🚨Recentering Environmental Context in the Conceptualization of Borderline Personality Disorder among Sexual & Gender Minority Individuals🚨

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Buckle up: We got a lot to say but it's worth it.

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We've employed measurement invariance and item response theory (IRT) analyses quite a bit in my lab's and colleagues' research over the years.

I'll be teaching a 2-day workshop on these statistical approaches this June!

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Here's the broad range of topics we will be covering in the workshop. In addition, I'll be going over illustrations of the various approaches and coding various models using some example data from my lab.

See you all there!

Do you know how to model the five types of stability/change: Structural, Relative, Normative, Individual, and Ipsative?

If not, consider signing up for my longitudinal SEM course on May 26-28. I cover the first 4 in depth.

Detailed info and registration: smart-workshops.com/long-sem-info

📢 CFP: Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

Special Section: Open Science in Multicultural Psychology

Empirical & conceptual work welcome across quant, qual & mixed methods

📅 LOI due May 15, 2026
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Check out our new paper on the philosophical assumptions of the HiTOP model led by @awaisaftab - it was a fun but challenging exercise, and useful for clarifying our thinking.

A new paper from the HiTOP Revisions Workgroup (and yours truly) on the conceptual and philosophical underpinnings of the framework. Recommended reading for anyone interested in questions of classification and psychopathology!

Here’s the journal article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

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Is dating app use harming the mental health of Black and Latinx gay and bisexual men? Our research suggests that may be the case, but only under specific conditions.

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🚨I am offering several online workshops about data science and quant methods this summer through SMaRT Workshops with student discounts! #r4ds #RStats #academia There are also many more taught by other great instructors. Look and spread the word!
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I think of this as the theoretical model that undergirds a lot of the work being done by myself and my students in the lab.

We are planning examinations of how the contexts of heterosexism and cisnormativity proverbially queer the experience of BPD among SGM individuals.

Finally: It's a long read!

But, I think it's worth it. We really wanted to spend enough time adequately reviewing the literature and developing our thesis.

Hey folks! I'll be teaching two workshops in May on Structural Equation Modeling!

One course is introductory (May 7-9): smart-workshops.com/intro-sem-info

The other is on longitudinal models (May 14-16): smart-workshops.com/long-sem-info

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🚨New Paper Alert🚨

We did a qual. study to understand how providers justified agreement/disagreement w the Borderline PD diagnosis.

TLDR: No differences based on SGM status of the vignette. BUT differences found were based on professional status.

Doi: 10.1002/pmh.70012

This study led by my honors student Anita, with support from other lab members. My Lab Manager, Najia, provided expertise in qualitative coding. And lab members August and Spirit worked with Anita to create & refine the codebook, and get reliability.

A 2-year team effort!

This study a follow-up from our initial examination of bias in BPD diagnosis based on SGM status.

Doi: doi.org/10.1177/216770…