Kaela Joseph

Kaela Joseph
Palo Alto University · Department of Medicine

Doctor of Philosophy

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Background: Presurgical psychological assessments (PPA) can be helpful in assessing for psychological risk factors and identifying medical risk factors that may impede recovery from surgery. Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) individuals seeking medically-necessary, gender-affirming hysterectomy and orchiectomy are recommended to undergo a PPA, y...
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Introduction Sexual minority (SM) adults experience disproportionately high rates of suicide, yet it is not clear what protective factors offset the risk of suicide. Method A cross-sectional online survey of 564 SM adults assessed associations between suicide outcomes, suicide resilience and reasons for living (RFL). Results Survival and Coping B...
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Asexual patients face unique healthcare challenges that result in and maintain health disparities. Among health professionals, a general lack of cultural competence related to asexual identities perpetuates negative healthcare experiences and subsequent avoidance of care. This article provides an overview of asexual communities, the related culture...
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In the film Barbie, Stereotypical Ken “only has a great day if Barbie looks at him”. Ken’s identity is based on Barbie’s approval, that is, until he garners the approval of other Kens by reshaping their collective identities under the patriarchy. The Kens’ patriarchal collective identities are demonstrated in part through their participation in pop...
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The year 2018 saw drastic shifts in fan spaces where fan works, such as art, fiction, and videos, were once widely, openly shared, including those containing sexually explicit content, a.k.a. porno. Major catalysts were the highly contested United States legislations Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) and Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FO...
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Within the last decade, there has been considerable research that highlights the alarming rate of attempted suicide and suicidal ideation among gender minorities compared to the general population. For this chapter, gender minorities will be defined as individuals whose self-identified gender is not aligned with their sex assigned at birth. These a...
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Students in mental health (MH) professions often face MH symptoms themselves related to the stress of graduate training and have been shown to benefit from supportive mentoring. Little is known, however, about trainees who already have a mental illness, and how best to help them succeed. Snowball sampling was used to survey 35 MH professionals with...
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Mental health care providers who have a personal lived experience of mental health challenges are valuable employees who may be vulnerable to workplace bullying, which causes harm both to these individuals and to their organizations. We used snowball sampling to survey 40 mental health professionals with lived experience about their history of work...
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The Peer Support Program is an innovative service that aims to improve mental health care for veterans living in rural and other regions of Northern California vulnerable to becoming understaffed with mental health professionals. The program is a collaboration between the Stanford University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behaviora...

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