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Read more about GAPS here.

She is entering as an advanced standing student in the children and families of adversity and resilience concentration and will be completing 2nd year coursework. McKenzie’s internship for this year will be at Trauma and Family Integration, LLC based in Lowell, MA providing in-home therapy to families and individual tele-psychotherapy to adults in their outpatient clinic.

McKenzie has begun work on her Doctoral Project which will be  focused on the trauma experiences of sexual and gender minorities of color. Additionally, McKenzie has joined the Rainbow Alliance and will serve as a graduate assistant to the Workforce Development office at William James.

Congratulations, McKenzie!

Looking forward to having Erick join our team!

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Tune in to our social media accounts to hear more about the progress we are making on this new study.

This grant will fund the Aim One of “GAPS,” which intends to create a community-based and empirically-informed training for mental health providers in affirming care with transgender and nonbinary youth. 

The forum will take place from June 17-19, 2021

Halina will be working as an undergraduate research assistant, Gabi is Dr. Price's Ph.D. student, and Nicole will be our new graduate assistant after Colleen Johnston graduated from the lab. We are so excited for them to join us!

She will speak to why psychotherapies are less effective for girls living in communities with high sexism.

Fast forward to 3:50:00 to watch her 15-minute presentation at this link.

See here for the preprint of Dr. Price's paper, "Cultural Sexism Moderates Efficacy of Psychotherapy: Results from a Spatial Meta-Analysis. 

The BC Research Incentive Grant will fund a study focused on developing a provider training in gender-affirming mental health therapy, meaning therapy that affirms transgender and gender diverse youth's (i.e., young people whose gender differs from the societally-defined norms of their birth-assigned sex) gender identities and expressions, empowering ​them to combat and cope with gender-related stress or discrimination.

Nathan has accepted an offer to join the Clinical Psychology Program at Harvard University as an incoming doctoral student!

These resolutions were adopted as the new Guidelines for Psychological Practice with Sexual Minority Persons!​ Read this article for an overview.

​Read the paper here: "The Effectiveness and Acceptability of Empirically Supported Treatments in Gender Minority Youth Across Four Randomized Controlled Trials"

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When asked to give an example of how this lab could make a difference in improving therapy for stigmatized youth, she said, “We’re preparing to launch a project focused on developing a clinical training in gender-affirming mental health therapy, meaning therapy that affirms transgender and gender-diverse youth’s gender identities and expressions, empowers them to combat and cope with gender-related stress and discrimination, and acknowledges that they deserve to live in a society without these pressures. We are excited to someday offer this training to BC students who are training in or providing clinical services (therapy, nursing, etc.) so that as graduates they will be equipped to provide culturally responsive and supportive care to a wide variety of clients, including transgender folks."

Excited to have them join the team!

Affirm Lab members presented at the Division 17 poster session. Read the poster here.

Affirm Lab PI Dr. Maggi Price and lab members Emma Bokhour, Gabrielle Kaufman, McKenzie Sheridan, and Nathan Hollinsaid presented at the APA Convention as part of a symposium on "LGBTQ-Affirming Therapy."

She will be working with Dr. Sarah Gray in the Child and Family Lab on research focusing on the psychosocial and physiological consequences of exposure to early life stress and trauma, and how parent-child interactions can promote resilience to these stressors.

Like the Affirm Lab, the Child and Family Lab also integrates narrative measurement to understand both the experience of each child and how parents and caregivers perceive their child’s experience.