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GiShawn A. Mance, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

E-mail: mance@american.edu
Phone: (202) 885-1710
Office: Asbury building (South Wing), room TBA

Education:

B.A. Psychology, Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Florida, 1999

M.S. Community Psychology, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, Florida, 2002

M.A. Clinical Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, 2003

Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, 2006

 

Representative Publications:

Wilson, D., Mance, G.A., Anderson, S., Foster, J. (2008). Racial socialization’s moderating
effects between poverty stress and psychological symptoms for African American youth, Journal of Black Psychology, (In Press).

LaVeist, T., Thorpe, R., Mance, G. A., & Jackon, J. (2007). Overcoming confounding of race with socioeconomic status and segregation to explore race disparities in smoking, Addictions,102, 65-70.

Gaylord-Harden, N. K., Gipson, P., Mance, G. A., & Grant, K. (2007). Coping patterns of
African American adolescents: A confirmatory factor analysis and cluster analysis of the children’s coping strategies checklist, Psychological Assessment, (In Press).

Mance, G.A., Sanchez, B., & Jaha-Echols, N. (2007). Community engagement and
collaborations in community based research: The road to implementing project butterfly. In S.Y. Evans, C. Taylor, M. Dunlap, & D. Miller (Eds.). African Americans and community engagement in higher education. New York: State University Press of New York. (Forthcoming, Spring 2009).

Presentations:

Mance, G.A., Sanchez, B., & Jaha-Echols, N. (2008, July). The influence of culturally relevant
information on mental health interventions for African American girls. Symposium paper presented at the 17th International Council on Women’s Health Issues Congress 2008, Garborone, Botswana.

Thorpe, R.J., Mance, G.A., Francis, S.A., Jackson, J., & LaVeist, L.A. (2007, November).
Racial disparity in smoking: Overcoming confounding of race with socioeconomic status and segregation. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Washington, D.C.

Tandon, D., Templeman, A., Mance, G.A., Mendelson, T., Byrd, B., Jones, J., Turner, A., &
Sonenstein, F. (2007, May). Development of an intervention to promote adolescent mental health using community based participatory research: Process and preliminary findings. Symposium paper presented at the 15th Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research, Washington, D.C.

Mance, G.A., Tandon, D., Templeman, A., Mendelson, T., Byrd, B., Jones, J., Turner, A., &
Sonenstein, F. (2007, June). Collaborating with African American adolescents to develop a mental health intervention. Paper presented at the Biennial Conference of the Society for Community Research and Action, Pasadena, CA.

Gipson, P., Mance, G.A., & Grant, K. (2005, August). Depression symptoms in Low income
urban adolescents. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association, Washington, D.C.

Overall research interests:

My primary research interests is understanding how context and culture influence symptom presentation in communities of color, with a particular interest in youth residing in low-income enviornments. My goals include developing, implementing, and evaluating cultural and contextual interventions for youth who have witnessed or experienced multiple traumas that create vulnerability to depression. Additionally, I am interested in determining if community networks such as familial relationships and community prevention and intervention programs act as protective factors, how these protective factors change over time, and how to maintain the protective nature of these networks.