Names of collective members are bolded

Community, Culture, and Wellbeing

Buckingham, S. L. (2025). Socioecological models of acculturation: The relative roles of social and contextual factors on acculturation across life domains. Behavioral Sciences (Special Issue: Social and Psychological Determinants of Acculturation), 15(6), 715. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs15060715

Buckingham, S. L., Sytniak, S., Chen, T., Mbise, A., Kuhn, S., & Gat, N., (2024). Welcoming: The development of sense of community post-migration in a secluded northern American city. Community Psychology in Global Perspective, 10(1/1), 109-132. http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/cpgp/article/view/27523/23035

Buckingham, S. L. (2023, Summer). Counterspaces: Fostering healthy identity development. Community Psychology: Social Justice Through Collaborative Research and Action. https://www.communitypsychology.com/counterspaces-fostering-healthy-identity-development/

Buckingham, S. L., Schroeder, T. U., & Hutchinson, J. R. (2023). Knowing Who You Are (Becoming): Effects of a university-based Elder-led cultural identity program on Alaska Native students’ identity development, cultural strengths, behavioral health, and sense of community. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 93(5), 389–401. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ort0000683

Buckingham, S. L., Schroeder, T. U., & Hutchinson, J. R. (2023). Elder-led cultural identity program as counterspace at a public university: Narratives on sense of community, empowering settings, and empowerment. American Journal of Community Psychology, 72(1-2), 32-47. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12673

Mbise, A., Buckingham, S. L., Kimmel, M., Kuhn, S., Gat, N., & Chen, T. (2022). Welcoming cities: Skilled immigrant integration in a United States city. In The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Change. Palgrave. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87624-1_50-1

Gat, N., Kuhn, S., Buckingham, S. L., Mbise, A., Chen, T., & Sytniak, S. (2022, Spring). Untapped talent: Immigrant integration and inclusion in Anchorage, Alaska. Report prepared for Welcoming Anchorage.

Buckingham, S. L., & Hutchinson, J. (2022). “It's like having strong roots. We’re firmly planted.”: Cultural identity development among Alaska Native university students. Transcultural Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634615221122524

Mannarini, T., Rizzo, M., Brodsky, A. E., Buckingham, S. L., Zhao, J., Rochira, A., & Fedi, A. (2021). The potential of psychological connectedness: Mitigating the impacts of COVID-19 through sense of community and community resilience. Journal of Community Psychology. http://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22775

Buckingham, S. L., & Angulo, A. (2021). The impact of public policies on acculturation: A mixed-method study of Latinx immigrants’ experiences in four U.S. states. Journal of Community Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22639

Hutchinson, J., & Buckingham, S. L. (2021). The impact of higher education on Alaska Native students’ cultural identities. Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 60(1-2), 211–236. https://doi.org/10.5749/jamerindieduc.60.1-2.0211

Buckingham, S. L., & Suarez-Pedraza, M. C. (2019). ‘It has cost me a lot to adapt to here’: The divergence of real acculturation from ideal acculturation impacts Latinx immigrants’ psychosocial wellbeing. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 89, 406–419. https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000329

Fedi, A., Mannarini, T., Brodsky, A. E., Rochira, A., Buckingham, S. L., Emery, L. R., Godsay, S, Scheibler, J. E., Miglietta, A., & Gattino, S. (2019). Acculturation in the discourse of immigrants and receiving community members. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 89, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000325

Buckingham, S. L., Brodsky, A. E., Fedi, A., Mannarini, T., Rochira, A., Emery, L. R., & Godsay, S., Miglietta, A., & Gattino, S. (2018). Shared communities: A multinational qualitative study of immigrant and receiving community members. American Journal of Community Psychology, 62, 23–40. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12255

Buckingham, S. L., Emery, L. R., Godsay, S., Brodsky, A. E., & Scheibler, J. E. (2018). 'You opened my mind': Latinx immigrant and receiving community interactional dynamics in the United States. Journal of Community Psychology, 46, 171–186. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.21931

Buckingham, S. L. (2017, March). Facilitating preferred acculturation is key to behavioral health and social justice [podcast]. The Global Alliance for Behavioral Health and Social Justice.

Buckingham, S. L., & Brodsky, A. E. (2015). ‘Our differences don’t separate us’: Immigrant families navigate intrafamilial acculturation gaps through diverse resilience processes. Journal of Latina/o Psychology, 3, 143–159. https://doi.org/10.1037/lat0000042

Resistance, Resilience, Empowerment, and Liberation

Oberoi, A., Buckingham, S. L., & Suarez-Balcazar, Y. (Eds.) (2025). Special Issue of the American Journal of Community Psychology, Advancing Immigrant and Refugee Rights: Promoting Empowerment, Justice, Equity, and Liberation.

Suarez-Balcazar, Y., Buckingham, S. L., Rusch, D. R., Charvonia, A., Young, R. I., Lewis, R., Ford-Paz, R., Mehta, T. G., & Perez, C. M. (2024). Reproductive justice for Black, Indigenous, Women of Color: Uprooting race and colonialism. American Journal of Community Psychology, 73(1–2), 159–169. http://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12650

Brodsky, A. E., Buckingham, S. L., Fedi, A., Rochira, A., Gattino, S., Altal, D., & Mannarini, T. (2022). Resilience and empowerment in immigrant experiences: A look through the Transconceptual Model of Empowerment and Resilience. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000634

Buckingham, S. L., Langhout, R. D., Rusch, D., Mehta, T., Chavez, N. R., Ferreira van Leer, K., Oberoi, A., Indart, M., Paloma, V., King, V. E., & Olson, B. (2021, Summer). How educational institutions can support immigrants' resistance to injustice and oppression. The Community Psychologist, 54(3). http://scra27.org/publications/tcp/immigrant-justice/

Buckingham, S. L., Langhout, R. D., Rusch, D., Mehta, T., Chavez, N. R., Ferreira van Leer, K., Oberoi, A., Indart, M., Paloma, V., King, V. E., & Olson, B. (2021). The roles of settings in supporting immigrants’ resistance to injustice and oppression. American Journal of Community Psychology, 68(3-4), 269-291. http://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12515 [Division 27 of the American Psychological Association (APA) adopted this paper as a policy position statement.]

Suarez-Balcazar, Y., Rusch, D. B., Mehta, T. G., Charvonia, A., Ford-Paz, R., Meza-Perez, C., & Buckingham, S. L. (2021, Winter). Atrocities committed against women on U.S. soil: A call to action. The Community Psychologist, 54(1). https://www.scra27.org/publications/tcp/immigrant-justice/

Buckingham, S. L., & Brodsky, A. E. (2020). Relative privilege, risk, and sense of community: Understanding Latinx immigrants’ empowerment and resilience processes across the United States. American Journal of Community Psychology, 67(3-4), 364-379. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12486

David, E. J. R., Schroeder, T. M., & Fernandez, J. (2019). Internalized racism: A systematic review of the psychological literature on racism's most insidious consequence. Journal of Social Issues, 75(4), 1057-1086. https://doi.org/10.1111/josi.12350

Culturally Responsive Behavioral Health Programming & Engagement in Behavioral Health Services

Buckingham, S. L. & Oster, G. (forthcoming in Fall 2025). Mental health assessment with children and adolescents: An integrated clinical, community, and cultural psychology framework. Palgrave Macmillan.

Snyder, J., Mangini, E., Uchlin, S., Hunt, S., & Buckingham, S. L. (2025). “There was a need in the community”: Providers' motivations for providing mental health services to forced migrants. Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice, 16(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.17161/

Ivanova, M. Y., Hall, A., Weinberger, S., Buckingham, S. L., Copeland, W., Crockett, P., D’Alberto, C., Dainer-Best, J., Dewey, L., Flanders, N., Foret, D., Galano, M., Goodrich, L., Holly, L., Leahey, M., Lerner, M., Marsh, J., McGinnis, E., Paiva-Salisbury, M., Shaw, J., Tinker, R., Swift, P., & Hudziak., J. (2024). A randomized controlled trial of the family assessment and feedback intervention: Effects on mental health literacy and engagement with health supports and services. Child Psychiatry & Human Development. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-024-01707-0

Buckingham, S. L. (2024, Spring). Alaska refugee resettlement program evaluation. Reported prepared for Catholic Social Services – Alaska.

Lessard, L., Jessen, C., Buckingham, S. L., Russell, R., Morgan, S. A., & Baker, J. (2024). My Best Alaskan Life: Addressing adolescent mental and reproductive health in Alaska. Health Promotion Practice, 26(3) 427–436. https://doi.org/10.1177/15248399231221769

Marvin, A. E., & Buckingham, S. L. (2024). “Itʼs time for a change. I need to. I have to”: Substance misuse recovery turning points of unhoused Alaskans. Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community, 52(1), 35–53. https://doi.org/10.1080/10852352.2024.2332124

Chen, T.-C., Buckingham, S. L., Kuhn, S., Mbise, A., Gat, N., & Sytniak, S. (2023). Integrating culture into public health campaigns in Southcentral Alaska. In A. Worthington (Ed.), Culturally Informed Health Promotion Campaigns.

Ivanova, M. Y., Hall, A., Weinberger, S., Buckingham, S. L., Copeland, W., Crockett, P., D’Alberto, C., Dainer-Best, J., Dewey, L., Flanders, N., Foret, D., Galano, M., Goodrich, L., Holly, L., Leahey, M., Lerner, M., Marsh, J., McGinnis, E., Paiva-Salisbury, M., Shaw, J., Tinker, R., Swift, P., & Hudziak., J. (2022). The Vermont Family Based Approach in primary care pediatrics: Effects on children’s and parents’ psychopathology and parents’ health-related quality of life. Child Psychiatry and Human Development. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-022-01329-4

Singer, R., Buckingham, S. L., Snyder, J., & Golden, D. (2022, Winter). Northeast Syria: Mental health & psychosocial support workers needs assessment. Report prepared for the Multifaith Alliance for Syrian Refugees.

Snyder, J., Skirko, S., Golden, D., Gat, N., Buckingham, S. L., & Spatrisano, I. (2019, Spring). Working alongside refugees in mental health. The Community Psychologist, 52(2), 35–37. https://scra27.org/publications/tcp/tcp-past-issues/tcpspring2019/

Buckingham, S. L., Becker, K. D., Reding, M., Chorpita, B., & Daleiden E. (2019). Managing and adapting practice: Provider perceptions of an evidence-informed framework for delivering mental health services. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 46(6), 777–789. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-019-00957-8

Buckingham, S. L., & Paiva-Salisbury, M. (2017, Summer). Enhancing evidence-based interventions for refugees. Trauma Psychology News, 12(2),19–21. http://traumapsychnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Summer-2017-TPN-Final.pdf

Buckingham, S. L., Brandt, N. E., Becker, K. D., Gordon, D., & Cammack, N. (2016). Collaboration, empowerment, and advocacy: Consumer perspectives about treatment engagement. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 25, 3702–3715. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-016-0507-5

Becker, K. D., Buckingham, S. L., Najarian, L. R., & Klein, E. (2016). The Common Elements of treatment engagement for clinically high-risk youth and youth with first-episode psychosis. Early Intervention in Psychiatry, 10, 455–467. https://doi.org/10.1111/eip.12283

Becker, K. D., Buckingham, S. L., & Brandt, N. E. (2015). Engaging youth and families in school mental health services. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 24, 385–398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chc.2014.11.002

Becker, K. D., Kiser, L. J., Herr, S. R., Stapleton, L. M., Barksdale, C. L., & Buckingham, S. L. (2014). Changes in treatment engagement of youths and families with complex needs. Child and Youth Services Review, 46, 276–284. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2014.09.005

Scholarship on Community-Engaged Qualitative and Mixed Methods of Inquiry & The Field of Community Psychology

Nettles, C., Schlehofer, M. M., Buckingham, S. L., Brookins, C. K., Flores, Y., & Kelly, A. (2023). Then and now: A 50-year retrospective thematic analysis of Society for Community Research & Action presidential addresses. American Journal of Community Psychology, 72(3-4), 341-354. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12725

Howell, B. M., Buckingham, S. L., King, C., & Kelly, T. (2023). “A little bit fun, a little bit frustrating:” Utilizing photovoice to document student responsibility during a global pandemic. Educational Action Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/09650792.2023.2244536

Buckingham, S. L., Mbise, A., Chen, T., Kuhn, S., Gat, N., & Sytniak, S. (2022). Conducting multilingual qualitative research online on immigrant integration and inclusion. In SAGE Research Methods Cases. SAGE. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529601770

Buckingham, S. L., Schroeder, T., & Christensen Fullmer, A. (2021). Collaborating with diverse stakeholders to produce meaningful and useful research: The Alaska Native Cultural Identity Project. In SAGE Research Methods Cases. SAGE. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781529757149

Buckingham, S. L., & Vargas Garcia, K. (2018). Making sense of complex relations: Using explanatory mixed methods to understand Latinx immigrants’ acculturation in disparate socio-ecological contexts. In SAGE Research Methods Cases. SAGE. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781526437877

Brodsky, A. E., Mannarini, T., Buckingham, S. L., & Scheibler, J. E. (2017). Kindred spirits in scientific revolution: Qualitative methods in community psychology. In M. A. Bond, C. B. Keys, & I. Serrano-Garcia (Eds.), APA Handbook of Community Psychology (pp. 75–90). American Psychological Association.

Brodsky, A. E., Buckingham, S. L., Scheibler, J. E., & Mannarini, T. (2016). Introduction to qualitative approaches. In L. Jason & D. Glenwick (Eds.), Handbook of Methodological Approaches to Community-Based Research: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods (pp. 13–21). Oxford University Press.

Research to Policy

Buckingham, S. L. (2024, December). Promoting migrant justice: A call to action for behavioral health professionals. Global Alliance for Behavioral Health and Social Justice: Perspectives Series. https://www.bhjustice.org/blog/promoting-migrant-justice-a-call-to-action-for-behavioral-health-professionals/

Buckingham, S. L., Rose, R., & Schlehofer, M. (2024, Spring). SCRA participates in interdivisional project to foster policy-relevant psychological research. The Community Psychologist. [Access the Fostering Policy-Relevant Psychological Research webinars and toolkits by clicking here.]

Suarez-Balcazar, Y., Buckingham, S. L., Rusch, D. R., Charvonia, A., Young, R. I., Lewis, R., Ford-Paz, R., Mehta, T. G., & Perez, C. M. (2023). Reproductive justice for Black, Indigenous, Women of Color: Uprooting race and colonialism. American Journal of Community Psychology. http://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12650

Buckingham, S. L. (2021, June 18). Why failing to protect Dreamers harms all Alaskans. Anchorage Daily News. https://www.adn.com/opinions/2021/07/18/why-failing-to-protect-dreamers-harms-all-alaskans

Buckingham, S. L. (2020, April 10). It’s important to protect DACA during the pandemic. Juneau Empire. https://www.juneauempire.com/opinion/opinion-its-important-to-protect-daca-during-the-pandemic/

Buckingham, S. L., & Ferreira van Leer K. (2020, Winter). Leveraging our role as community psychologists through op-eds and letters to the editor to advocate for immigrant justice. The Community Psychologist, 53(1), 52–55. https://www.scra27.org/publications/tcp/tcp-past-issues/tcpwinter2020/ and https://www.communitypsychology.com/writing-an-op-ed/

Scott, J. T. B., Larson, J., Buckingham, S. L., Maton, K. I., & Crowley, M. (2019). Bridging the research-policy divide: Pathways to engagement and skill development. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 89, 434–441. https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000389

Buckingham, S. L. (2018, August 4). U.S. deportation policies have negative effects for everyone [op-ed]. Anchorage Daily News. https://www.adn.com/opinions/2018/08/04/u-s-deportation-policies-have-negative-effects-for-everyone/

Langhout, R. D., Buckingham, S. L., Oberoi, A., Chavez, N., Rusch, D., Esposito, F., & Suarez-Balcazar, Y. (2018). Statement on the effects of deportation and forced separation on immigrants, their families, and communities. American Journal of Community Psychology, 62(1–2), 3–12. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12256 [Division 27 of the American Psychological Association (APA) adopted this as a position statement.]

Gleason, K., Langhout, R. D., Fernandez, J. S., Jimenez, T. R., Buckingham, S. L., Permut, M., Wynne, M., Corlew, K., & Harris, D. (2016, Fall). Statement of solidarity with Tribal Nations opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline. Society for Community Research and Action. https://www.scra27.org/what-we-do/policy/rapid-response-actions/dakota-access-pipeline/ [Division 27 of the American Psychological Association (APA) adopted this as a position statement.]

Buckingham, S. L. (2015, October 6). Guarantee legal counsel for unaccompanied immigrant children [op-ed]. The Baltimore Sun. https://www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/op-ed/bs-ed-child-immigration-20151005-story.html

Kurzban, L., Buckingham, S. L., & Mahdi, T. (2014, Fall). Advocacy training day 2014: Participant perspectives and advocacy tips. The Community Psychologist, 47, 12–15. https://scra27.org/publications/tcp/tcp-past-issues/tcpfall2014/

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