Carlton W. Parks, PhD

Degrees

• Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Clinical Psychology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and George Peabody College at Vanderbilt University,1985-1987
• Ph.D. Developmental Psychology, University of Minnesota, 1986
• M.A. General Psychology, City College of the City University of New York, 1979
• B.A. General Psychology, City College of the City University of New York, 1976

Memberships and Associations

• Fellow, American Psychological Association
• Member, American Psychological Association  (1987-2006)
• Fellow, Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA, APA
• Division 27), (2004 – Present)
• Member, APA Divisions 9, 16, 44 & 45
• Member, California Association of School Psychologists (CASP)
• Member, National Association of School Psychologists (NASP)

Specialties and Interests

• research
• teaching
• administration
• multicultural urban community consultation

Editorial Boards

• Psychological Assessment: Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 1990 - 1996; Consulting Editorial Board Member.
• Canadian Journal of Queer Studies in Education 2004- Consulting Editorial Board Member
• Ad Hoc Journal Reviewer : Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
• Journal of Black Psychology
• Journal of Child Sexual Abuse
• Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment, and Trauma
• Journal of Sex Research
• Journal of Social Issues
• Analyses of Social Issues & Public Policy
• Professional Psychology : Research and Practice
• Journal of Counseling Psychology
• Journal of School Psychology
• American Journal of Community Psychology
• Sex Roles
• Journal of Gerontology : Social Sciences
• Child Maltreatment
• Journal of Marriage and the Family
• Psychological Assessment
• Journal of Abnormal Psychology
• Developmental Psychology
• Child Development
• The Counseling Psychologist
• Journal of Family Psychology
• Ad Hoc Book Reviewer :
• Family Violence and Sexual Assault Bulletin
• Archives of Sexual Behavior
• Clinical Psychology Review
• Journal of Sex Research
• Family Relations : Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Studies
• Readings : A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health
• California Council on Family Relations Newsletter
• Contemporary Psychology

Honors

• CSPP-LA Distinguished Faculty Contribution Award, 1999-2000
• Who's Who in Education, Academic Keys, 2003
• Who's Who Among America's Teachers, 2004, 8th Edition

 Research Interests

• interpersonal violence (i.e. hate crimes, relationship violence, child sexual abuse, and sexual assault)
• interpersonal relations
• the psychosocial aspects of HIV infection/AIDS
• feminist studies
• spirituality and psychological adjustment
• multicultural urban community health psychology
• sexology (i.e. sexual and ethnic minorities)

Courses Taught

• Applied social psychology in educational settings
• Multicultural children,adolescents, and their families
• PsyD doctoral project seminar
• Provision of services for children and adolescents in alternative treatments
• Advanced school-based research design, program development, and evaluation
• Professional roles of doctoral-level school psychologists
• Doctoral dissertation development
• Adolescent stress, coping, and resilience

Dissertations Chaired

• Kamilah Marie Woodson -- The impact of skin color and hair texture on HIV communications and the expression of risky sexual behaviors among African-American heterosexual men and women engaged in mate selection
• Susan Harden - Obsessive compulsive traits and symptoms in the family members of autistic individuals
• Jana Kay Johnson - The propensity for relationship violence in heterosexual women's close relationships: An attachment perspective
• Jessica Dawn Robinson - The thematic content categories of lesbian and bisexual women"s sexual fantasies, daydreaming variables, psychological adjustment, and relationship functioning
• Juliet W. Hung - Acculturation influences in the development of disordered eating and body image in Asian-American female adolescents
• Rhona Nicole Cutts -- Sexual orientation and racial identity formation in African-American men who engage in same-sex behavior
• Cheryl Faith Lev - Relationship addiction : Development of a vulnerability model
• Pamela G. Miller - Perceived health and coping in retired adults
• Carol Elias - The impact of cognitive factors in the production of lapse-relapse cycling in substance-abusing women
• Valerie Jeanne Bradford - Personality profiles of Anglo heterosexual male and female sex addicts
• Leslie Enslin - Sex bias and race bias in the diagnosis of histrionic personality disorder
• Emily Valle Ellett - The relationship between sex-role traits, attitudes, and marital satisfaction of women in graduate school
• Clevert Slade King - The detection of malingering of cognitive deficits in a forensic population
• Robert C. Krueger - The status of perceived dream fulfillment in mid-life males
• Daniel O. Kwon - The relationship between marital satisfaction, self-esteem, and Bowen's Differentiation of Self

Research : Publications and Presentations

• Woodson, K.M., Polite, K., Masuda, G.I., & Parks, C.W. (2002, August). Skin color, self-esteem, and risky behaviors among Blacks. Presented at the annual proceedings of the Association of Black Psychologists International Convention, San Diego, California.
• Parks, C.W., Flarity-White, L., Woodson, K.M., & Camp, C. M. (2001, September). Anxiety symptoms and ethnic minority male sexual assault survivors of racially-motivated hate crimes. Presented at the 6th International Conference on Family Violence : Working Together to End Abuse : Advocacy, Assessment, Intervention, Research, Prevention, & Policy, San Diego, California
• Woodson, K.M., Polite, K., Brinkley-Kennedy, R., & Parks, C.W. (2001, August). HIV communications and risky sexual behaviors among heterosexual African-Americans. Presented at the Society for Community Research and Action's Current Topics in Community Methods, Health, and Mental Health Service Delivery Models at the annual proceedings of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, California.
• Robinson, J.D., & Parks, C.W. (2001, August). Sexual and relaitionship fantasies among lesbian and bisexual female couples. Presented at the Society for the Psychology of Women's Feminist Transformations of Psychology session at the annual proceedings of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, California.

Publications

• Taylor, S., Parks, C.W., Shorter-Gooden, K.,Johnson, P., Burke, E., Ashing-Giwa, K., Mendoza, R., Holloway, J., Polite, K., & Masdua, G.I. (2002). In and out of the classroom : A model for multicultural training in clinical psychology. In E. Davis-Russell (Ed.), The California School of Professional Psychology Handbook on Multicultural Education, Research, Intervention, & Training (pp. 54-66) San Francisco, CA. : Jossey-Bass Publishers, Inc..
• Parks, C.W., & Holloway, J. (2002). A professional psychology school model for the research training of psychologists. In E. Davis-Russell (Ed.), The California School of Professional Psychology Handbook on Multicultural Education, Research, Intervention, & Training (pp. 109-122). San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass Publishers, Inc..
• Parks, C.W., & Woodson, K.M. (2002). The impact of skin color and hair texture on mate selection : Implications for interventions with African-American men and women. In E. Davis-Russell (Ed.), The California School of Professional Psychology Handbook on Multicultural Education, Research, Intervention, & Training (pp 249-262). San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass Publishers, Inc..
• Robinson, J.D., & Parks, C.W. (in press). Lesbian and bisexual women's sexual fantasies, psychological adjustment, and relationship functioning among bisexual and lesbian couples. In R. Mathy & S. Kerr (Eds.), Lesbian mental health : A reader for sex educators, counselors, and therapists.Binghamton, New York : Harrington Park Press. (Will also be published as a Special Issue of the Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality).
• Parks, C.W. (2003) Prevention of homophobia and sexual prejudice in adulthood. T.P. Gullotta & M. Bloom (Series Eds). Encyclopedia of primary prevention and health promotion (pp. 588-593).New York, N.Y. : Kluwer/Plenum Academic Press.
• Parks, C.W., Cutts, R.N., Woodson, K.M., & Flarity-White, L. (2001) Issues inherent in the multicultural feminist couple treatment of African-American same-gender loving female adult child sexual abuse survivors. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 10(3), 17-34.
• Parks, C.W., & Woodson, K.M. (2002). Anxiety symptoms of ethnic minority male sexually abused survivors of racially-motivated hate crimes. Family Violence and Sexual Assault Bulletin, 18 (2), 13-19.
• Parks, C.W. (2001). African-American same-gender loving youth, and their families in urban schools. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Social Services : Issues in Practice, Policy, & Research, 13(3), 41-56.
• Parks, C.W., Cutts, R.N., & Woodson, K.M. (2001). African-American same-gender loving men : A multicultural community psychology perspective. The Community Psychologist, 34, 5-7.
• Parks, C.W., Woodson, K.M., Cutts, R.N., & Flarity-White, L. (2000-2001). The multicultural feminist treatment of gay and bisexual male adult survivors of male sexual victimization experiences.Family Violence and Sexual Assault Bulletin,16, 23-28.
• Banerjee,L., Parks,C., Ashing-Giwa,K., Shorter-Gooden,K., Burke,E., Polite, K., Johnson,P., Chien,W., Masuda,G.I., Holloway,J.,Bustamante, A.L.,& Mendoza,R. (2002, Summer). Multicultural community-clinical psychology in the twenty-first century : A paradigm shift. The Community Psychologist,35(3), 29-30.

Recent Conference Presentations

• Parks, C.W. (Symposium Chair), Masuda, G.I., Ichinotsubo-Ezzi, T., Woodson, K.M., & de la Cancela, V. (Discussant). (2002, August). Potential barriers to the psychotherapeutic treatment of ethnic minority males. Presented at the annual proceedings of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
• Parks, C.W. (Symposium Chair), Woodson, K.M., Moody, J.F., & White, J.L. (Discussant)(2002, August). A multicultural perspective of African-American males and relationship violence. Presented at the annual proceedings of the American Psychological Association, Chicago, Illinois.
• Parks, C.W., Gallardo, M., & Holloway, J. (2002, March). The intersections of race, gender, and sexual orientation identities : Multiple identities and multiple oppressions. Symposium panel presentation at the annual proceedings of the Student Affiliation of Multicultural Mental Health (SAMMH)Conference's Making Multiculturalism Meaningful in the New Millennium, co-sponsored by CSPP-LA at Alliant International University, Los Angeles & Pepperdine University's Graduate School of Education and Psychology, Culver City, California.
• Parks, C.W. (2001,October). Reflections on the challenges facing faculty of color teaching courses on race and culture. Presented at the proceedings of the First Annual Institute for the Study and Promotion of Race and Culture's Diversity Challenge for 2001 : How to Survive Teaching Courses on Race and Culture, Peter S. and Carolyn A. Lynch School of Education, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
• Masuda, G.I.(Symposium Co-Chair & Discussant), Parks, C.W. (Symposium Co-Chair), Woodson, K.M., Kwon, D.O., Hung, J.W., & Robinson, J.D. (2001, August). The challenges of multicultural clinical psychology supervision of psychology interns.Symposium presented at the annual proceedings of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, California.
• Parks, C.W. (Symposium Chair), Schacht, S.P. (Discussant), van de Rijt, A. et al., Vidal-Ortiz, S., & Ward, J. (2001, August). Race, gender, class, and sexualities : A multicultural urban-community perspective. Symposium presented at the annual proceedings of the American Sociological Association's Cities of the Future Convention, Anaheim, California.

Interests and Hobbies

• travel
• the creative arts
• cooking

Vitae

• Vitae (161kb doc)