Faculty: Jennifer Staples, PhD

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Jennifer Staples, PhD

Associate Professor, Clinical Psychology Department

Email
jennifer_staples@williamjames.edu
Pronouns
she/her/hers
Degree Major/Emphasis Institution
PhD Clinical Psychology University of Washington
BA Psychology University of Vermont

Courses

  • Adult Psychopathology
  • Clinical Practice I
  • Leadership and Management of Systems

Research and Practice Interests

  • Gender and sexual diversity
  • LGBTQIA+ oppression-based stress and trauma
  • Culturally affirming care, specifically for transgender and gender expansive folx
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
  • Community-based mental health interventions
  • Sexual wellness and behavior

Professional Licenses and Certifications

  • Licensed Clinical Psychologist, CA

Publications and Presentations

  • Davidson, J. D., Neilson, E. C., Staples, J. M., & Turner, R. B. (2024). Group differences in gender expression discrimination and depressive and anxiety symptoms among transgender and gender expansive adults: The role of gender identity pride. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 88(3), 214-238. doi.org/10.1521/bumc.2024.88.3.214
  • Staples, J. (2023). Exposure therapy with a first-generation, Latino transgender man: A dialectical behavior and feminist therapy framework. Women & Therapy.
  • *Chambers, A., Diamond, D., Willard, L., *Witherspoon, N., *Martin, K., & Staples, J. (2022). Discovering misattributed paternity as a result of commercial DNA testing and its impact on psychological well-being and identity formation. American Journal of Qualitative Research.
  • *Igarashi, I., Staples, J., *Vigil, S., *Pero, G., Gardner, R., Abascal, L., & Thomat, A. (in press). The impact of psychological flexibility in the relationship between discrimination and internalized transnegativity among transgender adults. Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science.
  • Staples, J., & *Fuller, C. (2021). Adult sexual assault severity among transgender people of color: The impact of double marginalization. Journal of Aggression Maltreatment and Trauma (JAMT), 30(5), 694-706.
  • *Ghorbanian, A., *Aiello, B., & Staples, J. (2022). Underrepresentation of transgender identities in research: The limitations of traditional quantitative survey data. Transgender Health. doi.org/10.1089/trgh.2020.0107
  • Estrellado, J. E., Green, J. M., Shuman, T. J., & Staples, J. (2021). Cross-racial and intersectional allyship efforts among faculty in a psychology doctoral program. Research in Human Development, 18(1-2), 29-53. doi.org/10.1080/15427609.2021.1942687
  • Staples, J., Bird, L., Gregg, J., & George, W. H. (2020). Improving the gender confirmation process for transgender and gender nonconforming individuals: Relationships among time since transition began, body satisfaction, and sexual distress. Journal of Sex Research, 57, 375-383. doi: 10.1080/00224499.2019.1617829.
  • Staples, J., George, W. H., Bryan, A., & Neilson, E. (2018). The role of minority stress in suicidality and non-suicidal self-injury among transgender adults. Journal of Sex Research, 55, 591-603.
  • Staples, J., Neilson, E., George, W. H., Flaherty, B., & Davis, K. (2018). A descriptive analysis of alcohol use behaviors across gender identity subgroups within a sample of transgender adults. Addictive Behaviors, 76, 355-362.
  • Staples, J., Bird, E., Master, T., & George, W. H. (2017). Considerations for culturally competent research with transgender adults: A qualitative analysis. Journal of Sex Research, 0, 1-1
  • Staples, J., Eakins, D., Nielsen, L., George, W. H., Stappenbeck, C. A., Cue Davis, K., & Norris, J. (2016). Sexual functioning and disclosure of sexual assault: The mediating role of trauma symptomatology. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 13, 1562-1569.
  • Stappenbeck, C. A., George, W. B., Staples, J., Nguyen, H., Davis, K. C., Kaysen, D., …Kajumulo, K. F. (2016). In-the-moment dissociation, emotional numbing, and sexual risk: The influence of sexual trauma history, trauma and anxiety symptoms, and alcohol intoxication. Psychology of Violence, 6, 586-595.
  • Douglas, H. A. C., Heleniak, C., Witkiewitz, K., Lewis, M., Eakins, D., Staples, J., Andersson, C., Berglund, M., & Larimer, M. (2016). Effects of parental monitoring on alcohol use in the US and Sweden: A brief report. Addictive Behaviors, 63, 89-92.
  • George, W. H.,…Staples, J. M. (2016). Partner pressure, victimization history, and alcohol: Women’s condom-decision abdication mediated by mood and anticipated partner reaction. AIDS and Behavior, 20, 134-146.
  • Staples, J. M., George, W. H., Stappenbeck, C. A., Cue Davis, K., Norris, J., & Heiman, J. (2015). Alcohol myopia and sexual abdication among women: Examining the moderating effect of child sexual abuse. Addictive Behaviors, 41, 72-77.
  • Staples, J., Rellini, A. H., & Roberts, S. (2012). Avoiding experiences: Sexual dysfunction in women with a sexual abuse history in childhood and adolescence. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 41(2), 341-350.

Community Involvement