Melanie M. Wilcox

ORCID: 0000-0001-9712-6117
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Research Areas
  • Counseling Practices and Supervision
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Higher Education Research Studies
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • International Student and Expatriate Challenges
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Psychological Testing and Assessment
  • Diverse Educational Innovations Studies
  • Occupational Therapy Practice and Research
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Liver Diseases and Immunity
  • Educational and Psychological Assessments
  • Australian History and Society
  • Race, History, and American Society
  • Cultural Competency in Health Care
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • Viral Infections and Immunology Research
  • Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics
  • Reproductive Health and Technologies
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Gender Roles and Identity Studies

Pennsylvania State University
2025

Georgia State University
2025

University of North Texas
2021-2025

Texas Woman's University
2025

University at Albany, State University of New York
2024-2025

Augusta University
2021-2024

Augusta University Health
2021-2023

Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City
2021

Louisiana Tech University
2020

Oklahoma State University
2019-2020

In this article, a diverse group of early, mid, and advanced career scholars call for counseling psychology to continue evolve in our integration social justice action field. doing so, we first consider history as proponents enactors justice, highlighting the ways which psychologists have served leaders psychology. We then discuss field’s contemporary challenges to, opportunities for, progress work toward equity justice. Finally, offer recommendations individually field move forward action....

10.1177/0011000019893283 article EN The Counseling Psychologist 2019-08-01

For counseling psychology to realize its commitments uprooting anti-Black racism and white supremacy, we must shift from an individual a structural frame of reference. We expand on prior calls build upon the competencies approach that has been detailed in medical literature integrated into education. Whereas our existing “cultural” approaches orient us toward differences characteristics, compels deeply understand, ground interventions in, how community-level outcomes result determinants...

10.1177/00110000241231029 article EN The Counseling Psychologist 2024-02-14

Clinical supervision is a cornerstone of clinical training, and experiences are associated with important outcomes (e.g., stronger working alliances more trainee disclosures in supervision). Psychology has made strides understanding how cultural processes unfold supervision, the multicultural orientation (MCO) model garnering increasing empirical support, but less known about dynamics that occur based on racial differences between supervisees supervisors. Therefore, within cross-racial...

10.1177/00110000231188337 article EN The Counseling Psychologist 2023-07-20

This article introduces a special section that addresses the need for culturally and structurally responsive training in psychotherapy. Nine articles explore how to prepare psychotherapists address cultural structural factors, addition individual interpersonal their practice. Key themes include fostering more critical form of humility, building consciousness, addressing oppressive systems within psychotherapy, supervision, environment, accreditation. The also highlight importance advocacy...

10.1037/pst0000565 article EN Psychotherapy 2025-03-01

Psychology, and the United States more broadly, finds itself at yet another reckoning point with White supremacy anti-Black racism. The American Psychological Association has even recently apologized for psychology's role in upholding systemic racism supremacy, articulated expectations dismantling throughout psychology. Yet, norms of pervade our professional individual consciousness, resulting radical movements toward a "culturally responsive psychotherapy" seeking to adapt to, ultimately...

10.1037/pst0000446 article EN Psychotherapy 2022-06-16

Women regularly endure sexist microaggressions, which are often associated with anger, depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and trauma. The cumulative effects of microaggressions may result in internalized sexism undermine self-compassion. Notably, prolonged exposure to is trauma symptoms; however, the traumatic have remained largely theoretical. Thus, we examined role as a stressor evaluated self-compassion misogyny mediators sexism-based stress. With sample 370 adult cisgender women,...

10.1177/0011000020954534 article EN The Counseling Psychologist 2020-09-11

Cultural humility is important in supervision; however, studies have primarily sampled White supervisees. Racially and ethnically minoritized trainees experience microaggressions during their training, yet cross-racial supervision less often studied. We examined a moderated mediation model to test whether the supervisory working alliance mediated relationship between frequency of racial satisfaction with supervision, impact on supervisee supervisor cultural microaggression alliance. In...

10.1037/cou0000732 article EN Journal of Counseling Psychology 2024-05-06

Much research exists demonstrating that experiences of racism are detrimental to the mental health African Americans; however, Lewis and Van Dyke (2018) argued examining effects alone neglects intragroup diversity (and thus intersectional oppression) Americans. Thus, given economic oppression experienced by Americans, present study sought examine compounded or classism on Americans' health. American participants (

10.1037/cou0000561 article EN Journal of Counseling Psychology 2021-07-01

There is much agreement within counseling psychology on the importance of social justice, yet justice education and training remain limited in programs (Beerman et al., 2012; Pieterse 2009; Singh 2010). Critical components to include an emphasis systems theories that could inform interventions (i.e. advocacy activism) at exosystem mesosystem levels as well learning about breadth activism skills. Assessment, diagnosis, conceptualization are considered core functional competencies professional...

10.33043/jsacp.14.2.2-24 article EN cc-by-nc-nd Journal for Social Action in Counseling & Psychology 2023-02-21

Abstract Compared to traditional testing strategies, nucleic acid amplification tests such as real-time PCR offer many advantages for the detection of human adenoviruses. However, commercial assays are expensive and cost prohibitive clinical laboratories. To overcome fiscal challenges, a effective strategy was developed using combination homogenization heat treatment with an “in-house” PCR. In 196 swabs submitted adenovirus detection, this crude extraction method showed performance...

10.1186/1743-422x-10-184 article EN cc-by Virology Journal 2013-06-07

This study was a social dominance theory-driven multimethod investigation of multicultural competence. Given the concerns with self-report, we examined relationship between variables and both self-report performance-based We also tested competing hypotheses regarding competence measures. two samples: one counselor trainees ( N = 93), practicing therapists 107). The overwhelming performance floor effect in context ceiling effects striking unexpected its severity. Awareness privilege most...

10.1177/0011000020904709 article EN The Counseling Psychologist 2020-03-18

Food insecurity (FI) is a leading public health concern yet understudied amongst postsecondary students. A substantial proportion (34.4%) of our student sample reported FI; Black, low-SES, and low-SES women students were most likely to experience FI was related poorer academic, health, stress outcomes. Employee awareness low, some expressed negative sentiments. We demonstrate the need for research intervention not only on but also faculty/staff attitudes.

10.1080/19496591.2021.1960851 article EN Journal of Student Affairs Research and Practice 2021-09-24

Counseling psychology increasingly centers addressing and dismantling anti-Black racism White supremacy among its values. It is unclear, however, whether training programs are attending to antiracist paradigm shifts. We conducted a study of counseling programs’ attention antiracism supremacy. Students faculty in were asked complete an online survey. Faculty also submit multicultural course syllabi. Qualitative results demonstrate that syllabi ( N = 29) generally do not reflect modern...

10.1177/00110000231214282 article EN The Counseling Psychologist 2023-11-21

Westra and Di Bartolomeo (2024) made a strong case for psychotherapy training to focus more on process rather than content (e.g., manuals). Their recommendations are consistent with the preponderance of evidence that finds variables (and psychotherapist related process, such as empathy) account most variance in outcomes. Despite overwhelming evidence, Great Psychotherapy Debate (Wampold & Imel, 2015) rages on. In this commentary, I emphasize strive extend Bartolomeo's recommendations....

10.1037/amp0001236 article EN American Psychologist 2024-02-01
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