Lauren Gonzales | Faculty Profiles

Diplomas/Degrees

PhD Clinical Psychology, John Jay College and the Graduate Center, CUNY (2017)

Licenses and Certifications

Licensed Clinical Psychologist, New York State (#023034)

Professional Experience

Postdoctoral Clinical Psychology Fellow, University of California San Francisco Medical Center (2017)

Recent Courses

Assessment And Evaluation Of Substance Abuse

Cognitive Behavioral Therapies Plurality & Integration

Psychological Research I

Psychological Research II

S/T: Addictions And Compulsions

S/T: Evidence Based Assessment & Treatment For Traumatic Stress-Related Disorders

Research Interests

Recovery and community integration of individuals with serious mental illnesses (SMI) in civil and criminal justice settings; influence of social disadvantage upon treatment engagement and recovery outcomes; mental illness stigma and discrimination; factors underlying clinical and policy decision-making regarding individuals with SMI.

Articles

Gonzales, L., & McNiel, D. E. (2018). Can reduced homelessness help explain public safety benefits of mental health court? Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 24(2), 271-278.

Yanos, P. T., Stefancic, A., Alexander, M. J., Gonzales, L., & Harney, B. (2018). Association between housing, personality capacity factors and community participation among persons with psychiatric disabilities. Psychiatry Research, 260, 300-306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2017.11.088

Gonzales, L., Yanos, P. T., Stefancic, A., Alexander, M. J., & Harney, B. (2018). The role of neighborhood factors and community stigma in predicting community participation among persons with psychiatric disabilities. Psychiatric Services, 69, 76-83. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201700165

Yanos, P. T., Knight, E. L., Vayshenker, B., Gonzales, L., & DeLuca, J. (2017). Community protection versus individual healing: Two traditions in community mental health. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 35, 288-312. https://doi.org/10.1002/bsl.2297

Gonzales, L., Chan, G., & Yanos, P. T. (2017). Individual and neighborhood predictors of mental illness stigma in New York State. Stigma and Health, 2(3), 175-181. https://doi.org/10.1037/sah0000043

Vayshenker, B., Mulay, A., Gonzales, L., West, M. L., Brown, I., & Yanos, P. T. (2016). Participation in peer support services and outcomes related to recovery. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 39(3), 274-281. https://doi.org/10.1037/prj0000178

Gonzales, L., Nesi, D., & Yanos, P. T. (2015). An examination of eligibility decisions in New York State’s Assisted Outpatient Treatment. Psychiatric Services, 66(12), 1373-1376. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201400437

Gonzales, L., Davidoff, K. C., DeLuca, J. S., & Yanos, P. T. (2015). The Mental Illness Microaggressions Scale - Perpetrator Version (MIMS-P): Reliability and validity. Psychiatry Research, 229, 120-125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2015.07.061

Gonzales, L., Davidoff, K., Nadal, K. L., & Yanos, P. T. (2015). Microaggression experiences of persons with mental illnesses: An exploratory study. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 38(3), 234-241. https://doi.org/10.1037/prj0000096

Chan, G., Vayshenker, B., Gonzales, L., Mulay, A. L., Brown, I., & Yanos, P. T. (2014). Characteristics and service use of participants in a large consumer-operated service agency. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 37, 58-61. https://doi.org/10.1037/prj0000039

Yanos, P. T., West, M. L., Gonzales, L., Smith, S. M., Roe, D., & Lysaker, P. H. (2012). Change in internalized stigma and social functioning among persons diagnosed with severe mental illness. Psychiatry Research, 200, 1032-1034. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2012.06.017

Other Work

Gonzales, L., Maliken, A. C., Piatigorsky, A., Shaller, E. A. L., Stuart, B., Todd, N., & Darrow, S. M. (2018). DBT for youth: Who drops out of family-based programs? Dialectical Behavior Therapy Bulletin, 1, 9-11.

Gonzales, L., & Yanos, P. T. (2017). Right to refuse psychotropic medications. The SAGE Encyclopedia of Abnormal and Clinical Psychology.

Yanos, P. T., Gonzales, L., & Vayshenker, B. (2016). Commentary on “Improving mental health services: The need for a paradigm shift” by Longden et al. Israel Journal of Psychiatry, 53, 31-32.