The majority of my published academic research can be found on
ResearchGate and/or Google Scholar
My program of research and clinical innovation is based within the Boston Children’s Hospital Trauma and Community Resilience Center (TCRC). The TCRC is dedicated to understanding and promoting the healthy adjustment of youth and families who have experienced trauma and adversity. In partnership with communities and service systems, we build prevention and intervention programs, conduct research, and develop resources to assist families and service providers. At the TCRC, we believe that social justice, equity, and human rights are at the core of a healthy society, and actively work to promote these values through our collaborative models of care for children and adolescents.
We currently focus on three core areas of research and clinical innovation (1) Refugee Trauma and Resilience, (2) Multidisciplinary Models of Violence Prevention, and (3) Trauma-Informed and Culturally-Responsive Training.
Selected intervention resources and protocols I have developed, co-developed, adapted, or tailored are available for free at the culturally-responsive behavioral health resource website I manage, www.multiculturalpsychology.com
(1) Building, adapting, and testing psychosocial tools, programs, and interventions for youth, families, and communities of refugee and immigrant backgrounds. For example, Skills-Based Group Interventions, Online Toolkits, and Assessment Measures.
(2) Fostering the effective dissemination, implementation, and scaling of trauma-informed behavioral health interventions and programs. For example, Frameworks and Organizational Methodologies for implementation and sustaining mental health programs.
Across these two areas, much of this work has focused specifically on a psychotherapy and organizational model called Trauma Systems Therapy for Refugees (TST-R), an adaptation and extension of Trauma Systems Therapy (TST).
Refugee and immigrant mental health research, innovation, dissemination, and implementation is a team sport! I’m incredibly fortunate to work in partnership with a large group of clinicians, cultural brokers, administrators, community leaders, researchers, and stakeholders at programs across the USA and around the world.
In 2025-2026 the biggest percentage of my grant-funded time comes through my work as an investigator and consultant on a National Child Traumatic Stress Network (CAT II) center grant focused on the training, dissemination, and implementation of Trauma Systems Therapy for Refugees and behavioral health best practices for refugee, immigrant, and forcibly displaced youth. Through this work I am a TST-R systems consultant to multiple programs in the United States.
Research and clinical innovation that I have authored or co-authored has been published in a diverse range of academic journals and books including:
Journal of Family Psychology; the Behavior Therapist; Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology; Journal of Child and Family Studies; Harvard Review of Psychiatry; Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging; Studies in Conflict & Terrorism; American Journal of Orthopsychiatry; Journal for Deradicalization; Transcultural Psychiatry; Journal of Technology in Behavioral Science; and the Massachusetts General Hospital Textbook on Diversity and Cultural Sensitivity in Mental Health, among others.
Research and clinical innovation that I have authored or co-authored has also been cited by authors publishing in a diverse range of academic journals including: Psychological Bulletin; Development and Psychopathology; the New England Journal of Medicine; American Psychologist; Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology; Journal of Affective Disorders; Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry; Journal of Research on Adolescence; Behavior Therapy; Social Science & Medicine; Clinical Psychological Science; International Journal of Cognitive Therapy; Developmental Psychobiology, among others.
