Sexuality Research

Current Projects: 

Promoting Women's Sexual Wellness Using Comprehensive, Rights-Based Adult Sexuality Education (Dena Abbott)

The Bloodless Period: A Transfeminine Experience (Rin Nguyen)

The Overturning of Roe v. Wade and People Capable of Pregnancy: An Interpretive Phenomenological Study (Carrie Bohmer)

Sex Education and Women's Sexual Liberation: A Phenomenological Study (Jessica Boyles)

Perceptions of College Campus Climate Among Queer Female Sexual Assault Survivors (Elyxcus Anaya)

Recently Published Papers: 

Abbott, D. M., Nguyen, R., Bohmer, C., Myers, M. L., Boyles, J. A., & Mercier, C. M. (2023). The us in uterus: A collaborative autoethnography of psychologists advocating for reproductive justice [Special issue]. Psychology of Women Quarterly. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/03616843231166375

Abbott, D. M.Vargas, J., & Santiago, H. (2022). Sexuality training for counseling psychologists: A mixed method study of student perspectives. Journal of Counseling Psychology. Advance online publication

Mollen, D., & Abbott, D. M. (2021). Sexuality as a competency: Advancing training to serve the public. Training and Education in Professional Psychology16(3), 280-286. https://doi.org/10.1037/tep0000378

Abbott, D. M., Mollen, D., Anaya, E., Burnes, T., Jones, M., & Rukus, V. (2021).Providing sexuality training for psychologists: The role of predoctoral internship sites. American Journal of Sexuality Education, 16 (2), 161-180https://doi.org/10.1080/15546128.2021.1892555