylvania's Practice Doctorate in Social Work (DSW) Program. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 34(5), 116-130. 

Ditty, M. S., Landes, S. J., Doyle, A., & Beidas, R. S. (2015). It Takes a Village: A Mixed Method Analysis of Inner Setting Variables and Dialectical Behavior Therapy Implementation. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 1-10. 

Tennille, J., Solomon, P., Bourjolly, J., & Doyle, A. (2014). Looking back to move forward: introducing FIELD (Field instructors extending EBP learning in dyads). Field Educator, 4(2), 2-19. 

Ghose, T.J., Boucicaut, E., King, C., Doyle, A. &, Schubert, V. (2013). Surviving the aftershock: Post-earthquake access and adherence to HIV treatment among Haiti's tent residents, Qualitative Health Research, 23(4), 495-506. 

Ghose, T., Boucicaut, E., King, C., Shubert, V., & Doyle, A. (2013). Stilling the tremors: Resurrecting HIV services in Haiti's post-earthquake tent cities. International Journal of Social Welfare, 22(4), 374-383. 

Doyle, A. (2011). History of process research relevant to clinical social work. Clinical Social Work Journal, 39(1), 68-78. 

Doyle, A., Kealey, K. A., Ludman, E. J., Marek, P. M., & Peterson, A. V. (2010). Fidelity of Telephone Delivery of Motivational Interviewing for Adolescent Smoking Cessation. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 39, 104-104. 

Burgstahler, S. & Doyle, A. (2005). Gender differences in computer mediated communication among adolescents with disabilities: A Case Study. Disability Studies Quarterly, 25(2). 

Beadnell, B., Stielstra, S., Baker, S., Morrison, D. M., Knox, K, Gutierrez, L., & Doyle, A. (2003). Ethnic identity and sexual risk-taking among African American women enrolled in an HIV/STD prevention intervention. Psychology, Health and Medicine, 8, 187-198. 

Beadnell, B., Baker, S. A., Knox, K., Stielstra, S., Morrison, D.M., DeGooyer, E., Wickizer, L., Doyle, A., & Oxford, M. (2003). The influence of psychosocial difficulties on women's attrition in an HIV/STD prevention program. AIDS Care, 15, 807-820. 

Doyle, A., Swan, M., Roffman, R. & Stephens, R. (2003). The Marijuana Check-Up. A brief intervention tailored for individuals in the contemplation stage. Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 3(4), 53-71. 

Betito, L. & Doyle, A. (1993) Fantasy and Reality: An Essay on Incest. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 19(4), 308-314. 68-78. 

Book Chapters  

Doyle, A.  (2022). Trauma experienced in adolescence, Chapter 9 in Trauma Counseling: Theories and Interventions. 2^nd Edition. (Linda Lopez Levers, editor). New York: Springer Publishing.   

Doyle, A. and Perlman, S. (2022). Trauma experienced in early childhood, Chapter 8 in Trauma Counseling: Theories and Interventions. 2^nd Edition. (Linda Lopez Levers, editor). New York: Springer Publishing.  

Hartocollis, L., Solomon, P., Doyle, A., and Ditty, M. (2016). An Evaluation of the University of Pennsylvania's Practice Doctorate (DSW) Program. Chapter 8 in Social Work Doctoral Education: Past, Present, and Future by Paul Kurzman. New York: Routledge. [Reprint of Special Edition of Journal of Teaching in Social Work cited above. E-book edition was published October 2, 2017].    

Doyle, A. & Perlman, S. (2012). Trauma experienced in adolescence, Chapter 9 in Trauma Counseling: Theories and Interventions. (Linda Lopez Levers, editor). New York: Springer Publishing.   

Perlman, S. & Doyle, A. (2012). Trauma experienced in early childhood, Chapter 8 in Trauma Counseling: Theories and Interventions. (Linda Lopez Levers, editor). New York: Springer Publishing.  

Doyle, A. & Shoel, G. (1992).  Facteurs psychologiques chez la femme seropositive. In  Morrisette & Ghadirian (Eds.), Mise à jour de la situation sur le SIDA 1991-1992. Montreal.

Andrea Doyle, LICSW, PhD is an Assistant Professor at WVU in Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry. She is both a seasoned practitioner and teacher with intervention research interest in the arena of women and trauma. She has worked extensively in the field of women and HIV and her dissertation research looked at clinical process research, specifically time series analyses of daily diary cards of women diagnosed with substance use and borderline personality disorder. Clinically, she has extensive training in psychodynamic psychotherapy, sex therapy, and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) having been a research therapist in Linehan's lab during her doctoral training at the University of Washington. Currently, Dr. Doyle is pursuing certification in Mentalization Based Therapy through McLean Hospital and the Anna Freud Centre. Dr. Doyle was recently Co-PI on a BMED research team looking into implementing telepsychiatry in rural emergency departments, funded by a State Opioid Response grant and HRSA.

Behavioral Medicine

Research Interests and Philosophy 

 

Dr. Doyle’s scholarly interests are primarily in measuring social and clinical processes in order to understand transactions between person and environment, particularly in the context of women with a history of trauma interfacing with the healthcare system. She continues be interested in her dissertation research – that of employing complexity theory to model holistic systemic processes or patterns, using the mathematics associated with modeling nonlinear systems dynamics.  

 

Various strands of Dr. Doyle’s work, HIV among women, complexity modeling, psychological processes (defense mechanisms), and help seeking among vulnerable women in various settings, come together in funding includes pilot funding (pilot funding from the Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), intervention development and effectiveness testing (Penn University Research Foundation funding) for interventions for women with HIV or at risk for HIV.  

 

Dr. Doyle received CFAR funding ($40,000) to operationalize the mechanisms of engagement in healthcare through a qualitative study of African American women who screened positive for HIV in a vaccine trial. This study sought to examine the interpersonal and structural barriers to accessing healthcare. Dr. Doyle set out to determine best intervention points to enhance engagement in on-going healthcare including drug and alcohol, health, mental health treatment, and anti-retroviral treatment. This problem is dynamically complex and requires innovative approaches because the HIV epidemic among women of color has not been mitigated 35 years into the epidemic.  

 

An early unanticipated finding from this HIV project was the fact that many of the women have female primary partners while pursuing sex often for money or drugs with men. Based on this finding, Dr. Doyle applied to the Alice Paul Center for a summer grant to carry out a subset analysis of this particular discovery and received $5000 for this effort. For this project she interviewed HIV+ women at Housing Works in New York in order to explore the original question on the complex processes that affect vulnerable women accessing care. She built on this Women and HIV project and piloted a skills-based adherence intervention with African American Women with a diagnosis of HIV and with histories of trauma; she received $50,000 for this project.  

 

Through a fellowship at the Philadelphia Center for Psychoanalysis, Dr. Doyle worked with Larry Blum in psychiatry and Vernon Smith at City University of New York validating a questionnaire which measures the concept of counter-dependency, a defense mechanism often seen in postpartum women. This project ties to her research interests in that it elucidates an unexplored and paradoxical psychological process that leads vulnerable women to initially refuse offers of care. This work culminated in a publication in 2020 (cf. Blum, Carper, Stange, Cohen, Doyle, & Smith, 2020)..  

 

Dr. Doyle was also a consultant on Karin Rhodes’ National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) grant “An RCT of Brief Intervention for Problem Drinking and Partner Violence”, an intervention trial based out of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) emergency department (ED). Her role was to assure fidelity of the motivational interviewing intervention, which also led to a publication in 2015 (cf. (cf. Rhodes, Rodgers, Summers, Hanlon, Chittams, Doyle, Datner, & Crits-Christoph, 2015). She also took on the role of clinical supervisor of several federally funded HIV projects at the Center for Addictions and Personality and Emotions Research (CAPER) at the University of Maryland headed by Carl Lejuez.  

 

Dr. Doyle continues to be interested in the nexus of health/mental in women with histories of trauma.  While here at WVU, she has deepened her interest in clinical process and adherence to treatment models as a Co-PI on a State Opioid Response and HRSA grant looking at bring telepsychiatry to rural emergency departments.

Clinical Experience 

Dr. Doyle is a seasoned practitioner and has continued to refine her clinical work and training while on faculty at the University of Pennsylvania as well as WVU and while a doctoral student at the University of Washington. In particular, she has been trained in dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) by Dr. Marsha Linehan, the founder of the treatment. This training follows her earlier education in psychodynamic approaches to clinical therapy, both at McGill School of Social Work and the Institute for Community and Family Psychiatry in Montreal. She is  currently working on certification in dialectical behavioral therapy through the Linehan Institute.  She is also pursuing Practitioner Certification in Mentalization, an attachment based and psychodynamically-oriented therapy. 

Dr. Doyle has worked in numerous clinical arenas, including hospitals, community-based agencies, disaster response, adolescent homelessness, employee assistance and independent practice. She has particular expertise in working with people experiencing profound distress. She was involved in responding to the race riots in Baltimore, more recently Philadelphia and the Amtrak crash in Philadelphia, deeply intense and moving experiences. She is committed to developing long-lasting ties to community agencies and has a history of doing so.

 

Clinical Expertise and Interest: 

 

• Women and Trauma 
• Disaster Response in the Workplace
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
• Mentalizing
• Evidence Based Psychodynamic Theory and Practice