🚨Open-access pub🚨 We evaluated the structure and language-based measurement invariance of the Psychological Acculturation Scale, a brief proxy measure of emotional attachment and belonging-based acculturation among Latinx caregivers. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Congratulations to our RA Bella King on her first lead-authored publication. Our study found that higher state-level opportunity was linked to lower ACE exposure for White youth, but not for Black or Hispanic youth, highlighting structural inequities. doi.org/10.1002/jts....

Congrats to Alfonso Mercado and the rest of the team on our new publication! Using data collected from 2016–2023, we found persistently high rates of domestic and sexual violence among Latin American asylum-seeking women across the U.S.–Mexico border. doi.org/10.1017/gmh....

A picture from our end of year party! As we wrap up another year with the THRIVE @ Tennessee Lab, I’m feeling grateful for the opportunity to learn and grow alongside such brilliant students and collaborators. Big congrats to this years grads! The future is in good hands. 🎉🎊🎓

Medical interpreters are essential—but often exposed to trauma with little support. Our new paper presents a community-driven, trauma-informed model to prevent secondary traumatic stress (STS) in interpreter training. 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s108...

We are proud to celebrate Dr. Rebeca Nieves Rodríguez on her successful dissertation defense! Cynthia Navarro Flores and I were lucky to work closely with Rebeca on her three-manuscript dissertation for her Ph.D. in Public Health. If you are hiring, she is amazing! 🎉🎊🌟

Congratulations to my first graduate student, Jimena Mendoza Barrón, who successfully defended her masters thesis today! 🎉🎊🌟

Using network analysis in 1,191 trauma-exposed Salvadoran youth, we examined how PTSD, anxiety, and depression symptoms connect. Findings suggest comorbidity may be driven by symptom-level interactions, informing transdiagnostic interventions. doi.org/10.1037/trm0...

🚨New publication🚨 We conducted a pilot implementation trial evaluating the ACT Guide for Immigrant Resilience—a culturally adapted, self-guided ACT intervention designed with and for undocumented community members. Article is open access. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

🚨Publication🚨 Puerto Rican youth exposed to Hurricane Maria show distinct PTSD symptom profiles and thinking they might die and post-storm violence were the strongest correlates of higher-risk groups. www.repsasppr.net/index.php/re...

@eikofried.bsky.social really coming out as a non-believer in fish with this latest. “Fish, however, do not exist.” He goes on to refer to them as “ necessarily limited.” jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Mental Disorders as Homeostatic Property Clusters

This narrative review explores the idea of understanding mental disorders according to homeostatic property clusters rather than through typical classification systems.

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🚨New pub🚨 We found that higher state-level structural ethnoracism (inequalities between Hispanic and non-Hispanic White communities) is linked to fewer ACEs for non-Hispanic White youth but not for Hispanic youth. doi.org/10.1007/s406...

🚨 New publication 🚨 Provider's attitudes towards telehealth and parenting interventions during COVID-19 pandemic: an exploratory cross-sectional study from Brazil and Mexico doi.org/10.1186/s411...

🚨New publication 🚨 Intersecting identities, different struggles: The effects of demographics on experiences of discrimination and mental health outcomes among college students in Texas doi.org/10.1371/jour...

📢 New publication out! Our paper uses network analysis to examine how proximal minority stressors and identity resilience factors interact among LGBTQ+ adults—moving beyond latent models to capture complex, interconnected processes. doi.org/10.1080/0951... #LGBTQMentalHealth #CounselingPsychology

🚨 New publication 🚨 Caught in the web of polyvictimization, uses network analysis to compare theory-driven vs. data-driven groupings of potentially traumatic events among adolescents. Free access (50 days): authors.elsevier.com/c/1mNnDX18Yd... #AdolescentMentalHealth #Polyvictimization

Happy holidays from the THRIVE @ Tennessee Lab! 🎄🎁

Deadline for the UTK counseling psych Ph.D. program is one week away (Dec 1st). Consider applying to work with us if our work aligns well with your training/career goals!

Alejandro L. Vázquez, PhD@alvazquezphd.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Cynthia Navarro Flores and I will be reviewing applications for the counseling psychology PhD program @ UTKPsychNeuro (2026-2027 academic year). Lab webpage: tiny.utk.edu/thrivelab Apply: tiny.utk.edu/psycapply Apps are due by Dec 1st. Please help spread the word! 🙏🏼

Big thanks to Centro Hispano de East Tennessee for the Latinidad Award that @CMNavarroFlores, Lucybel Mendez, and I received for our community work. Also grateful to the National Latinx Psychological Association for a presidential citation for co-chairing this year’s conference.

Visiting NOLA for #ABCT2025 🎉

In 2024, 68 million Hispanics made up 20% of the U.S. population. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

First day of NLPA Summit at the U.S. Mexico border hosted by UTRGV. Grateful to have Michelle Silva as co-chair in organizing this event. 🎉🎊

Staff members at the NIH seem to have done the impossible: spend the agency's $48 billion budget. “Everyone has been rallying together to clean up the mess, but it’s a mess that did not need to be made,” an NIH program officer told me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

NIH races to spend its 2025 grant money — but fewer projects win funding

Despite political obstacles, officials are on track to disburse all of the research funds allocated to US biomedical behemoth.

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We hope to see you at the NLPA 2025 Summit in Texas. This year, you can choose to attend in-person or virtual. Register through the following link: ow.ly/nzsO50WWagM

Please share widely! Review starts 9/19. 🟧⬜️ 🟧⬜️

Alejandro L. Vázquez, PhD@alvazquezphd.bsky.social · 11mo ago

📢 We are hiring! The Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville is inviting applications for two tenure-track positions in Counseling Psychology: Assistant Professor Assistant or Associate Professor Apply here 👉 apply.interfolio.com/172545

Its counseling and clinical psych Ph.D. program application season! If you are looking for potential mentors to apply to, check out the following resource: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Accepting Clinical or Counselling Psychology Grad Student?

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Cynthia Navarro Flores and I will be reviewing applications for the counseling psychology PhD program @ UTKPsychNeuro (2026-2027 academic year). Lab webpage: tiny.utk.edu/thrivelab Apply: tiny.utk.edu/psycapply Apps are due by Dec 1st. Please help spread the word! 🙏🏼

Outstanding new paper on machine learning at AMPPS-- hit the virtual stands this summer. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Bridging Traditional-Statistics and Machine-Learning Approaches in Psychology: Navigating Small Samples, Measurement Error, Nonindependent Observations, and Missing Data - Rosa Lavelle-Hill, Gavin Smi...

In recent years, machine learning has propagated into different aspects of psychological research, and supervised machine-learning methods have increasingly bee...

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Reading the first round of discussion questions for my class and they are all criticizing the PHQ-9 as an outcome measure and talking about the weaknesses of ignoring individual symptoms when analyzing data

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📢 We are hiring! The Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville is inviting applications for two tenure-track positions in Counseling Psychology: Assistant Professor Assistant or Associate Professor Apply here 👉 apply.interfolio.com/172545