Publications

Our publications reflect our commitment to advancing understanding of racism-related stress and the factors that promote resilience among Black youth and families.

Bernard, D. L., & Galán, C. A. (2026). Future Directions in Racial Trauma Research Among Ethnoracially Minoritized Youth. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 55(2), 371–390. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2026.2640956

Bernard, D. L., Cokley, K. O., Harris, K., Hall-Jones, S., Coleman, C., Kelley, T., Matthews, I., Pollock, M., Rhymes, L., & Hess, J. (2026). Initial construction and validation of the Racialized Impostor Phenomenon Scale. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 73(2), 222–234. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000852

Pollock, M. L., Brooks Stephens, J. R., & Bernard, D. L. (2025). Racial discrimination and internalizing symptoms among Black youth: The moderating role of youth age and parental racial worry. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 35, e70086. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.70086

Bernard, D. L., Stone-Sabali, S., Volpe, V. V., Matthews, I. J., & Smith, L. V. (2025). Campus racial climate and impostor phenomenon among Black college students: The mediating roles of social anxiety and self-esteem. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 18(Suppl 1), S493–S504. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000590

Bernard, D. (2024). Racism and the impostor phenomenon among African American students: A socioecological analysis. In K. Cokley (Ed.), The impostor phenomenon: Psychological research, theory, and interventions (pp. 181–201). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000397-009

Bernard, D. L., Adams, L. B., Lateef, H. A., Azasu, E., & Joe, S. (2023). Investigating the role of suicidality and ethnic identity among Black Adolescents: A latent profile analysis. Archives of Suicide Research, 27(4), 1261–1277. https://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2022.2114868

Bernard D. L. (2023). Toward a socioecological model of training and mentoring to reduce disparities in mental health service Use Among Black Youths. American journal of public health, 113(S2), S133–S135. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307250

Bernard, D. L., Gaskin-Wasson, A. L., Jones, S. C. T., Lee, D. B., Neal, A. J., Sosoo, E. E., Willis, H. A., & Neblett, E. W., Jr (2023). Diversifying clinical child and adolescent psychology: A change gonna come. Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53, 52(3), 396–410. https://doi.org/10.1080/15374416.2023.2191284

Bernard, D. L., López, C. M., Banks, D. E., Hahn, A. M., & Danielson, C. K. (2023). Developmental differences in the impact of racial discrimination on depression and anxiety among Black youth: Examining rumination as a mechanism. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 93(4), 293–303. https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000679

Bernard, D. L., O'Loughlin, K., Davidson, T. M., Rothbaum, A., Anton, M. T., Ridings, L. E., Cooley, J. L., Gavrilova, Y., Hink, A. B., & Ruggiero, K. J. (2023). Differences in mental health engagement and follow-up among Black and White patients after traumatic injury. The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 94(1), 117–124. https://doi.org/10.1097/TA.0000000000003604

Bernard, D. L., Smith, Q., & Lanier, P. (2022). Racial discrimination and other adverse childhood experiences as risk factors for internalizing mental health concerns among Black youth. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 35(2), 473–483. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.22760

Bernard, D. L., Calhoun, C. D., Banks, D. E., Halliday, C. A., Hughes-Halbert, C., & Danielson, C. K. (2020). Making the "C-ACE" for a Culturally-Informed Adverse Childhood Experiences Framework to Understand the Pervasive Mental Health Impact of Racism on Black Youth. Journal of Child & Adolescent trauma, 14(2), 233–247.

Bernard, D. L., Jones, S. C. T., & Volpe, V. V. (2020). Impostor phenomenon and psychological well-being: The moderating roles of John Henryism and school racial composition among Black college students. The Journal of Black Psychology, 46(2-3)

Bernard, D. L., Hoggard, L. S., & Neblett, E. W. (2018). Racial discrimination, racial identity, and impostor phenomenon: A profile approach. Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 24(1), 51–61.

Bernard, D., Neblett, E. A culturally informed model of the development of the impostor phenomenon among African American youth. Adolescent Research Review 3, 279–300 (2018).

Bernard, D. L., Lige, Q. M., Willis, H. A., Sosoo, E. E., & Neblett, E. W. (2017). Impostor phenomenon and mental health: The influence of racial discrimination and gender. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 64(2), 155–166.

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