LACPA’s 2023 Spring Issue of The Los Angeles Psychologist 

References 

 
Spring Presidential Column 
Miriam Hamideh, Ph.D.

Sources:  

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Stringer, H. 2 (2023). More psychologists are exploring alternative careers outside of academia. American Psychological Association, 54(1), 79. https://www.apa.org/monitor/2023/01/trends-faculty-exiting-academia 

Leiterab, M. P. & Maslachab, C. (2016) Latent burnout profiles: A new approach to understanding the burnout experience. Burnout research, 3(4), 89-100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.burn.2016.09.001  

Victor, S. E., Devendorf, A.R., Lewis, S.P., Rottenberg, J., Muehlenkamp, J.J, Stage, D.L. & Miller, R. H. (2022). Only Human: Mental-Health Difficulties Among Clinical, Counseling, and School Psychology Faculty and Trainees. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17(6), 1576–1590. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916211071079 

Maslach, C. & Leiter, M.P. (2022). The Burnout Challenge: Managing People’s Relationships With Their Jobs. Harvard University Press. 

Sociocultural Considerations in Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Interventions 
Shelly P. Harrell, Ph.D., Bemi Fasalojo, M.A., and Jordyne James, M.A. 

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Bluth, K., Lathren, C., Clepper-Faith, M., Larson, L. M., Ogunbamowo, D. O., & Pflum, S. (2021). Improving mental health among transgender adolescents: Implementing mindful self-compassion for teens. Journal of Adolescent Research, 07435584211062126. 

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Harrell, S.P. (in press). SOUL-Centered healing: A soulfulness orientation to contemplative practices with Black people. In H. Grey and C. Owens-Shields (Eds.) Cultural Considerations in the Treatment of African Americans. Oxford University. 

Harrell, S.P., Hatton, M., Son, E., & Robbins, J. (2019). Internalized oppression, culture, and mindfulness-based interventions: Implications for cultural adaptation. The California Psychologist, 52, 10-13, 

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Proulx, J., Croff, R., Oken, O., Aldwin, C. M., Fleming, C., Bergen-Cico, D., Le, T., & Noorani, M. (2018). Considerations for research and development of culturally relevant mindfulness interventions in American minority communities. Mindfulness, 9(2), 361– 70. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-017-0785-z 

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Rivera, C. S. (2017). An examination of the relationships between attachment style, acculturation, and self-compassion among latinos (Doctoral dissertation, Azusa Pacific University). 

Samrock, S., Kline, K., & Randall, A. K. (2021). Buffering against depressive symptoms: associations between self-compassion, perceived family support and age for transgender and nonbinary individuals. International journal of environmental research and public health, 18(15), 7938. 

Seo, H. (2012). The role of self-compassion and emotional approach coping in the relationship between maladaptive perfectionism and psychological distress among East Asian international students. University of Minnesota. 

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Sorenson, C. & Harrell, S.P. (2021). Development and testing of the 4-domain cultural adaptation model (CAM4). Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 52(3), 250–259. https://doi.org/10.1037/pro0000370 

Tian, L., McClain, S., Moore, M. M., & Lloyd, H. (2019). An examination of ethnic identity, self-compassion, and acculturative stress in Asian international students. Journal of International Students, 9(2), 635-660. 

Watson, N. N., Black, A. R., & Hunter, C. D. (2016). African American women’s perceptions of mindfulness meditation training and gendered race-related stress. Mindfulness, 7(5), 1034-1043. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12671-016-0539-3 

Watson-Singleton, N. N., Womack, V.Y., Holder-Dixon, A. R., & Black, A.R. (2022). Racism’s (un)worthiness trap: The mediating roles of self-compassion and self-coldness in the link between racism and distress in African Americans. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 28(4), 557-566. 

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Yarnell, L. M., Neff, K. D., Davidson, O. A., & Mullarkey, M. (2019). Gender differences in self-compassion: Examining the role of gender role orientation. Mindfulness, 10(6), 1136-1152. 

Yu, Q., King, A.P., Yoon, C., Liberzon, I., Schaeferc, S.M., Davidson, R. J., & Kitayama, S. (2021). Interdependent self-construal predicts increased gray matter volume of scene-processing regions in the brain. Biological Psychology, 161, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2021.10805 

Zessin, U., Dickhäuser, O., & Garbade, S. (2015). The relationship between self-compassion and well-being: A meta-analysis. Applied Psychology. Health and Well-Being, 7(3), 340–364. doi:10.1111/aphw.12051. 

Zhang, H., Carr, E. R., Garcia-Williams, A. G., Siegelman, A. E., Berke, D., Niles-Carnes, L. V.... & Kaslow, N. J. (2018). Shame and depressive symptoms: Self-compassion and contingent self-worth as mediators? Journal of clinical psychology in medical settings, 25(4), 408-419. 

Zhang, H., Watson-Singleton, N. N., Pollard, S. E., Pittman, D. M., Lamis, D. A., Fischer, N. L., & Kaslow, N. J. (2019). Self-criticism and depressive symptoms: Mediating role of self- compassion. OMEGA-Journal of Death and Dying, 80(2), 202-223. 

Milestones in Women’s Reproductive Mental Health 
Josephine McNary, M.D. 

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“Should I tell my client he’s being a creep?” and other thoughts from an intersubjective therapist. 
Rachelle Cohen, LMFT  

For further study:  

Benjamin, J. (2018). Beyond doer and done to: Recognition theory, intersubjectivity, and the third. Routledge.  

Brodie, B. (2019). Object relations and intersubjective theories in the practice of psychotherapy. Routledge.  

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Ogden, T.H. (1994). The analytic third: Working with intersubjective clinical facts. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 75, 3-19.  

Parasocial relationships: attachment style, development, and how to address it in therapy
Elizabeth Petrisca, Ph.D. 

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