Skyler D Jackson

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Assistant Professor at Yale University

Bots (i.e., automated software programs that perform a variety of tasks) and fraudulent responders pose a growing threat to psychological research. Bots and fraudulent responders affect data integrity, and cost researchers and organizations resources (e.g., time and money). Bot and fraud detection tactics (BFDTs) are methods used to identify and el...

Recent calls have been made to decolonize White-dominated, Western narratives around concealment (e.g., that disclosure should be prioritized) and instead to examine psychosocial factors associated with concealment. Existing literature lacks exploration into daily variations of sexual or gender identity concealment (hereafter, “concealment”) among...

Background and Purpose This study aimed to develop and test a novel model integrating social-learning and self-medication frameworks by examining the association between self-efficacy to resist alcohol and other drug (AOD) use and daily AOD use and unhealthy drinking risk among trauma-exposed sexual minority women (SMW) and transgender and gender-d...

Few guidelines exist for the development of socially responsible health policy, and frameworks that balance considerations of data, strategy, and equity are limited. The Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis (IBPA) framework utilizes a structured questioning process to consider problems and policies, while applying guiding principles of equity, s...

Background: Sexual minority women (SMW) and transgender and/or nonbinary (TNB) individuals report an elevated prevalence of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and negative alcohol-related outcomes compared to heterosexual women and cisgender people. SMW and TNB individuals also face barriers to utilizing treatment, which can result in d...

Limited research has examined how multiple forms of oppression (e.g., racism, heterosexism, transphobia)—manifesting across multiple levels (e.g., interpersonal, structural)—can place Black and Latinx lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other sexual/gender minority (LGBTQ+) adolescents at increased risk for internalizing psychopathology...

Intensive longitudinal designs (e.g., experience sampling methods [ESMs]) hold promise for examining the dynamic interplay between daily adversity, coping strategies, and behavioral and mental health issues among marginalized populations. However, few studies have used intensive longitudinal designs with sexual minority women (SMW), an understudied...

Objective: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ)-affirmative cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focused on minority stress processes can address gay and bisexual men’s transdiagnostic mental and behavioral health concerns. Identifying moderators of treatment outcomes may inform the mechanisms of LGBQ-affirmative CBT and subpopulations who may de...

Across the lifespan, most sexual minority individuals experience the closet—a typically prolonged period in which no significant others know their sexual identity. This paper positions the closet as distinct from stigma concealment given its typical duration in years and absolute removal from sources of support for an often-central identity typical...

This workbook introduces new cognitive-behavioral therapy skills for managing emotional experiences that might be directly or indirectly caused or worsened by stress related to being LGBTQ. The treatment program begins by reviewing the types of emotions that an individual might be currently experiencing. Throughout the program, patients are reminde...

This book covers the principles and techniques that mental health practitioners can use to affirmatively respond to the distinct stressors that their LGBTQ clients often face. It outlines a clear step-by-step approach that teaches skills for enhancing LGBTQ clients’ mental well-being by undoing the deep impact that early and ongoing LGBTQ-related s...

This book covers the principles and techniques that mental health practitioners can use to affirmatively respond to the distinct stressors that their LGBTQ clients often face. It outlines a clear step-by-step approach that teaches skills for enhancing LGBTQ clients’ mental well-being by undoing the deep impact that early and ongoing LGBTQ-related s...

This workbook introduces new cognitive-behavioral therapy skills for managing emotional experiences that might be directly or indirectly caused or worsened by stress related to being LGBTQ. The treatment program begins by reviewing the types of emotions that an individual might be currently experiencing. Throughout the program, patients are reminde...

This book covers the principles and techniques that mental health practitioners can use to affirmatively respond to the distinct stressors that their LGBTQ clients often face. It outlines a clear step-by-step approach that teaches skills for enhancing LGBTQ clients’ mental well-being by undoing the deep impact that early and ongoing LGBTQ-related s...

This book covers the principles and techniques that mental health practitioners can use to affirmatively respond to the distinct stressors that their LGBTQ clients often face. It outlines a clear step-by-step approach that teaches skills for enhancing LGBTQ clients’ mental well-being by undoing the deep impact that early and ongoing LGBTQ-related s...

This workbook introduces new cognitive-behavioral therapy skills for managing emotional experiences that might be directly or indirectly caused or worsened by stress related to being LGBTQ. The treatment program begins by reviewing the types of emotions that an individual might be currently experiencing. Throughout the program, patients are reminde...

This book covers the principles and techniques that mental health practitioners can use to affirmatively respond to the distinct stressors that their LGBTQ clients often face. It outlines a clear step-by-step approach that teaches skills for enhancing LGBTQ clients’ mental well-being by undoing the deep impact that early and ongoing LGBTQ-related s...

This book covers the principles and techniques that mental health practitioners can use to affirmatively respond to the distinct stressors that their LGBTQ clients often face. It outlines a clear step-by-step approach that teaches skills for enhancing LGBTQ clients’ mental well-being by undoing the deep impact that early and ongoing LGBTQ-related s...

This workbook introduces new cognitive-behavioral therapy skills for managing emotional experiences that might be directly or indirectly caused or worsened by stress related to being LGBTQ. The treatment program begins by reviewing the types of emotions that an individual might be currently experiencing. Throughout the program, patients are reminde...

This book covers the principles and techniques that mental health practitioners can use to affirmatively respond to the distinct stressors that their LGBTQ clients often face. It outlines a clear step-by-step approach that teaches skills for enhancing LGBTQ clients’ mental well-being by undoing the deep impact that early and ongoing LGBTQ-related s...

This workbook introduces new cognitive-behavioral therapy skills for managing emotional experiences that might be directly or indirectly caused or worsened by stress related to being LGBTQ. The treatment program begins by reviewing the types of emotions that an individual might be currently experiencing. Throughout the program, patients are reminde...

This book covers the principles and techniques that mental health practitioners can use to affirmatively respond to the distinct stressors that their LGBTQ clients often face. It outlines a clear step-by-step approach that teaches skills for enhancing LGBTQ clients’ mental well-being by undoing the deep impact that early and ongoing LGBTQ-related s...

This book covers the principles and techniques that mental health practitioners can use to affirmatively respond to the distinct stressors that their LGBTQ clients often face. It outlines a clear step-by-step approach that teaches skills for enhancing LGBTQ clients’ mental well-being by undoing the deep impact that early and ongoing LGBTQ-related s...

This workbook introduces new cognitive-behavioral therapy skills for managing emotional experiences that might be directly or indirectly caused or worsened by stress related to being LGBTQ. The treatment program begins by reviewing the types of emotions that an individual might be currently experiencing. Throughout the program, patients are reminde...

This workbook introduces new cognitive-behavioral therapy skills for managing emotional experiences that might be directly or indirectly caused or worsened by stress related to being LGBTQ. The treatment program begins by reviewing the types of emotions that an individual might be currently experiencing. Throughout the program, patients are reminde...

This workbook introduces new cognitive-behavioral therapy skills for managing emotional experiences that might be directly or indirectly caused or worsened by stress related to being LGBTQ. The treatment program begins by reviewing the types of emotions that an individual might be currently experiencing. Throughout the program, patients are reminde...

This workbook introduces new cognitive-behavioral therapy skills for managing emotional experiences that might be directly or indirectly caused or worsened by stress related to being LGBTQ. The treatment program begins by reviewing the types of emotions that an individual might be currently experiencing. Throughout the program, patients are reminde...

This book covers the principles and techniques that mental health practitioners can use to affirmatively respond to the distinct stressors that their LGBTQ clients often face. It outlines a clear step-by-step approach that teaches skills for enhancing LGBTQ clients’ mental well-being by undoing the deep impact that early and ongoing LGBTQ-related s...

This book covers the principles and techniques that mental health practitioners can use to affirmatively respond to the distinct stressors that their LGBTQ clients often face. It outlines a clear step-by-step approach that teaches skills for enhancing LGBTQ clients’ mental well-being by undoing the deep impact that early and ongoing LGBTQ-related s...

This workbook introduces new cognitive-behavioral therapy skills for managing emotional experiences that might be directly or indirectly caused or worsened by stress related to being LGBTQ. The treatment program begins by reviewing the types of emotions that an individual might be currently experiencing. Throughout the program, patients are reminde...

This book covers the principles and techniques that mental health practitioners can use to affirmatively respond to the distinct stressors that their LGBTQ clients often face. It outlines a clear step-by-step approach that teaches skills for enhancing LGBTQ clients’ mental well-being by undoing the deep impact that early and ongoing LGBTQ-related s...

This book covers the principles and techniques that mental health practitioners can use to affirmatively respond to the distinct stressors that their LGBTQ clients often face. It outlines a clear step-by-step approach that teaches skills for enhancing LGBTQ clients’ mental well-being by undoing the deep impact that early and ongoing LGBTQ-related s...

This workbook introduces new cognitive-behavioral therapy skills for managing emotional experiences that might be directly or indirectly caused or worsened by stress related to being LGBTQ. The treatment program begins by reviewing the types of emotions that an individual might be currently experiencing. Throughout the program, patients are reminde...

This book covers the principles and techniques that mental health practitioners can use to affirmatively respond to the distinct stressors that their LGBTQ clients often face. It outlines a clear step-by-step approach that teaches skills for enhancing LGBTQ clients’ mental well-being by undoing the deep impact that early and ongoing LGBTQ-related s...

This book covers the principles and techniques that mental health practitioners can use to affirmatively respond to the distinct stressors that their LGBTQ clients often face. It outlines a clear step-by-step approach that teaches skills for enhancing LGBTQ clients’ mental well-being by undoing the deep impact that early and ongoing LGBTQ-related s...

This workbook introduces new cognitive-behavioral therapy skills for managing emotional experiences that might be directly or indirectly caused or worsened by stress related to being LGBTQ. The treatment program begins by reviewing the types of emotions that an individual might be currently experiencing. Throughout the program, patients are reminde...

This workbook introduces new cognitive-behavioral therapy skills for managing emotional experiences that might be directly or indirectly caused or worsened by stress related to being LGBTQ. The treatment program begins by reviewing the types of emotions that an individual might be currently experiencing. Throughout the program, patients are reminde...

This workbook introduces new cognitive-behavioral therapy skills for managing emotional experiences that might be directly or indirectly caused or worsened by stress related to being LGBTQ. The treatment program begins by reviewing the types of emotions that an individual might be currently experiencing. Throughout the program, patients are reminde...

This book covers the principles and techniques that mental health practitioners can use to affirmatively respond to the distinct stressors that their LGBTQ clients often face. It outlines a clear step-by-step approach that teaches skills for enhancing LGBTQ clients’ mental well-being by undoing the deep impact that early and ongoing LGBTQ-related s...

Objectives: This randomized controlled trial examined whether an 11-week synchronous (i.e., real-time) online training in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and other sexual or gender diverse (LGBTQ)-affirmative cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) could lead to increased uptake of this practice at LGBTQ community centers across 20 U.S. sta...

We tested the feasibility and acceptability of a group therapy treatment that addresses the intersecting stigma-related stressors theorized to drive elevated mental health risk, sexual health risk, and their co-occurrence among Black and Latino gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBM). First, we modified an existing 10-week, one-on-...

Trauma-exposed sexual minority women (SMW) are at elevated risk of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and hazardous drinking compared to trauma-exposed heterosexual women. To understand whether these problems might be exacerbated during times of elevated societal stress, we collected data from a New York-based sample of trauma-exposed SMW between...

Background Few studies have examined associations between neighborhood social cohesion and sexual risk behaviors among gay, bisexual, and other sexual minority men (SMM), and none have among Black SMM in the southern U.S. The purpose of the current study is to examine associations between neighborhood social cohesion and sexual risk behaviors among...

Objective: Since the beginning of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights movement, LGBTQ community centers have been on the front lines of mental health care for sexual and gender minorities (SGMs) across the United States. However, little is known about what types of mental health services LGBTQ community centers curren...

Social scientists are increasingly interested in methodological advances that can illuminate the distinct experiences and health outcomes produced by various systems of inequality (e.g., race, gender, religion, sexual orientation). However, innovative methodological strategies are needed to (a) capture the breadth, complexity, and dynamic nature of...

Identity concealment affects all sexual minority individuals, with potentially complex mental health implications. Concealing a sexual minority identity can simultaneously generate the stress of hiding, protect against the stress of discrimination, and keep one apart from sexual minority communities and their norms and supports. Not surprisingly, e...

Objectives: We used microlongitudinal methods to examine the prevalence and day-to-day correlates of intersectional experiences (IEs) in a U.S. sample of 131 Black sexual minorities. Method: Participants were 97 gay/lesbian people (74.0%) and 34 bisexuals (26.0%); nearly a third of the sample also identified as queer (32.1%). Most participants iden...

Writing on the experiences of bisexual-identified people has highlighted the potential complexity of the ongoing process of deciding when and how to present one's sexual orientation identity to others (Rust, 2002). The two studies presented here were designed to contribute basic knowledge regarding self-presentation of sexual orientation among bise...

Scholars have called for increased research on the process by which lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people cope with stigma and hate-related incidents. Homophobic hate crimes, for example, may have a ripple effect within the LGBTQ community, in which individuals beyond the immediate victim experience psychological distress an...

Preexposure prophylaxis has transformed HIV prevention, becoming widespread in communities of gay and bisexual men in the developed world in a short time. There is a broad concern that preexposure prophylaxis will discourage condom use among gay men (i.e., “risk compensation”). This commentary argues for broadening the focus on gay men’s health bey...

This chapter provides a basis for applying John Bowlby’s attachment theory to same-sex love relationships.

Individuals with concealable stigmatized identities face many options regarding whether, when, how, and to whom to conceal or disclose information about their marginalized social status. Numerous studies have examined the psychosocial health consequences of different stigma concealment and disclosure processes, but research in this area is hindered...

Little research has examined the management of multiple minority identities among lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people of color, despite a growing theoretical literature on such identity intersections. The present study focused on the intersectional construct of conflicts in allegiances (CIA), defined as perceived incompatibility between one’s r...

Past scholarship is divided regarding whether stigma concealment and disclosure represent a unidimensional construct. This study used an online survey to investigate the distinctness of these stigma management processes among 298 sexual minority undergraduate and graduate students. The association demonstrated between stigma concealment and disclos...