Recent and Upcoming Faculty, Student, and Alum Publications and Presentations

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Recent and Upcoming Faculty and Student Publications

Blais, M.A., Kelley, S.E., Ruchensky, J.R., Richardson, L.A., Massey, C., & Stein, M.B. (2024), Deriving the transdiagnostic scales from the Personality Assessment Inventory and SPECTRA: Indices of Psychopathology: A demonstration. Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 31(2), e2967. doi.org/10.1002/cpp.2967
Black, S. (2024, March). Examining the impact of Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) on mental health preparedness among an urban police population. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society, Los Angeles, CA.
Boulos, S., & Ennis, S. (2024, October). How to run a successful practicum [Poster presentation]. Northeast Conference for Teachers of Psychology Annual Meeting
Cardwell, M., Fass, T., & Contreras, P. (2024, March). Impact of power differential on juror identification of sexual assault. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society, Los Angeles, CA.
Cardwell, M., Fass, T., & Contreras, P. (2024, March). Impact of power differential on juror identification of sexual assault. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society, Los Angeles, CA.
Chaudhry, T., Oyewuwo, O.B.; Mokhtar, H., & Friend, K., Hashem, H. (2024, February). Examining IPV trends in American Muslim communities: Findings from the 2021-2023 AMIPV Study [Poster presentation]. 2024 American Muslim Health Professionals National Public Health Conference, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States.
Crain, E., Davis, L. S., St. Louis, G., Jensen, H., Robertson, I., Meade, G., Carrasco, S., Overbey, D., & Alves, L. (2024). “Are you supposed to be here?”: Formerly incarcerated men of color navigating positions of authority. Journal of Social Issues. doi.org/10.1111/josi.12613
Davis, L. S., & Crain, E. (2024). Intimate partner violence in the LGBTQ+ community: Implications for family court professionals. Family Court Review, 62(1), 45-67. doi.org/10.1111/fcre.12765
Demanarig, D. L., Cokley, K., Beasley, S. T., Hita, L., Hashem, H., Mujica, C., Mamidanna, P., & Mercado, A. (2024). Mending fragile alliances to fight racism: Developing a framework for cross-racial/ethnic solidarity. American Psychologist, 79(4), 553–568. doi.org/10.1037/amp0001307
Demanarig, D. L., Cokley, K., Beasley, S. T., Hita, L., Hashem, H., Mujica, C., Mamidanna, P., & Mercado, A. (2024, September). Combating racism through cross-racial/ethnic solidarity: Presenting a framework towards accompliceship. Paper presentation at 2024 Diversity Challenge Conference, Toward an Anti-Racist Psychological Science: Epistemic and Methodological Considerations in Boston, MA, United States.
D’Olympia, J. (2024). Veteran Suicide Prevention: An Innovative and Depolarizing Approach to Lethal Means Counseling. Presentation for APA Division 19: Society for Military Psychologists at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, Seattle, WA.
D’Olympia, J., Taveira-Dick, A., Matlock, P., Polanco, M., & Bright, L. (2024). Women Warriors Not Damsels in Distress: Intersectional Issues in the Wellbeing of Women Veterans
D’Olympia, J., Hamner, K., (2024) Understanding Variation in Well-being Among Women Veterans in the United States. Presentation for Division 19: Society for Military Psychologists at the American Psychological Association annual meeting, Seattle, WA.
D’Olympia, J. (2024). Shedding Light on the Innovative Help with Employment, Agency, Risk, Transition, and House (HEARTH) Project. Panel Discussion at National Coalition for Homeless Veterans Conference, Washington D.C.
D’Olympia, J., Ball, J. (2024). Addressing Veteran Suicide Prevention Through Safer Firearm Storage: A Training, Implementation, and Evaluation. Presentation at Second Annual Co-Response Conference, Cambridge, MA.
D’Olympia, J., Suri, S., Ball, J., Lambert, K., Tiamuh, Z, Ford, A, Lawson, J, Lawson, Ph.D., Jacob Kolodney, B.S. (2023). Addressing veteran suicide prevention through safer firearm storage: A training implementation and evaluation. Presentation at the annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Atlanta, Georgia.
D’Olympia, J., Lambert, K., Taveira-Dick, A., Liu, Y., Ginsburg, Z., Suri, S., Ball, J., Tiamuh, Z., Ford, A., Lawson, J., Kolodney, J. (2024). Addressing Veteran Suicide Prevention Through Safer Firearm Storage: A Training, Implementation, and Evaluation. Presentation at APA Division 19 Military Psychology Summit, Washington, D.C..
Fass, T. L., & Larson, K. (2024, October). Demonstration study 1: The impact of language on juvenile justice-involved youth. In K. Larson (co-chair) & T. L. Fass (co-chair), A two-year approach to student research for clinically oriented doctoral programs: Model and Example Projects. [Symposium]. New England Psychological Association, Springfield, MA
Fialkov, C. (March, 2024) Education as a Path to Gender Justice for Maasai Youth. Presented at the Gender and Public Health Working Group, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Fialkov, C. & Haddad, D. (December, 2024) Appreciative Clinical Training for Mental Health Providers. Presented at the Shamiri Institute, CMS-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, December 12-13, 2024
Fialkov, C. (March, 2024) Education as a Path to Gender Justice for Maasai Youth. Presented at the Gender and Public Health Working Group, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Fialkov, C. (2024) Education as a Path to Gender Justice for Maasai Youth. Presented at the Gender and Public Health Working Group, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, March 13, 2024.
Frechette, J. D., Murphy, L., Castro, R., & Boyle, K. (2024). Differential diagnosis: Understanding nonverbal learning disorder and autism spectrum disorder. Applied Neuropsychology: Child, 1–11. doi.org/10.1080/21622965.2024.2425363
Friend, K.; Oyewuwo, O. B.; Chaudhry, T.; Mokhtar, H.; Hashem, H. (2024, March). Examining Intimate Partner Violence Prevalence and Coping Strategies in American Muslims Communities: Findings from the AMIPV study. Oral presentation at 16th Annual Muslim Mental Health Conference in Palo Alto, CA, United States.
Haddad, D., Fialkov, C., Ndungu, M., & Kibuga, R. (2024) Promoting Gender Equity through Menstrual Health and Hygiene Education. African Journal of Gender, Society and Development, Vol. 13, No. 3, 387-400, doi.org/10.31920/2634-3622/2024/v13n3a18
Haddad, D., Fialkov, C., Ndungu, M., & Kibuga, R. Promoting Gender Equity through Menstrual Health and Hygiene Education. African Journal of Gender, Society and Development, Vol. 13, No. 3, 387-400, doi.org/10.31920/2634-3622/2024/v13n3a18
Hashem, H., & Awad, G. H. (2024). Hijab, Solo Status, Discrimination, and Distress among Muslim Women in the U.S. The Counseling Psychologist, 0(0). doi.org/10.1177/00110000241242808
Hashem, H., Hashem, H., Dossani, H., Ghani, M., Ahsen, A. S., & Morshed, C. (2024). Belonging as a predictor of substance use for Muslim American emerging adults. Journal of Muslim Mental Health, 17(2). doi.org/10.3998/jmmh.1176
Irizarry, N. (2024, March 28). Culturally Responsive Clinical Practices: Inviting an Ongoing Process of Self-Reflection. DMH 2024 Southeast Area Annual Conference, Westport, MA.
Jackson, S., Fass, T. L., Burda, T., & Purgavie, M. (2024, March). The effects of eyewitness age and role on credibility and jurors’ verdicts. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society, Los Angeles, CA
Kim S, Spear HJ, Ghosh S, Brito R, Hodge SM, Nicholas S, Moore Simas TA, Byatt N, Rhein L, Broder-Fingert S, Kennedy DN, Frazier JA. The infant brain’s response to social cues: Associations with maternal postpartum anxiety and depression. Poster presentation accepted for Annual Meeting, American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, Phoenix, AZ
Kim S, Spear HJ, Ghosh S, Brito R, Moore-Simas TA, Byatt N, Nicholas S, Rhein L, Broder-Fingert S, Kennedy DN, & Frazier JA. Using infant fMRI to study the developing social brain in the first year of life. Poster presentation. Annual Meeting, Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Seoul, Korea
Kaye, C & Kaplan, J. (2024, February). Leaving bias behind during special education eligibility determinations. Presented at the Annual Convention of the National Association of School Psychologists, New Orleans, LA.
Kaplan, J & Struzziero, J. (2024, February) Effective and efficient ethical practice. Workshop presented for the New Hampshire Association of School Psychologists.
Larson, K. [co-chair], & Fass, T. L. [co-chair] (2024, October). A two-year approach to student research for clinically oriented doctoral programs: Model and Example Projects. [Symposium]. New England Psychological Association, Springfield, MA.
LaRose, E., Fass, T. L., & Larson, K. (2024, October). Demonstration study 3: Analysis of the psychometric properties of an adaptation of the Bogardus Social Distance Scale. In K. Larson (co-chair) & T. L. Fass (co-chair), A two-year approach to student research for clinically oriented doctoral programs: Model and Example Projects. [Symposium]. New England Psychological Association, Springfield, MA.
Levitt, H. M., Hamburger, A., Hill, C. E., McLeod, J., Pascual-Leone, A., Timulak, L., Buccholz, M., Fuertes, J., Frommer, J., Iwakabe, S., Martinez, C.,
McCreedy, R. T. W. (2024). Change on the Brain? The Neuroscience of Organizational Transformation. International Journal of Applied Research in Management and Economics, 7(3), 30–44. doi.org/10.33422/ijarme.v7i3.1402
McCreedy, R. T. W. (2025, January 5). How Al Innovations Can Address Workforce Challenges, from Upskilling to Creating New Job Opportunities. Presented at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine - Transportation Research Board annual meeting, Washington, DC.
Miles, M. Villalpando, B., Peluso, A., Cardwell, M., Fernandez, A., Fernandes, K., Kidwell, M., Blacker, D., Liles, B., Niendam, T., Tully, L., & Galvez, V. (2024, May). High comorbidity in trauma and psychosis screening in Sacramento systems involved youth: Preliminary data from the Trauma and Adolescent Mental Illness (TAMI) services project. Presented at the Annual Conference of the Sacramento Valley Psychological Association, Sacramento, CA.
Morrill, Z., Knox, S., Langer, P., Muran, J. C., Oddli, H., Řiháček, T., Tomicic, A., & Tuval-Mashiach, R. (2024). Broadening the evidentiary bass for clinical guidance: Recommendations from international qualitative psychotherapy researchers. The American Psychologist.
Morrill, Z. (In press). Genuineness in Humanistic-Existential Psychotherapy. Invited chapter in L. Hoffman & Lac, V. (Eds.), Evidence-Based Foundations of Existential-Humanistic Therapy. APA Books.
Morrill, Z., Guterres, K., Rietti, S., & Goodman, D. (In press). Making sense of being and transforming: Introduction to the Psychology and the Other special issue on Gender & Sexuality. Studies in Gender and Sexuality. doi.org/10.1080/15240657.2024.2346451
Morrill, Z. (2024). Book Review: Life-Enhancing Anxiety by Schneider, K. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. Online First. doi.org/10.1177/00221678241239713
Morrill, Z. (2024, August 8-10). Discussant in T. Bryant, D. Kawahara, L. Comas-Diaz, & G. S. Belton’s (Chairs), Feminist Alchemy: Psychologist of Color’s Testimonios [Feature Stage Symposium]. American Psychological Association annual convention in Seattle, WA.
Morrill, Z. (2024, July 13-14). On being and knowing from the in-between: Interstitial onto-epistemology [Keynote Address]. Psychology and the Other Conference in London, UK
Morrill, Z. (2024, June 14-16). Methodological integrity in reviewing qualitative research. In Z. Morrill’s (Chair), Gender & Sexuality in Psychology: Behind the Scenes with ECP Co-Editors of a Special Issue [Roundtable Presentation]. Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology in Chestnut Hill, MA.
Morrill, Z. (2024, June 14-16). Critical epistemology and the psychological humanities. In M. Freeman’s (Chair), Qualitative Inquiry Through the Psychological Humanities: Opportunities and Challenges. [Roundtable Presentation]. Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology in Chestnut Hill, MA.
Morrill, Z. (2024, March 28-30). On a humanistic praxis and its possibilities. In S. Rubin & L. Hoffman’s (Chairs), Keeping Humanistic Psychology and Psychotherapy Relevant in the 21^st Century: Recent History and Future Directions [Symposium]. Society for Humanistic Psychology in Ann Arbor, MI.
Nicholas, S., Stelmaszek, M., & Trask, C. (2024). Neurocognitive Late Effects: Impact on Processing Efficiency in Child Cancer Survivors. The American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology.
Nicholas, S., Spear, H., & Kim, S. (2024). A Systematic Review: Parent-Child Inter-Brain Synchrony Using Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy. Psychology Day, UMass Chan Medical School.
Nicholas, S., Corrigan, J., Hastedt, I., Kelley, S., & Holler, K. (2024). A Cross-Sectional Comparison of the Impact of ACEs on Executive Functioning in Child Versus Adolescent Inpatients. American Academy of Clinical Neuropsychology, Scottsdale, AZ.
Nathanson, R., Larson, K., Fletcher, J., & Fass, T. L. (2024, March). The kids’ court school competency remediation program: Overview and update on analyses of efficacy. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society, Los Angeles, CA.
Palmer, C., Fass, T. L., & Burda, T. (2024, March). The effects of subject of pretrial publicity, media source, and political beliefs on verdict. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society, Los Angeles, CA
Pace, D., Barrows, H., Ott, B.D., & Venkataraman, S. (2024, November). A Meta-Analytic Study of Eating Disorder Treatment with and without Exposure and Response Prevention Components. Paper presented at the Association for Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies Annual Convention, Philadelphia PA.
Rabin, C. (2024). Longitudinal Study of the Role of COVID Worry versus General Anxiety in Predicting Vaccination and Other COVID-Preventive Behaviors. Psychology & Health. Online ahead of print.
Reed, K., Fialkov, C., Taveira-Dick, A., & Carper, M.M. (2024, November 2). Perceptions of Mental Health Professionals Regarding Work with Transgender Individuals [Poster presentation]. Massachusetts Psychological Association’s 2024 Annual Conference, Psychology and Digital Innovation: Navigating the Future of Practice and Research, Norwood, MA.
Remole, T. B., Barreto, S., Fialkov, C., & Brownstein, J. B. (2024, November 2). A Program Evaluation of a Group Workshop Using Positive Psychology [Poster presentation]. Massachusetts Psychological Association’s 2024 Annual Conference, Psychology and Digital Innovation: Navigating the Future of Practice and Research, Norwood, MA.
Rivas, R. (2024, March). Assessing initial psychometric properties of the Massachusetts Incompetence to Stand Trial Questionnaire - Spanish Version with simulator participants. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society, Los Angeles, CA.
Rizo, J. L., Levitt, H. M., Morrill, Z., & Ipekci, B. (2024, June 14-16). Publishing characteristics of qualitative research literature on therapists’ experiences conducting psychotherapy [Paper Presentation]. Society for Qualitative Inquiry in Psychology in Chestnut Hill, MA.
Ruiz-Herrera, N.; Friedman, M.; St. Hilaire, M.A.; Arrona-Palacios, A.; Czeisler, C.A.; Duffy, J.F. Time of Day and Sleep Deprivation Effects on Risky Decision Making. Clocks&Sleep 2024,6,281–290. doi.org/ 10.3390/clockssleep6020020
Ruchensky, J. R., Kelley, S. E., Massey, C., Richardson, L. A., Blais, M. A., & Stein, M. B. (2024). Using the Personality Assessment Inventory to assess the Alternative Model for Personality Disorders: Criterion validity in a clinical sample. Journal of Personality Assessment, 106(1), 72-82. doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2023.2203240
Russell, B., Frawley, C., Wilson, N., Dillman Taylor, D., & Cypret, A. (2024). The efficacy of child–parent relationship therapy among child-welfare involved families: A pilot study. The Family Journal. doi.org/10.1177/10664807241268515
Sadek, K., & Hashem, H. (2024). Teasing apart the role of identity and help-seeking intentions among Arab/MENA and South Asian Muslim Americans. Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 9, 100789. doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2023.100789
Sorrentino, R., Peretti, K, Belcher, L., & Hatters-Friedmann, S. (2024). Playing with Fire: Deliberate Firesetting Behavior. Workshop presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. Vancouver, British Columbia.
Spear, H., Anderson, J., Nicholas, S., & Kim, S. (2024). The Developing Brain’s Early Coordination with Social Signals: An Innovative Early Neural Marker of Mental Health Risk? Psychology Day, UMass Chan Medical School
Stout, V., Fass, T. L., & Purgavie, M. (2024, October). Demonstration study 2: Public opinion of legally involved individuals who experience serious mental illness. In K. Larson (co-chair) & T. L. Fass (co-chair), A two-year approach to student research for clinically oriented doctoral programs: Model and Example Projects. [Symposium]. New England Psychological Association, Springfield, MA.
Stout, V., Fass, T. L., & Burda, T. (2024, March). Public opinion of legally involved individuals who experience serious mental illness. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Psychology-Law Society, Los Angeles, CA.
Thomas, K. (2024, January 27). Teleplay: Embracing Online Sessions. Presented for the Massachusetts Mental Health Counselors Association. Virtual.
Thomas, K. (2024, May 17). Teleplay: A Practical Guide. Presented at the New England Association for Family and Systemic Therapy Family Therapy Conference: Supporting Mental Health Professionals in Community Based Settings. Virtual
Thomas, K. (2024, June 21) Life in the Virtual Neighborhood. Presented at The Work of Fred Rogers Conference. Latrobe, PA.
Thomas, K. (2024, August 2-3). Teleplay and Telehealth: Reimagining Mental Health Support with a Youth Perspective. Presented at Active Minds Annual Mental Health Conference. Washington, DC.
Thomas, K. (2024, October 2). Managing and Understanding Pediatric Trauma Responses in a Medical Setting. Presented for RWJBarnabas Health Pediatric Nurses. Virtual.
Thomas, K. (2024, November 6-9). Bibliotherapy: Merging Educational and Clinical Theories in Practice. Presented at the National Association for the Education of Young Children. Anaheim, CA.
Thomas, K. (2025, January 24). Teleplay: A Practical Guide. Presented at The Association for Child and Adolescent Counseling Conference. Virtual.
Thomas, K. (2025, January 25). Therapeutic Read Alouds: Using Picture Books for Social-Emotional Gains. Presented at The Mid-Year Convening of the Educator Neighborhood: An Initiative of The Fred Rogers Institute. Virtual.
Weinberg, M. J. (2024). Intimate partner violence in male same-sex couples. Mental Health and Human Resilience International Journal, 8(2).