SUMMER 2014

Amaro Appointed to Institute of Medicine Committee for Behavioral Health in Service Members

September 25, 2013 By Susan Shimotsu

H ortensia Amaro, dean’s professor of social work and preventive medicine and USC associate vice provost of community research

initiatives, has been invited to serve on the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Committee on the Assessment of Resiliency and Prevention Programs for Mental and Behavioral Health in Service Members and Their Families. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense, the IOM committee will focus on prevention strategies to miti-gate behavioral and mental health outcomes among the military personnel who deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. Committee members will conduct a systematic review and critique of integration programs and prevention strategies for behavioral and mental health, targeting service mem-bers and their families, and identify and evaluate models and metrics for measuring performance of these programs.

“The committee’s findings have the potential to inform and impact the development of new initiatives for services and research that will address critical issues on resiliency and prevention programs to improve mental and behavioral health in service members and their families,” said Amaro, who was elected to the IOM in 2011 and has previously served on four IOM committees. “I am thrilled to be part of this committee and feel honored to have been selected.”

Committee appointees are nominated by highly quali-fied members of the mental and behavioral health commu-nity and go through a strict vetting process before being selected. For this committee, the IOM was looking for individuals with expertise in psychiatry, clinical medicine, prevention, evaluation/effectiveness research, post-trau-matic stress disorder, depression, recovery support, sub-stance use disorders, suicide or interpersonal violence.

Amaro, who recently received the Ernest R. Hilgard Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Psychological Association’s Society for General Psychology, brings her insights from research on the integrated pre-vention and treatment of co-occurring disorders. Her groundbreaking research on drug addiction, mental illness and PTSD provided strong evidence that women receiv-ing integrated treatment for these co-occurring condi-tions stayed in treatment longer; had lower rates of post-treatment drug use, mental health symptoms and trauma symptoms; and had lower rates of HIV-risk behaviors. The treatment model is now part of the SAMHSA’s National

TRANSCENDING THE SILOS OF HEALTHMFP fellows seek out ways to incorporate integrated health care strategies to make strides in clinical practice and health care program development. In the following two articles, the initiatives of MFP Fellows Hortensia Amaro, PhD, and Laura Bava, PsyD, are showcased.

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Fellows in the News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Training Advisory Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17News About Fellows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 New Fellows’ Visit to Ku- lana Hawai`i . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Congratulations, New Fellows! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 MFP’s Psychology Summer Institute (PSI) . . . . . . . . 37 Initial Review Committee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Reflections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 2014 APA Convention Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

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Registry of Evidence-Based Programs and Practices. She is considered a pioneer in applying research to practice and in the development of interventions for disenfranchised popula-tions. Her research and service programs have led to real-world results that have touched the lives of many.

In addition to periodic meetings throughout the proj-ect, the 13-member committee will hold an information-sharing meeting that convenes stakeholders and topic experts associated with program evaluation and prevention efforts. And, while the study is independent from any given institution, Amaro is excited to represent the USC School of Social Work and contribute to the committee’s findings.

“Faculty participation in IOM committees is a reflection of faculty expertise and sound scientific reputation,” Amaro said. “As a faculty member in the School of Social Work, I feel that I can bring information to the committee about the highly relevant work that members of our faculty are con-ducting in the area of military social work.”

Amaro’s tenure on the committee runs through February 2014. u

© 2014 University of Southern California School of Social Work.

Reprinted, with permission, from the USC Social Work. Retrieved from

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ISalud Magazine Interviews Dr. Laura Bava on Survivorship Care at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles

D r. Laura Bava returned to her native Buenos Aires, Argentina, in October 2013, as she was invited to participate in the VI Regional

Conference in Pediatric PsychoOncology. The confer-

ence was organized by the Natalí Dafne Flexer Foundation (http://www.fundacionflexer.org) and the University ISalud (http://www.isalud.edu.ar) under the coordination of Lic. Teresa Mendez. During her visit to Buenos Aires, she also visited the oncology services at the largest pediatric hospital in the region, the renowned Pedro de Elizalde Hospital, and had the opportunity to interact with different professionals, learn about their clinical models, research initiatives, and spe-cific issues under a completely different health care system.

Dr. Bava originally graduated with a degree in psy-chology from the University of Buenos Aires and has been residing in the United States for the past 15 years. She completed a doctorate in clinical community psychol-ogy from the University of La Verne in California, an APA accredited internship, and a two-year APA pediatric psychology fellowship at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD), which is affiliated with the University of Southern California. She participated in the Minority Fellowship Summer Institute towards the end of her fellow-ship in 2011. . . . She was awarded the Exemplary Scholar Award (2011) from the USC-UCEDD at CHLA. Post fel-lowship, she was recruited to be part of the multidisciplinary LIFE Cancer Survivorship & Transition Program at CHLA to lead a clinical/research project under the leadership of David R. Freyer, DO, MS, the principal investigator. Her knowledge and experience in psychological assessment, school advocacy, and multiculturalism, particularly applied to serving underserved communities in pediatric settings, made her an asset for the design and implementation of this grant- funded service.

Dr. Bava’s presentations at the conference in Buenos Aires focused on survivorship care at CHLA and the char-acteristics of her clinical service applied to research. She was interviewed by ISalud magazine. The following are excerpts from that interview completed in her native Spanish and translated here.

How did you become interested in issues related to children’s health?

My interest in children started prior to my psychology degree, as I first became an elementary school teacher, but I never taught. Later, I shifted my interest to clinical psy-

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chology but was originally interested not only in children, but mostly in adults and families, particularly . . . issues of domestic violence while families interfaced with the legal systems; all that was while I was in Argentina. Once I moved to the United States as part of my training, I completed an advanced placement practicum (fourth year of school) in neuropsychological evaluations for pediatric cancer patients at CHLA. I fell in love with psychology integrated in inter-disciplinary teams in medical settings. Then I continued my training through my internship and fellowship in pediatric psychology. Although I started in hematology-oncology and always saw patients with those conditions, my training also included other diagnoses, including transplant and chronic conditions, and always with an emphasis in multiculturalism and providing services to underserved communities. Then, I was hired to remain at CHLA under the LIFE Cancer Survivorship & Transition Program.

Tell us about the experience of working in a pediatric hospital.

First, the concept of health system in the United States is different than in Argentina, as there is no universal health care. The concept of a “public hospital” as understood in Argentina is very different. As a patient, a person can receive emergency services but there is also the issue of how those services will be paid for. The insurance or the person will be billed for services. For standard care, you usually go to institutions and doctors covered by your insurance. With children, the issue of finding medical coverage tends to be easier than for adults, but still the system is very complicated and unequal. Issues of immigration pose additional barriers for people; some children can only get emergency cover-age under the state plans. The coverage will end once those children become adults and that will compromise their long-term survivorship care for their pediatric cancer history.

In Los Angeles, we have a large percentage of Latino patients; race and ethnicity have implications for treatment outcomes and their role is still being investigated. They also play a role in certain sociodemographic indicators that are overrepresented in certain population groups and present families, and the medical teams serving them, with specific challenges and opportunities (for selected demographic characteristics according to the U.S. Census, see www.census.gov). Some of the challenges have to do with lan-

guage barriers, poverty, and lack of resources. Some of the opportunities include families that are immensely resilient, have close-knit social supports, and sometimes parents report they would not have received the same quality of services in their country of origin. Due to our geographic location, we serve a large percentage of Latino patients and families. Our coverage area is quite large; sometimes families travel two to three hours to get services in our program. Especially if their initial treatment was completed at our institution, it is very difficult for families to take the child somewhere else, as they form a strong bond with the medical teams.

What is the situation regarding childhood cancer?

In the U.S. the primary cause of death for children is accidents, and the second highest due to disease is cancer. Although the incidence is very low, the survivorship rate high, and medicine has made great advances in treat-ments, once children are diagnosed, the long-term health implications can be negative. When they hear the words “pediatric cancer” or “child with cancer,” most people do not necessarily think about the high rates of survival. The advances in treatments have been remarkable during the last decades, mostly due to clinical trials and collaboration among institutions.

What is the type of treatment for pediatric can-cer survivors?

Our survivorship clinic has an emphasis on long-term health information, follow-up, and education and empowerment to help children fulfill their best potential. There is also an emphasis on transitioning the responsibility and knowl-edge from the parents to the survivors so they will be able to manage their health care appropriately. . . . Our team is multidisciplinary, with a pediatric oncologist, specialized nurse practitioners, a clinical social worker, and research and administrative personnel. Patients can be self-referred or referred by their oncologist. Patients can receive these ser-vices within two years of finishing their treatment.

What are some the psychosocial issues affecting these children in regard to school rein-tegration?

One of the first things to keep in mind when working with survivors is their on-treatment experience, what type of

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services were provided, what was the premorbid status of the patient and the family, how has the family handled that very stressful time, and what kind of resources and challenges they have. In regards to school, was the child out of school for a long time? Did they have a teacher helping them while hospitalized? How was returning to school for them? Was the school receptive and supportive of changes and needs? Oncologists and medical teams in general are key in helping families transition from treat-ment and back to school in addressing their concerns and referring patients for additional services if needed. We also sometimes see that families are scared to send the children back to school due to fears of infections and illness despite the doctors saying that is OK to go back.

Taking all that into consideration—the fact there are specific treatment exposures that affect cognition, the dif-ficulties when navigating educational systems, the dispari-ties in resources faced by some of our communities and schools, and the need to provide parents and patients with resources—Dr. Freyer (PI) created the ABCs (Achieving Best Cognitive Outcomes after Pediatric Cancer) project. The project was launched to develop an effective approach for increasing academic success of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) survivors in the LIFE Cancer Survivorship & Transition Program at CHLA. Particularly, the ABCs services focus on school-age ALL survivors and look specifically at long-term cognitive effects and academic performance. This portion of this service is entirely free for patients and paid by a generous grant. The development phase started in 2011 and once I was recruited, implementation was launched. . . .

Thus far, we have approached 113 patients in a little over two years (cumulative through 12/15/2013). About 70% of those approached followed up with wanting the service. From those we have about a 90% retention rate through the service. [Note post interview: We were generously awarded a 3-year renewal for this service.] u

© Universidad Isalud. Adapted, with permission, from the October

2013 issue of ISalud. Translated from the Spanish. Retrieved from

http://www.isalud.edu.ar/revista_isalud/octubre13/paginas/22.html.

IMPACT OF PEDIATRIC CANCER

Biopsychosocial impact

• Physical changes (e.g., vision, stature, reproduction)• Psychological effects (e.g., PTSD, anxiety, fears,

sadness, resilience)• Cognitive effects (e.g., processing speed, working

memory)• Long-term effects (e.g., loss of premorbid

functioning)• Family stress (e.g., sibling difficulties, financial strain)• Academic difficulties

Cognitive effects characteristics

• Disrupted school attendance• Long-term cognitive effects:

• Appear gradually• Can be overshadow by other diagnoses, can be

difficult to identify• Lack of awareness from school personnel about

survivorship issues• Can be confused or labeled as lack of motivation

in patient

• Areas most impacted for ALL survivors:

• Attention and concentration• Working memory• Executive functioning • Processing speed

Additional risk factors due to sociodemographic indicators

• Effect of poverty on brain development (prior to cancer effects)

• More likely to have parents with:• Low educational achievement• Low or no English proficiency

• More likely to attend schools with limited resources and low performance

• More likely to have underdeveloped academic lan-guage skills for grade demands

• More likely to live in communities with:• Scarce resources• Higher violence and social problems

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FELLOWS IN THE NEWSENRICHING LIVES THROUGH COMMUNITYMFP Fellows Jordan Lewis, PhD, and Glen Milstein, PhD, reveal how a sense of belonging and respect have led to fuller and richer lives.

Secrets to Happiness in Old Age

By Joaqlin Estus, KNBA News Director

R esearch shows happiness follows a U shape throughout life, with higher levels in youth that drop until about age 50, then rise again into old

age. A Harvard study of adult development shows a good marriage at age 50 and the ability to play, create, and form new friendships after retirement are stronger indicators of happiness at age 80 than low cholesterol or high income.

University of Washington assistant professor Dr. Jordon Lewis says people who feel like they’re leav-ing a legacy, or making the world a better place, are also happier. For his doctoral dissertation, he surveyed Aleut, Athabascan, and Yup’ik elders in his home region of Bristol Bay. Lewis says some of them talked about how they overcame alcoholism, survived the suicide of a loved one, spent years gathering food from nature and practic-ing cultural traditions, and now want to pass on their experience.

“Elders . . . talked about the opportunity to share: ‘I have all this knowledge I want to share because once I’m gone, the knowledge is gone.’ Having those opportuni-ties,” said Lewis, “gives them a sense of purpose, pro-motes their health, and they age better.”

Lewis is studying elders’ wishes to share what they know about subsistence and nature, or skills such as bead-ing, kayak-building, and language. He says healthy com-munities draw on their elders.

“The benefit to the community is the history is there. They can learn their language. They know who their ancestors are, who they come from, where they’re from. It’s very important for Natives to know where they come from to know where they’re going. And so learning from their elders is really important because it promotes healthy families, healthy communities, and lifts this idea of pre-serving culture.”

Southcentral Foundation (SCF) vice president Ilene Sylvester says respect for elders, and heeding their advice, is a big part of Alaska Native cultures. She says that’s a value at SCF and is reflected in the weight given to its Elders Council.

“So we have an intern program because they brought that to us years ago, the need where they were watching their grandchildren and wanted them to have something positive to do,” says Sylvester. “So they were part of starting that discussion. And now we have an intern pro-gram with 60 young people that come in the organization every summer and about 15 in the wintertime.”

Teddy Mayac is 77, a retired civil engineer who grew up in the now-abandoned village of King Island. He says because of the close ties of everyone on King Island, its isolation from other communities, and the need to work together, villagers were taught to keep a positive attitude, to be patient, and to treat others with kindness and gener-osity—values he wants to pass on to younger generations.

“Let our people remember the good things, the honor, the respect, the love, the cohesiveness,” says Mayac. “It doesn’t matter who it is, we have to honor them and bear with whatever comes between us. Confrontation isn’t good.”

Mellisa Heflin, an elders outreach coordinator for the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, says her grand-

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FELLOWS IN THE NEWSmother urged her and her children to learn the Inupiaq language, which helped her realize something about how she views herself and her culture.

“It’s important to be proud of your heritage and don’t be shy to share it with others,” says Heflin. “When you put a mask over it, it just makes things more dif-ficult. So if you speak your language, speak it. It’s part of who you are. If you eat another food, enjoy it. Because it’s who you are. So if you’re not proud of your heritage then you’re not proud to be yourself.”

Another reason to spend time with elders is that as life expectancy increases, many of us will be traveling the road they’re on and would benefit from learning how to live well, with joy, from retirement into our 80s and beyond. u

The author’s work on this article was made possible through a

MetLife Foundation Journalists in Aging Fellowship, a project of New

Media and the Gerontological Society of America. © 2014 KNBA.

Adapted with permission. Retrieved from http://knba.org/part-6-se-

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Responding to the Mental Health Needs of Multicultural Faith Communities: The Chaplain’s Balance

By Bernie Rosner

I n a talk that ranged from an astronaut’s commu-nion on the moon to the lifecycle of sea turtles, Dr. Glen Milstein’s keynote speech at HealthCare

Chaplaincy’s Winter Clinical Pastoral Education Day reminded our staff and trainees of the unique work that we do, and the human-centered healing that we facilitate on our daily rounds.

Dr. Milstein is a clinical psychologist who after work-ing for ten years in psychiatric hospitals is now an associ-

ate professor of psychology at the City College of New York. He first started collaborating with HealthCare Chaplaincy as a postdoctoral fellow at the Weill Cornell Medical College, thirteen years ago. In that time, his decade-long research collaboration with one-time HCC chaplain Amy Manierre has led to the development and implementation of their model for Clergy Outreach and Professional Engagement (COPE).

Milstein and Manierre use COPE to study the de facto role of clergy in mental health care service delivery and to facilitate collaboration between clinicians, chap-lains and community clergy. They have found that mental health care providers have as much to learn about the importance of religious belief and practice as a resource to help persons suffering with mental illness, as clergy need to learn about recognizing when emotional difficulties of congregants reach the . . . severity requiring assessment, and possibly treatment, by a mental health professional.

In his talk, “Responding to the Mental Health Needs of Multicultural Faith Communities: The Chaplain’s Balance,” Dr. Milstein began in Africa at the roots of our human origin. He noted how a study of genetic samples from around the world has confirmed there is only one human species. With a picture of a human brain on the screen, he reminded us that whatever external differences of appearance may distinguish us, our humanity unites us. He spoke of how our human brain is born interlaced with potential for knowing, and not yet woven into networks of knowledge. All human brains are verbal, affiliative and spiritual; each human brain, over time, through our rela-tionships within our families and communities, develops “my language, my culture, my prayers.”

Dr. Milstein said it was an honor for him to speak to a room filled with chaplains and proto-chaplains, and offered two reasons for his deep feeling. First, as an academic, he now spends most of his time teaching stu-dents, reviewing data, reading and writing. He honored the direct care carried out each day by chaplains among persons who suffer physical illness and mental disorders. Second, he honored our unique work bridging and bal-ancing the varied spiritual needs of the many patients in

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our hospitals, all the while maintaining our own specific religious rituals and traditions. For Dr. Milstein, this abil-ity to acknowledge a universal humanity that deserves our blessing, combined with each chaplain’s learning and commitment and leadership within his or her tradi-tion, makes up what Milstein has labeled the “Chaplain Balance.” He noted how, like a labyrinth, the balance turns back upon itself: within most religious traditions, there is an acknowledgement that all humans share an original creation, and so the connectedness of all per-sons is also an expression of the chaplain’s own religious beliefs. This understanding of interconnectedness is con-curred with by geneticists whose data leads back to Africa.

As an example of Chaplain Balance, which both acknowledges spirituality within all persons and hon-ors specific rituals for individuals, Dr. Milstein related the actions of Astronaut Buzz Aldrin after he and Neil Armstrong became the first persons to land on the moon on 20 July 1969. Buzz Aldrin was an elder in the Webster Presbyterian Church in Houston. The week before his launch to the moon, he celebrated communion with his family and pastor. Pastor Dean Woodruff had brought two loaves of bread; they celebrated communion with the first loaf. From the second loaf Pastor Woodruff cut a small piece for Buzz to take with him to the moon. The rest of the bread was set aside for the congregation to share in communion when Aldrin was safely on the moon. The pastor added a small amount of wine and a small silver chalice to the cache.

When the astronauts landed on the moon, they were given a required rest time prior to their lunar walk. During this time, on his side of the small lunar module, Aldrin removed the chalice and bread and wine in prepa-ration for his personal communion. Before he performed his personal ritual, he spoke to the millions of people on Earth who were listening to these first persons to land on the moon. He said, “This is the LM Pilot. I’d like to take this opportunity to ask every person listening in, whoever and wherever they may be, to pause for a moment and contemplate the events of the past few hours and to give thanks in his or her own way.” Astronaut Aldrin then proceeded in silence to conduct a personal communion and read from a card he had prepared on Earth with his pastor’s guidance. He quoted to himself, John 15:5, “I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in me, and I in him, will bear much fruit; for you can do noth-ing without me.”

For Dr. Milstein, Buzz Aldrin’s actions exemplified the Chaplain Balance. As the astronaut commemorated this human achievement, he was both seamlessly inclu-sive of all human spirituality through his invitation for a moment of contemplation, as well as deeply specifically religious through his personal ritual of communion within his own tradition. Dr. Milstein taught us that this balance is an achievement within the daily conflict that sometimes passes as dialogue and discussion in our society.

After this journey to the cosmos, Dr. Milstein returned us to the topic of mental health care and chap-lains, reminding us that mental illnesses are real and seri-ous disorders, which in their worst manifestations can lead to suicide. Suicide is the third highest cause of death among persons 10 to 24, and the second leading cause of death among persons 25 to 34. It has also become a very serious problem among our soldiers and veterans. What role is there for the chaplain to play in helping persons with serious mental illness? One point was that the goal for someone who has experienced mental health problems is not only that the symptoms subside but also that he or she thrive. As one patient put it, he not only wanted medication to lessen his symptoms, he also wanted treat-ment to put his “shattered soul back together.” Such

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intervention requires collaboration across disciplines to both reduce symptoms . . . and return persons to their communities, their congregations, their families, their spiritual journeys.

Dr. Milstein walked us through his four-step model of COPE. First, the COPE model acknowledges that much mental health is promoted through our regular involvement within our religious communities, which nurture positive attitudes of hope and perseverance. It is also in these communities where we strengthen our soci-eties by helping educate our children and by engaging in acts of social justice. A central point of the talk came as Dr. Milstein asked us to accept fully that we are not sea turtles. Sea turtles are born ready to survive; they emerge from their egg shells small yet fully capable of crawling to the sea, swimming away; they are ready to find and eat what they need to live. Not humans.

Central to our survival is culture, and we are born with no culture. He reemphasized that it is from our fam-ily and community relationships that we integrate our knowledge to survive and thrive. It is also within our communities where we receive the guidance and sup-port to respond to life’s stressors. In the second step of COPE, when we experience loss, religious communities respond through both ritual and presence; clergy guide us with rituals of mourning, and congregants come to be with us, and help us with emotional, and at times, finan-cial needs. Through this strengthened spiritual coherence and social support, most persons improve their emotional well-being, never needing the services of a mental health professional.

Yet, some persons’ bereavement does not resolve. Clergy are experts with the range of grief their congre-gants suffer. They know when the depth of mourning is greater than most others, and at this moment—without the need for a formal diagnosis—it is appropriate, even necessary, for clergy to refer individuals to a mental health

clinician for assessment and possibly treatment. At this third step of COPE, it is necessary that the individual receive professional mental health care. It may also be that the person is suffering from a chronic mental health disorder. This, in the fourth step of COPE, will require collaboration between the individuals, their clinicians, their families and their clergy to help the person recover and function at their highest possible level. As the per-son’s health improves, the congregation is a place that can facilitate a return to being a generative member of the community.

Through Dr. Milstein’s work with the Nathan Kline Center of Excellence in Culturally Competent Mental Health, two tools have been developed for use by clergy. The first is a brief assessment to confirm that evaluation of a congregant by a clinician would be useful. The second is a brief religion and culture assessment to inform clinicians about aspects of individuals’ beliefs and social support that will be important for evaluation and treatment planning.

One of our strengths as chaplains is that we travel between clinical and pastoral worlds with regularity. We balance the clinical and spiritual with alacrity. Dr. Milstein applauded us and prodded us to reach out and find ways to collaborate with both mental health professionals as well as community clergy. In this way, we bring even more wholeness to the patients with whom we work. u

Adapted from PlainViews®, the professional chaplaincy and palliative

care publication of HealthCare Chaplaincy Network™, June 2, 2011.

Adapted with permission.

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Reach out and find ways to collaborate with both mental health professionals as well as community clergy. In this way, we bring even more wholeness to the patients with whom we work.

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TACKLING FAMILY STRESSORS In the following articles, MFP Fellows Yuying Tsong, PhD, and George Hu, PsyD, look at family stressors from an innovative lens—at both a macro- and a microlevel.

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Parachute Kids and Astronaut Families

April 29, 2014By Yuying Tsong

“ Parachute kids,” or unac-companied minors, are youngsters who are sent to study and live in the U.S. without their parents as

early as the first grade. The stress of immigration, coping with separation from parents and having high academic expectations greatly affect the psychological and emotional well-being of parachute children. The common feelings of loneliness, sadness, anger, alienation and homesickness can become precursors for the development of serious psychological and behavioral problems, such as depression, anxiety, gambling or substance abuse.

“Astronaut family” is a term used to describe instances of one parent, usually the mother, immigrating with the children to the U.S., and the other parent, usually the father, staying in the country of origin, living and working to pursue economic advantages.

The children from astronaut families are known as “satellite kids.” This phenomenon first emerged in the 1980s, with most of them coming from Taiwan and South Korea. While there are no official statistics, it has been estimated that more than 37,000 minors left Taiwan between 1983 to 1993 to attend school in the U.S.

Family units as a whole are often affected by the sepa-ration in distance and different cultures. Parents who are overseas may feel guilty and worried for being apart from their children. For the astronaut family parents, physical separation between the parents also affects the marital rela-tionship and relationships with children.

The adjustment process inherent in the immigration experience can be a risk factor in and of itself. There has

not been much research examining the protective factors that contribute to the success in the academic lives and careers of these children, who are now adults or young adults. Similarly, limited research examines the effects on the parents’ relationships after being separated for a sustained period of time and if the U.S.-residing parent returns to the country of origin after the children graduate from college and no longer need their supervision.

My current research project on Asian transnational families aims to understand the experiences of individu-als who are or were parachute kids or are from astronaut families. The focus of this research explores the risk and protective factors of their psychological well-being, fam-ily dynamics and relationships, as well as their success and achievements in their academic and professional lives.

From the interviews conducted so far, several themes have emerged. One of the unexpected themes is the role immigration status plays in the participants’ level of psy-chological distress. A subgroup of individuals from Asian transnational families are unaccompanied minors who are or were undocumented. In addition to the stresses identi-fied earlier, they also experience high levels of fear and anxiety of being “found out” by the authorities or their peers, which creates further barriers to seeking help when they are distressed.

One common protective factor several interviewees have shared is the experience of hearing other undocu-mented Asian American students and adults openly shar-ing their experiences and resources. This reduces both psychological barriers as well as practical barriers to such things as getting a driver’s license, seeking a job or scholar-ships—help-seeking attitudes and behaviors—and general self-esteem.

The research is ongoing and input is welcome from those who identify themselves as parachute kids or mem-bers of an astronaut family. Those who are interested

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may contact me at ytsong@fullerton.edu or visit my web-site, yuyingtsong.weebly.com u

© 2014 Orange County Register. Reprinted with permission.

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Gaining Control: Seven Steps to Teaching Your Kids How to Handle Anxiety

By Brittney Wong

W hen you’re 10, butterflies tickle the inside of your stomach before a school play. At 20, your hands tremble when your history

professor tells you to start your final exam. At 30, your heartbeat quickens before you present a report to your intimidating boss. Although the causes are different at dif-ferent ages, the result has the same name: anxiety.

“Anxiety is a common experience to all of us, adults or children, on an almost daily basis,” says Maria Hadjicharalambous, a psychologist at Vista Medical Center. It’s a natural human reaction, which originally served an important biological function, she adds. “It’s like an alarm system that’s activated whenever we per-ceive a possible threat.”

Although it’s completely normal, teaching your chil-dren how to cope with it is essential for healthy develop-ment. If you start when they’re young, it will become easier for them to handle tough situations when they’re adults and you’re no longer by their side.

Step 1: Look for the signs

The first step is recognizing when your child is anxious so you know when to act. Anxiety is more than just a feeling, it’s a physical sensation, says Dr. George Hu, a clinical psychologist at Beijing United Family Hospital and

Clinics. Loss of appetite, sweaty palms, problems sleeping, muscle tension and even an upset stomach can all accom-pany stressful emotions. Children are especially likely to experience anxiety physically, because “they’re not as able to label their emotions, and they’re not as able to identify it because they’re not as used to it,” Dr. Hu explains. It’s important to take note of any major differences in your child’s behavior. “The key to recognizing anxiety is change,” Dr. Hu says. “If your child’s appetite is normally fine, but there’s a change now, that’s time to pay attention.”

Step 2: Normalize the nerves

Instill in your child that feeling anxious, especially in certain situations, is normal. Dr. Hu recommends saying things like, “It’s normal to feel nervous,” or relate it to your own life by telling kids a story about how you were anxious in a similar situation. For example, if your 4-year-old is scared to go to preschool for the first time, explain how you felt on your first day of school.

One mistake many parents make, with the best intentions, is dismissing their kids’ nerves in an effort to comfort them. For instance, if your child is worried about sharing something for show and tell, some parents might say, “Don’t worry so much, it’s just show and tell.” Instead of comforting them, though, this teaches kids their feelings are invalid or incorrect.

Step 3: Tell them what to expect

Sometimes anxiety stems from fear of the unknown. Perhaps your little one has a new teacher and he’s afraid of going to school, or he’s going on a plane for the first time. To alleviate these fears, “try to give the child an idea of what to expect,” Dr. Hu recommends. “As detailed as you can, explain the schedule, explain what’s going to happen, so that the kid can have some expectations.”

If your child is afraid to go to a new class or winter camp, get in touch with the teacher ahead of time and ask him or her about the schedule. This way, you can tell your child exactly what he’ll be doing and it will ease that feeling of uncertainty.

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Step 4: Look to the past

For older kids, stress tends to no longer be about concrete objects (like monsters in the closet, dogs or strangers), instead centering on abstract worries (such as unknown social situations, grades or making friends). When they’re anxious about things like homework or new schools, it’s helpful to remind them of how they’ve coped with simi-lar situations in the past. “Build on what they’ve done before,” suggests Aram Sohigian, visiting mental health counselor at Beijing International SOS Clinic.

For example, if they’re afraid they won’t make friends at a new school but they came home from camp this past summer with plenty of new pen pals, point that out and ask, “I remember you made lots of new friends at summer camp—how did you do that?” This way, you can bring attention to “options that they probably used before but didn’t realize it, which gives them power over the situa-tion,” Sohigian says.

Step 5: Play out the possibilities

When kids don’t think through all of the possible out-comes of a situation, it makes the situation seem more intimidating and out of their control. That’s why it’s crucial to teach your kids to work through all of the pos-sibilities beforehand. Dr. Hu recommends going through three things: what are you going to do, what are you going to say, how are you going to feel.

For example, if your son is asking a girl out on a date for the first time and he’s nervous about it, ask him to visualize all of the outcomes. What if she says yes? No? Maybe? Help him make a plan to deal with each one. If she says yes, he’ll smile, ask her if she’s free Friday, and get her number. If she says no, he’ll say, “No problem, maybe some other time,” and rush home to bang on his drum set for a while. The plan will ease the pressure.

Step 6: Help them see the truth

“Negative and irrational beliefs and thoughts … are sig-nificant factors in generating anxiety,” says Nemanja Arandelovic, guidance counselor at Canadian International School of Beijing. If your daughter keeps saying, “I’m

stupid, I’ll never get good grades,” remind her of when she aced the physics quiz. Sohigian also suggests watching out for words like “always” and “never”; they’re often used, but rarely true. Help dissolve these illusions, and you’ll help lower their levels of guilt and self-blame.

Step 7: Praise their bravery

When your children fight through the fear and perform in the play, ask the girl out, or get through their final exam, praise them, no matter the result. “Point out that you are proud of [their] ability to act in the face of considerable anxiety,” Hadjicharalambous says. This encouragement will make it easier for your kids to face problems in the future instead of hiding from them. “Parents should try to help their children by rewarding brave, non-anxious behavior [and] refuse to engage in a child’s behaviors that allow him or her to avoid the situations,” Arandelovic says.

Getting professional help

Anxiety is normal, and a little anxiety can even be a good thing. “It helps us to stay alert, focused and ready to do our best,” Hadjicharalambous says. However, if the stress is prolonged and disrupting your child’s life, it may be a sign he or she would benefit from professional help. For instance, if your teenage daughter is too anxious to go to high school so she starts skipping, or your son is falling asleep in class because he’s not sleeping well, their anxiety is interfering with normal development. Sohigian adds that you may not see it yourself, but if other people are pointing it out to you, that may be a signal as well that it’s time to call a therapist.

The vast majority of the time, though, this isn’t nec-essary. “At the end of the day, the anxiety was normal to begin with,” Dr. Hu says. “We want to get it to the point where we can still function, where it doesn’t get in the way of what we want to do.” u

From “Gaining Control: Seven Steps to Teaching Your Kids How to

Handle Anxiety,” by Brittney Wong, Nov. 14 – Dec. 11, 2013, City

Weekend Parents & Kids (No. 9), pp. 51–52. Copyright 2013 by Ringier

China. Reprinted with permission.

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Coerced Sex Not Uncommon for Young Men, Teenage Boys, Study Finds

March 25, 2014

A large proportion of teenage boys and college men report having been coerced into sex or sexual behavior, according to research published

by the American Psychological Association.

A total of 43 percent of high school boys and young college men reported they had an unwanted sexual experi-ence and of those, 95 percent said a female acquaintance was the aggressor, according to a study published online in the APA journal Psychology of Men and Masculinity®.

“Sexual victimization continues to be a pervasive problem in the United States, but the victimization of men is rarely explored,” said lead author Bryana H. French, PhD, of the University of Missouri. “Our findings can help lead to better prevention by identifying the various types of coercion that men face and by acknowledging women as perpetrators against men.”

Of 284 U.S. high school and college students who responded to a survey about unwanted sexual encounters, 18 percent reported sexual coercion by physical force; 31 percent said they were verbally coerced; 26 percent described unwanted seduction by sexual behaviors; and 7 percent said they were compelled after being given alcohol or drugs, according to the study. Half of the students said they ended up having intercourse, 10 percent reported an attempt to have intercourse and 40 percent said the result was kissing or fondling.

Being coerced into having sexual intercourse was related to risky sexual behaviors and more drinking among the victims, and students who were sexually coerced while drunk or drugged showed significant distress, according to the findings. However, having unwanted sex did not appear to affect the victims’ self-esteem. “It may be the case that sexual coercion by women doesn’t affect males’ self-perceptions in the same way that it does when women are coerced. Instead it may inadvertently be consistent with expectations of masculinity and sexual desire, though more research is needed to better understand this relationship,” French said.

The type and frequency of sexual coercion varied according to the victims’ ethnicity. Asian-American stu-dents reported significantly fewer sexual coercion experi-ences compared with the other groups. Whites reported a significantly greater proportion of coercion that resulted in attempted sex compared to multiracial victims. In the writ-ten descriptions, significantly more Latinos reported sexual coercion, at 40 percent compared with 8 percent of Asian-Americans, 19 percent of whites and 22 percent of African-American students.

The findings revealed a need for more scientific study of the thin line between sexual seduction and sexual coer-cion, the authors wrote. u

Article: “Sexual Coercion Context and Psychosocial Correlates Among

Diverse Males,” Bryana H. French, PhD, Jasmine D. Tilghman, MEd,

and Dominique A. Malebranche, BS, University of Missouri; Psychology

of Men & Masculinity, online March 2014.

Adapted from “Coerced Sex Not Uncommon for Young Men,

Teenage Boys, Study Finds” [Press Release] by the American

Psychological Association. Copyright © 2014 American Psychological

Association. Adapted with permission.

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BREAKING THE SILENCE ON AGGRESSION AND VIOLENCE MFP Fellows Bryana French, PhD, and Kevin Nadal, PhD, shed light on unspoken areas of aggression and violence.

Breaking the Silence, continued on page 14

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FELLOWS IN THE NEWS19 LGBT Micro-Aggressions You Hear On a Daily Basiswww.buzzfeed.com/hnigatu/19-lgbt-microaggressions-you-hear-on-a-daily-basis

Kevin Nadal, PhD

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TRAINING SPOTLIGHTSIn the following articles, the inspirational clinical training experiences of MFP Fellows Brandy Piña-Watson and Jennifer Hsia are showcased.

Student Highlight: Brandy Piña-Watson

September 17, 2013

I n a short video, PhD counseling psychology candidate Brandy Piña-Watson discusses her most rewarding experiences in the counseling psychology

doctoral program at Texas A&M University and how it has afforded her opportunities to develop her interests and passions in the field: http://bit.ly/BrandyWatson.

Brandy’s first experience as a counselor was in the master’s program at Texas A&M University Kingsville,

where she worked in a community mental health agency serving primarily low-income and ethnic minority families as well as juvenile offenders on probation. After obtaining her master’s degree, she worked for the Youth Services Department at the Behavioral Health Center of Nueces County, where she conducted behavioral skills training with children and their parents. After entering the doctoral program at Texas A&M, she continued to be involved in various counseling settings, including community mental health, high school and alternative schools, university counseling centers, and the county jail.

In the film, Brandy goes on to discuss what initially drew her to the field of psychology. While growing up, she witnessed various people struggle with challenges and

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BRANDY PIÑA-WATSON

Inspired by a photography proj-ect about racial microaggres-sions [see www.buzzfeed.com/

hnigatu/racial-microagressions-you-hear-on-a-daily-basis], Kevin Nadal, PhD, associate professor of psychology at CUNY’s John Jay College, asked some of his friends

to share the microaggressions they’ve experienced as mem-bers of the LGBT community.

Borrowing from the scholarship of Columbia University professor Derald Sue, Nadal defines a microag-gression as: “The everyday encounters of subtle discrimina-tion that people of various marginalized groups experience throughout their lives.” Nadal, who has researched and written a book about LGBT-based microaggressions, spoke to BuzzFeed about the inspiration for the project:

“I started this project because I wanted the concept of microaggressions to be discussed in more meaningful ways and to be made available to all kinds of audiences. It’s a concept that is heavily discussed in academic circles,

social service organizations, and among college students. However, people in general society may not be aware of the term at all. We need to teach more people about microaggressions in order to educate people about how hurtful microaggressions are and how they negatively affect people’s lives. We need people to be mindful of their language and the little things they do and say that harm people’s lives.”

In his research on LGBT microaggressions, Nadal has found: “All of these microaggressions have a significant impact on people’s lives. While some of these experiences may seem brief and harmless, many studies have found that the more people experience microaggressions, the more likely they are to report symptoms of depression, psycho-logical distress, and even physical health issues.”

For more of Nadal’s research, check out his book That’s So Gay!” Microaggressions and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community. u

Reprinted from Heben Nigatu, December 9, 2013, 19 LGBT

Microaggressions You Hear on a Daily Basis. © 2014 BuzzFeed, Inc. All

rights reserved. Used with permission.

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Spotlight on Training: Our Summer Intern

September 17, 2013

This summer, CBAM [UCLA Center for Behavioral and Addiction

Medicine] has had the pleasure of hosting 5th-year PhD student Jennifer Hsia as our volunteer intern from the University of South Dakota’s clinical psychology program. Originally from the Los Angeles area, Jennifer chose to volunteer with UCLA CBAM after hearing about us through one of our professional colleagues at NIDA.

Ms. Hsia is a recipient of the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Fellowship, funded by SAMHSA and administered by the American Psychological Association’s Minority Fellowship Program. Along with completing coursework focusing on substance use, Ms. Hsia has worked with patients with substance abuse problems in her clinical practica.

This summer, Jennifer has been seeing patients at the UCLA Vine Street Clinic as part a study testing a

novel medication for the treatment of methamphetamine dependence. By gaining more experience with this specialized population, Jennifer feels that her work with CBAM will help to inform her clinical work upon returning to South Dakota in the Fall.

Jennifer has also been working with the CBAM team to analyze data for a paper studying the efficacy of integrating behavioral and primary care. Jennifer believes that integrated healthcare is exciting and that the future of health services lies in integrated models of care.

This coming year, Jennifer will work as a clinic assistant at the PSC, or Psychological Services Center, an on-campus outpatient training clinic for USD’s clinical psychology graduate students. Along with helping to train and supervise junior students, Ms. Hsia will conduct interviews to screen potential patients. Ms. Hsia also plans to work on writing journal articles that are based on findings from her thesis and dissertation. Thank you, Jennifer, for all of your hard work, and we wish you luck in your continued success! u

© 2013 UCLA. Adapted with permission from the UCLA Center for

Behavioral and Addiction Medicine. Retrieved from http://www.

uclacbam.org/spotlight-on-training-our-summer-intern.

adversities and find comfort from others, such as mental health professionals, who helped them through those struggles and hardships. She decided she wanted to be that kind of person in people’s lives and has found the field of counseling psychology to be a great match.

Brandy’s experiences in her doctoral program have been challenging and rewarding. While at Texas A&M, Brandy has worked with great mentors who are leaders nationally and internationally in their areas of expertise, including Drs. Linda Castillo and Lizette Ojeda, who have research programs in the area of Latina/o mental health and well-being.

Brandy has a specific interest in both research and practical applications focusing on suicide intervention and prevention efforts, specifically with the Latina/o adolescent community. When she graduates from Texas A&M

in August, Brandy will begin a tenure-track academic position at the university, where she will continue in research, education, and practice in this area. Her goal is to continue developing a research program that will focus on determining how individual factors, family dynamics, culture, and society impact Latina/o adolescent and emerging adult depression, suicidality, and well-being (e.g., self-esteem, life satisfaction, quality of life, and positive academic outcomes). She will take a holistic and resiliency approach, with the goal of eventually creating culturally competent intervention and prevention programs to address Latina/o mental health disparities. u

See more at http://education.tamu.edu/news-archive/2013/09/student-

highlight-brandy-pina-watson#sthash.rBs6kF52.dpufent Highlight:

Brandy Piña-Watson. Copyright © 2014 College of Education and

Human Development Communication Office, Texas A&M University.

Adapted with permission.

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Andrew T. Austin-

Dailey, MDiv, MS,

is the director of the Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) at the American

Psychological Association. Before joining the MFP, he completed a master’s degree in psychology at Palo Alto University. He received a BS in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsyl-vania and an MDiv in pastoral psychology at the Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Philadel-phia. He has been active in the community through developing counseling, training, and support programs for ethnic minorities for over 20 years.

Contact Information: Minority Fellowship Program American Psychological Association 750 First Street, NE Washington, DC 20002-4242 202.312.6478 adailey@apa.org

Beth Boyd, PhD

(2014 TAC chair), is the director of the Psychology Service Center at the University of South Dakota

(USD). She is an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of Indians. Since completing her PhD in 1992, she has taught in the clinical psy-chology graduate program at USD.

She is involved in a number of projects seeking to train culturally competent clinical psychologists and develop culturally responsive mental health services for Native American communities. She is a faculty member in the USD Disaster Mental Health Institute and has responded to disaster and crisis situations, particularly in Native communities. Dr. Boyd has served on a number of APA governance groups and was the 1998 recipient of the APA Division 12 (Clinical Psychology) Early Career Award for Outstanding Contributions to Professional Clinical Psychology, as well as the 1999 recipient of the Division 45 (Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues) Distin-guished Career Contributions to Service Award. She is the immediate past president of the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues.

Contact Information: Director, Psychology Service Center University of South Dakota South Dakota Union Building, 108 Vermillion, SD 57069-2390 605.677.5353 beth.boyd@usd.edu

Élida M. Bautista,

PhD, is an associate clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)

and the director of clinical training

for the Child and Adolescent Services’ Multicultural Clinical Training Program. She earned her BA in psychology and Chicano Studies from Claremont McKenna College and her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Michigan. Dr. Bautista completed her internships at the University Center for the Child and Family (Ann Arbor, MI) and at the Univer-sity of Michigan Counseling and Psychological Services. In addition, she received a one-year dissertation fellowship from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she taught psychology in the Chicano Studies Department. She completed her postdoctoral training at UCSF/San Francisco General Hospital Child and Adolescent Services, where she specialized in working with Spanish-speaking Latino clients, primarily victims of crime. Her research, teaching, and clinical work have focused on multicultural mental health issues, primarily issues of class, violence, and Latino acculturation.

Contact Information: San Francisco General Hospital Child & Adolescent Services 1001 Potrero Ave., Box 0852 San Francisco, CA 94110 415.206.8868 elida.bautista@ucsf.edu

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Jesus Felizzola,

MD, MHSA, MA, currently serves as the executive director of Neighbors Consejo, a

Washington DC-based nonprofit behavioral health care provider for Latinos. He is a research professor in the Department of Psychology at George Washington University and principal investigator of a 5-year HRSA/HAB-funded Special Project of National Significance (SPNS)—Building a Medical Home for HIV Homeless Multiply Diagnosed Individuals—in rural North Caro-lina. Dr. Felizzola has also worked as senior director of research and evaluation and project director of the AIDS Education and Training Center, National Center for HIV Care in Minority Communities at HealthHIV in Washington, DC.

Dr. Felizzola was the director of two NIDA-funded RCTs in the De-partment of Psychiatry and Behav-ioral Sciences at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, DC. During his tenure at Howard, he also served as associate director of the NIH-funded Research Program in the Epidemiology and Prevention of Drug Abuse and AIDS, project director of the Minority Institutions’ Drug Abuse Research Development Program, and cultural competency manager for Howard’s National Mi-nority AIDS Education and Training Center. He served as principal inves-tigator of a HRSA/SPNS outreach demonstration project in Miami, FL, and associate director of the NIH-

funded Latino HIV/AIDS Behav-ioral Sciences Center at Florida International University.

Contact Information: Department of Psychology George Washington University Washington, DC 20052 202.248.1657 jfelizzola@email.gwu.edu

Paul Leung, PhD, is a professor at the University of North Texas. He has held academic and administrative appointments at

Deakin University (Melbourne, Australia), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Univer-sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Arizona. His area of interest is disability and rehabilitation of underserved populations. He has written exten-sively in this area and has served as an advocate of eliminating disparities related to minorities and disability. Dr. Leung is a past president of Division 22 (Rehabilitation Psychol-ogy) and was honored with their Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008. He has served on APA’s Committee on Disability Issues in Psychology and on the Committee on APA Division Relations. He has been an active site reviewer and site reviewer chair for accreditation visits.

Contact Information: Department of Rehabilitation, Social Work, and Addictions University of North Texas 1155 Union Circle #311456 Denton, TX 76203 940.369.7939 Paul.Leung@unt.edu

Jeanne E. Manese,

PhD, is director of the Counseling Center at the University of California, Irvine. She received her

doctoral degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a specialization in counseling psychol-ogy. She is a fellow of APA Divisions 17 and 45. Dr. Manese has published numerous articles and chapters related to training and practice, with a focus on multicultural competency and social justice. She is currently conducting research and implement-ing programs focused on strength-based interventions for academically at-risk populations. She has practiced around the world with an education abroad program and is interested in the global application of counseling psychology.

Contact Information: Counseling Center University of California Irvine 203 Student Services I Irvine, CA 92697-2200 949.824.1782 jmanese@uci.edu

Micah L.

McCreary, MDiv,

PhD, LCP, is a tenured associate professor of psychology at Virginia Com-

monwealth University, Richmond, VA. Dr. McCreary earned his BSE in engineering from the University of Michigan and master of divinity degree in pastoral theology from Virginia Union University, School of

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Theology, in Richmond. He earned his MS and PhD in counseling psychology from Virginia Common-wealth University (VCU) and com-pleted his clinical internship at the Philadelphia Child Guidance Clinic, Children’s Hospital, in Philadelphia. He is an alumnus of the APA Minority Fellow Program and the American Council on Education Fellows Program. He has also worked as the as-sistant vice provost for diversity, the coordinator of the Quality Enhance-ment Plan for VCU, and co-director of the counseling psychology program at VCU. As an academician, Dr. Mc-Creary’s current teaching, research, and clinical focuses are in the areas of family psychology, family counseling, and faith-based organizations. He and his research team are also conducting and evaluating interventions with adolescents, parents, and families designed to reduce and prevent family violence while promoting prosocial skills. He has developed a family/parenting intervention called the I Must Pause Pray Analyze Chill and Take Action Program. Currently, he teaches introduction to psychology, the psychology of African Americans, multicultural counseling, child psy-chology, and family therapy. As a licensed clinical psychologist, he serves as a consultant and trainer and lectures to the Richmond community. As a joint-pastor with his wife, he works very closely with the seminary and religious community in various capacities.

Contact Information Associate Professor of Psychology Virginia Commonwealth University Department of Psychology White House 806 W. Franklin St. Richmond, VA 23284-2018 804.828.1889 mccreary@vcu.edu

Veronique

Thompson, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and tenured faculty member of the Wright Institute in

Berkeley, CA. She is also the director of clinical training at the Center for Family Counseling in East Oakland, where she conducts training for the counseling staff that provides family therapy and community-based preven-tion programs. In addition, she main-tains a small independent practice. Her advanced professional training has been in narrative therapy and social justice therapy. As an African American woman, Dr. Thompson’s personal experience complements her academic training in clinical psychology. Her practice of psychology is enriched by dual dimensions of culturally informed and gender-related perspectives.

Contact Information: The Wright Institute 2728 Durant Avenue Berkeley, CA 94704 510.841.9230, ext. 142 vlthompson@wi.edu

Aileen Torres, PhD, is the associate director of clinical services/internship director at the Youth Consultation Services Institute

for Infant and Preschool Mental Health. She is an instructor for Rutgers University and a licensed clinical psychologist in New Jersey and Puerto Rico. Her private practice specialization is in psychological testing assessments, mainly for immi-gration purposes. These evaluations are related to asylum, human trafficking, torture, family separation, and domes-tic violence. Currently the president-elect of the Latino Psychological Association of New Jersey (LPANJ), in 2011 she represented LPANJ on the Advisory Group on Child Abuse and Neglect Mental Health Evaluation, part of the New Jersey Department of Children and Families. She was formerly the director of the grant-funded Bilingual Integrative Trauma Treatment Program at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. Dr. Torres attended graduate school at Teacher’s College, Columbia University, and Carlos Albizu University in San Juan, Puerto Rico. She also attended the marriage and family program at Seton Hall University.

Contact Information Associate Director, Clinical Services YCS Institute and Latino Psychological Association of NJ 40 Howell Place Kearny, NJ 07032 973.395.5500, ext. 309

aileentorres.phd@gmail.com

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Janeece Warfield,

PsyD, is an associate professor in the School of Profes-sional Psychology at Wright State University, director

of the Center for Child & Adolescent Violence Prevention, and principal investigator for the Parents Early Childhood Education–Positive Action Choices Training Program. She completed an APA-approved postdoc-toral fellowship in pediatric psychol-ogy with a specialization in working with chronic illness, infants, and

developmental disabilities at George-town University Hospital. As a pediatric psychologist, she specializes in assessment of and therapeutic services for infants and children, developmental disabilities, and children with chronic illness. She also has expertise in play therapy, violence prevention, trauma, and multicultural/diversity training, which are her teaching and private practice interests. She has leadership and membership experience in professional organizations such as the Association of Play Therapy, the Ohio Association of Infant Mental Health, the National

Black Family Coalition, and APA’s Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology and ACT and Effective Prevention Provider programs.

Contact Information: Wright State University School of Professional Psychology Ellis Human Development Institute 9 North Edwin C. Moses. Blvd. Dayton, OH 45402 937.775.4338 janeece.warfield@wright.edu

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Anjali Alimchandani: VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System–Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center

Jeannie Celestial: VA Pacific Islands Health Care System, Honolulu, HI

Candice Crowell: Emory University CAPS

Mirella Diaz-Santos: University of Florida–Neuropsychology track

Vanessa Durand: Louisiana School Psychology Internship Consortium

Pura Garcia-Serrablo: Long Island Jewish Medical Center/Zucker Hillside

Daniel Gaztambide: St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center

Jennifer Hsia: VA Puget Sound– American Lake, WA

Gihane Jeremie-Brink: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Counseling Center

Oswaldo Moreno: Center for Multicultural Training in Psychology, Boston Medical Center/Boston University School of Medicine

J. Alexis Ortiz: VA Palo Alto, CA

Reginald Riggins: VA Atlanta, GA

Melissa Tehee: University of California San Diego/VA Med Consortium

Michele Vella: St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center

Internships of MFP FELLOWS Congratulations to our MFP fellows who are going on internship in 2014–2015!

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Ana Abraido-Lanza, PhD, was named a Provost Leadership Fellow, Columbia University.

PublicationsEcheverría, S. E., Pentakota, S. R., Abraído-Lanza,

A. F., Janevic, T., Gundersen, D., Ramirez, S.,

& Delnevo, C. (2013). Clashing paradigms: An

empirical examination of cultural proxies and

socioeconomic condition shaping Latino health.

Annals of Epidemiology, 23(10), 608–613.

Hahn, R. A., Rammohan, V., Truman, B., Milstein,

B., Johnson, R. L., Muntañer, C., Jones, C.,

Fullilove, M., Chattopadhyay, S., Hunt, P.,

Abraído-Lanza, A. F., & the Community

Preventive Services Task Force. (2014). Effects

of full-day kindergarten on the long-term health

prospects of children in low-income and racial/

ethnic minority populations: A Community

Guide systematic review. American Journal of

Preventive Medicine, 46(3), 312–323.

Mabry, P. L., Milstein, B., Abraído-Lanza, A. F.,

Livingood, W. C., & Allegrante, J. P. (2013).

Opening a window on systems science research

in health promotion and public health. Health

Education & Behavior, 40(1, Suppl), 5S–8S.

Martins, M. C., Diaz, J. E., Valiño, R. D., Kwate,

N.O.A., & Abraído-Lanza, A. F. (in press).

Havens of risks or resources? A study of two

Latino neighborhoods. Journal of Urban Health.

Kiara Alvarez, PhD, is completing her predoctoral internship year at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School.

PublicationsAlvarez, K., Marroquin, Y. A., Sandoval, L., &

Carlson, C. I. (2014). Integrated health care

best practices and culturally and linguistically

competent care: Practitioner perspectives. Journal

of Mental Health Counseling, 36(2), 99–114.

Alvarez, K., Walsh, E. G., Valentine, C. A., Smith,

C., & Carlson, C. I. (2013). Emerging areas

of systems expertise for family psychologists in

Federally Qualified Health Centers. Couple and

Family Psychology: Research and Practice, 2(3),

192–208.

Hortensia Amaro, PhD, was promoted to associate editor of the American Journal of Public Health. She is a member of Research!America, the

Institute of Medicine, and the Committee on the Assessment of Resiliency and Prevention Programs for Mental and Behavioral Health in Service Members and their Families, 2013–2014. She was awarded the 2014 USC Professors of Color Recognition Award.

PublicationsAmaro, H. (2014). Implementing mindfulness-

based relapse prevention in diverse populations:

Challenges and future directions. Substance Use

& Misuse, 49, 612–616. doi:10.3109/10826084.

2014.856624

Amaro, H. (in press). The action is upstream: Place-

based approaches for achieving population health

and health equity. American Journal of Public

Health.

Amaro, H., Spear, S., Vallejo, Z., Conron, K., &

Black, D. (2014). Feasibility, acceptability, and

preliminary outcomes of a mindfulness-based

relapse prevention intervention for culturally-

diverse, low-income women in substance use

disorder treatment. Substance Use & Misuse, 49,

547–559. doi:10.3109/10826084.2013.852587

Guerrero, E. G., Marsh, J. C., Khachikian, T.,

Amaro, H., & Vega, W. A. (2013). Disparities

in Latino substance use, service use, and

treatment: Implications for culturally and

evidence-based interventions under health care

reform. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 33(3),

805–813. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.

drugalcdep.2013.07.027

Lee King, P., Duan, L., & Amaro, H. (in press).

Clinical needs of in-treatment pregnant women

with co-occurring disorders: Implications for

primary care. Maternal and Child Health Journal.

Ulibarri, M. D., Strathdee, S. A., Lozada, R.,

Magis-Rodríguez, C., Amaro, H., O’Campo,

P., & Patterson, T. L. (2014). Prevalence

and correlates of client-perpetrated violence

among female sex workers in two

Mexico-U.S. border cities. Violence Against

Women. Advance online publication.

doi:10.1177/1077801214528582

Mona Amer, PhD, was promoted to associate professor with tenure at the American University in Cairo.

PublicationsAmer, M. M. (2013).

Counseling and psychotherapy in Egypt:

Ambiguous identity of a regional leader. In

R. Moodley, U. P. Gielen, & R. Wu (Eds.),

Handbook of counseling and psychotherapy in an

international context (pp. 19–29). New York:

Routledge.

Amer, M. M. (2014). Arab American acculturation

and ethnic identity across the lifespan:

Sociodemographic correlates and psychological

outcomes. In S. C. Nassar-McMillan, K.

J. Ajrouch, & J. Hakim-Larson (Eds.),

Biopsychosocial perspectives on Arab Americans:

Culture, development, and health (pp. 153–173).

New York: Springer.

Amer, M. M., Awad, G. H., & Hovey, J. D.

(2014). Evaluation of the CES-D Scale factor

structure in a sample of second generation Arab-

Americans. International Journal of Culture and

Mental Health, 7(1), 46–58.

Amer, M. M., & Bagasra, A. (2013). Psychological

research with Muslim Americans in the age

of Islamophobia: Trends, challenges, and

recommendations. American Psychologist, 68(3),

134–144.

Awad, G. H., Martinez, M. S., & Amer, M. M.

(2013). Considerations for psychotherapy with

immigrant women of Arab/Middle Eastern

descent. Women & Therapy, 36(3-4), 163–175.

Kira, A.F., Amer, M. M., & Wrobel, N. H. (2014).

Arab refugees: Trauma, resilience, and recovery.

In S. C. Nassar-McMillan, K. J. Ajrouch, & J.

Hakim-Larson (Eds.), Biopsychosocial perspectives

on Arab Americans: Culture, development, and health

(pp. 175–195). New York: Springer.

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Cheryl Anne Boyce, PhD

PublicationsBoyce, C. A., & Lynne-

Landsman, S. D. (2013).

Integrating translational

neuroscience to improve

drug abuse treatment for adolescents. Psychology

of Addictive Behaviors, 27(2), 547–551.

doi:10.1037/a0032434. PMID: 23815451

Danice Brown, PhD, was granted tenure and promoted to associate professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and

became a licensed clinical psychologist in Missouri. She was also part of the APA Society of Counseling Psychology Leadership Academy.

PublicationsBrown, D. L. (in press). [Review of the book The

psychology of prejudice: From attitudes to social action,

by L. M. Jackson]. Cultural and Ethnic Minority

Psychology.

Brown, D. L., Blackmon, S. M., Schumacher, K.,

& Urbanski, B. (2013). Racial socialization

in therapeutic work with African American

clients: An exploratory investigation.

Journal of Black Psychology, 39, 507–531.

doi:10.1177/0095798412461806

Brown, D. L., Johnson, R. W., & Griffin-Fennell,

F. (2013). Breaking the chains: Examining the

endorsement of modern jezebel images and

racial-ethnic esteem among African American

women. Culture, Health, and Sexuality, 15,

525–539.

Brown, D. L., & Morgan, J. (2013). An inclusive

understanding of multiculturalism and diversity

[Review of the book Multiculturalism and

diversity: A social psychological perspective, by B.

Lott]. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy,

13, 395–397.

Brown, D. L., Rosnick, C., Webb-Bradley, T., &

Kirner, J. (in press). Does daddy know best?

Exploring the relationship between paternal

sexual communication and safe sex practices

among African American women. Sex Education.

Brown, D. L., Webb-Bradley, T., Cobb, P. D.,

Spaw, D., & Aldridge, K. N. (in press). Safer

sexual practices among African American

women: The influence of race related factors

and body esteem. Culture, Health, and Sexuality.

Schroeder, K. R., Pomerantz, A. M., Brown, D.

L., & Segrist, D. J. (in press). Psychologists’

response to the disclosure of personal therapy

by a professional colleague. Counselling and

Psychotherapy Research.

Ashley Butler-Hines, PhD, was selected as a 2013–2015, 2011–2015 recipient of the NIH Loan Repayment Program for health disparities research.

PublicationsAxelrad, M. E., Butler, A. M., Dempsey, J., &

Chapman, S. (2013). Treatment effectiveness

of a brief behavioral intervention for preschool

disruptive behavior. Journal of Clinical Psychology

in Medical Settings, 39, 29–37. PMID: 23575970.

Butler, A. M.(2014). Shared decision making, stigma,

and child mental health functioning among

families referred for primary care-located mental

health services. Family, Systems, and Health.

Advance online publication. PMID: 24447150.

Raphael, J. L., Butler, A. M., Rattler, T. L.,

Kowalkowski, M. A., Mueller, B. U., &

Giardano, T. P. (2013). Parental information,

motivation, and adherence behaviors among

children with sickle cell disease. Pediatric Blood &

Cancer, 60, 1204-1210. PMID: 23303618.

Tucker, C. M., Butler, A. M., Kaye, L. B., Nolan,

S. E., Flenar, D. J., Marsike, M., . . . Daly,

K. (2013). Impact of a culturally sensitive

health self-empowerment workshop series on

health behaviors/lifestyles, BMI, and blood

pressure of culturally diverse overweight/

obese adults. American Journal of Lifestyle

Medicine. Advance online publication.

doi:10.1177/1559827613503117

GrantsPrincipal Investigator, Pilot Study of Smart and Secure

Children in Pediatric Primary Care, 2014-2015,

National Institute on Minority Health and Health

Disparities and the Transdisciplinary Collaborative

on Health Equity and Policy Research at Morehouse

School of Medicine, $50,000.

Jeannie Celestial was awarded the 2013 Berton Keith Award for Clinical Work (Palo Alto University) for service provided to veterans through

meditation and mindfulness training at the Veterans Affairs Northern California HCS Neurocognitive Rehabilitation Program. She is currently (from 2013 to 2014) a psychology practicum student at the University of California San Francisco Epilepsy Center and Memory and Aging Center; from 2014 to 2015, she matched for internship at the Veterans Affairs Pacific Islands Health Care System in Honolulu, HI. Her position is funded through the HRSA/Rural Health Grant and is in the generalist track. She received a Certificate in Neuropsychological Assessment Proficiency (Pacific Graduate School of Psychology at Palo Alto University). In April 2014, she became engaged to Art Swenson, the senior visual lead for a high-tech startup company called Striiv in Redwood City, CA. The couple hopes to marry in Spring 2015 while Jeannie is on internship at VA Pacific Islands, Honolulu, HI.

Wing Chan, PhD

PublicationsBirman, D., Simon, C. D.,

Chan, W. Y., & Tran, N.

(2014). Acculturation and

psychological adjustment of

employed refugees from the

former Soviet Union in the U.S.: A life domains

perspective. American Journal of Community

Psychology, 53, 60-72.

Chan, W. Y., & Henry, D. B. (2013). Mentoring of

juvenile offenders. In D. DuBois & M. Karcher

(Eds.), Handbook of youth mentoring (2nd ed). Los

Angeles: Sage.

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Latzman, R. D., Chan, W. Y., & Shishido, Y.

(2013). Impulsivity moderates the association

between racial discrimination and alcohol

problems. Addictive Behavior, 38, 2898-2904.

GrantsCo-Principal Investigator, Group Mentoring for

Resilience: Increasing Positive Development and

Reducing Involvement in the Juvenile Justice System

Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and

Delinquency Prevention. Proposed duration: 3.5

years. Total direct costs: $499,370.

Jenss Chang, PhD, is now an assistant professor at Azusa Pacific University and became a licensed psychologist in California in Jan. 2013.

PublicationsChang, J. (in press). An exploration of how

Asian Americans respond on the Personality

Assessment Inventory. Asian American Journal of

Psychology.

GrantsCo-Investigator, Perspective From Indigenous Lay

Counselors Working With Youth Rescued From

Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation in Cambodia,

Azusa Pacific University Faculty Resource Committee

Grant, 2013-2014, $10,000.

Karen Cheng, PhD, gave birth to Ezra Michael Cheng Ramos on October 17, 2013.

PublicationsCheng, K. G., Conley,

T. D., & Ziegler, A. (2014). Interpersonal

relationships influence ethnic identification

among Asian-American women. Group Processes

& Interpersonal Relations, 17(1), 100–109.

Cheng, K. G., Hayes, G. R., Hirano, S. H., Nagel,

M. S. & Baker, D. (in press). Challenges of

integrating patient-centered data in clinical

workflow for care of high-risk infants. Personal

and Ubiquitous Computing.

Hayes, G. R., Cheng, K. G., Hirano, S. H., Tang,

K. P., Nagel, M. S., & Baker, D. (in press).

Estrellita: A mobile capture and access tool

for the support of preterm infants and their

caregivers. ACM Transactions for Computer-

Human Interaction.

Le Ondra Clark Harvey, PhD, was appointed by the APA Board of Directors to the APA Committee on Early Career Psychologists (CECP)

as the State, Provincial, and Territorial Associations representative. In addition, she was selected as a Nehemiah Emerging Leaders Program (NELP) fellow. NELP aims to highlight diverse emerging leaders throughout the Sacramento, CA, region. She was appointed by the Sacramento County Board of Supervisors to the Children’s Coalition as their child and family health representative. She was selected as the CECP representative to APA’s Alliance of National Psychological Associations for Racial and Ethnic Equity. She was also nominated for the Unsung Hero Award, given by California Rep. Doris Matsui, Sen. Darrell Steinberg, and Assemblymember Roger Dickinson in recognition of strong women leaders who have made a difference in the Sacramento community. She was the 2013 recipient of Division 45’s Emerging Professional Contributions to Service Award. This award is given in recognition of an individual who has made outstanding service contributions in the promotion of ethnic minority issues within 10 years of graduation.

Monica Clement, PhD, joined the Department of Veterans Affairs New Jersey Healthcare System Extended Care Service in April 2014

as a full-time, practicing clinical neuropsychologist. She and her husband (Newton Clement) announce the birth of

their second child, Anthony Newton Clement, born December 8, 2013.

Bridgid Conn attended her PhD commencement May 2014. Her degree conferral will be in September 2014.

PublicationsConn, B. M., & Coyne, L. W. (2014). Selective

mutism in early childhood: Assessment and

treatment of an African-American preschool

boy. Clinical Case Studies. Advance online

publication. doi: 10.1177/1534650114522912

Conn, B. M., & Marks, A. K. (2014). Ethnic/racial

differences in parent and peer influence on

adolescent prescription drug misuse. Journal of

Developmental & Behavioral Pediatrics, 35(4), 257–

265. doi:10.1097/DBP.0000000000000058

Conn, B. M., Marks, A. K., & Coyne, L. (2013). A

three-generation study of Chinese immigrant

extended family child caregiving experiences

in the preschool years. Research in Human

Development, 10(4), 308–331. doi:10.1080/15427

609.2013.846047

Elizabeth Cordero, PhD, was selected as “2014 Most Influential Faculty” at San Diego State University, Imperial Valley in May 2014. She was also tenured and promoted to associate professor beginning fall 2013 at San Diego State University, Imperial Valley.

PublicationsCordero, E. D., Dimsdale, J., & Navarro, A. (in

press). Feeling “pooped” and “run down?”:

Fatigue experiences in Latino cancer patients.

Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research.

Erika Dawkins, PhD, graduated from Widener University on May 16, 2014, with a doctoral degree in clinical psychology and a master of education

in human sexuality. She also recently passed the school psychology certification exam and will be submitting paperwork to become a certified school psychologist.

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Miraj Desai, PhD, was awarded the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Connections Program, APA Convention Support.

PublicationsDesai, M. U. (2014). Psychology, the psychological,

and critical praxis: A phenomenologist reads

Frantz Fanon. Theory & Psychology, 24(1), 58–75.

Desai, M. U. (2014). Travel as qualitative method:

Travel in psychology’s history and in Medard

Boss’ sojourn to India. Journal of Humanistic

Psychology. doi:10.1177/0022167813517942

Ponterotto, J. G., Fietzer, A. W., Fingerhut, E.

C., Woerner, S., Stack, L. Magaldi-Dopman,

D., Rust, J., Nakao, G., Tsai, Y., Black, N.,

Alba, R., Desai, M., . . . Liao, P. (2013).

Development and initial validation of the

Multicultural Personality Inventory (MPI).

Journal of Personality Assessment. doi:10.1080/002

23891.2013.843181

Tsai, J., Desai, M. U., Cheng, A. W., & Chang,

J. (2014). The effects of race and other

socioeconomic factors on health service use

among American military veterans. Psychiatric

Quarterly, 85(1), 35–47.

Mylien Duong, PhD, was awarded the 2013 APA Early Career Convention Travel Award.

PublicationsDuong, M. T., Schwartz,

D., & McCarty, C. A. (2014). Do peers

contribute to the achievement gap between

Vietnamese-American and Mexican-American

adolescents? Social Development, 23, 196–214.

doi:1111/sode.12033

McCarty, C. A., Violette, H., Duong, M. T., &

Cruz, R. (2013). A randomized trial of the

Positive Thoughts and Action program for

depression among early adolescents. Journal of

Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 42, 554–

563. doi: 10.1080/15374416.2013.782817

Schwartz, D., Kelly, B. M., & Duong, M. T.

(2013). Do academically-engaged adolescents

experience social sanctions from the peer group?

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 42, 1319–1330.

doi:10.1007/s10964-012-9882-4

Wang, J. M., Duong, M. T., Schwartz, D., Chang,

L., & Luo, T. (2013). Interpersonal and

personal antecedents and consequences of peer

victimization across middle childhood in Hong

Kong. Journal of Youth and Adolescence. doi:

10.1007/s10964-013-0050-2

Elena Flores, PhD, was promoted to associate dean of Academic Affairs and Faculty Development, School of Education, University of San

Francisco. She was awarded the Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business Award by the San Francisco Business Times; her profile appeared in the May 2014 issue.

PublicationsDeardorff, J., Tschann, J., Flores, E., & Ozer, E. J.

(2013). Latino youths’ sexual values and condom

negotiation strategies. Perspectives on Sexual and

Reproductive Health, 45, 182–190.

Martinez, S. M., Tschann, J. M., Greenspan, L. C.,

Deardorff, J., Penilla, C., Butte, N. F., Pasch,

L. A., Gregorich, S. E., & Flores, E. (2014).

Mother-reported sleep, accelerometer-estimated

sleep, and weight status in Mexican American

children: Sleep duration is associated with

increased adiposity and risk for overweight/

obese status. Journal of Sleep Research, 23,

326–334.

Tschann, J., Gregorich, S.E., Penilla, C., Pasch, L.

A., de Groat, C. L., Flores, E., . . . Butte,

N. F. (2013). Parental feeding practices in

Mexican American families: Initial test of

an expanded measure. International Journal of

Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 10, 6.

doi:10.1186/1479-5868-10-6.

Dawn Foster, PhD, is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard and cochair of Translating Psychological Science for the Public, one of 2014 APA President Nadine Kaslow’s committees.

PublicationsBryan, J. L., Quist, M. C.,Young, C. M., Steers, M-L.

N, Foster, D. W., & Lu, Q. (in press). Canine

comfort: Pet affinity buffers the negative impact

of ambivalence over emotional expression on

perceived social support. Personality and Individual

Differences.

Foster, D. W. (in press). Readiness to change and

gender: Moderators of the relationship between

social desirability and college drinking. Journal of

Alcoholism and Drug Dependence.

Foster, D. W., Bryan, J., Nguyen, M.-L., Quist, M.,

& Young, C. (2013, June). Dial Q for quit:

Can your phone help you stop smoking? RuiZi

Magazine.

Foster, D. W., & Neighbors, C. (2013). A review

of decisional balance research and directions

for brief alcohol intervention among college

students. OA Alcohol, 1, 7–11.

Foster, D. W., & Neighbors, C. (2013). Self-

consciousness as a moderator of the effect of

social drinking motives on alcohol use. Addictive

Behaviors, 38, 1996–2002.

Foster, D. W., Neighbors, C., & Prokhorov, A.

(2014). Drinking motives as moderators of

the effect of ambivalence on drinking and

alcohol-related problems. Addictive Behaviors, 39,

133–139.

Foster, D. W., Neighbors, C., & Young, C. (2014).

Drink refusal self-efficacy and implicit drinking

identity: An evaluation of moderators of the

relationship between self-awareness and drinking

behavior. Addictive Behaviors, 39, 196–204.

Foster, D. W., Quist, M. C., Young, C. M., Bryan,

J. L., Nguyen, M.-L., & Neighbors, C. (2013).

Benefit finding as a moderator of the relationship

between spirituality/religiosity and drinking.

Addictive Behaviors, 38(11), 2647–2652.

Foster, D. W., Yeung, N., & Neighbors, N. (2014).

I think I can’t: Drink refusal self-efficacy as

a mediator of the relationship between self-

reported drinking identity and alcohol use.

Addictive Behaviors, 39, 461–468.

Foster, D. W., Young, C. M., & Barnighausen, T.

W. (in press). Self-control as a moderator of

the relationship between drinking identity and

alcohol use. Substance Use and Misuse.

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Lindgren, K. P., Foster, D. W., Westgate, E. C., &

Neighbors, C. (2013). Implicit drinking identity:

Drinker + me associations predict college

student drinking consistently. Addictive Behaviors,

38, 2163–2166.

Neighbors, C., Brown, G., Dibello, A., Rodriguez,

L. M., & Foster, D. W. (2013). Reliance on

God, prayer, and religion reduces influence of

perceived norms on drinking. Journal of Studies

on Alcohol and Drugs, 74, 361–368.

Neighbors, C., Foster, D. W., & Fossos, N. (2013).

Peer influences on addiction. In P. M. Miller

(Ed.), Principles of addiction: Comprehensive addictive

behaviors and disorders (pp. 323–331). San Diego,

CA: Academic Press.

Neighbors, C., Foster, D. W., Walker, D. D.,

Kilmer, J. R., & Lee, C. M. (2013). Social

identity as a moderator of the association

between perceived norms and marijuana use.

Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 74,

497–483.

Neighbors, C., Walker, D. D., Mbilinyi, L. F.,

Zegree, J., Foster, D. W., & Roffman, R. A.

(2013). A self-determination model of childhood

exposure, perceived prevalence, justification, and

perpetration of intimate partner violence. Journal

of Applied Social Psychology, 43, 338–349.

Rodriguez, L. M., Neighbors, C., & Foster, D. W.

(2013). Priming effects of self-reported drinking

and religiosity. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors,

28, 1–9. doi:10.1037/a0031828.

Bryana French, PhD, received the University of Missouri College of Education Graduate Instructor of the Year award in 2014.

PublicationsFrench, B. H. (in press). College women, sexual

violence, and HIV/STI prevention. In L.

Wilton, R. T. Palmer, & D. C. Maramba (Eds.),

Understanding HIV and STI prevention for college

students.

French, B. H., Bi, Y., Latimore, T. G., Klemp, H.

R., & Butler, E. E. (2014). Latent class analysis

and sexual coercion: Multivariate experiences

and psycho-behavioral correlates. Journal of

Interpersonal Violence, 29.

French, B. H., Tilghman, J. D., & Malebranche,

D. A. (2014). Sexual coercion context and

psychosocial correlates among diverse males.

Psychology of Men and Masculinity, 15. Advance

online publication. doi: http://dx.doi.

org/10.1037/a0035915

Mowatt, R. A., French, B. H. & Malebranche, D.

A. (2013). Black/female/body: A Black studies

re-conceptualization and advancement of

feminist-based leisure research. Journal of Leisure

Research, 45, 645–661.

GrantsPrinciple Investigator, Supporting Suspended Youth:

An Evaluation of the Alternative Continuing

Education Program. Richard Wallace Research

Incentive Grant, University of Missouri, December 6,

2013–December 31, 2014, $2,000 direct.

Ayorkor Gaba, PsyD, has been selected as an APA-appointed representative at the United Nations. Representatives

collaborate with other NGO representatives and members of APA offices and governance to identify issues, organize programs, and draft statements that bring psychological science and a psychological perspective to bear on global policies and programs. Representatives also foster dialogue and information exchange between psychologists and APA and the U.N.

Daniel J. Gaztambide received the Multiculturalism & Psychoanalysis Award from the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He presented his work “A Preferential Option for the Repressed: Psychoanalysis Through the Eyes of Liberation Theology” when he received the award.

Valerie Gifford, PhD, was promoted to assistant professor in the School of Education’s graduate program in counseling at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Cheryl Grills, PhD, was promoted to co-executive director of the Los Angeles County Blue Ribbon Commission on Child Protection

and was awarded the President’s Volunteer Service Award in 2013.

PublicationsGarcia, A. P., Minkler, M., Cardenas, Z., Grills, C.,

& Porter, C. (2014). Engaging homeless youth

in community-based participatory research A

case study from skid row, Los Angeles. Health

Promotion Practice, 15(1), 18–27.

Grills, C., Villanueva, S., Anderson, M., Corsbie-

Massay, C. L., Smith, B., Johnson, L., & Owens,

K. (2014). Effectiveness of choice theory

connections: A cross-sectional and comparative

analysis of California female inmates. International

Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative

Criminology. doi:0306624X13520129

GrantsProgram Evaluator, Roots & Remedies, The Praxis

Project, 2014–2016. Evaluating changes associated

with advocacy networks within the Communities

Creating Healthy Environments’ national program,

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2014–2016.

Naomi Hall-Byers, PhD, was promoted to associate professor (tenured) in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Winston-Salem State

University, Winston-Salem, NC, as of fall 2013. She was selected to participate in the Health Disparities Loan Repayment Program of the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Married in 2011, she gave birth to a Saige Amariah Byers on July 17, 2013.

PublicationsHall, N. M., & Applewhite, S. (2013). Masculine

ideology, norms, and HIV prevention among

young Black men. Journal of HIV/AIDS & Social

Services, 12, 384–403.

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Hall, N. M., Lee, A. K., & Witherspoon, D. D.

(2014). Factors influencing dating experiences

among African American emerging adults.

Emerging Adulthood. Advance online publication.

doi:10.1177/2167696813520154

Hall, N. M., Peterson, J., & Johnson, M. (in press).

To test or not to test: Barriers and solutions to

testing African American college students for

HIV at a historically Black college. Journal of

Health Disparities Research and Practice.

Hall, N. M., & Pichon, L. C. (2014). Gender roles,

sociosexuality, and sexual behavior among U.S.

Black women. Health Psychology and Behavioral

Medicine, 2(1), 171–182.

Lee, A. K., & Hall, N. M. (in press). Enriching course

development: The use of an international faculty

development experience. Journal of Pedagogy and

Human Sciences.

Paxton, K. C., Hall, N. M., & Boykin, E. (2014).

Family influences during childhood on African

American women’s sexual behavior during

young adulthood. Universal Journal of Psychology,

2(3), 113–116. doi:10.13189/ujp.2014.020303

Paxton, K. C., Villarreal, B., & Hall, N. M. (2013).

Increasing knowledge of HIV transmission: An

important ingredient in HIV risk reduction

among young African American women

attending community college. Journal of HIV/

AIDS and Infectious Diseases, 1(2), 1–7.

Brittany Hall-Clark, PhD, completed her two-year postdoctoral program while attending the MFP Psychology Summer

Institute. In September, she was promoted to assistant professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. At the 47th Annual Convention of the Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies in November 2013, her poster, “An Examination of PTSD and Protective Factors in African American Active Duty U.S. Army Soldiers,” which

was presented as part of the African Americans Special Interest Group, received a “Best Poster” award.

Helen Hsu, PsyD

GrantsApplied Service Grant,

Bridges to Behavioral

Health- Mandarin Parenting

Workshops, funded by

the Kaiser Permanente

Community Grants Program

of Northern California, January 2014–September

2014, $30,000.

George Hu, PsyD, a clinical psychologist at Beijing United Family Hospital & Clinics, was promoted to assistant director of the Center for

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy there. He is also a member of the clinical faculty at Palo Alto University.

Grace Kim, PhD, has been promoted to associate professor and obtained tenure at Wheelock College, where she was nominated for the

Cynthia Longfellow Teaching Award.

PublicationsKim, G. S. (in press). Asian Americans as model

minority. In G. Scarlett (Ed.), Classroom

management: An A-to-Z guide. Sage.

Kim, G. S. (in press). Negotiating multiple cultures

and identities: Asian American women and

Christianity. In T. Bryant-Davis, A. M. Austria,

D. M. Kawahara, & D. J. Willis (Eds.), Religion

and spirituality for diverse women: Foundations of

strength and resilience.

Tauriac, J. J., Kim, G. S., Sariñana, S., Tawa, J.,

Kahn, V. D. (2013). Utilizing affinity groups

to enhance intergroup dialogue workshops for

racially and ethnically diverse students. Journal for

Specialists in Group Work, 38(3), 241–260.

Shahana Koslofsky, PhD, was appointed director of the interprofessional competence course in the College of Health Professions at Pacific University and selected as the diversity deligate to the APA convention for 2012-2014.

GrantsTARGET (Teaching Advancement and Research

Grant in Educational Technology) grant from Pacific

University for the interprofessional competence

course, $2,000.

Elizabeth Lee, PhD, was recently hired as an associate director of analytics and research in the Office of Organizational

Effectiveness at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, WA.

Frederick Leong, PhD, was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Asian American Psychological

Association and the Distinguished Service to Psychological Science Award from APA.

PublicationsLeong, F.T.L., Comaz-Diaz, L., Hall, G. N.,

McLoyd, V., & Trimble, J. E. (Eds.). (2014).

APA handbook of multicultural psychology (2 vol.).

Washington, DC: American Psychological

Association.

Jordan Lewis, PhD, accepted an assistant professor, tenure-track position at the University of Washington School of Social Work and the

Indigenous Wellness Research Institute in Seattle, WA. He was certified as a professional gerontologist in August 2013.

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PublicationsLewis, J. (2013). The future of successful aging in

Alaska: What can we learn from our elders to

ensure a healthy future [ICCH15 Proceedings].

International Journal of Circumpolar Health,

72(Suppl. 1), 21186.

Lewis, J. (2013). The importance of optimism

in maintaining healthy aging in rural

Alaska. Qualitative Health Research, 23(11).

doi:10.1177/1049732313508013

Lewis, J. (2014). What successful aging means

to Alaska Natives: Exploring the reciprocal

relationship between the health and well-being

of Alaska Native elders. International Journal of

Aging and Society, 3(1).

Lewis, J., Allen, J., & Fleagle, E. (2013). Internalized

oppression and Alaska Native People: “We have

to go through the problem.” In E.J.R. David

(Ed.), Internalized oppression: The psychology of

marginalized groups (pp. 57–81). Thousand Oaks,

CA: Sage.

Lewis, J., & Boyd, K. (2013). Forward steps and

missteps: What we’ve learned through the

process of conducting CBPR research in rural

Alaska. Journal of Indigenous Research, 2(1).

Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/

kicjir/vol2/iss1/3

Tovar, M., Lewis, J., & Patterson, D. (in press).

Older Native Americans. In D. B. Kaplan &

B. Berkman (Ed.), The handbook of social work

in health and aging (2nd ed.). Oxford University

Press.

Cindy Liu, PhD

PublicationsGoodman, J., & Liu, C.

H. (in press). Maternal

psychopathology and

mother-infant attachment.

Oxford Handbook of Perinatal

Psychology. Oxford University Press.

Kim, S. Y., Wang, Y. Weaver, S. R., Shen, Y.

Wu-Seibold, N., & Liu, C. H. (in press).

Measurement equivalence of the Language

Brokering Scale for Chinese American

adolescents and their parents. Journal of Family

Psychology.

Liu, C. H., & Tronick, E. (in press). Prevalence and

predictors for maternal depressed mood and

anhedonia by race and ethnicity. Epidemiology

and Psychiatric Sciences.

Liu, C. H., Yang, Y., Fang, S., Snidman, N., &

Tronick, E. (2013) Maternal regulating behaviors

through face-to-face play in first- and second-

generation Chinese American and European

American mothers of infants. Research in Human

Development, 10, 289–307.

GrantsPrincipal Investigator, Many Faces of Mental Health

Program Evaluation, Massachusetts Department of

Mental Health, 2013, $3,000.

Co-Principal Investigator, Attending to Family Mental

Health Needs in Boston Chinatown, Community

Action Research Initiative, American Sociological

Association, 2014.

Debbie Ma, PhD, has been promoted to assistant professor at California State University, Northridge.

PublicationsDevos, T., & Ma, D. S. (2013). How “American”

is Barack Obama? The role of national identity

in a historic bid for the White House. Journal of

Applied Social Psychology. 43, 214–226.

Ma, D. S., Correll, J., Wittenbrink, B., Bar-Anan,

Y., Sriram, N., & Nosek, B. A. (2013). When

fatigue turns deadly: The association between

fatigue and racial bias in the decision to shoot.

Basic and Applied Social Psychology.

Ma, D. S., & Devos, T. (in press). Every heart beats

true, for the red, white, and blue: National

identity predicts voter support. Analyses of Social

Issues and Public Policy.

GrantsPrincipal Investigator, National Science Foundation

(NSF-BCS), The Role of Facial Physiognomy in

Stereotypic Trait Inference (BCS1226143), 2012–

2015, $187,000.

Jeanne Manese, PhD, is director of the University of California, Irvine, Counseling Center, which received the

2013 Suinn Minority Achievement Award for excellence in the recruitment, training and graduation of ethnic minority students in psychology.

Michaela McLaughlin was recently promoted to be an advanced practicum counselor at Macalester College for 2013–2014.

PublicationsMcLaughlin, M. (2012). Shine. Inside Out: The

Journal for the Irish Association of Humanistic and

Integrative Psychotherapy, 68, 47-49.

McLaughlin, M. (2013). Intersections between

spirituality and healing: Yoga and prayer.

Inside Out: The Journal for the Irish Association

of Humanistic and Integrative Psychotherapy, 69,

31–33.

McLaughlin, M., McCarthy Veach, P., & Schema,

L. (in press). Clearing the air: A qualitative

investigation of genetic counselors’ experiences

with patient anger. Journal of Genetic Counseling.

Kimberly Miller, PhD, has focused all of her time on expanding her organizational consulting, coaching and training business

(Kimberly A. Miller & Associates) and has been enjoying a thriving practice since June 2013.

PublicationsStanley, L. R., Miller, K. A. Beauvais, F., Walker, P.

S. & Walker, P. D. (2014). Predicting an alcohol

use disorder in urban American Indian youths.

Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 23,

101–108.

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Glen Milstein, PhD, received the Outstanding Mentoring Award for Extraordinary Commitment–the Student/Faculty Bond

from the City College of the City University of New York, 2004. He has been a doctoral faculty member at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York since 2003. He was promoted to associate professor of psychology with tenure (2010 to present).

PublicationsAten, J., O’Grady, K., Milstein, G., Boan, D.,

Smigelsky, M., Schruba, A., & Weaver, I.

(in press). Providing spiritual and emotional

care in response to disaster. In D. Walker, C.

Courtois, & J. Aten (Eds.), Spiritually oriented

trauma psychotherapy. Washington, DC: American

Psychological Association.

Nieuwsma, J. A., Rhodes, J. E., Jackson, G. L.,

Cantrell, W. C., Lane, M. E., Bates, M. J.,

Dekraai, M.B., Bulling, D.J., Ethridge, K.,

Drescher, K.D., Fitchett, G., Tenhula, W.N.,

Milstein, G., Bray, R.M. & Meador, K. G.

(2013). Chaplaincy and mental health in the

Department of Veterans Affairs and Department

of Defense. Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy,

19(1), 3-21.

GrantsPrincipal Investigator, Veterans Coming Home,

Chaplaincy and Mental Health, Department

of Veterans Affairs (PRSY No. 76382-00-01;

GS-07F0049U-PO# VA558-C00870), 2011–2013,

$20,000.

Fellowship, “Culture Ontogeny: Human Identity

Development and Immigrant Acculturation, One

Brain at a Time,” Committee for Interdisciplinary

Science Studies Mid-Career Fellowship, Andrew W.

Mellon Foundation, Graduate Center of the City

University of New York, 2012–2013, $12,000.

Principal Investigator, Coming Home: A Research

Intervention to Facilitate Veterans’ Reintegration

within their Communities, Colin Powell Center

for Policy Studies, City College of New York

Community-Based Participatory Research Grant

Program, 2011–2013, $4,000.

Jeffery Mio, PhD, was elected a fellow of APA’s Division 9 (Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues).

PublicationsHanne, M., Crano, W., & Mio, J. S. (Eds.). (2014).

Warring with words: Narrative and metaphor in

politics. New York, NY: Psychology Press.

Mio, J. S. (in press). Democracy, morality, and

projection: An unclear examination of culture

and personality. [Review of Democratic culture and

moral character: A study in culture and personality].

PsycCritiques.

Mio, J. S. (in press). Responses to metaphors in

politics: Continued explorations of the metaphor

extension hypothesis. In M. Hanne, W. Crano,

& J. S. Mio (Eds.), Warring with words: Narrative

and metaphor in politics. New York: Psychology

Press.

Mio, J. S. (in press). [Review of the book The Oxford

handbook of social class in counseling]. Cultural

Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology.

Della Mosley will be serving as a counselor at the Gay and Lesbian Services Organization in Lexington, KY, beginning in August 2014.

Kevin Nadal, PhD, married R.J. Mendoza on February 16, 2014, in New York City.

PublicationsDavid, E. J., & Nadal, K. L.

(2013). The colonial context

of Filipino American immigrants’ psychological

experiences. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority

Psychology, 19(3), 298–309.

Nadal, K. L., & Corpus, M. J. H. (2013). “Tomboys”

and “baklas”: Experiences of lesbian and gay

Filipino Americans. Asian American Journal of

Psychology, 4(3), 166–175.

Nadal, K. L., Davidoff, K. C., Davis, L. S., & Wong,

Y. (2014). Emotional, behavioral, and cognitive

reactions to microaggressions: Transgender

perspectives. Psychology of Sexual Orientation and

Gender Diversity, 1(1), 72–81.

Nadal, K. L., Davidoff, K. C., & Fujii-Doe, W.

(2014). Transgender women and the sex work

industry: Roots in systemic, institutional, and

interpersonal discrimination. Journal of Trauma

and Dissociation, 15(2), 169–183.

Nadal, K. L., Griffin, K. E., Wong, Y., Hamit, S.,

& Rasmus, M. (2014). Racial microaggressions

and mental health: Counseling clients of color.

Journal of Counseling & Development, 92(1),

57–66.

Nadal, K. L., Mazzula, S. L., Rivera, D. P., & Fuji-

Doe, W. (2014). Microaggressions and Latina/o

Americans: An analysis of nativity, gender,

and ethnicity. Journal of Latina/o Psychology,

2(2), 67–78. Advance online publication.

doi:10.1037/lat0000013

Nadal, K. L. Sriken, J., Davidoff, K., Wong, Y.,

& McLean, K. (2013). Microaggressions

within families: Experiences of multiracial

and multiethnic people. Family Relations, 62,

190–201.

Sumie Okazaki, PhD

GrantsW. T. Grant Foundation Distinguished Fellows

Award, Asian American Students in an Urban

Public School District: Bridging Research, Policy,

and Practice, January 1, 2014–December 31, 2015,

$151.974.

Andrea Omidy, PhD

PublicationsKira, I., Omidy, A.,

and Ashby, J. (in press).

Cumulative trauma, appraisal

and coping in Palestinian

and American Indian adults: Two cross-cultural

studies. Traumatology.

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Brandy Piña-Watson will receive a PhD in counseling psychology in August 2014 from Texas A&M University and will begin a tenure-track

position there as assistant professor in the counseling psychology program (Department of Psycholgy). She was highlighted by the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M to represent the college during a fall 2014 recruitment campaign. (For a brief synopsis, see pages 15-16.)

PublicationsNavarro, R., Ojeda, L., Swartz, S., Piña-Watson,

B., & Cantu, L. (2014). Cultural self, personal

self: Links with well-being among Mexican

American college students. Journal of Latina/o

Psychology, 2(1), 1.

Ojeda, L., Castillo, L. G., Rosales Meza, R., &

Piña-Watson, B. (2014). Mexican Americans

in higher education cultural adaptation

and marginalization as predictors of college

persistence intentions and life satisfaction. Journal

of Hispanic Higher Education, 13(1), 3-14.

Ojeda, L., Edwards, L., Hardin, E., & Piña-Watson,

B. (2014). The role of behavioral and cognitive

cultural orientation on Mexican American

college students’ life satisfaction. Journal of

Hispanic Higher Education, 13(1), 63-74.

Ojeda, L., & Piña-Watson, B. (in press).

Caballerismo may protect against the influence

of machismo on Latino day laborers’ self-esteem.

Psychology of Men & Masculinity.

Piña-Watson, B., Castillo, L.G., Jung, E., &

Ojeda, L., Castillo-Reyes, R. (in press). The

Marianismo Beliefs Scale: Validation with

Mexican American adolescent girls and boys.

Journal of Latina/o Psychology.

Piña-Watson, B., Castillo, L. G., Ojeda, L., &

Rodriguez, K. M. (2013). Parent conflict as

a mediator between marianismo beliefs and

depressive symptoms for Mexican American

college women. Journal of American College

Health, 61(8), 491–496.

Piña-Watson, B., Castillo, L. G., Rodriguez, K. M.,

& Ray, S. (in press). Familial predictors of Latina

adolescent suicidal ideation [Brief rep.]. Archives

of Suicide Research.

Piña-Watson, B., Jimenez, N., & Ojeda, L. (in

press). Self-construal, career decision-making

self-efficacy, and barriers predict Mexican

American women’s life satisfaction. Career

Development Quarterly.

Piña-Watson, B., Ojeda, L., Castellon, N., &

Dornhecker, M. (2013). Familismo, ethnic

identity, and bicultural stress as predictors

of Mexican American adolescents’ positive

psychological functioning. Journal of Latina/o

Psychology, 1(4), 204.

Randolph Potts, PhD

PublicationsPotts, R. G. (2013,

Summer). Rites of passage in

prison settings: Interrupting

rituals of mass incarceration.

Black Child Journal: Rites of Passage Foundations &

Practices.

Holly Ramsawh, PhD

PublicationsBall, T. M., Ramsawh, H.

J., Campbell-Sills, L., Paulus,

M., & Stein, M. B. (2013).

Prefrontal dysfunction during

emotion regulation in generalized anxiety and

panic disorder. Psychological Medicine, 43(7),

1475–1486.

Ball, T. M., Stein, M. B., Ramsawh, H. J.,

Campbell-Sills, L., & Paulus, M. (2014).

Single subject anxiety treatment outcome

prediction using functional neuroimaging.

Neuropsychopharmacology, 39, 1254–1261.

Dempsey, C. L., Fullerton, C. S., Herberman Mash,

H. B., Ramsawh, H. J., Naifeh, J. A., &

Ursano, R. J. (2013). New approaches to suicide

research. In M. S. Sundt (Ed.), Explorations in

social causality: A tribute to Eilert Sundt (pp. 199–

234). Oslo, Norway: Atlantic Press.

Mash, H.B.H., Fullerton, C. S., Ramsawh, H. J.,

Ng, T. H., Wang, L., Kessler, R. C., Stein, M.

B., & Ursano, R. J. (in press). Risk for suicidal

behaviors associated with alcohol and energy

drink use in the U.S. Army. Social Psychiatry and

Psychiatric Epidemiology.

Ramsawh, H. J., Fullerton, C. S., Mash, H.B.H.,

Ng, T. H., Kessler, R. C., Stein, M. B., &

Ursano, R. J. (2014). Risk for suicidal behaviors

associated with PTSD, depression, and their

comorbidity in the U.S. Army. Journal of Affective

Disorders 161, 116–122.

Tazzarae Spivey-Mooring, PhD, accepted a position as inpatient psychologist for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Perry Point VA Medical Center. She gave birth to Avianna Joelle Mooring on Februay 14, 2013.

PublicationsSpivey-Mooring, T. E., & Burgan-Apprey, C. (in

press). University of Virginia Graduate Mentoring

Institute: A model program for graduate student

success. Peabody Journal of Education.

Elizabeth Terrazas-Carrillo, PhD, has accepted a position as assistant professor of counseling psychology at Texas A&M International

University, Laredo, TX, starting September 2014. In 2013, she received the APA Division 43 Student Research Award and the Division 17 Student Travel Award; the Dr. Boleslaus Kurpiewski Scholarshi Award, University of Oklahoma; and DoverAir Force Base Officers’ Spouses Club Spouse Scholarship Award.

PublicationsTerrazas-Carrillo, E., Hong, J. Y., & Pace, T. M.

(in press). Adjusting to new places: International

student adjustment and place attachment. Journal

of College Student Development.

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Terrazas-Carrillo, E., & McWhirter, P.T. (in press).

Employment status and intimate partner violence

among Mexican women. Journal of Interpersonal

Violence.

Quyen Tiet, PhD

PublicationsRosen, C. S., Adler, E., & Tiet, Q. Q. (2013).

Presenting concerns of veterans entering

treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder. Journal

of Traumatic Stress, 26, 640–643. doi:10.1002/

jts.21841

Rosen, C., Tiet, Q. Q., Harris, A., Julian, T.,

McKay, J., Moore, W. M., . . . Schnurr, P. P.

(2013). Effects of telephone care management

for veterans discharging from residential PTSD

treatment: A randomized controlled trial.

Psychiatric Services, 64(1), 13–20.

Tiet, Q. Q., Schutte, K., & Leyva, Y. (2013).

Diagnostic accuracy of brief PTSD screening

instruments in military veterans. Journal of

Substance Abuse Treatment, 45, 134–142.

doi:10.1016/j.jsat.2013.01.010

GrantsPrincipal Investigator, Substance Use Disorder

Treatment for Dually Diagnosed Patients in PTSD

Outpatient Programs, Health Services Research and

Development Service (SUD QUERI), Office of

Research and Development, Department of Veterans

Affairs, 2014–2015, $99,938.

Co-Investigator, Access to PTSD Care Among

Veterans With and Without Substance Use Diagnoses,

Health Services Research and Development

Service (SUD QUERI), Office of Research and

Development, Department of Veterans Affairs, 2013–

2014, $100,000.

Co-Investigator, Development of a Substance Abuse

Treatment App for Veterans With PTSD, National

Center for PTSD, Dissemination and Training

Division, Menlo Park, CA, 2013–2014, $40,000

Yuying Tsong, PhD

Publications

Hayashino, D., & Tsong,

Y. (in press). Buddhism

and Taoism in the lives

of Asian American women. In T. Bryant-

Davis, D. Willis, D. Kawahara, & A. Austria

(Eds.), Religion and spirituality for diverse women:

Foundations of strength and resilience. Santa Barbara,

CA: ABC-CLIO.

Smart, R., & Tsong, Y. (2014, April 7). Weight,

body dissatisfaction, and disordered eating: Asian

American women’s perspective. Asian American

Journal of Psychology. Advance online publication.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0035599

Tsong, Y. (2014). Parachute kids. In E. J. W. Park &

X. Zhao (Eds.), Asian Americans: An encyclopedia

of social, cultural, and political change. Santa Barbara,

CA: ABC-CLIO.

Tsong, Y. (2014). Soong Mei-lin. In E. J. W. Park &

X. Zhao (Eds.), Asian Americans: An encyclopedia

of social, cultural, and political change. Santa Barbara,

CA: ABC-CLIO.

Tsong, Y. (2014). Sun Yat-Sen. In E.J.W. Park & X.

Zhao (Eds.), Asian Americans: An encyclopedia of

social, cultural, and political change. Santa Barbara,

CA: ABC-CLIO.

Tsong, Y. (2014). Wayne Wang. In E.J.W. Park &

X. Zhao (Eds.), Asian Americans: An encyclopedia

of social, cultural, and political change. Santa Barbara,

CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc.

Tsong, Y., & Goodyear, R. K. (in press). Assessing

supervision’s clinical and multicultural impacts:

The Supervision Outcome Scale’s psychometric

properties. Training and Education in Professional

Psychology.

Tsong, Y., & Smart, R. (in press). Assessing eating

pathology in Asian Americans. In L. T.

Benuto, N. Thaler, & B. Leany (Eds.), Guide to

psychological assessment in Asian Americans. New

York, NY: Springer.

GrantsPrincipal Investigator, Faculty Mentorship of

Undergraduate and Creative Activities Grant , July

2014–December 2015, $1,250.

Principal Investigator, Older Chinese American

Immigrants’ Help-Seeking Attitudes and Behaviors,

CSU Fullerton Faculty Development Center, January

2014–December 2014.

Jessica Turral was the inaugural recipient of the Young Professionals Award American Red Cross of Chesapeake Hometown Hero.

Shannen Vong

PublicationsFu, M., & Vong, S. (in press). Social connectedness

can lead to happiness: Asian American positive

psychology. Positive Psychology in Racial and Ethnic

Minority Groups: Theory, research, Assessment, and

Practice.

GrantsTak Yoshino Scholarship-Dean’s Scholarship, Alliant

International University, Los Angeles, 2013–2014,

$200.

Cortney Warren, PhD, received tenure at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV) in 2012 but formally retired from academia in 2014 to

pursue a career that would allow her more time with her family and more interaction with the general public. She started Choose Honesty, LLC, as a platform to use psychological research and clinical observations to help the public live more fulfilling lives by confronting their self-deception. For more information, see her new book, Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception. She also gave a TEDx talk at UNLV on April 11, 2014, called “Honesty Liars: The Psychology of Self-Deception.” It is available for viewing on her website (www.choosehonesty.com) and other media outlets. She is now a licensed psychologist in Nevada.

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PublicationsLevinson, C. A., Rodebaugh, T. L., White, E. K.,

Menatti, A. R., Weeks, J. W., Iacovino, J. M.,

& Warren, C.S. (2013). Social appearance

anxiety, perfectionism, and fear of negative

evaluation: Distinct or shared risk factors for

social anxiety and eating disorders? Appetite,

67, 25–33. doi:10.1016/j.appet.2013.04.002

Llorente, E., Warren, C. S., Pérez de Eulate, L.

& Gleaves, D. H. (2013). A Spanish version

of the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards

Appearance Questionnaire-3 (SATAQ-3):

Translation and psychometric evaluation.

Journal of Clinical Psychology. 69, 240–251.

doi:10.1002/jclp.21944

Perez, M., & Warren, C. S. (2013). Assessing eating

pathology in Hispanic clients. In L. Benuto

(Ed.), Guide to psychological assessment with

Hispanic clients (pp. 201–214). New York, NY:

Springer.

Warren, C. S. (2014). Lies we tell ourselves: The

psychology of self-deception. Sevierville, TN:

Insight Publishing.

Warren, C. S., Gleaves, D. H., & Rakhkovskaya,

L. M. (2013). Score reliability and factor

similarity of the Sociocultural Attitudes

Towards Appearance Questionnaire-3

(SATAQ-3) among four ethnic groups. Journal

of Eating Disorders, 1–14. doi:10.1186/2050-

2974-1-14

Warren, C. S., Lindsay, A., White, E., Claudat,

K., & Velasquez, S. (2013). Weight-related

concerns related to drug use for women in

substance abuse treatment: Prevalence and

relationships with eating pathology. Journal

of Substance Abuse Treatment, 44, 494–501.

doi:/10.1016/j.jsat.2012.08.222

Warren, C. S., Llorente, E., Gleaves, D. H., Perez

de Eulate, L., & Rakhkovskaya, L. M. (in

press). Translation and validation of a Spanish

version of the Sociocultural Attitudes Towards

Appearance Questionnaire-4 (SATAQ-4).

International Journal of Eating Disorders.

Warren, C. S., & Rios, R. M. (2013). The

relationships among acculturation, acculturative

stress, endorsement of Western media, social

comparison, and body image in Hispanic

male college students. Psychology of Men

& Masculinity, 14, 192–201. doi:10.1037/

a0028505

Warren, C. S., Schafer, K., Crowley, M. J., &

Olivardia, R. (2013). Demographic and work-

related correlates of job burnout in professional

eating disorder treatment providers.

Psychotherapy, 50, 553–564. doi:10.1037/

a0028783

Warren, C. S., Schafer, K., Crowley, M. J., &

Olivardia, R. (2013). Treatment providers

with a personal history of eating pathology:

A qualitative examination of common

experiences. Eating Disorders: Journal of

Treatment and Prevention, 21, 295–309. doi:10.1

080/10640266.2013.797318

Warren, C. S., White, E. K., Claudat, K., &

LaPota, H. B. (2013). Eating disorders. In A.

Sun, L. Ashley, & L. Dickson (Eds.), Process

additions (pp. 99–114). Las Vegas, NV: Central

Recovery Press.

White, E. K., & Warren, C. S. (2013). Body

checking in a non-clinical college-age sample:

The influence of thin-ideal internalization,

social comparison, ethnicity, and body size.

Body Image, 10, 583–590. doi:10.1016/j.

bodyim.2013.04.003

Kristin Williams-Washington, PsyD, assumed responsibility as the acting director of evaluation in December 2013 at

the Child, Adolescent and Family Branch of the Center for Mental Health Services at SAMHSA. She was also a recipient of the Army Commendation Medal in May 2013–2014 and the CMHS Team! Hope Award: “demonstrating optimism, perseverance, solutions and excellence.” She welcomed a second child in 2014.

PublicationsHarrington, K., Williams-Washington, K.N.,

Caldwell, B., Lieberman, R., & Blau, G.M.

(in press). Improving outcomes in residential

treatment. In G.M. Blau, B. Caldwell, & R.

Lieberman (Eds.), Residential interventions for

children, adolescents and families: A best practice

guide. New York: Routledge/Taylor and

Francis.

Williams-Washington, K. N. & Blau, G. M.

(in press). Effective services and supports for

children and youth with serious mental health

disorders: The System of Care approach.

National Council for Behavioral Health Magazine.

Williams-Washington, K. N., & Weaver, S.

(2014, February). PTSD and its effect on

servicemembers and their families. TwitterChat

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Affiliate AWARDS

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Minority Fellowship Program. The program was founded by Dalmas Taylor, PhD, in 1974 and was led by James M. Jones, PhD, for over 25 years. Dr. Kim Nickerson then took the helm until he handed off the reigns to its current director, Andrew T. Austin-Dailey, in 2006.

Please join us at the APA Convention in Washington, DC, for the 40th Anniversary Kickoff Celebration!

Friday, August 8 6:00–7:00 p.m. Renaissance Washington DC Hotel, Renaissance Ballroom West

We’d love to hear your ideas about ways to celebrate this event throughout the year. For example, one idea is to have MFP fellows in various parts of the country spon-sor programs at next year’s regional conventions, such as at the Western, Eastern, Midwestern, and Southeastern Psychological Association conventions. That way, we can get the word out about MFP’s success and encourage students to consider applying for a fellowship. We’re open to other ideas; send your suggestions to the 40th Anniversary Committee/Dr. Kyra Kissam: kkissam@apa.org

See you in Washington, DC, for our kickoff celebration!

Join the Celebration—APA’S MINORITY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM TURNS 40!

Congratulations to the following MFP fellows for their achievements in APA affiliate organizations!

Anthony L. Chambers, PhD Division 43: Society for Family Psychology President-Elect

Le Ondra Clark Harvey, PhD 2013 Division 45: Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race, Emerging Professional Contributions to Service Award

Miraj Desai, PhD Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Connections Program, APA Convention Support

Mylien Duong, PhD 2013 Early Career APA Convention Travel Award

Bryana H. French, PhD Division 51: Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity Member-at-Large, Ethnic Minority

Jeanne Manese, PhD UCI Counseling Center, 2013 Suinn Minority Achievement Award for excellence in the recruitment, training, and graduation of ethnic minority students in psychology

Jeffery Mio, PhD Elected a fellow of Division 9: Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues

Elizabeth Terrazas-Carrillo, PhD 2013 Division 43: Society of Family Psychology Student Research Award and Division 17: Society of Counseling Psychology Student Travel Award

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O n the second day of the Minority Fellowship Program’s (MFP) Professional Development Workshop at the 2013 APA convention, the

new MFP fellows visited the Department of Native Hawai-ian Health at the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawai`i at Ma-noa and an affiliated community health center, Ku-lana Hawai`i, in Honolulu. The Depart-ment of Native Hawaiian Health chair is our very own alumnus Dr. Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula. The focus of the department is to develop models of health care that incor-porate traditional health methods and translate science-based practices from a traditional healing lens. Ku-lana Hawai`i is one of the sites for I Ola La-hui: Rural Hawai`i Behavioral Health (a statewide organization that provides integrated behavioral health services to promote overall health and well-being for Hawaiian communities), and its main areas of focus are on healthy living and weight loss.

The visit started with a very nice lunch at Ku-lia Grill, a student-run cafeteria at the university. We were then greeted by Dr. Kaholokula’s graduate student Pua Coen, who led a very descriptive tour of the healing garden on campus. She detailed all of the healing and medicinal prop-erties of various indigenous plants, along with the different rituals associated with the plants. The fellows were fascinated by this tour and saw the connection between nondualistic traditional healing methods and evidence-based integrated health practices.

The second part of the visit was led by Dr. Robin E.S. Miyamoto, who is the director for training at I Ola La-hui and works closely with Dr. Kaholokula at the medical school. She discussed the different patterns of health dispari-ties in various Hawaiian communities across the state and how I Ola La-hui’s outreach and treatment interventions are addressing the health and well-being of these communities. Dr. Miyamoto also encouraged the fellows to explore their

recently APA-accredited internship program and their post-doctoral fellowship.

The visit ended with Dr. Kaholokula greeting the fel-lows, learning more about their interests, and answering questions regarding the collaboration between the medi-cal school and the community center. Fellows were very impressed with how the model of health and well-being was driven by concepts of behavioral health and integrated care (rather than the typical medical model) in a medical setting. One of the fellows commented that it was “inspir-ing to see an alum from the [MFP] program creating such an impactful and culturally sensitive training program.” The fellows left the visit with a greater understanding of the meaning of I Ola La-hui—“So that people will live and thrive.” u

New Fellows’ Visit to Ku- lana Hawai‘i, a Community Health Center in HonoluluBy Urmi Chakrabarti

Ku-lana Hawai`i staff with MFP staff and fellows at the entrance

to the health center.

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Useful ResourcesEmerging Scholars Interdisciplinary Network (ESIN)An interdisciplinary setting for information about research and career development resources to early career (maximum of 8 years postgraduate school), nontenured social, behavioral, and natural scientists of color.

http://emergingscholars.net

JustGarciaHill (JGH)A place where minority scientists can stay informed, create community, and make connections.http://justgarciahill.org National Postdoctoral Association (NPA)The NPA provides a national voice for postdoctoral scholars.www.nationalpostdoc.org

Useful Websiteswww.apa.org/about/awards/index.aspx This APA website lists possible funding resources for graduation students.

www.apa.org/careers/ early-career/index.aspxAPA’s website for early career psychologists con-tains links to career information, licensure, an early career listserv, funding resources, ways to further your education, and other information.

www.finaid.orgThe SmartStudent Guide™ to Financial Aid (Scholarships).

www.nas.eduThe National Academies website provides informa-tion on fellowship and postdoctoral training oppor-tunities (on the NAS site, click on Fellowships & Postdocs).

www.drugabuse.gov National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

www.nimh.nih.govNational Institute of Mental Health.

www.samhsa.gov Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Key To AbbreviationsHAB HIV/AIDS Bureau of HRSA

HRSA Health Resources and Services Administration

MFP Minority Fellowship Program

MHR Mental Health Research

MHSAS Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

NIA National Institute on Aging

NIDA National Institute on Drug Abuse

NIH National Institutes of Health

NIMH National Institute of Mental Health

RCT Randomized control trial

RTP Recovery to Practice

SAMHSA Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration

SAR Substance Abuse Research

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Amanda Chiapa received her master’s in developmental psychology from San Diego State University. She is now working on her doctorate degree in clinical psychology at Arizona State University. Her main area of interest is underserved populations, with a particular focus on family interventions and substance abuse issues.

Morgan Conley is currently pursuing her PhD in counseling psychology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, where she also received her master’s in counseling psy-chology. Her areas of interest are college health and well-being, multiculturalism and diversity issues, first-generation students, eat-ing disorders and body image, anxiety, and depression.

Michael Covone received both his MPH and MSW from the University of Hawaii in Manoa. He is currently pursuing his PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Alaska in Anchorage. His is mainly interested in health psychology, with a focus on suicide, substance abuse, and sexually transmitted dis-

ease prevention efforts with indigenous communities. He is also specializing in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).

Lamarra Currie earned her master’s in edu-cation in professional counseling from the University of Georgia. She is currently in Ball State University’s PhD program in counseling psychology. She is interested in issues relating to African Americans, at-risk youth and fami-lies, and adult offenders. She would also like

to explore areas relating college students of color and sport psy-chology psychological assessment.

Ann Douglas earned her MA in counselor education at the University of Montana, where she is also pursuing her doctoral train-ing in clinical psychology. She is in the child and family track and wants to work with American Indian communities.

Miatta Echetebu received her BA in psy-chology from Duke University and is pursu-ing her doctorate in clinical community psy-chology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is interested in looking at culturally competent juvenile jus-tice interventions and the impacts of policy and racial disparity in social systems.

Alicia Ibaraki earned her BA in psychology from Ponoma College and is pursuing her PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Oregon. She is interested in factors influ-encing mental health care utilization and treatment outcomes in ethnic minority popu-lations, particularly Asian Americans.

The Minority Fellowship Program in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services received 168 predoctoral and 6 postdoctoral applications this past January. Each application underwent intensive reviews to evaluate the applicant’s potential for a promising and productive career in behavioral health services. Fellows are chosen from among national applicants to receive financial support for up to 3 years of funding. Fellows also gain access to professional networks and lifelong support systems.

The staff and MFP Training Advisory Committee would like to congratulate our newly appointed fellows for the 2014–2015 academic year. We hope their experience during their time with MFP is richly rewarding.

CONGRATULATIONS, NEW FELLOWS!

Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Fellows (2014)

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Skyler Jackson received his BA in psycholo-gy from Stanford University and is now in the doctoral program in counseling psychology at the University Maryland at College Park. His areas of focus are individual psychotherapy, group interventions, social stigma, identity development, and intersecting identities. He is

also interested in minority stress, health outcomes, diversity train-ing, and cultural competence.

Kahanaaloha Kuikahi received her BA in psychology at the University of San Diego. She is currently at Palo Alto University, pur-suing her PhD in clinical psychology. She is mainly interested child and family dynamics in Asian American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander populations.

Caroline Luong-Tran recently completed her PhD in clinical psychology at the George Washington University and will begin her postdoctoral training at the Children’s National Health System in Washington, DC. Her main areas of focus are child clinical psychology, neuropsychology, and nonprofit management.

Fanny Ng earned her BA in psychology from Stony Brook University and is finishing up her PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Her areas of focus are race and culture, racial and ethnic identity development, racism-related stress, racial empowerment, and Asian American women’s leadership.

Jessica Spigner received her BA in psycholo-gy from Stanford University and is completing her PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Florida. She is interested in clin-ical child psychology and is also pursuing a certification in public health, specializing in management and policy.

Elizabeth Thomas received her MA in psychology from Stephen F. Austin State University and is now in the doctoral program in counseling psychology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her areas of interest are emotion regulation and trauma outcomes of posttraumatic growth and posttraumatic stress.

Bianca Villalobos received her BA in psy-chology at California State University, Channel Islands. She is now in the clinical psychology PhD program at University of Arkansas. Her areas of focus are integrated behavioral health care, Latino mental health, cultural values, help giving, and mental health service utilization.

CONGRATULATIONS, NEW FELLOWS!

Congratulations to the 2014 MFP AWARD WINNERS!Early Career Award for Distinguished Contributions Nadine Nakamura, PhD Department of Psychology University of La Verne, La Verne, CA

Dalmas A. Taylor Award for Distinguished Contributions Sumie Okazaki, PhD Department of Applied Psychology NYU Steinhardt School, New York, NY

James M. Jones Lifetime Achievement Award Donelda Cook, PhD Associate Vice President for Student Development and Director, Counseling Center, Loyola College–Baltimore

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MFP PSYCHOLOGY SUMMER INSTITUTE

By Kyra Kissam, PhD

T he MFP hosted its 11th Annual Psychology Summer Institute (PSI) July 14–20, 2013, at the American Psychological Association in Washington, DC. PSI

provides educational, professional development, and mentoring experiences to advanced doctoral students of psychology and psychologists who are in the early stage of their careers. Participants work toward developing a grant proposal, postdoctoral fellowship, dissertation, treatment program, publication, or program evaluation project. All projects focus on issues affecting ethnic minority communities. Participants receive one-on-one mentoring on their projects and attend seminars on selected topics such as grant writing, publishing, and specific areas of research or service delivery.

“PSI is one of the most meaningful experiences of my doctoral training journey.”—PSI attendee

For more information, please visit www.apa.org/pi/mfp/psychology/institute/index.aspx. u

PSI 2013 Participants

Rachelle Barnes, PhD

Winston-Salem State University Racial Microaggressions in Cross-Racial Clinical Supervision: A Multidisciplinary Study

Alabi Basirat, PhD

University of California, Los Angeles Ethnic Identity, Ethnic Socialization, and Academic Achievement Among African American and Nigerian American Youth

Brigitte Beale

Wright State University Making Pediatric Obesity Intervention Developmentally and Culturally Appropriate for African American and Latino Adolescents

Lauren Berger

University of California, Davis Therapist Factors That Predict Treatment Outcomes Among Ethnic Minority Clients

2013 PSI fellows and APA CEO Norman Anderson, PhD (center).

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Catherine Bitney, PhD

Texas State University Broaching Racial Difference Between African American Clients and White Counselors: Racial Identity Attitudes and Therapy Process

Christina Campbell, PhD

Yale University Understanding the Impact of Neighborhood Ecology on the Prevention of Delinquency and Substance Use Among Juvenile Offenders

Collette Chapman-Hilliard

University of Texas, Austin Measuring Black Consciousness and Its Relationship to Empowerment and Self-Worth

Casandra Clark

Ponce School of Medicine and Health Sciences Relation Between Relapse Styles and Levels of Impulsivity in Substance Dependence Subjects Among a Sample of Two Rehabilitation Centers in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Bridgid Conn

Suffolk University Development and Evaluation of a Method for Assessing Adolescents’ Attitudes and Beliefs Regarding Prescription Medication

Mesmin Destin, PhD

Northwestern University An Intervention to Develop Growth Mindsets Towards Social Class and Improve Achievement and Health of Racial Minority Adolescents

Mirella Diaz-Santos

Boston University A Cultural Competence Model in Clinical Neuropsychology

Kristin Dukes, PhD

Simmons College Toward HIV/AIDS and STI Prevention Among African American Women: Examining Underlying Attitudes About Sexuality and Associated Behaviors

Dawn Foster, PhD

MD Anderson Cancer Center A Smartphone Intervention to Reduce Concurrent Cigarette and Alcohol Use Among Young Adults

Brittany Hall-Clark, PhD

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio The Development of a Culturally Sensitive Model of Risk and Resiliency for African American Military Families

George Hu, PsyD

Portia Bell Hume Behavioral Health and Training Center Implementation of Culturally Informed Practices for the Treatment of Clients of Asian/Pacific Island Descent in a Community Mental Health Setting: Implications for Training, Practice, and Outreach.

Won-Fong Lau

University of California, Santa Barbara Defining Parents’ Behavioral Involvement in Children’s Education: A Similar Phenomenon for English- and Spanish-Speaking Parents

Ryan Lei

Northwestern University Egalitarianism for Some or for All: Egalitarian Goal Activation and Stereotype Inhibition in a Multiple Social Categorization Context

Huijun Li, PhD

Florida A&M University Enhance Mental Health Literacy Among African American Young Adults: A Critical Step to Reduce Mental Health Disparities

Angelica Lopez

University of California, Santa Cruz Cultural Differences in Children’s Attentive Helping

Maria del Mar Rivera Castro, PhD

School Street Counseling Institute/Behavioral Health Network A Family Therapy Training Curriculum for the Multicultural Predoctoral Internship Program of Massachusetts

Dionne Stephens, PhD

Florida International University Identifying Intimate Partner Relationship Scripts to Reduce Verbal Sexual Coercion Among Hispanic Emerging Adults

Jasmine Tilghman, PhD

University of Missouri–Columbia Culturally Validating Hardiness With Black College Students: A Mixed-Methods Study

Yuying Tsong, PhD

California State University, Fullerton Culturally Specific Risk and Protective Factors of Eating Disordered Behaviors and Attitudes Among Asian American Women and Men

Shellae Versey, PhD

Rutgers University Stress and Coping Among Formal and Informal Caregivers

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Edna Acosta-Perez

University of Puerto Rico

Monica Baskin

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Samantha Beauchman

Sanford Health

Vanessa Bing

City University of New York

Jessica Brown

Virginia Commonwealth University

Gerard Bryant

John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Donna Castaneda

San Diego State University–Imperial Valley

Zoua Chang

Hamm Clinic

Uraina Clark

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Michele Cooley-Strickland

UCLA

Rosalie Corona

Virginia Commonwealth University

Michelle Cruz-Santiago

University of Illinois, Urbana-Chmapaign

Eric John David

University of Alaska Anchorage

William Davis

Alvernia University

Tiara Dillworth

University of Washington

Katrina Domingo

Kaiser Permanente

Linda EagleHeart Thomas

University of Montana

Crystal Evans

Blackfeet Family Wellness Center

Ayorkor Gaba

Rutgers University

Debra Gillum

Robyn Gobin

San Diego VA Healthcare System

Cheon Graham

Randolph County Schools

Naomi Hall-Byers

Winston-Salem State University

Martin Harris

Southern California University of Health Sciences

Erica Holmes

Loyola Marymount University

Joseph Horvat

Weber State University

Russell Jones

University of Maryland

Deborah Jones-Saumty

Retired

Shanta Kanukollu

Lake County Psychological Services, 19th Judicial Circuit

Chisina Kapungu

University of Illinois at Chicago

Abesie Kelly

Social Security Administration

Grace Kim

Wheelock College

Eric Kohatsu

California State University, Los Angeles

Jason Lawrence

University of Massachusetts Lowell

Cindy Liu

Harvard Medical School

Wandamaria Lopez

Veterans Administration

Albert Meza

University of San Francisco

Jeffery Mio

Cal Poly Pomona

N’Jeri Mitchell

CUNY, Independent practice

Nicole Monteiro

University of Botswana

Donna Nagata

University of Michigan

Each year, the MFP draws from our talented network of alumni to form the MFP Initial Review Committee (IRC), a group responsible for the important task of reviewing hundreds of applications. In 2014, the following alumni provided valuable assistance and expertise in this process.

The MFP Initial Review Committee 2014

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Phuong Nguyen

Baylor College of Medicine, Menninger Department of Behavioral Sciences

Lorie Nicholas

John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Sumie Okazaki

New York University

Andrea Omidy

Omidy Psychological Associates

Natalia Palacios

Curry School of Education, University of Virginia

Sangeeta Parikshak

SRCD Congressional Fellow

Julia Perilla

Georgia State University

Randolph Potts

Memphis VA Medical Center

Sally Robles

Brooklyn College

Caryn Rodgers

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Precious Sellars-Mulhern

City University of New York–Borough of Manhattan Community College

Cynthia Sparrow

Independent practice

Leah Squires

DC Veterans Medical Center

Marilyn Strada

Comprehensive Psychological Care

Elizabeth Thompson

The Family Center at Kennedy Krieger Institute

Liang Tien

Dongbei Univeristy of Finance and Management

Sheila Triplett

Eastern Star Baptist Church

Sandy Tsuneyoshi

Oregon State University

Monica Ulibarri

University of California, San Diego

Patricia Vigil

Colorado State University

Dianna Washington

Independent practice

Mary Wilkie

Children’s Developmental Services Agency

Karen Wilson

California State University, Dominguez Hills

La Pearl Winfrey

Wright State University

Sinead Younge

Morehouse College

Anthony Zamudio

USC School of Medicine

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REFLECTIONSThe Healing Power of Stories

By Jeannie E. Celestial

A s an MFP fellow, I have always taken the charge to advance ethnic minority behavioral health services very seriously. This is especially

true in my Filipino American community, in which shame and stigma about mental health services unfortu-nately still exist. To help address mental health stigma, I started volunteering for the Filipino Mental Health Initiative–San Francisco (FMHI-SF) in summer 2012. By serving on FMHI-SF’s leadership team, I help develop and implement culturally informed mental health services

MFP Fellow Jeannie E. Celestial at the Filipino American

Mental Health Symposium in April 2014. From left: Gertrudes

Hernandez, PhD (licensed psychologist in independent

practice); Eric Pido, PhD (San Francisco State University

[SFSU], Asian American Studies); Bernadette Sy (executive

director, Filipino American Development Foundation); Alvin

Alvarez, PhD (associate dean, SFSU); and Jeannie Celestial.

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among Filipinas/os and Filipina/o Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area.

On April 11, 2014, I had the privilege of seeing one of our FMHI projects come to life. We at FHMI organized the inaugural Filipino Mental Health Symposium: Kwentuhan: Sharing Our Stories. We envisioned the conference as a time when mental health providers, community workers, college students, and community members including mental health consum-ers could come together to network and share stories, information, and resources. Over 100 people attended the symposium, which was held at San Francisco State University (SFSU). SFSU is known as one of the birth-places of the ethnic studies movement in the United States, so it was very fitting that an ethnic-specific confer-ence like this would be born here as well.

Alvin Alvarez, PhD, a Filipino American psycholo-gist and SFSU’s associate dean of the College of Health and Social Sciences and the former president of the Asian American Psychological Association, gave the keynote address. He educated the attendees on mental health dis-parities and stigma in the Filipino community. He under-scored the importance of advocating for culturally compe-tent mental health services.

I was inspired by Dr. Alvarez’s sharing of his own experiences of microaggressions and how he attempts to channel his anger toward fighting for social justice. My passion to advocate for cultural competency was also reinvigorated by Dr. Alvarez’s talk. He quoted Carolyn Payton, PhD, the first African American and first female director of the U.S. Peace Corps, who asked, “Who must do the hard things [of social responsibility]? Those who can!” I was reminded that however tiring continually advocating for the voiceless and empowering clients to use their voices may be, I must continue to press on—as a social obligation and simply because “I can.”

The personal stories of “lived experience” told by mental health consumers at the symposium deeply reso-nated with me. “Maritess,” a college student, opened up about emotional difficulties surrounding her parents’ divorce, depressive bouts that plagued her college years, and her attempted suicide. Now she strives to encourage other young Filipinos and Filipinas to seek psychotherapy instead of wallowing alone darkness and despair. “Lizelle” spoke of her father’s gambling addiction and her experi-

ence with sexual abuse. She recounted how faith and spirituality were important sources of healing for her. “Christopher,” a Filipino mental health clinician, shared his own struggle with complex bereavement and elabo-rated on his own self-stigma about seeking therapy and taking antidepressants.

The authenticity and candidness of the storytellers were truly helpful in chipping away at the audience’s col-lective shame and stigma surrounding mental illness and mental health services. The success of Kwentuhan exceed-ed our expectations and was rooted in the healing power of stories. u

Autism Milestones

By Debra J. Gillum, PhD MFP Fellow 1987–1988

M y son, Austin, just graduated from high school. It is quite a remarkable milestone considering that he has autism and has been

receiving special education services through the public school system his entire life. I think about how far he’s come, how much work he’s put in along the way, and what a journey it’s been. I think about all the challenges we, as a family, experienced along the way.

For kids with autism, graduating from high school is a monumental occasion in light of the thousands of unknowns they encounter along the way. I should say “unknowns that we’ve encountered along the way,” because it’s definitely been a family or group effort. For my family, “all of us” includes my husband, my daughter, Austin, and me. It also includes all of his teachers over

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Debbie and her family at her son’s graduation.

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the years, the school administrators, his speech and occu-pational therapists, his various tutors, his ABA therapists, friends, neighbors, and (most important) his two very car-ing and knowledgeable instructional aides. We have been on this journey together ever since Austin was diagnosed with autism at age 3½. For his sister, Erin, the journey has been her whole life. She has never known life without autism. None of us have had a choice in the matter, but that is irrelevant. We are all on this journey called autism.

We’ve made clear sacrifices along the way. All of us have had to give up things on our autism journey. For Erin, it was perhaps play dates with friends or time with her father and me. For my husband, it was a move he didn’t want to make, a job he didn’t want to leave, and a lot of time and attention he didn’t get from me. Autism meant sacrificing his long-time wish to teach Austin how to play ball, for example. For me, my sacrifices have been innumerable and, to be honest, I cannot even “go there.” It’s too much of an emotional landmine to think about right now.

The point I’m trying to make is that all of those sac-rifices, every one of them, have been worth it. That look on Austin’s face at graduation was like a salve that healed the scars of all the trying times, extra work, worrying, and lost sleep. For Austin, graduating from high school has been one of the few milestones he reached at the same time as his peers.

When I think of autism and Austin’s graduating from high school, I’m flooded with memories of the baby steps or baby hurdles we’ve encountered along the way. When Austin was a little boy, our celebratory milestones were such events as when he started putting words together and finally said “I love you” at about age 4, using the potty at about 4½, and sitting for a haircut without a major melt-down (because it “hurt”) at about 7.

During kindergarten, Austin’s class put on a small production for the parents. All the moms and dads wore proud faces as they watched their sons and daughters sing-ing and performing. During the production, I was beam-ing ear to ear because my son was still in the room despite the noise around him. Normally, he would run screaming from the room with all that noise and all those parents. For the performance, he was not singing or performing;

he was turning the flip chart pages that cued the rest of the class, and I couldn’t have been more proud. He was there with all the other kids, he seemed happy with his job, and his hands were not covering his ears.

Milestones come in different sizes and shapes. For families affected by autism, milestones are events like sleeping through the night, going to a doctor’s appoint-ment without a tantrum or behavior issue, finding a new food the child will eat, and being able to tolerate riding in an elevator. Some of these milestones don’t sound so abnormal; but when they occur at kindergarten age or older, they are indeed considered milestones.

On the autism journey, we cannot focus on the tra-ditional milestones, like graduation or getting married, because we cannot be sure they will even occur. One of the cruelest burdens imposed upon me as a parent of a toddler was to think about whether or not Austin would be able to drive, be able to live by himself, or ever find someone to love and marry. A parent shouldn’t have to have these thoughts when their children are toddlers. But we do think about these things, and we lose sleep or eat too much or bite our nails doing so.

Parents of children with autism drive on one step at a time. We hope and pray the next skill and the next accomplishment will come. Sometimes they do and some-times they don’t. We celebrate the small steps. We focus on the small steps. We have to focus on the small steps.

Austin turned 18 this past spring. That alone is anoth-er huge milestone. Shortly after his birthday, he registered to vote, registered for the selective service, and obtained his learner’s permit. More milestones. Onward I march, taking small steps and looking forward.

I’ve been supervising Austin while he drives for about three weeks now. He hasn’t learned about driving by watching me like normal kids, or “neurotypical” kids as we say in autism-speak. We talk about what it means for the car to be in the parking space. We spend several practice sessions just getting used to how the car feels. We will do in months what other kids do in weeks. We have “near misses” with street signs and parked cars. We are taking baby steps. Maybe next week I’ll take him out of our neighborhood—onto real roads. Another milestone, right? u

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New Fellows’ Professional Development WorkshopWednesday and Thursday, August 6–78:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.Renaissance Washington DC Hotel, MFP Suite

MFP Fellows and Alumni Networking BreakfastFriday, August 88:00–9:50 a.m.Renaissance Washington DC Hotel, MFP SuiteThe purpose of this meeting is to foster continued networking with other fellows and to discuss MFP’s future.

MFP SymposiumNew Directions in Ethnic Minority Research

Friday, August 81:00–1:50 p.m. Washington Convention Center, Room 156Chair: Andrew T. Austin-Dailey, MDiv, MS, Director, APA Minority Fellowship Program

ParticipantsMaria Cristina Cruza-Guet, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Recovery and Community Health

“A Longitudinal Analysis of the Relationship Between Social Support and Psychological Distress Among Hispanic Elders in Miami, FL”

Carlos Valiente, PhD, Associate Professor, T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University

“The Roles of Social and Emotional Processes in Children’s Early Academic Success”

MFP Achievement Awards, Poster Session, and Social HourFriday, August 86:00–7:50 p.m.Renaissance Washington DC Hotel, Renaissance Ballroom West This is a great networking opportunity to meet many MFP alumni and ethnic minority psychologists.

MFP Breakfast for FacultySaturday, August 98:00–9:50 a.m.Renaissance Hotel, MFP Suite This is a time for advisors, chairs, and training directors of currently funded MFP fellows to learn about the MFP process and discuss program issues.

MFP Special Interest SymposiumToward a More Comprehensive Understanding of Violence Against Communities of Color

Saturday, August 92:00–2:50 p.m. Washington Convention Center, Room 140A Chair: Janeece Warfield, PhD, Director of Early Childhood Services, Wright State University

PresentersRichard M. Lee, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychology at the University of Minnesota

“Toward an Understanding of a Diasporic Identity”

Nicole M. Monteiro, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of University of Botswana

“The Psychology of Mass Violence”

Kevin L. Nadal, PhD, Associate Professor of Psychology, Acting Director, Forensic Mental Health Counseling Program at John Jay College of Criminal Justice

“Violence Towards Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People of Color: Implications for Psychology”

MFP EVENTSAPA Annual Convention, Washington, DC

August 7–August 10, 2014

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2014 APA CONVENTION INFORMATION

Cheryl Anne Boyce, PhDSymposium (Division 3): Beyond Academe—Alternative Careers for Experimental Psychologists

“Your Role as Psychologists” (Participant/1st Author)

Thursday, August 7

12:00–12:50 a.m.

Convention Center, Room 147A

Symposium (Division 12): Research in Graduate School—Why and How Should I Get Involved?

“Integrating a Research, Clinical, and Public Health Career” (Participant/1st Author)

Thursday, August 7

1:00–2:50 p.m.

Convention Center, Room 204C

Symposium (Division 12): Adolescence—Brain Development to Prevention Policy (Cochair)

Friday, August 8

4:00–5:50 p.m.

Convention Center, Room 143A

Symposium (Division 12): Innovative Models With Evidence to Reduce Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities and Risk (Chair)

Saturday, August 9

1:00–1:50 p.m.

Convention Center, Room 140A

Discussion Session (APA): Plenary—Two of a Kind? Understanding the Research Domain Criteria and DSM-5 (Cochair)

Saturday, August 9

2:00–2:50 p.m.

Convention Center, Room 152B

Danice Brown, PhD Poster Session (Division 45): Social Identity Beliefs and Discrimination Experiences

“Educational Achievement Among African Americans: The Influence of Internalized Racism” (Participant/ 1st Author)

Thursday, August 7

1:00–1:50 p.m.

Convention Center, Halls D and E

Symposium (Division 35): Improving the Quality of Psychological Health Research, Education, and Treatment for Black Women (Cochair)

Friday, August 8

10:00–10:50 a.m.

Convention Center, Room 154A

Bryana French, PhDSkill Building (Division 17): Expanding Our Reach—Building Media Skills for Counseling Psychologists (Cochair)

Friday, August 8

9:00–10:50 a.m.

Convention Center, Room 206

Naomi Hall-Byers, PhDPoster Session (Division 45): Applied Work, Social Justice, and Adjustment

“Traditional Masculine Ideology, Norms, and HIV Prevention Among Black Men at an HBCU” (Participant/1st Author)

Saturday, August 9

9:00–9:50 a.m.

Convention Center, Halls D and E

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Poster Session (Division 9): Identity, Intersectionality, and Beyond

“What Makes an STI/HIV Media Message Appealing to Black College Students?

Saturday, August 9

11:00–11:50 a.m.

Convention Center, Halls D and E

Helen Hsu, PsyD Symposium (Division 12): Raising Our Voices—Updates From Ethnic Minority Psychological Associations on the APA Ethics Code (Participant)Saturday, August 9

10:00–11:50 a.m.

Convention Center, Room 156

George Hu, PsyDDiscussion (APAGS): Psychology Without Borders—A Roundtable Discussion on International Teaching, Research, and Service (Participant/1st Author)

Saturday, August 9

8:00–9:50 a.m.

Convention Center, East Salon C

Symposium (Division 52): How to Be an International Leader—International ECPs’ Perspectives for Aspiring Leaders (Participant/1st Author)

Saturday, August 9

12:00–12:50 p.m.

Convention Center, Room 140B

Shahana Koslofsky, PhDSkill Building (Division 2): Interprofessional Training—Preparing Psychology Students for the Changing Health Care Market (CoChair)

Sunday, August 10

1:00–1:50 p.m.

Convention Center, Room 154B

Michaela McLaughlinSymposium (Division 29): Information About the Client, Just Not From the Client

“Problem or Possibility? Information Learned Outside the Therapy Hour” (Coauthor)

Friday, August 8

10:00–10:50 a.m.

Convention Center, Room 209A

Jeffrey Mio, PhDPoster Session (Division 9): Social Justice

“Issues of Poverty Among Students at Large Public Universities” (Participant/1st Author)

Friday, August 8

11:00–11:50 a.m. Convention Center, Halls D and E

Della MosleyPoster Session (Division 17): Mental Health and Well-Being

“Contextualizing Paranoia on the MCMI-III: African American Male Perspectives” (Participant/1st Author)

Thursday, August 7

9:00–9:50 a.m.

Convention Center, Halls D and E

Poster Session (Division 35): Feminism and Gender Role Ideology, Sexual Mistreatment, and Sexuality

“Hashtags and Hip-Hop: Exploring the Online Performativity of Hip-Hop Identified Youth Using Instagram” (Participant/1st Author)

Friday, August 8

12:00–12:50 p.m.

Convention Center, Halls D and E

Quyen Tiet, PhDPoster Session (Division 20): 1

“Religious Coping, Appraisals, and Depressive Symptoms in Caregivers of Seniors With Dementia” (Coauthor)

Thursday, August 7

3:00–3:50 p.m.

Convention Center, Halls D and E

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Poster Session (Division 45): Applied Work, Social Justice, and Adjustment

“Impact of Client–Clinician Language Matching on Satisfaction and Outcomes” (Coauthor)

Saturday, August 9

9:00–9:50 a.m.

Convention Center, Halls D and E

Poster Session (Division 43): II

“Negative Maternal Disclosure, Divorce, and Child’s Appraisal of Father–Child Relationship” (Coauthor)Saturday, August 9

11:00–11:50 p.m.

Convention Center, Halls D and E

Poster Session (Division 35): Eating Pathology, Body Image, Gender-Based Mistreatment, and Feminist Ideology

“Sexting and the Objectification of College-Age Women” (Coauthor)

Saturday, August 9

12:00–12:50 p.m.

Convention Center, Halls D and E

Poster Session (Division 12): Issues in Clinical Practice, Training, Psychotherapy, Dissemination, and Implementation

“Role of Working Alliance and Substance Use on Relapse in Treatment for Early Psychosis” (Coauthor)

Saturday, August 9

1:00–1:50 p.m.

Convention Center, Halls D and E

Poster Session (Division 7): Adolescent and Adult Development

“Predictors of Emotional Disturbance in Foster Children in Alameda County” (Coauthor)

Saturday, August 9

4:00–4:50 p.m.

Convention Center, Halls D and E

Yuying Tsong, PhDConversation Hour (Division 35): Achievements and Challenges in the Mentoring Relationship for API Women (Participant/1st Author)

Saturday, August 9

10:00–10:50 a.m.

Convention Center, East Salon C

Shannen VongPoster Session (Division 45): Social Identity Beliefs and Discrimination Experiences

“Unveiling the Internalization of the Model Minority Stereotype Among Asians” (Coauthor)

Thursday, August 7

1:00–1:50 p.m.

Convention Center, Halls D and E

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W ith support from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, APA has launched the Recovery to Practice initiative, designed to develop a curriculum for training professional psychologists in recovery approaches to working with individuals with behavioral health disorders, including serious men-

tal illnesses. The initiative is an outgrowth of increasing recognition that recovery is an attainable outcome. Given the emphasis in the health care reform legislation on providing interventions that are outcome oriented and evidence based, and given APA’s strategic initiative to expand psychology’s role in advancing health, the move to approaches that promote recovery is necessary if psychology is to remain a viable health care discipline in the years to come.

RECOVERY TO PRACTICE INITIATIVE SPECIAL CONVENTION EVENTS

Facilitators’ Training for APA’s Recovery to Practice Curriculum

Friday, August 8

3–5 p.m.

MFP Suite, Renaissance Hotel

This training will provide an overview of APA’s Recovery to Practice curriculum. It will focus on facilitating and implementing the curriculum modules in different con-texts, along with involving persons with lived experience as instructors. Specific teaching methods and examples will be discussed while selected modules are presented.

SYMPOSIUMIntegrating Recovery From Anomalous Mental States Into the Education and Practice of Psychologists

Saturday, August 9

10:00–10:50 a.m.

Convention Center, East Overlook Room

Chair: Ronald Levant, EdD, ABPP, Chair, Professor, Collaborative Program in Counseling Psychology at The University of Akron

Leader: Ron Bassman, PhD, Chair, The Community Consortium

Participants

Noel Hunter, Doctoral Student, Long Island University–Post

Melissa Schroeder, Doctoral Student, Long Island University–Post

Chaired by a former APA president, this symposium features a senior psychologist and two doctoral students addressing the disconnect between the experiences of recovery and what is currently being taught. The present-ers will discuss from a personal and professional perspective suggested changes. Explored in discussion will be how to make the educational process more relevant and accessible to those who have personal experience with serious mental illness and what benefits might accrue to fellow students and faculty by such open dialogue. In attempts to remove the stigma associated with mental illness and to work toward a client-centered model of care, it is important for clinicians to evaluate and integrate their own experiences with extreme emotional states. The presenters hypoth-esize that stigma and discrimination are reduced and our knowledge base expanded when there are opportunities to interact with peers and colleagues who can be candid about their personal experience of the recovery process.

Website: www.apa.org/pi/mfp

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