Renee Gutierrez

Renee is a 4th year Clinical Psychology PhD student at PAU. Currently, she is a practicum student at the County of Monterey Children's Behavioral Health FAST Assessment Team, where she provides mental health assessment and therapy services to families involved in the child welfare system. Her research interests include but are not limited to evaluating cultural sensitivity in assessment tools used with forensic populations, the effects of immigration detention on family attachment and mental health, and identifying individual-level protective factors that can help reduce reoffending among incarcerated youth. She also functions as a student statistical consultant for a technology group, i4Health, and has some experience with program evaluation for a community mental health organization, LifeMoves.

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PUBLICATIONS

SYMPOSIA AND PAPER PRESENTATIONS

Gutierrez, R., & Rocha, I. (2018, October). A student’s perspective on specialized treatment with Latinx clients. In M. Hernandez (Chair), Addressing the multiple intersecting identities within the Latinx community through the development of a specialized training clinic. Symposium presented at the 2018 National Latinx Psychological Association Conference, San Diego, CA.

Gutierrez, R., & Gomez, M. (2018, August). The impact of trauma and acculturation stress on Latinx immigrants. In M. Hernandez (Chair), Addressing trauma among recent Latinx immigrants during an anti-immigrant climate. Symposium presented at the 2018 American Psychological Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.

Rocha, I., & Gutierrez, R., (2018, August). Trauma across borders. In M. Hernandez (Chair), Addressing trauma among recent Latinx immigrants during an anti-immigrant climate. Symposium presented at the 2018 American Psychological Association Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Gutierrez, R., Giordano, B., Wickham, R. E., Rostosky, S., & Riggle, E. (2019, February). The changing experience of internalized homophobia: A measurement invariance approach. Poster to be presented at the 2019 Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention, Portland, OR.

Mendoza-Rivera, P., Holleran, L., Poon, G., Gutierrez, R., Chu, J., Goldblum, P., & Bongar, B. (2018, May). How ethnic minority status and past incarceration history influence risk for suicide within a homeless population. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science 30th Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA.