Francesca Pernice Ph.D. (bb3832)

• B.A. Psychology, Oakland University 
• M.S. Clinical Psychology, Eastern Michigan University
• Ph.D. Human Ecology, Human Development, Family & Child Ecology with Specialization in Couple & Family Therapy

• Couple and Family Therapy, LMFT Michigan #4101006337
• Psychologist, Michigan, LP # 6301014085

• Professor, Educational Psychology
• Director, Counseling Psychology
• Educational Psychology Area Coordinator
• Founding member and Associate Faculty Director of College of Education's Mental Health & Wellness Clinic
• Pernice Research Hub - Research, Scholarship and Community Research Partnerships

351 Education Bldg.

• Individual, Couples Therapy, Family Therapy
• Psychotherapy Theory
• Mental Health Recovery
• Social Connections and Health
• Clubhouse Model, Social Practice
• Quantitative & Qualitative Methods

Dr. Pernice's research, practice, and pedagogy is broadly informed by integrating Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory (1986), and a multicultural and post-modern feminist-based framework. This integrative lens  allows for the investigation of phenomena in a holistic and transdisciplinary manner, incorporating many forms of inquiry supported by person-environment-centered values.

Dr. Pernice's academic, clinical, and research interests also reflect the importance of systemic /organizational change, community partnerships , and research across two broad areas: (1) application of ecological theories and methods; (2) social connections and the associations to well-being and mental health recovery. Overall, research interests are interdisciplinary and include approaches to examine systemic and contextual influences on human development, behavior, and well-being.

• Clubhouse Models
• Community Systems of Care
• Social Connections and Recovery from Serious Mental Illness
• Couples/Relational Therapy

• Board of Directors, Assured Family Services, Detroit, MI
• Recovery Council- Wayne County Mental Health Agency and Project Care
• Clubhouse Michigan, Fountain House New York

Media

1. Pernice, F. (January, 2024). Fountain House: A “clubhouse” for people with serious mental illness. [Subject Matter Expert]. Public Health in Action, Harvard Public Health & The Studio [producers], Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Wednesday, January 31, 2024, 1pm ET | Online Presented jointly with Harvard Public Health magazine as part of the Public Health in Action, Harvard Public Health magazine website or on YouTube.
2. Jedrzejczak, K. (Producer) & Pernice, F. (Director, Writer). (2023). Partners in care: Fostering relationships with clubhouses to support recovery from serious mental illness, [Educational video, 1.0 Continuing Medical Education Credit]. Neuroscience Education Institute. https://www.neiglobal.com/Default.aspx?TabId=685
3. Pernice, F. (August, 2017). Recovery Enhanced Environment (REE). [Subject Matter Expert]. Employee Training Video, Detroit-Wayne County Mental Health Agency, Detroit, MI. https://www.dwctraining.com/Recovery-Enhancing-Environment-REE.id.1779.htm
4. Pernice, F. (2024, March 14). Community as Therapy: Why LA is getting a Clubhouse for people living with serious mental illness.[Interview]. L.A. National Public Radio https://laist.com/news/health/fountain-house-clubhouse-community-hollywood-serious-mental-illness
5. Pernice, F. (2023, March 17). We want to be accepted: Clubhouses give community to those with mental illness. [Interview]. Minnesota National Public Radio.
6. Pernice, F. & Prichett-Johnson, B. (2020, May 22). Wayne State mental health counselors offer free service for pandemic stress, depression. [Interview]. Fox 2 Detroit News. https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/wayne-state-mental-health-counselors-offer-free-services-for-pandemic-stress-depression
7. Pernice, F. & Prichett-Johnson, B. (2021, January,15). Responding to trauma in the wake of January 6 capital attacks [Interview]. Fox 2 News Detroit, Southfield, MI Jan.
8. Pernice, F. (2018, September, 19). Anxiety and adolescence. [Interview]. Fox 2 Detroit News, Southfield, MI.

Conferences

1. Christian, J., Michon, A., Hinchey, L.M., Pernice, F. (2022, August 3-5). Past, present, future: Thematic review of Clubhouse Community Research. [Poster presentation]. American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Minneapolis, MN
2. Tse, J., Pernice, F., Napolitano, C., Bayer, C., D'Angelo, L., (2022, September 17-22). Partners in care: Strategies for collaborating with psychiatry to support our members [Conference session]. Clubhouse International World Seminar, Baltimore MD.
3. Pernice, F., Hichney, L., Michon, A.*, Drews, J., & Price, M., (2020, April 2-5). Recovery Oriented Practice for Training Counseling Psychologists [Conference session]. Counseling Psychology Conference (Division 45 Annual Conference), New Orleans, LA. (moved to virtual) https://www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/80c10b34-2532-46c6-8242-d14c44c8ddae
4. Price, M., & Pernice, F. (2020, August). Why we come: Top 3 reasons members come to clubhouse [Poster presentation]. American Psychological Association, Washington D.C. Virtual Conference. https://irp.cdn-website.com/a5ea5d51/files/uploaded/APA_2020_Program.pdf

Selected Publications; *Denotes Student Co-Author

1. Pernice, F., D’Angelo, Dudek, K, *Michon, A., Aquila, R. (2022). Fountain House and community psychiatry. In W. Sowers, H. McQuistion, J. Ranz, J. Maus Feldman, P. Runnels (Eds.) Textbook of Community Psychiatry: American Association for Community Psychiatry (2nd ed., pp 535-547). Springer International.
2. Pernice, F., Hinchey, L., Rice, K., Michon, A., Drews, J., Mackenzie, J., Doyle, A., Madison, E., Kessler, L., Bayer, C., Napolitano, C., Jedrzejczak, J.,Delman, J. (in press). The method and application of social practice in the clubhouse. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal. Impact Factor: 2.949 Rank: 522
3. Pernice, F., Hinchey, L. M., Rice, K., & Drews, J. (2023). Community as therapy: The theory of social practice. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, https://doi.org/10.1037/prj0000588 Impact Factor: 2.949 Rank: 522
4. Rice, K., Simaitis, G., Pernice, F. (in press). Clubhouse virtual programming: A trend analysis of member engagement patterns before, during, and after pandemic lockdown. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal.
5. *Hinchey, L., Pernice, F., *Christian, J., *Michon, A., & Rice, K. (2023). A contemporary review of the clubhouse model of psychosocial rehabilitation: Past, present, and emerging directions. The Psychiatric Quarterly, 94, 569-604.
6. *Hinchey, L., *Grasser, L., Saad, B., Gorski, K., Pernice, F., & Javanbakht, A. (2022). The predictive utility of trauma subtypes in the assessment of mental health outcomes for persons resettled as refugees. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 25, 274-281. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-022-01407-8
7. *Michon, A., *Hinchey, L., Pernice, F., *Drews, J., *Price, M., *Christian, J., Rice, K., Kellogg, L., (2021). Responding to the global pandemic: A pulse of the well-being of clubhouse communities moving virtual. Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health, 8, 171-183.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s40737-021-00217-9
8. Hinchey, L., *Michon, A., *Drews, J., *Price, M., *Christian, J., Pernice, F., & Aquila, R. (2021). Clubhouses as essential communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health, 9, 149-157. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40737-021-00242-8 
9. Rice, K., Pernice, F., & *Michon, A. (2021). Metacognition and the Clubhouse Model in Treating Serious Mental Illness. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 43(4), 284-289. https://doi.org/10.1037/prj0000464
10. Pernice, F., *Price, M., & Rice, K. (2020). Why we come: Clubhouse members seek connection, purpose, and meaning. Community Mental Health Journal, 57, 446-456. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-020-00685-6
11. Pernice, F. M., Biegel, D., Kim, J.-Y., & Conrad-Garrisi, D. (2017). The mediating role of mattering to others in recovery and stigma. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 40(4), 395–404. https://doi.org/10.1037/prj0000269
12. *Chung, C., Pernice-Duca, F., Biegel, D., Norden, M., & *Chang, C.. (2016). Family perspectives of how their relatives with mental illness benefit from Clubhouse participation: a qualitative inquiry. Journal of Mental Health, 25(4), 372–378. 10.3109/09638237.2016.1149805
13. Pernice-Duca, F., Biegel, D., *Hess, H., *Chung, C., & *Chang, C.(2015). Family members' perceptions of how they benefit when relatives living with serious mental illness participate in Clubhouse community programs. Family Relations, 64(3), 446-459. https://doi.org/10.1111/fare.12127
14. *Chang, C., Chung, C., Biegel, D., Pernice-Duca, F., *Min, O. (2013). Predictors of Loneliness among Clubhouse members. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 37,(1), 51-54. https://doi.org/10.1037/prj0000052
15. Biegel, D., Pernice-Duca, F., *Chang, C.,*Chung, C., *Min, O., D'Angelo, L.(2013). Family social networks and recovery from severe mental illness of clubhouse members. Journal of Family Social Work, 16(4), 274-296.  https://doi.org/10.1080/10522158.2013.794379
16. Biegel, B.E., Pernice-Duca, F., *Chang, C., & D’Angelo, L. (2013). Correlates of peer support in a clubhouse setting. Community Mental Health Journal, 49(3), 249-259. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-012-9502-5
17. Pernice-Duca, F., *Chatervert, H., & Markman, B. (2013). Recovery in the clubhouse: Applying ecological and social cognitive theories. International Journal of Self Help and Self Care, 7(2) 151-165. https://doi.org/10.2190/sh.7.2.d
18. *Conrad-Garrisi, D., & Pernice-Duca, F. (2013). Sense of mattering to recovery and stigma in consumer-oriented recovery environments. International Journal of Self Help and Self Care Special Issue: Peer Support at Fountain House/Clubhouses as Rehabilitation Efforts in the Mental Health Field, 7(1), 41-57. https://doi.org/10.2190/sh.7.1.d
19. *Bernardon, S. & Pernice-Duca, F. (2012). Integrating recovery and a narrative-attachment systems perspective to working through borderline personality disorder. The Family Journal, 20(3), 239-248. https://doi.org/10.1177/1066480712448790
20. Carolan, M., Onaga, E., Pernice-Duca, F., & Jimenez, T. (2011). A place to be: The role of clubhouses in facilitating support. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 35(2), 125-132. https://doi.org/10.2975/35.2.2011.125.132
21. *Bernardon, S., & Pernice-Duca, F. (2010). A family systems perspective to recovery from post-traumatic stress in children. The Family Journal, 18(4), 349-357. https://doi.org/10.1177/1066480710376618
22. Pernice-Duca, F. (2010). An examination of family and social support networks as a function of ethnicity and gender: A descriptive study of youths from three ethnic groups. Journal of Youth Studies, 13(3), 391-402. https://doi.org/10.1080/13676260903447536
23. Pernice-Duca, F. (2010). Family network support and mental health recovery. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 36(1), 13-27. 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2009.00182.x
24. Pernice-Duca, F. (2010). Staff and member perceptions of the clubhouse environment. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 3(4), 345-356. 10.1007/s10488-009-0242-y
25. Pernice-Duca, F., *Saxe, B., & *Johnson, J. (2010). Factors influencing staff perceptions of the organizational environment of clubhouses. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 37(4), 334-344.
26. Pernice-Duca, F., & Onaga. E. (2009) Examining the contribution of social network support to the recovery process among clubhouse members. American Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 12(1), 1-30. 10.1080/15487760802615566
27. Pernice-Duca, F. (2008). The structure and quality of social network support among mental health consumers of clubhouse programs. Journal of Community Psychology, 36(7), 929-945.
28. Herman, S., Onaga, E.E, Pernice-Duca, F., Oh, S., & Ferguson, C. (2005). Sense of community in clubhouse programs: Member and staff concepts. American Journal of Community Psychology, 36(3/4), 343-356.
29. Pernice-Duca, F., Kirk, R., Onaga, E., Martinez, V. (2005). Full participation in the classroom: The early childhood inclusion project. The Community Psychologist, 38(1), 22-25.