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The Gevirtz School

Graduate School of Education
University of California, Santa Barbara

Maryam Kia-Keating, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology
PhD, Boston University

EdM, Harvard University

AB, Dartmouth College



Selected Publications:


Kia-Keating, M., Brown, S. A., Schulte, M. T., & Monreal, T. K. (in press).  Adolescent satisfaction with brief motivational enhancement for alcohol abuse.  Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research.  pdf

Sorsoli, L., Kia-Keating, M., & Grossman, F. K. (2008).  “I keep that hush-hush”: Male survivors of sexual abuse and the challenges of disclosure.  Journal of Counseling Psychology, 55:3, 333-345. pdf

Ellis, B. H., Kia-Keating, M., Yusuf, S., Lincoln, A., & Nur, A. (2007). Ethical research in refugee communities and the use of community participatory methods.  Transcultural Psychiatry, 44: 3, 459-481. pdf

Kia-Keating, M., & Ellis, B. H. (2007).  Belonging and connection to school in resettlement: Young refugees, school belonging, and psychosocial adjustment.  Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 12:1, 29-43. pdf

Grossman, F. K., Sorsoli, L., & Kia-Keating, M. (2006).  A gale force wind: Meaning making by male survivors of childhood sexual abuse.  American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 76: 4, 434-444. pdf

Kia-Keating, M., Grossman, F. K., Sorsoli, L., Epstein, M. (2005).  Containing and resisting masculinity: Narratives of renegotiation among resilient male survivors of childhood sexual abuse.  Psychology of Men and Masculinity, 6, 169-185. pdf

Lustig, S. L., Kia-Keating, M., Knight, W. G., Geltman, P., Ellis, B. H., Kinzie, J. D., Keane, T., Saxe, G. N. (2004).  Review of child and adolescent refugee mental health.  Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 43, 24-31. pdf

Saxe, G. N., Kia-Keating, M., Ellis, B. H., Miller, A. B., McCampbell, D., Lugardo, M., & Pierre, M. (2004).  What Did You See on September the 11th: Coping with Feelings about War and Terrorism, National Resources Center, National Child Traumatic Stress Network, Durham, NC.

Lustig, S. L., Kia-Keating, M., Knight, W. G., Geltman, P., Ellis, H., Birman, D., Kinzie, J. D., Keane, T., Saxe, G. N. (2003).  Review of child and adolescent refugee mental health: White paper from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Refugee Trauma Task Force.  Boston, MA. pdf

Noam, G. G., Kia, M., Abderhalden, I. (2001).  A different kind of normative pathway: The development of resilience in high-risk young mothers.  In R. K. Silbereisen & M. Reitzle (Eds.), Psychologie 2000: Bericht ueber den 42.  Kongress der Dutschen Gesellschaft fuer Psychologie in Jena 2000, (pp. 207-219). Berlin: Pabst Science Publishers.