{"id":70147,"date":"2004-06-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-graduate-gains-new-insights-earning-degree\/"},"modified":"2004-06-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-09T00:00:00","slug":"uri-graduate-gains-new-insights-earning-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2004\/06\/uri-graduate-gains-new-insights-earning-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 graduate gains new insights earning degree"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. — June 9, 2004 — Wakefield resident Lucille Andreozzi Stern learned some lifelong lessons while earning her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the 溏心vlog免费B站 this May. And not just while she was sitting in a classroom, but also while she was reflecting in a hospital bed. Furthermore, she combined her personal journey with her studies for her dissertation on victims of domestic violence.<\/p>\n


\n\tShe would like people who suffer domestic violence to shift from a victim perspective to a survival perspective. “Survival is not just about treading water,” she says, “but by surviving, people become stronger through the experience. And with that survival comes dignity.”<\/p>\n


\nAndreozzi Stern knows a lot about surviving from personal experience. Born with a genetic eye disorder, she is blind in her right eye and is legally blind in her left. As a child and through her 20s and 30s, she underwent 30 or more eye surgeries.<\/p>\n


\nShe hadn\u2019t planned on enduring more painful and disappointing eye surgeries when she embarked on her doctorate journey at 溏心vlog免费B站 in 1991. She didn\u2019t think it would take long to earn another degree. She had earned a doctorate from UMass at Amherst in 1984, edited one book, wrote another, and was a family therapist. She also had worked at the Knight and Lincoln campuses of Community College of Rhode Island for 10 years and helped develop programs for families at risk for the Department of Education and Social Services. <\/p>\n


\nBut now just as she had been sailing along, surgeries and their long convalesce slowed her academic progress to a crawl. <\/p>\n


\nShe underwent four cornea transplant operations. Each transplant required nine months to a year of medical aftercare. The first three transplants were not compatible. The fourth transplant, however, was. This transplant removed the cloud from her left eye and she was able once again to see her 16-year-old\u2019s son face. \u201cWhat a tremendous gift,\u201d she says. <\/p>\n


\n \u201cI learned from the transplant experience,\u201d she says. \u201cI found I needed an inner map and some soul searching. Someone who died was living on through me. That touched me in a deep way, a spiritual way. It changed my perspective and connected me with community.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nAndreozzi Stern will begin a post-doctoral position at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Counseling Center in August. She loves working with college students. \u201cI can help turn adversity into courage,\u201d she says with authority.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. — June 9, 2004 — Wakefield resident Lucille Andreozzi Stern learned some lifelong lessons while earning her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the 溏心vlog免费B站 this May. And not just while she was sitting in a classroom, but also while she was reflecting in a hospital bed. Furthermore, she combined her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70149,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}