Sara Buckingham

Sara Buckingham
Associate Professor
Clinical-Community Psychology Ph.D. Program
SSB 303F
(907) 786-1767
sbuckingham@alaska.edu
https://crossroadsresearch.wixsite.com/collective

Education

  • Ph.D., Human Services Psychology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2017
    • Clinical Psychology (APA-accredited) and Community & Applied Social Psychology
    • Doctoral Internship (APA-accredited), University of Vermont, 2016–2017
  • M.A., Human Services Psychology, University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2013
  • B.A., Psychology, University of Northern Colorado, 2010
  • B.A., Sociology, University of Northern Colorado, 2010

Teaching Responsibilities

  • PSY A372: Community Psychology
  • PSY A616: Program Evaluation I
  • PSY A617: Program Evaluation II 
  • PSY A629: Intervention II
  • PSY A652: Clinical Practicum I
  • PSY A653: Clinical Practicum II
  • PSY A658: Qualitative Analysis
  • PSY A670: Psychotherapy Internship

Professional & Department Service

Research Interests

  • Contextual Models of Acculturation
  • Psychological Sense of Community
  • Welcoming and Liberatory Spaces
  • Empowerment, Resilience, and Resistance to Oppression
  • Culturally Responsive, Evidence Based Behavioral Health Services for Forced Migrant Populations
  • Qualitative Research Methods and Research Translation to Inform Policymaking 

Publications

See all of my publications ongoogle scholar. 

Selected publications below
 
Buckingham, S. L., *Sytniak, S., Chen, T., Mbise, A., Kuhn, S., Gat, N., (2024). Welcoming: The development of sense of community post-migration in a secluded northern American city. Community Psychology in Global Perspective, 10(1/1), 109–132. http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/cpgp/article/view/27523/23035
 
Buckingham, S. L., *Schroeder, T., & *Hutchinson, J. (2023). Knowing Who You Are (Becoming): Effects of a university-based Elder-led cultural identity program on Alaska Native students’ identity development, cultural strengths, behavioral health, and sense of community. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 93(5), 389–401. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ort0000683
 
Buckingham, S. L., *Schroeder, T., & *Hutchinson, J. (2023). Elder-led cultural identity program as counterspace at a public university: Narratives on sense of community, empowering settings, and empowerment. American Journal of Community Psychology, 72(12), 32–47. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12673
 
Buckingham, S. L., & *Hutchinson, J. (2022). “It's like having strong roots. We’re firmly planted.”: Cultural identity development among Alaska Native university students. Transcultural Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1177/13634615221122524
 
Buckingham, S. L., & *Angulo, A. (2022). The impact of public policies on acculturation: A mixed-method study of Latinx immigrants’ experiences in four U.S. states. Journal of Community Psychology, 50(2), 627–652. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.22639
 
Buckingham, S. L., Langhout, R. D., Rusch, D., Mehta, T., Chavez, N. R., Ferreira van Leer, K., Oberoi, A., Indart, M., Paloma, V., King, V. E., & Olson, B. (2021). The roles of settings in supporting immigrants’ resistance to injustice and oppression. American Journal of Community Psychology, 68(3–4), 269–291. http://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12515
 
*Hutchinson, J., & Buckingham, S. L. (2021). The impact of higher education on Alaska Native students’ cultural identities. Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 60(1–2), 211–236. https://doi.org/10.5749/jamerindieduc.60.1-2.0211
 
Buckingham, S. L., & Brodsky, A. E. (2020). Relative privilege, risk, and sense of community: Understanding Latinx immigrants’ empowerment and resilience processes across the United States. American Journal of Community Psychology, 67(3–4), 364–379. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12486
 
Buckingham, S. L., & *Suarez-Pedraza, M. C. (2019). ‘It has cost me a lot to adapt to here’: The divergence of real acculturation from ideal acculturation impacts Latinx immigrants’ psychosocial wellbeing. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 89(4), 406–419. https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000329
 
Buckingham, S. L., Brodsky, A. E., Fedi, A., Mannarini, T., Rochira, A., Emery, L. R., & Godsay, S., Miglietta, A., & Gattino, S. (2018). Shared communities: A multinational qualitative study of immigrant and receiving community members. American Journal of Community Psychology, 62(1–2), 23–40. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12255
 
Langhout, R. D., Buckingham, S. L., Oberoi, A., Chavez, N., Rusch, D., Esposito, F., & Suarez-Balcazar, Y. (2018). Statement on the effects of deportation and forced separation on immigrants, their families, and communities. American Journal of Community Psychology, 62(1–2), 3–12. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajcp.12256
 
Buckingham, S. L., Emery, L. R., Godsay, S., Brodsky, A. E., & Scheibler, J. E. (2018). 'You opened my mind': Latinx immigrant and receiving community interactional dynamics in the United States. Journal of Community Psychology, 46(2), 171–186. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcop.21931
 
Brodsky, A. E., Buckingham, S. L., Scheibler, J. E., & Mannarini, T. (2016). Introduction to qualitative approaches. In L. Jason & D. Glenwick (Eds.), Handbook of Methodological Approaches to Community-Based Research: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods (pp. 13–21). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780190243654.003.0002
 
Buckingham, S. L., Brandt, N. E., Becker, K. D., Gordon, D., & Cammack, N. (2016). Collaboration, empowerment, and advocacy: Consumer perspectives about treatment engagement. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 25(12), 3702–3715. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-016-0507-5
 
Buckingham, S. L., & Brodsky, A. E. (2015). ‘Our differences don’t separate us’: Immigrant families navigate intrafamilial acculturation gaps through diverse resilience processes. Journal of Latina/o Psychology, 3(3), 143–159. https://doi.org/10.1037/lat0000042

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