SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS & PUBLICATIONS
Ongoing learning and integration of contemporary research into my clinical practice helps sustain my professional vitality and continue to grow as a skillful clinician. My research centers on psychological resilience, burnout prevention, and optimal development for those in the helping, teaching, and health professions. As a practitioner. I also find tremendous joy in fostering clients’ career/relationship resilience.
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
What characteristics do highly resilient therapists employ? Building skills from inner resources. American Psychological Association Annual Convention: Washington, DC.
The masculinity project: How masculinity affects mental health. Baltimore, MD.
Practitioner resilience development and burnout prevention. Baltimore, MD.
Can we talk? Developing racial and academic stress and negotiation skills for Black middle and high schoolers. Annual Conference of the Delaware Valley Minority Student Achievement Consortium. Philadelphia, PA.
Balancing work and family for busy and active people. Long Beach, CA.
Goal setting and time management. Engineering Student Success Center. Long Beach, CA.
Stress management and healthy coping. Pullman, WA.
Burnout prevention and self-care for novice practitioners. Pullman, WA.
Resiliency and self-care patterns of Emily Program practitioners. Minneapolis, MN.
Characteristics of highly resilient therapists. American Psychological Association Annual Convention: Denver, CO.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Characteristics of highly resilient therapists. Journal of Counseling Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000401
Therapist resilience in an ever-changing world: A systematic review. Journal of Prevention and Health Promotion. https://doi.org/10.1177/26320770221115862
BOOK CHAPTERS
Characteristics of highly resilient practitioners: The resilient practitioner compass. In Skovholt, T. M. and Trotter-Mathison, M. (Eds.), The resilient practitioner: Burnout and compassion fatigue prevention and self-care strategies for the helping professions (4th ed.). New York: Routledge.
Risk, resilience and possibility development among Taiwanese adolescents. In M. Nakkula, & A. Schneider-Munoz (Eds.), Adolescent psychology in today’s world: Global perspectives on risk, relationships, and development. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger.