Robyn Maitoza, Ph.D.

Education

• B.S., San Jose State University
• M.A., Saint Mary's College of California
• Ph.D., University of Nevada

Courses

• Senior Seminar
• Human Services Techniques
• Research Methods I and II
• Cooperative Internship

Research Interests

• Family health and well-being
• Work-family issues
• Career development
• Life transitions

Honors

• 2011 Outstanding Student Mentor Award, University of Nevada, Reno
• 2010 Outstanding Graduate Student Award, University of Nevada, Reno

Recent Publications

• Maitoza, R., & Evans, W. (2014). BRITE©: A Program to Promote Resilience among Unemployed Families. Journal of Extension.
• McKee-Ryan, F., & Maitoza, R. (2014). Unemployment and its effect on families in Oxford Handbook of Job Loss and Job Search. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Walsh, B., Burnham, M., Pasley, C., & Maitoza, R. (2014). The explicit employment of human development theory: A 10-year content analysis of two prominent journals.
• Papa, T., & Maitoza, R. (2013). The role of loss in the experience of grief: The case of job loss. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 18, 152-169.
• Elliott, M., Maitoza, R., & Schwinger, E. (2012). Subjective accounts of the causes of mental illness. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 58, 562 - 567.