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Linda Rubin, Ph.D. Associate Professor Counseling Psychology Program CFO 809 (940) 898-2314 lrubin@mail.twu.edu

Courses and Specializations

Counseling Psychology, Psychopathology, Personality Assessment, Psychotherapy, Traumatic Stress, Sexual Harassment, Family Violence, Relational Gestalt Therapy

Education

Ph.D., Counseling Psychology, University of Kansas, 1992

Recent Publications

Rubin, L. J. (in press). Preventing violence against women and girls: Expanded perspectives.  [Review of the book, Violence and exploitation against women and girls]. Psychology of Women Quarterly.

Rubin, L. J. (in press). Teaching moments on post-traumatic stress disorder in families. [Review of the book, Finding my way: A teen’s guide to living with a parent who has experienced trauma]. APA Division 56 (Trauma Psychology) Newsletter.

Rubin, L. J. (2007). Domestic Violence, Dating Violence, and Sexual Assault: What’s in a model? [Review of the book, “Intimate” violence against women: When spouses, partners, or lovers attack]. PsyCRITIQUES-Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 52 (No. 29), Article 13.

Devdas, N. R. & Rubin, L. J. (2007). Rape myth acceptance among first- and second-generation South Asian American women.  Sex Roles, 56, 701-705.

Seamans, C. L., Rubin, L. J., & Stabb, S. D. (2007). Women domestic violence offenders: Lessons of violence and survival. Journal of Trauma and Dissociation, 8, 47-68.

Williams, A. H. & Rubin, L. J. (under review). Reliability of the global assessment of functioning scale in a heterosexual male batterer population.

Morrell, J. S., & Rubin, L. J (2001). The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2, post-traumatic stress disorder, and women domestic violence survivors.  Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 32, 151-156.

Rubin, L. J. (2000). Homicides committed by male juveniles: A response to Reese (2000) and Washburn and Watts.  Society for the Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity Bulletin, 5, 8-9.

Mecca, S. J., & Rubin, L. J. (1999). Definitional research on African American  women and social/sexual interactions in academia. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 23, 813-817.

Selected Presentations 

Williams, A., & Rubin, L. J. (2007). Global assessment of functioning scale in a male batterer population. Paper presented at the 115^th  annual meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA. 

Devdas, N. R. & Rubin, L. J. (2006).  Examining Rape Myth Acceptance among South Asian American Women.  American Psychological Association 114^th Annual Convention, New Orleans, LA. 

Rubin, L. J. (2004). Vicarious traumatization. Women’s Haven of Tarrant County, Fort Worth, TX.

Rubin, L. J., Stabb, S. D., Hook, M., Riggs, S., & Nutt, R. (2001). Integrating feminism in a counseling psychology doctoral program. American Psychological Association 109^th Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA

Wagner-Johnson, D. & Rubin, L. J. (2000). Perceptions of opposite and same sex sexual harassment. Texas Psychological Association, Dallas, TX. 

Wechsler, L. & Rubin, L. J. (2000). Acculturation, self-silencing, and depression in Asian American college women. American Psychological Association 108th Annual Convention, Washington, DC.

Morrell, J. S. & Rubin, L. J. (1999). Women domestic violence survivors: Assessing PTSD using the MMPI-2. American Psychological Association 107th Annual Convention, Boston, MA. 

Professional Affiliations

International Society For Traumatic Stress Studies

The American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress

American Psychological Association

Division 17 (Counseling Psychology)

Division 35 (Society for the Psychology of Women)

Division 51 (Psychology of Men)

Division 56 (Trauma Psychology, Charter Member)

Grants

Sandel, M. & Rubin, L. J. (2006).  Grants to Reduce Violent Crimes Against Women on Campus, Office of Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice.  $199,479. 

Attended advanced residential training in Relational Gestalt Psychotherapy with the Pacific Gestalt Institute (formerly Gestalt Therapy Institute of the Pacific), Spring 2002 and Spring 2003.  (Faculty Development Leave funded by TWU [one semester salary in Spring 2002] and a TWU Award from the Annual Fund for Faculty Excellence, $1,500)