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Click here to read Kara's honor thesis on Cleaning During COVID: Navigating Working Arrangements for House Cleaners and Their Employers in Boston and Dallas; Click here to read Halina's honor thesis on Filipino Americans and the Rise of Anti-Asian Hate.

This award is granted to only two students who have demonstrated academic excellence and leadership in the field of Children Youth and Families. Congrats to Erick!

She also received Scholar of the College, which is awarded to undergraduate students who did substantial, independent research of the highest quality as well as the Karp Award, which awarded to one particularly outstanding senior thesis in Sociology.

Read more about the study: Meta-analysis: Are Psychotherapies Less Effective for Black Youth in Communities With Higher Levels of Anti-Black Racism? This study was also featured in Elsevier Press Release. 

Listen to the podcast here and read the press release here.

They discussed initial data from the Gender-Affirming Psychotherapy study and implications for designing feasible and desirable trainings for mental healthcare providers. Click here to learn more.

Marina spoke about the limitations of focusing solely on specialty care centers for transgender youth and Eddy spoke to the power of Queer Theology for shaping the resiliency of queer Christians (abstract here). 

Click here to watch the recording of their presentations (starting at 17:05).

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Under Dr. Maggi Price's mentorship, Marina Rakhilin and Eddy Jiang presented their poster, "Differences in Developmental Timing of Gender Transition Across Religious, Spiritual, and Atheist Transgender People", abstract linked here.

Eddy Jiang received $1,000 travel grant from Boston College's Winston Center For Leadership and Ethics (housed in the Business School). It was his first ever grant application and sponsored his travel to the SRA meeting!

Also pictured: our giant Teddy bear and our fluffy friend Boots!

Excited to have her join the team!

We are now at 245 Beacon Street! All are welcome to visit us in room 406.

He learned about our research with transgender youth and said, "Keep up the good work!" We responded, "You too!"

Read the article here. Dr. Price explains the similarities and differences between the GAPS and IMPACTS studies and how students at BC can benefit from the training interventions we are developing.

In conclusion, she emphasized that “enhanced training in culturally responsive care, including how to address racism, sexism, and other stigma in therapy, is essential, and will help clinicians better serve their clients” (click here for the entire article).

When asked about the effectiveness of using chatbot in training counselors, she said, "There's such a mental-health crisis right now and there's such a dearth of resources in gender-affirming care, LGBTQ-affirming care, specifically, I think overall it sounds really promising."

Check the full article here!

Looking forward to working with our new members.

Their symposium was entitled: “Does stigma moderate the efficacy of mental health interventions among marginalized groups?”.

Nathan also presented three first-authored posters: “Structural Transphobia and the Availability of Gender-Affirming Mental Health Providers,” “State-Level Anti-Black Cultural Racism and Black Youth’s Mental Health,” and “Mental Health Effects of COVID-19 on Transgender and Gender Diverse People.”​

Read the full article here.

Read the full article here.

When asked about the significance of this work, she said, "Kids shouldn’t have to go to clinics and not know whether their providers have the ability to help them out. As clients continue to come out to their therapists as transgender, we’re going to see an increase in demand for providers who are trained to meet their needs.”