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Gómez has published over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, scholarly writings, and pieces for the general public. Her primary research focus is cultural betrayal trauma theory (CBTT), which she created as a framework for empirically examining the mental, behavioral, cultural, and physical health impact of violence on Black and other marginalized youth, young adults, and elders within the context of inequality. Gómez will be a Fellow at the Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, where she will write her book, Cultural Betrayal, Sexual Abuse, & Healing for Black Women & Girls: From Black Lives Matter to MeToo (Publisher: APA Books). She is also the lead co-editor of the 2021 special issue of Journal of Trauma & Dissociation- Discrimination, Violence, & Healing in Marginalized Communities. Gómez, Ph.D., Board Member and Chair of the Research Advisory Committee at the Center for Institutional Courage, is an Assistant Professor at Wayne State University in the Department of Psychology and Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute for Child & Family Development (MPSI).
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She remains grateful for her time at MPSI and in Detroit. Gómez is no longer recruiting graduate students at WSU, as she will begin as an Assistant Professor at Boston University (BU) School of Social Work, Clinical Practice Department, and Faculty Affiliate at BU’s Center for Innovation in Social Work & Health (July 2022). With a contract with APA Books, she will spend the Fellowship year writing her academic book, Cultural Betrayal, Sexual Abuse, & Healing for Black Women & Girls: From Black Lives Matter to MeToo.ĭr. She is spending the 2021-22 academic year as a CASBS Fellow at the Stanford University Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). Gómez is on leave from Wayne State University.