Kumea Shorter-Gooden, PhD

Specialties and Interests

• Multicultural and community psychology
• Identity development
• African American mental health
• Psychodynamic therapy with people of color
• Qualitative approaches to research
• Diversity training and consultation

Programs and Research Projects

• African American Women's Voices Project--Qualitative study of the impact of racism and sexism on African American women

Courses Taught

• Intercultural Processes & Human Diversity
• Community-Clinical Issues
• Psychodynamic Interventions with Multicultural Populations
• Qualitative Research Seminar
• Multicultural and Community Consultation
• Doctoral Project Development Seminar
• Professional Development and Ethics Group

Selected Publications

• Shorter-Gooden, K. (2008, in press). What's gender got to do with it? Therapy with African American men and women. In H. Neville, B. Tynes, & S. Utsey (Eds.), Handbook of African American psychology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
• Shorter-Gooden, K. (2007). From the outside in: African American women, beauty, and psychotherapy. The California Psychologist, 40 (1), 16-18.
• Shorter-Gooden, K. (2006). The power of our voices. CPAGS Connections: A Publication for Current and Future Psychology Professionals, 4 (1), 3, 8.
• Shorter-Gooden, K. (2004). Caution: Identity construction in process. A review of Biracial women in therapy: Between the rock of gender and the hard place of race (Gillem, A. & Thompson, C. A., Ed.). PsycCRITIQUES, 49, Supplement 3.
• Shorter-Gooden, K. (2004). The double jeopardy of being Black and female: Listening to the voices of African American women. The California Psychologist, 37 (2), 21-22. Reprinted in September 2004 Newsletter of the San Fernando Valley Psychological Association.
• Shorter-Gooden, K. (2004). Multiple resistance strategies: How African American women cope with racism and sexism. Journal of Black Psychology, 30 (3), 406-425.
• Jones, C., & Shorter-Gooden, K. (2003). Shifting: The double lives of Black women in America. NY: HarperCollins. See website at http://www.blackwomenshifting.com/ 
  Winner of the 2004 American Book Awards
• Shorter-Gooden, K. (2003). Black girl, interrupted. The Los Angeles Psychologist, 17(1), 8-9.
• Shorter-Gooden, K. (2002). Racial and gender issues in identity development: Narratives of late adolescent African American women. Psychological Foundations, The Journal, IV(2), 111-118.
• Banerjee, L., Parks, C., Ashing-Giwa, K., Shorter-Gooden, K., Burke, E., Polite, K., Johnson, P., Chien, W., Masuda, G., Holloway, J., Bustamante, A. L., & Mendoza, R. (2002). Multicultural community-clinical psychology in the twenty-first century: A paradigm shift. The Community Psychologist, 35(3), 29-30.
• Shorter-Gooden, K. (2002). Qualitative methods: An essential tool for multicultural psychology. In E. Davis-Russell (Ed.), The California School of Professional Psychology handbook of multicultural education, research, intervention, and training (pp. 123-138). San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass.
• Taylor, S., Parks, C., Shorter-Gooden, K., Johnson, P., Burke, E., Ashing-Giwa, K., Mendoza, R., Holloway, J., Polite, K., & Masuda, G. (2002). In and out of the classroom: A model for Multicultural Training in Clinical Psychology. In E. Davis-Russell (Ed.), The California School of Professional Psychology handbook of multicultural education, research, intervention, and training (pp. 54-66). San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass.
• Shorter-Gooden, K. (2000). Finding the lost part: Identity and the Black/ White biracial client. In L.C. Jackson & B.A. Greene (Eds.), Psychotherapy with African American Women: Innovations in Psychodynamic Perspectives and Practice (pp. 15-32). NY: Guilford.
• Shorter-Gooden, K., & Jackson, L.C. (2000). The interweaving of cultural and intrapsychic issues in the therapeutic relationship. In L.C. Jackson & B.A. Greene (Eds.), Psychotherapy with African American Women: Innovations in Psychodynamic Perspectives and Practice (pp. 194-207). NY: Guilford.
• Yi, K., & Shorter-Gooden, K. (1999). Ethnic identity formation: From stage theory to a constructivist narrative model. Psychotherapy, 36(1), 16-26.
• Shorter-Gooden, K., & Washington, N.C. (1996). Young, Black, and Female: The challenge of weaving an identity. Adolescence, 19, 465-475.
• Shorter-Gooden, K. (1996). The Simpson trial: Lessons for mental health practitioners. Cultural Diversity and Mental Health, 2(1), 65-68.

Professional Activities

• Private psychotherapy practice
• Organizational and diversity consultation
• Speaker and workshop leader

Professional Licenses

• Licensed Psychologist, State of California

Education

• PhD (1978) Clinical/Community Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park
• MA (1975) Clinical/Community Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park
• BA (1973, Magna Cum Laude), Princeton University

Professional Memberships

• American Psychological Association (APA)
  • Division 35, Psychology of Women
  • Division 45, Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues (Fellow)
• Association of Black Psychologists