Jeffrey Strain, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Core Undergraduate Psychology Faculty

CFO #810 Office
940-898-2309  phone | 940-898-2301 fax | email: jstrain@twu.edu

Education

Courses Taught
Applied Statistics (Undergraduate) Advanced Psychological Statistics I & II (Graduate), Psychological Tests and Measurements (Graduate), Supervised Practicum (Graduate), Rorschach Administration and Interpretation (Graduate), Supervision of Clinical Supervision Lab (Graduate), and Research Consultation in Psychology (Graduate).

Research Interests
Diverse expressions of gender and sexual identity (e.g., sex workers, queer/trans identities, men and women who engage in BDSM), correctional/prison psychology, underserved populations (e.g., low-wage workers, people with severe and persistent psychiatric illness), and psychodynamic and psychanalytic approaches to counseling and psychotherapy.. 

Recent Publications

• Booker, K. W., Mitchell, A. D., & Strain, J. D. (Accepted pending revisions). Measuring readiness to response to intervnetion in students attending disciplinary alternative schools. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment.
• Strain, J. D., & Shuff, I. M. (In press). Psychological well-being and level of outness in a population of male-to-female transsexual women attending a national transgender conference. International Journal of Transgenderism
• Leach, M. M., Aten J. D., Boyer, M. C., Strain, J. D., & Driver, A. (2009). Cultural self-awareness. In M. Leach & J. D. Aten (Eds.), Culture and the therapeutic process: A guide for mental health professionals. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
• Aten, J. D., Gillespie, R. E., & Strain, J. D. (2008). A transtheoretical model of clinical supervision. Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 2, 1-9.

Honors/Grants/Service

• Secretary/Treasurer, Section V, Division 35, American Psychological Association, (2010-2012)
• Member, Science Committee, Division 44, American Psychological Association (2006-Present)
• Admissions Coordinator, Counseling Psychology Doctoral Program, TWU (2008-Present)
• Co-Chair, Alumni Survey Committee, Institutional Effectiveness, TWU (2009-Present)
• Co-founder and Chair, LGBT Faculty, Staff, and Administrators Group, TWU (2009-Present)
• Member, Assessment Advisory Committee, Institutional Effectiveness, TWU (2009-Present)
• Member, Curriculum Committee, TWU (2009-Present)
• Member, Faculty Center Advisory Council, TWU (2009-Present)
• Member, Intercultural Services Advisory Council, TWU (2009-Present)
• Member, Who's Who Committee, TWU (2009-Present)
• Member, Student Health Services Advisory Council, TWU (2010)
• Award Recipient, Edward C. Roeber Memorial Scholarship, Indiana State University (2005)
• Member, Pi Lambda Theta (2005)
• Member, Psi Chi (1999)