VITA
STEVEN REGESER LOPEZ
Office:
Department of Psychology
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061
(213) 740-6310
lopezs@usc.edu
Born: Tucson, Arizona
December 14, 1953
EDUCATION
1975
1979
1982
1983
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California
Master's of Arts, Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Predoctoral Clinical Psychology Internship, LAC-USC Med Center, Dept. of Psychiatry
Doctorate of Philosophy, Psychology, UCLA (Major Field: Clinical Psychology;
Minor Fields: Social Psychology, Evaluation Research)
AWARDS AND HONORS
1975
1986
1988
1990
1991
1994
1998
2000
2002
2003
Outstanding Scholar-Athlete, Co-captain, Varsity baseball
Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for Minorities
Outstanding mentor, Graduate Student Association, Department of Psychology, USC
Fulbright Scholar Award (ITESO, Guadalajara, Mexico)
Am Psychological Assoc., Minority Fellowship Program Achievement Award for Research
Fellow, Division 45, Ethnic Minority Psychology, American Psychological Association
Distinguished Teaching Award, Department of Psychology, UCLA
Fellow, Division 12, Clinical Psychology, American Psychological Association
Midcareer Award for Distinguished Contributions to Latino Psychology 2002
Surgeon General’s Exemplary Service Award for contributions to Mental Health: Culture,
Race and Ethnicity.
2007 Dalmas Taylor Award, American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program.
2008 California Psychological Assoc., Distinguished Scientific Achievement in Psychology Award
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1982-83
1983-89
1989-92
1992-97
1997-08
2000-08
2003-08
2008-
Instructor, Department of Psychology, University of Southern California (USC)
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, USC
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, USC
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, UCLA
Professor, Department of Psychology, UCLA
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, UCLA
Professor, Cesar Chavez Center for Chicana/o Studies, UCLA
Professor, Department of Psychology, USC
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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Psychological Association, Divisions 45, 12
American Psychological Science
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
Associate Editor:
Assessment
Editorial Boards:
Psychological Science (1995 -1999)
Psychological Assessment (1996 - 2000)
Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences (1998 - )
Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology (2000 - 2004)
Interamerican Psychology (2000 - 2003)
Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment (2002 - 2006)
Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology (2003 - )
Transcultural Psychiatry (2003 - )
Assessment, Associate Editor (2006 – )
Psychotherapy (2006 - )
Professional Psychology: Practice and Research (2007- )
Journal of Family Psychology (2009 - )
NIH REVIEW/ADVISORY COMMITTEES
1990;1992-95 National Research Council, Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships for Minorities
1992
National Institute of Mental Health, Special Review Committee,
Services Research Branch, Division of Applied Services Research.
1994
Ad hoc reviewer; National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
2002-05
Ad hoc reviewer: National Institute of Mental Health
2005National Advisory Council, National Center for Minority Health and Health
Disparities
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Culture and psychopathology, assessment, and intervention
RESEARCH GRANTS
Mental disorders in Mexico: A research training program. NIH, TW 00061-05,
Fogarty International Center, Minority International Research Training, 1994-99.
Principal Investigator.
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Attributions and expressed emotion in schizophrenia. NIMH, R03 MH53589, 199496, Principal Investigator.
Prosocial family factors, culture, and course of schizophrenia. NIMH, K08 MH01499, 19982002, Principal Investigator.
The psychosocial functioning of return migrants from rural Mexico. UC-MEXUS, 20002001, Co-Investigator. Nelly Salgado de Snyder, Principal Investigator.
Promoting Adherence to Treatment in Mexican Americans with Schizophrenia. NIMH,
R01 MH064542, 2002-2008, Co-Investigator. Alex Kopelowicz, Principal Investigator.
Helping Latino Families Care for Relatives with Serious Mental Illness. UCLA
Community Partnership, 2004-2006, Principal Investigator.
Family Caregiving of Serious Mental Illness in a Mexican Border Town. UC-MEXUS,
2004-2006, Principal Investigator.
Schizophrenia in Mexican Communities on Both Sides of the Border. UC-MEXUS,
2004-2006, Principal Investigator.
Development of Culturally Competent Mental Health Care, NIMH, R34 MH071498,
2006-2010, Principal Investigator.
Disparities in Mental Health Care for Latinos with Serious Mental Illness, National
Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities, T37 MD003405-01, 2009-2014,
Principal Investigator.
PUBLICATIONS
1)
Lopez, S. (1977). Clinical stereotypes of the Mexican American. In J. L. Martinez (Ed.),
Chicano psychology (pp. 263-275). New York: Academic Press.
2)
Olmedo, E. L., & Lopez, S. (Eds.). (1977). Hispanic mental health professionals
(Monograph No. 5). Los Angeles: University of California, Spanish Speaking Mental
Health Research Center.
3)
Padilla, A. M., Olmedo, E. L., Lopez, S., & Perez, R. (1978). Hispanic mental health
bibliography II (Monograph No. 6). Los Angeles: University of California, Spanish
Speaking Mental Health Research Center.
4)
Lopez, S. (1981). Mexican American usage of mental health facilities: Underutilization
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reconsidered. In A. Baron, Jr. (Ed.), Explorations in Chicano psychology (pp. 139-164).
New York: Praeger.
5)
Lopez, S. (1982). Chicanos and quality mental health care: A new direction for research. In
J. Martinez & D. Marinez (Eds.), Aspects in American Indian and Hispanic biomedical
research (pp. 124-132). Bethesda, MD: Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and
Native Americans in Science.
6)
Lopez, S. (1983). The study of psychotherapy bias: Some conceptual issues and some
concluding remarks. In J. Murray & P. R. Abramson (Eds.), Bias in psychotherapy (pp. 353365). New York: Praeger.
7)
Lopez, S. (1984, February). Review of Images and conversations: Mexican Americans
recall a Southwestern past. La red/The net, pp. 5-7.
8)
Jenkins, J., Karno, M., de la Selva, A., Santana, F., Telles, C. A., Lopez, S., & Mintz, J.
(1986). Expressed emotion, maintenance pharmacotherapy, and schizophrenic relapse
among Mexican-Americans. Psychopharmacology Bulletin, 22, 621-627.
9)
Lopez, S., & Hernandez, P. (1986). How culture is considered in the evaluation of mental
health patients. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 174, 598-606.
10)
Lopez, S., & Hernandez, P. (1987). When culture is considered in the evaluation and
treatment of Hispanic patients. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice and Training,
24, 120-126.
11)
Lopez, S., & Nuñez, J. A. (1987). The consideration of cultural factors in selected diagnostic
criteria and interview schedules. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 96, 270-272.
12)
Karno, M., Jenkins, J., de la Selva, A., Santana, F., Telles, C. A., Lopez, S., & Mintz, J.
(1987). Expressed emotion and schizophrenia outcome among Mexican-American families.
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 175, 143-151.
13)
Lopez, S., & Romero, A. (1988). Assessing the intellectual functioning of Spanish-speaking
adults: A comparison of the EIWA and WAIS. Professional Psychology: Research and
Practice, 19, 263-270.
14)
Lopez, S. (1988). The empirical basis to ethnocultural and linguistic bias in mental health
evaluations of Hispanics. American Psychologist, 43, 1095-1097.
15)
Lopez, S. R. (1989). Patient variable biases in clinical judgment: A conceptual overview and
methodological considerations. Psychological Bulletin, 106, 184-203.
16)
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Lopez, S. R., Grover, K. P., Holland, D., Johnson, M., Kain, C. D., Kanel, K., Mellins, C. A.,
& Rhyne, M. C. (1989). The development of culturally sensitive psychotherapists.
Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 20, 369-376.
17)
Lopez, S. R., & Wolkenstein, B. (1990). Attributions, person perception and clinical issues.
In S. Graham & V. S. Folkes (Eds.), Attribution theory: Application to achievement, mental
health, and interpersonal conflict (pp. 103-123). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
18)
Lopez, S. R., & Taussig, I. M. (1991). Cognitive-intellectual functioning of impaired and
nonimpaired Spanish-speaking elderly: Implications for culturally sensitive assessment.
Psychological Assessment: Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 3, 448-454.
19)
Lopez, S. R., Lopez, A. A., & Fong, K. T. (1991). Mexican Americans' initial preferences
for their counselors: The role of ethnic factors. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 38, 487496.
20)
Lopez, S. R. (1991). Cultural sensitivity in clinical practice: A process model. California
Psychologist, 24, pp. 14;23.
21)
Lopez, S. R., Smith, A., Wolkenstein, B. H., & Charlin, V. (1993). Gender bias in clinical
judgment: An assessment of the analogue method's transparency and social desirability. Sex
Roles, 28, 35-45.
22)
Lopez, S. R., & Lopez, A. A. (1993). Mexican Americans' initial preferences for counselors:
Research methodologies or researchers' values? Reply to Atkinson and Wampold. Journal
of Counseling Psychology, 40, 249-251.
23)
Betancourt, H., & Lopez, S. R. (1993). The study of culture, ethnicity, and race in American
psychology. American Psychologist, 48, 629-637.
Reprinted in L. A. Peplau & S. E. Taylor (Eds.) (1997). Sociocultural perspectives in social
psychology. New York: Prentice-Hall.
Reprinted in N. R. Goldberger & J. B. Veroff (Eds.). (1995). The culture and psychology
reader. New York University Press.
24)
Homma-True, R., Greene, B., Lopez, S. R., & Trimble, J. E. (1993). Ethnocultural diversity
in clinical psychology. Clinical Psychologist, 46, 50-63.
25)
Lopez, S. R. (1993). Building bridges in the journey of a Latino/Chicano psychologist. In L.
Huang (Ed.), Career development for ethnic minority psychologists: Choices and
challenges. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
26)
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Weisman, A., Lopez, S. R., Karno, M., & Jenkins, J. H. (1993). An attributional analysis of
expressed emotion in Mexican Americans with schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal
Psychology, 102, 601-606.
27)
Lopez, S. R. (1994). Latinos and the expression of psychopathology: A call for the direct
assessment of cultural influences. In C. A. Telles & M. Karno (Eds.), Latino mental health:
Current research and policy perspectives (pp. 109-127). Los Angeles: UCLA.
28)
Amirkan, J., Betancourt, H., Graham, S., Lopez, S. R., & Weiner, B. (1995). Reflections on
affirmative action goals in psychology admissions. Psychological Science, 6, 140-148.
29)
Telles, C., Karno, M,. Mintz, J., Paz, G., Arias, M., Tucker, D., & Lopez, S. (1995).
Immigrant families coping with schizophrenia. Behavioral family intervention vs case
management with a low-income Spanish-speaking population. British Journal of Psychiatry,
167, 473-479.
30)
Lopez, S. R. (1996). Multicultural assessment: Widening our cultural lenses. [Review of
Multicultural assessment perspectives for professional psychology.] Contemporary
Psychology, 41, 455-456.
31)
Weisman, A., & Lopez, S. R. (1996). Family values, religiosity, and emotional reactions to
schizophrenia in Mexican and Anglo-American cultures. Family Process, 35, 227-237.
32)
Lopez, S. R. (1996). Testing ethnic minority children. In B. B. Wolman (Ed.), The
encyclopedia of psychology, psychiatry and psychoanalysis. (pp. 569-572). New York: Henry
Holt & Co.
33)
Lopez, S. R. (1997). Cultural competence in psychotherapy: A guide for clinicians and their
supervisors. In C. E. Watkins, Jr. (Ed.), Handbook of psychotherapy supervision. New
York: Wiley.
34)
Weisman, A., & Lopez, S. R. (1997). An attributional analysis of emotional reactions to
schizophrenia in Mexican and Anglo cultures. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 27,
223-244.
35)
Blacher, J., Shapiro, J., Lopez, S. R., Diaz, L., & Fusco, J. (1997). Depression in Latina
mothers of children with mental retardation: A neglected concern. American Journal of
Mental Retardation, 101, 483-496.
36)
Blacher, J., Lopez, S., Shapiro, J., & Fusco, J. (1997). Contributions to depression in Latina
mothers with and without children with mental retardation: Implications for caregiving.
Family Relations, 46, 325-334.
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37)
Shapiro, J., Blacher, J., & Lopez, S. R. (1997). Maternal reactions to children with mental
retardation. In J. A. Burack, R. M. Hodapp, & E. Zigler (Eds.), Handbook of mental
retardation and development. (pp.606-636). New York: Cambridge Press.
38)
Guarnaccia, P.J., & Lopez, S. (1998) The mental health and adjustment of immigrant and
refugee children. Child and Adolescent Clinic of North America, 7 , 537-553.
39)
Lopez, S. R., Nelson, K. A., Snyder, K. S., & Mintz, J. (1999). Attributions and affective
reactions of family members and course of schizophrenia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology,
108, 307-314.
40)
Lopez, S. R. (2000). Teaching culturally informed psychological assessment. In R. H. Dana
(Ed.), Handbook of cross-cultural/multicultural personality assessment (pp. 669–687).
Erlbaum: Mahwah, NJ.
41)
Chavira, V., Lopez, S. R., Blacher, J., & Shapiro, J. (2000). Latina mothers’ attributions,
emotions, and reactions to the problem behaviors of their children with developmental
disabilities. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 41, 245-252.
42)
Lopez, S. R. & Guarnaccia, P. J. (2000). Cultural psychopathology: Uncovering the social
world of mental illness. Annual Review of Psychology, 51, 571-598.
43)
Lopez, S. R. (2000). Raising the standard of multicultural counseling/therapy in working
with Latino families. [Review of Latino families in therapy: A guide to multicultural
practice.] Contemporary Psychology, 45, 128-130.
44)
Weisman, A. G., Lopez, S. R., Ventura, J., Nuechterlein, K. H., Goldstein, M. J., & Hwang,
S. (2000). A comparison of psychiatric symptoms between Anglo-Americans and MexicanAmericans with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 26, 817-824.
45)
Vega, W. A., & Lopez, S. R. (2001). Priority issues in Latino mental health services
research. Mental Health Services Research, 3, 189-200.
46)
Lopez, S. R., Kopelowicz, A., & Cañive, J. (2002). Strategies in developing culturally
competent family interventions for schizophrenia: The case of Hispanics in Madrid and Los
Angeles. In H. P. Lefley & D. L. Johnson (Eds.), Family interventions in mental illness:
International perspectives (pp. 61-90). Westport, CT: Greenwood.
47)
Kopelowicz, A., Zarate, R., Gonzalez, V., Lopez, S. R., Ortega, P., Obregon, N., & Mintz, J.
(2002). Evaluation of expressed emotion in schizophrenia: A comparison of Caucasians and
Mexican Americans. Schizophrenia Research, 55, 179-186.
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48)
Lopez, S. R. (2002). Teaching culturally informed psychological assessment:
Conceptual issues and demonstrations. Journal of Personality Assessment, 79, 226-234
49)
Lopez, S. R. (2002). Introduction to Special Section on Disparities in Mental Health Care
for Latinos. Psychiatric Services, 53, 1545-1546.
50)
Lopez, S. R. (2002). A research agenda to improve accessibility and quality of mental
health care for Latinos. Psychiatric Services 53, 1569-1573.
51)
Lopez, S. R., & Kopelowicz, A. (2003). Family interventions for serious mental illness:
Translating research to practice. World Psychiatry, 2, 34-35.
52)
Lopez, S. R. (2003). Reflections on the Surgeon General’s report on mental health:
Culture, race, and ethnicity. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 27, 419-434.
53)
Weisman, A., Gomes, L., & Lopez, S. R. (2003). Shifting blame away from ill relatives:
Latino families’ reactions to schizophrenia. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease,
175, 143-151.
54)
Lopez, S.R., Nelson Hipke, K., Polo, A. J., Jenkins, J. et al. (2004). Ethnicity, expressed
emotion, attributions, and course of schizophrenia: Family warmth matters. Journal of
Abnormal Psychology, 113, 428-439.
55)
Lopez, S. R., & Weisman, A. (2004). Integrating a cultural perspective in test
development. In R. Velasquez, L. Arellano, & B. McNeil (Eds.), Handbook of Chicana/o
Psychology (pp. 129-152). Mahwah, New Jersey: Erlbaum.
56)
Lopez, S. R., & Guarnaccia, P. J. (2005). Conceptions of psychopathology: The social
world’s impact on mental illness. In J. E. Maddux & B. A. Winstead (Eds.),
Psychopathology: Foundations for a contemporary understanding (pp. 19-37).
Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum Associates.
57)
Kopelowicz, A., Lopez, S. R., Zarate, R., O’Brien, M., Gordon, J., Chang, C., &
Gonzalez-Smith, V. (2006). Expressed emotion and family interactions in Mexican
Americans with schizophrenia. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 19, 330-334
58)
O’Brien, M. P., Gordon, J. L, Bearden, C. E., Lopez, S. R., Kopelowicz, A., & Cannon,
T. D. (2006). Positive family environment predicts improvement in symptoms and social
functioning among adolescents at imminent risk for onset of psychosis. Schizophrenia
Research, 81, 269-271.
59)
Ramirez Garcia, J. I., Chang, C., Young, J., Lopez, S. R., & Jenkins, J. H. (2006). Family
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support predicts psychiatric medication usage among Mexican American individuals with
schizophrenia. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 41, 624-631.
60)
Lakes, K., Lopez, S. R., & Garro, L. (2006). Cultural competence and psychotherapy:
Applying anthropologically informed conceptions of culture. Psychotherapy, 43, 380s396.
61)
Lee, C. S., Lopez, S. R., Colby, S. M., Tejada, M., Garcia Coll, C., & Smith, M. (2006).
Social processes underlying acculturation: A study of drinking behavior among
immigrant Latinos in the Northeast United States. Contemporary Drug Problems, 33,
585-609.
62)
Breitborde, N. J. K., Lopez, S. R., Wickens, T. D., Jenkins, J. H., & Karno, M. (2007).
Toward specifying the nature of the relationship between expressed emotion and
schizophrenic relapse: The utility of curvilinear models. International Journal of
Methods in Psychiatric Research, 16, 1-10.
63)
Niv, N., Lopez, S. R., Glynn, S. M., & Mueser, K. T. (2007). The role of substance use
in families’ attributions and affective reactions to their relative with severe mental illness.
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 195, 307-314
64)
Vega, W. A., Karno, M., et al. (2007). Persistent mental disorders among U.S. Hispanics:
Research issues for improving treatment. Psychiatric Services, 58, 385-394.
65)
Lee, C. S., Abrantes, A. M., Colby, S. M., Lopez, S. R., & Jordan, T. (2008). Medical
student judgments of adolescents with alcohol use disorders (AUD). Substance Use and
Misuse, 43, 709-721.
66)
Aguilera, A., & Lopez, S. R. (2008). Community determinants of Latinos’ use of mental
health services. Psychiatric Services, 58, 385-394.
67)
Dorian, M., Ramirez Garcia, J., Lopez, S. R., & Hernandez, B. (2008). Acceptance and
expressed emotion in Mexican American caregivers of relatives with schizophrenia.
Family Process, 47, 215-228.
68)
Lopez, S. R., & Guarnaccia, P. J. (2008). Conceptions of psychopathology: The social
world’s impact on mental illness. In J. E. Maddux & B. A. Winstead (Eds.),
Psychopathology: Foundations for a contemporary understanding (2nd ed., pp. 19-37).
Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum Associates.
69)
O’Brien, M. P., Zinberg, J. L., Bearden, C. E., Lopez, S. R., Kopelowicz, A., Daley, M.,
& Cannon, T. D. (2008). Parent attitudes and parent adolescent interaction in families of
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youth at risk for psychosis and with recent-onset psychotic symptoms. Early Intervention
in Psychiatry, 2, 268-276.
70)
Polo, A. J., & Lopez, S. R. (2008). Diagnosis of depression among Latino children and
adults. In S. Aguilar-Gaxiola, T. Gulotta, & C. Magana (Eds.), Prevention and treatment
of depression in Latinos. New York: Springer.
71)
Breitborde, N. J. K., Lopez, S. R., & Neuchterlein, K. (2009). Expressed emotion, human
agency, and schizophrenia: Toward a new model for the EE-relapse association. Culture,
Medicine and Psychiatry, 33, 41-60.
72)
Breitborde, N. J. K., Lopez, S. R., Chang, C., Kopelowicz, A., & Zarate, R. (2009).
Emotional overinvolvement can be deleterious to for caregivers’ health: Mexican
Americans caring for an ill relative with schizophrenia. Social Psychiatry and
Psychiatric Epidemiology, 44, 716–723
72)
Polo, A. J., & Lopez, S. R. (2009). Culture, context, and the internalizing distress of
Mexican American youth. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 38, 113.
73)
Lopez, S. R., Garcia Ramirez, J. I., Ullman, J. B., Kopelowicz, A., Jenkins, J., Breitborde,
N. J. K., & Placencia, P. (2009). Cultural variability in manifestation of expressed
emotion. Family Process, 48, 179-194.
74)
Lopez, S. R., Lara, M.C., Kopelowicz, A., Solano, S., Foncerrada, H., & Aguilera, A.
(2009). La CLAve to increase psychosis literacy of Spanish-speaking community
residents and family caregivers. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 77, 763774.
75)
Kopelowicz, A., Lopez, S. R., & Vega, W. A. (2009). Disabled populations. In P. Ruiz
& A. Primm (Eds.), Disparities in psychiatric care: Clinical and cross-cultural
perspectives (pp. 198-209). Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
76)
Breitborde, N. J. K., Lopez, S. R., & Kopelowicz, A. (2009, in press). Expressed emotion
and health outcomes among Mexican-Americans with schizophrenia and their caregiving
relatives. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS (1998-2009)
Lopez, S. R. (August 11, 2009). Towards elimination of disparities in mental health care:
Ethnicity and the social determinants of health. National (Mexico) Institute of Public
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Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Lopez, S. R. (May 29, 2009). Towards developing evidence based and culturally competent
care. Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington, Seattle.
Lopez, S. R. (May 8, 2009). Cultural competence as process: Moving beyond ethnicity as
culture. Tri-City Medical Center, Oceanside, California.
Lopez, S. R. (April 25, 2009). Towards eliminating disparities in care for serious mental illness:
Broadening group-specific interventions. Western Psychological Association, Portland,
Oregon.
Lopez, S. R. (December 16, 2008). Towards eliminating disparities in care for serious mental
illness: Broadening group-specific interventions. NIH Summit: The Science of
Eliminating Health Disparities, National Harbor, Maryland.
Lopez, S. R. (December 5, 2008). Etnopsicología, cultura y el mundo social (Ethnopsychology,
culture and the social world.) Symposium to honor Dr. Rogelio Diaz Guerrero, Ciudad
Juarez, Mexico.
Lopez, S. R., & Andrews, L. (October, 2008). La CLAve to improve psychosis literacy of
Spanish-speaking Latinos. Meeting of the Minds, 11th Annual Behavioral Health and
Resource Fair, Mental Health of America San Diego County.
Lopez, S. R. (October, 2008). Cultural approaches to reducing disparities in mental health care
for Latinos. Chicano Latino Resource Center, University of Santa Cruz.
Lopez, S. R. (September, 2008). How does the research apply to diverse populations? Defining
cultural competence in evidence based practices. Second Annual Bridging the Gap
Symposium: Research, Practice and Policy. Mental Health Connection of Tarrant
County, Fort Worth, Texas.
Lopez, S. R. (April, 2008). Shifting cultural lenses in clinical practice: One model of cultural
competence. California Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Anaheim,
California.
Lopez, S. R. (2008). Cultural competence as process: Moving beyond ethnicity as culture. St.
John’s Health Center/Child and Family Development Center, Santa Monica, March 5th;
Marriage and Family Therapy Program, California Lutheran University, May 2nd; 11th
Annual Latino Conference, Pacific Clinics, San Gabriel, California, May 27th.
Lopez, S. R. (March, 2008). Development of shifting cultural lenses model of cultural
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competence. Developing Interventions for Latino Children, Youth, and Families,
Washington, University, St. Louis.
Lopez, S. R., Lara Munoz, M. C., & Kopelowicz, A. (2007, 2008). Reconociendo la enfermedad
mental grave: An educational campaign to help Spanish-speaking families identify the
early signs of psychosis. Cultural Competence and Mental Health Summit XV, San
Diego, California, March 24, 2008; Annual Meeting of National Alliance of Mentally Ill,
San Diego, June, 23, 2007.
Lopez, S. R., Garro, L. C., & Kopelowicz, A. (November, 2007). Shifting cultural lenses in
clinical practice: Overview and evaluation of the feasibility and acceptability of a
process model of cultural competence. World Psychiatric Association International
Congress, Melbourne, Australia.
Lopez, S. R. (October, 2007). Diagnosis (and assessment) from a cultural perspective. Invited
talk, Evolving perspectives on mental health assessment. Habeas Corpus Resource
Center, Fall Conference Series, San Francisco.
Lopez, S. R. (October, 2007). Es cuestión de medida: Familias y el cuidado de seres queridos
con discapacidades (A question of balance: Family caregiving of loved ones with
disabilities). Keynote speaker, San Bernardino Regional Center Conference.
Lopez, S. R. (September, 2007). Serving the mental health needs of Hispanic families. Plenary
address, National Alliance of Mentally Ill Tennessee, Nashville.
Lopez, S. R. (2007). Cultural competence as process: Moving beyond ethnicity as culture.
California Latino Mental Health Conference, California State University, Fullerton,
March 17th; Department of Psychology, California State University Los Angeles, May
17th;Latino Behavioral Health Institute Annual Conference, October 3rd, Los Angeles;
Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology, Boston, November 3rd.
Lopez, S. R. (2007). Conceptions of culture: Implications for clinical research and treatment.
Invited address, Southeastern Psychological Association annual conference, February 2nd;
Invited address, 31st Interamerican Congress of Psychology, Mexico City, July 2nd ;
Binational Health Week, Santa Cruz County Department of Behavioral Health,
California, October 16th.
Lopez, S. R., Garro, L. C., & Kopelowicz, A. (2006, 2007). Developing evidence-based and
culturally competent care. Hogg Foundation Conference on Cultural Competence,
Austin, Texas, November 30, 2006; Multicultural Summit Conference, Seattle, January
26, 2007.
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Lopez, S. R. (2006, 2007). Shifting cultural lenses in clinical practice. Grand Rounds,
Department of Psychiatry, UC Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento September 8,
2006; 10th Annual Great Beginnings Conference, Marlborough, Massachusetts,
November 3, 2007; Pediatric Psychology, Children’s Hospital of Orange County,
September 21, 2007; Eisner Pediatric and Family Medical Center, Los Angeles, October
10, 2007
Lopez, S. R. (2006). Conceptions of culture, family factors and course of schizophrenia. Grand
Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Kern County Hospital, Bakersfield, California;
Waisman Center for Mental Retardation/Developmental Disabilities, University of
Wisconsin, Madison; 39th Annual Gatlinburg Conference on Research and Theory in
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, San Diego.
Lopez, S. R. (2005). Towards culturally grounded mental health research and practice. Invited
Campus Lecture for Distributive Justice and Disparities: Implications for Rural Health
Policy series, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
Lopez, S.R., Lara Muñoz, C., Garro, L., Kopelowicz, A., Medina-Mora, M.E. & Ramirez, J.
(July, 2005). Identifying community-based samples of psychosis in Mexican communities
on both sides of the border to examine service use and family caregiving. Poster
presented at National Institute Mental Health Services Conference, Bethesda, Maryland.
Lopez, S. R. (2004, 2005). Entendiendo la locura (Understanding madness): A community
based education program. Latino Behavioral Health Institute, Los Angeles, September
2004, National Alliance of Mentally Ill annual conference, Austin Texas, June, 2005.
(Invited)
Lopez, S. R. (2003, 2004). Developing evidence based culturally competent mental health care.
Keynote or plenary speaker, Evidence Based Practices, California Mental Health
Institute, Sacramento; San Diego County Multicultural Conference, Mission Beach,
California; The Uninsured: The Impact on Multicultural Communities, Irvine, California.
Lopez, S. R. (2003, 2004). Challenges in delivering mental health services to Latinos. Hispanic
Mental Health Care Symposium, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, January
4. National Health Care Forum for Latino State Legislators, La Jolla, August.
Lopez, S. R. (2002). Conceptions of culture: Implications for clinical research and practice.
Keynote speaker, Latino Psychology 2002, Providence, Rhode Island; Grand Rounds,
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard University School of Medicine; Training Consortium and
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University; Research Colloquium,
Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena.
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Lopez, S. R. (2002). Lessons and Challenges from the Surgeon General’s Report on Mental
Health, Culture, Race and Ethnicity: Implications for Latinos. Grand Rounds,
Departments of Psychiatry, UC Santa Cruz, UC San Francisco, and San Francisco
General Hospital; Institute of Psychiatric Services conference, Chicago, Illinois; The 3rd
Annual Public Symposium on Race and Diversity Issues, Kern County Mental Health,
Bakersfield.
Lopez, S. R. (2001). Shifting cultural lenses in clinical practice. Grand Rounds, Department of
Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Sciences, San Antonio.
Lopez, S. R. (2000). Concepts of culture: Implications for mental health services for Latinos.
National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors’ Winter Commissioner’s
Meeting, Chandler, Arizona.
Lopez, S. R. (2000). Shifting cultural lenses in clinical research and practice. Department of
Psychology, Clinical Program, Yale University.
Lopez, S. R. (2000). Increasing the accessibility and quality of mental health care for Latinos:
Redefining the research agenda with an eye toward public policy. Disparities in Mental
Health Care for Latinos Conference, UCLA, May 22, 2000.
Lopez, S. R. (1999). Prosocial family factors, culture, and course of schizophrenia. Grand Rounds,
Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore.
Lopez, S. R., Nelson, K. A., Polo, J. A., Jenkins, J., Karno, M., & Snyder, K. (1998). Family
warmth and the course of schizophrenia of Mexican Americans and Anglo Americans.
International Congress of Applied Psychology, San Francisco.
Lopez, S. R. (1998). Psychosocial treatment of Latinos: From basic processes to interventions.
Mental Health Intervention Research and Hispanic-Americans: Developing a New Agenda,
an NIMH sponsored conference, Princeton, New Jersey.
Lopez, S. R. (1998). Shifting cultural lenses in clinical research and clinical practice with Latinos.
Innovations in Chicano Psychology: Looking toward the 21st Century. Michigan State
University, Julian Samora Res. Inst.
TEACHING
Graduate:
Undergraduate:
Psychopathology, Culture and Mental Health, Clinical Practicum,
Psychological Assessment (Co-Instructor)
Introductory Psychology (Co-instructor), Culture and Mental Health,
Abnormal Psychology
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CONSULTATION
Research Consultation (May 18, 19, 2009). Frank Porter Graham (FPG) Child Development
Institute, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. (Dr. Debra Skinner)
Department of Mental Health Services, Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles (2002-2005). I provided
monthly consultation to trainees of an APA approved internship regarding cultural competence.
Institute of Medicine Committee member, Speaking of Health: Assessing Health Communication
Strategies for Diverse Populations (2002). Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press.
Science editor for Surgeon General’s Mental Health Report: Culture, race and ethnicity (2001). I
was the primary writer of Chapter 6, Hispanics/Latinos.
Testified before Hispanic Congressional Caucus Health Task Force in Fall, 1999 on “The mental
health of Latinos.”
I have made numerous presentations to public mental health center staff, counseling center staff,
professional psychologists, graduate students, physicians, and mental health professional trainees
regarding cultural issues in psychological assessment and treatment. Examples of these include:
"Cultural Sensitivity in Clinical Practice," One-day conference for Continuing Education
workshop, 1991, 1992, 1994, American Psychological Association Conventions. (with Dr.
Adrienne Davis, 1992, 1994)
"Cultura, Psicopatologia, Evaluación, y Psicoterapia," Two-day workshop in Spanish at
Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO), October 1989, 1990,
1991, 1993, 1997, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
"Cultural Competence in Clinical Practice." One-day or partial day workshops for staff and
interns at Patton State Hospital, January 31, 1996; Metropolitan State Hospital, May 22,
1997; Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, June 1997, February, March 2000;
October, 2007, November 2007; San Bernardino Mental Health, October 28, 1999; New
York City Health and Hospital Corporation, November 30, 1999; Clinical Psychology
Program, Clinical Psychology program, University of Southern California, March 9, 2001;
Behavioral Medicine Conference 2002, Mason City, Iowa, June 7, 2002; 3rd Annual
Multicultural Conference, Orange County, 2002; Riverside County Department of Mental
Health, 2002; Department of Mental Health, Children’s Hospital, 2002; Department of
Mental Health and Substance Abuse, Santa Cruz County, 2002; San Diego County, 2003;
Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut, Mystic, Connecticut, 2003, 2006.
Dane County Mental Health Services, Madison, Wisconsin, 2007; Victorian Transcultural
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Psychiatry Unit, Melbourne, Australia, 2007; Department of Behavioral Health Services,
Santa Cruz County, 2008; Kaiser Permanente, San Diego, January 20, 2009, Department of
Psychiatry, University of Washington Medical Center, May 28, 29, 2009.
I have also consulted with academic and research units concerning their integrating cultural
perspectives in training and research:
Portland State University, Research and Training Center on Family Support and
Children's Mental Health, January 19, 1990, and September, 1991. I reviewed their
research directions and made recommendations for the assessment of cultural
competence in mental health delivery systems.
Clinical Psychology Program, Arizona State University, May 1989. I reviewed the
curriculum and made recommendations on how to enhance their attention to cultural issues.
California School of Professional Psychology, Berkeley/Alameda, April 20, 1996. I provided
a one-day workshop regarding multicultural psychological assessment and how to integrate a
cultural perspective in assessment courses.
Dartmouth-McArthur Depression Education Project, December 1998. Reviewed curriculum
to train primary care physicians in recognizing and treating depression in culturally diverse
communities.
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