Publications and Presentations 

 

Balaghi, D., Cusick, K., Forbes-Dyczkowski, K., Harp, M., & Matanos, K. (2025). Arab American Muslim Adolescents’ Symbolic Psychological Reckoning With Discrimination During the First Trump Era (2016–2020): An Existential and Critical Race Theory Perspective. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1177/00221678251321194

 

Cook, C. L., Demanarig, D., Metviner, S., Stoppa, T., Milius, H., Grahe, J., ... & Balaghi, D., (2023). Personal need for structure as a protective factor on beliefs and coping with COVID‐19: A crowd‐sourced multicultural exploration. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17(10), e12797.

 

  Balaghi, D., & Okoroji, C. (2023). Using critical race theory to support Black students in schools: A  call to educators. International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 11(3), 286-297.

 

Balaghi, D., (2022). Balaghi, D. (2023). The role of ethnic enclaves in Arab American Muslim adolescent perceived discrimination. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 33(3), 551-570.

 

Kira, I. A., Shuwiekh, H. A., Alhuwailah, A., & Balaghi, D. (2022). Does COVID-19 Type III Continuous Existential Trauma Deplete the Traditional Coping, Diminish Health and Mental Health, and Kindle Spirituality?: An Exploratory Study on Arab Countries. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 27(4), 297-317.

 

Balaghi, D., Hierl, K., & Snyder, E. (2022). Self-monitoring for students with

obsessive-compulsive disorder and autism spectrum disorder.

Intervention in School and Clinic, 58(1), 51-58.

 

Balaghi, D., Oka, E., Andrews, D. C., & Oka, E. R. (2021). Arab American adolescents’ responses to perceived discrimination: A phenomenological study. Journal of Muslim Mental Health, 15(2).

 

Balaghi, D., Westdal, J, Rispoli, K. (2017). Social context of the resettlement and its Influence on Refugee Youths’ Well-being: Implications for Arab Youth Refugees.  School Psychology Forum, 11, 145-159.

 

Sheldon, J., & Balaghi, D. (2017).  Anxiety Doesn’t Work. National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science.

 

Balaghi, D. (2015).  A Strength-Based Approach to Graduate School: Benefits, Strategies, and Applications.  NASP Communiqué.  Retrieved from http://www.nasponline.org/publications/periodicals/communique/issues/volume-44-issue-1

 

Sheldon, J. P., Oliver, D. G., & Balaghi, D. (2015). Arab American emerging adults' ethnic identity and its relation to psychological well-being. Emerging Adulthood, 3, 340-352.

 

  Presentations

 

Balaghi D., Alzohaili, S. Ghazi, J., Haddad, D., Medina, E., & Pope, T. (2024, August 8–10).

Arab Americans perceived discrimination and well-being: An ethnic enclaves role [Poster presentation]. American Psychological Association 2024 Convention, Seattle, WA, United States

 

Balaghi, D., Cusick, K., Forbes-Dyczkowski, K., Harp, M., & Matanos, K. (2024, August 8–10).

Arab American teens’ experience of discrimination in the Trump era: An existential & CRT perspective [Poster presentation]. American Psychological Association 2024 Convention, Seattle, WA, United States.

 

Jarvis, R., Balaghi, D. (2024). The Role of Companion Animals in the

Understanding a Doctoral Student’s Experience during COVID-19 [poster

presentation]. American Psychological Association 2024 Convention, Seattle,

WA, United States.

 

Cox, C., Schultz, M., Scanlan, S., Sovereign, A., & Balaghi, D. (2024, January   15– 18). Holistic admissions [Panel presentation]. National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional Psychology.

 

Balaghi, D., (2023). Hyflex Teaching: Benefits, Drawbacks, and its place in

Higher Education [Invited Speaker]. Midwestern Psychological Association.

 

Balaghi, D. (2022). Hyflex Teaching as a Liberatory Pedagogy: Creating Access to Higher Education During COVID-19. In Chavez-Korell, S. [chair], Hyflex Teaching as a Liberatory Pedagogy. [Symposium]. American Psychological Association. Minneapolis, MN.

 

Brent, A., Callaway, C., Chappell, L., and Balaghi, D. (2021, August 12 – 14). The relationship among fear of COVID, uncertainty, stress, well-being, & anxiety disorders [Poster presentation]. American Psychological Association Virtual Conference.

 

Jasser, D., Callaway, C., Balaghi, D. (2020, May). The role of climate change in therapy: Psychologists role as agents of change.  Cultural Competency Conference, Farmington Hills, MI, United States. (Conference Canceled).

 

  Balaghi, D., Oka, E., Okoroji, C., (2018, August). Arab American Adolescents’ Experiences with Discrimination: Challenges and Coping Strategies. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.

 

   Balaghi, D., & Oka, E. (2015, February). Arab American students’ well-being, identity, and perceived discrimination. Poster presented at the annual meeting of National Association for School Psychologists, Orlando, FL.

 

   Boddapati, S., Oka, E., & Balaghi, D. (2014, February). Cultural competence and RtI: The contribution of critical race theory. Presentation at the annual meeting of National Association for School Psychologists, Washington, D.C.

 

   Girard, K., Balaghi, D., Schmitt, H., & Hanold, J. (2014, February). Effects of self-        or peer-referenced CBM feedback on oral reading fluency and self

efficacy of struggling readers. Presentation at the annual meeting of 

National Association for School Psychologists, Washington, D.C.

 

   Boddapati, S., Oka E., Balaghi, D., & Chen A. (2013, February). Early childhood parental engagement: Implications for socioeconomic and ethnic variation. Presentation at the annual meeting of National Association for School Psychologists, Seattle, WA.

 

   Balaghi, D. (2012, May). Mental illness labels and gender: Their influence on

memory. Poster presented at the 84th annual meeting of the 

Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.

 

    Beddow, M., Balaghi, D., Johnson, A., McDowell, K., & Muhammad, J. (2010,     May). The influence of attractiveness on memory recognition. Poster

presented at the 83rd annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological

Association, Chicago, IL.