Amanda L Sanchez

Amanda L Sanchez

Amanda L Sanchez

Assistant Professor

Clinical Psychology: Culturally responsive care; reducing mental health disparities; community-engagement, equity-informed implementation science

Dr. Sanchez will not be taking a new PhD student for Fall 2024.

Dr. Sanchez earned her PhD in Clinical Science at Florida International University in Miami, Florida in 2020.  She approaches her work from a health equity perspective that acknowledges and seeks to address the effects of structural marginalization (e.g., racism, classism, sexism, transphobia) on youth from minoritized identities.  She is committed to community-engaged research that centers the needs and values of frontline providers, youth, and their families to improve the equitable provision of quality mental health services.  

Research Interests:

Dr. Sanchez's research utilizes implementation science methods and frameworks to reduce inequities in engagement in and access to quality mental healthcare for minoritized youth and families by:

1) Examining and addressing structural and systemic barriers to engagement and care delivery

2) Testing the implementation of innovative mental health supports in children’s natural environments

3) Increasing the cultural responsiveness of mental health services and systems. In this vein, her work has focused on using cultural assessment to inform case conceptualization and treatment planning and identifying effective culturally responsive strategies that address specific cultural and contextual challenges (e.g., racism/discrimination, acculturation, housing/food insecurity) and strengths (e.g., racial/ethnic identity, community support, spirituality). 

Please see our ACCESS Lab Website for more details on our current projects. 

Selected Publications

Hoskins, K., Sanchez, A.L., Hoffacker, C., Momplaisir, F., Gross, R., Brady, K.A., Pettit, A.R., Zengraf, K., Mills, C., Coley, D. & Beidas R.S (in press). Implementation Mapping to Plan for a Hybrid Trial Testing the Effectiveness and Implementation of a Behavioral Intervention for HIV Medication Adherence and Care Retention. Frontiers in Public Health.

Conroy, K., Frech, N., Sanchez A. L., Bagner, D. & Comer, J. (2021). Parental stress in immigrant and cultural minority families of preschoolers with developmental delay: Examining the roles of acculturation, enculturation, and child problem severity. Infant Mental Health Journal, 42(4), 573-585.    

Sanchez, A. L., Hoskins, K., Pettit, A. R., Momplaisir, F., Gross, R., Brady, K. A., Hoffacker, C., Zentgraf, K., & Beidas, R. A. (In Press).  Stakeholder Perspectives on Implementing an Evidence-Based Behavioral Intervention for People with HIV: A Rapid Qualitative Analysis of Implementation Determinants. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.

Sanchez, A. L., Comer, J. S., & LaRoche, M. (in press). Enhancing the Responsiveness of Family-Based CBT Through Culturally Informed Case Conceptualization and Treatment Planning. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice.

 Sanchez, A. L., Jent, J., Aggarwal, N., Chavira, D., Coxe, S., Garcia, D., LaRoche, M. & Comer, J. S. (2022). Person-centered cultural assessment can improve child mental health service engagement and outcomes. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 51(1), 1-22. 

Hong, N., Sanchez, A. L., & Comer, J. S. (2019). Multi-media field test: Can users strike out OCD with the nOCD app? Cognitive and Behavioral Practice.

Sanchez, A. L., Comer, J. S. Coxe, S., Albano, A. M., Piacentini, J., Compton, S. N., Ginsburg, G. A., Rynn, M. A., Walkup, J. T., Sherrill, J. T., & Kendall, P. C. (2019). The effects of youth anxiety treatment on school impairment: Comparing differential outcomes across CBT, SSRI medication, and their combination. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 1-10.

Sanchez, A. L., Cornacchio, D., Poznanski, B. Golik, A., Chou, T., & Comer, J. S. (2018). The effectiveness of school-based mental health interventions for elementary aged youth: A meta-analysis. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 57(3), 153-165.

Courses Taught

PSYC 861: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Youth

Education

2020-2022  University of Pennsylvania Center for Mental Health, Philadelphia, PA

                   T32 Postdoctoral Fellow

2019-2020  University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, NM

                  Clinical Internship

2014-2020  Florida International University, Miami, FL

                  Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Science in Child/Adolescent Psychology, Awarded 2020

2009-2013  New York University, New York, NY                                                                 

                 Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Minors: Child/Adolescent Mental Health, Spanish, Awarded 2013

Recent Presentations

 

Sanchez A. L., Weiss M., Schacter T., Becker-Haimes E. M. What It Takes to Provide Culturally Responsive EBPs for Anxiety and OCD: Stakeholder Perspectives. To be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY, November, 2022.

Sanchez A. L., Weiss M., Schacter T., Becker-Haimes E. M. Effectiveness of Exposure-Based CBT Delivered in a Public Mental Health System. To be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY, November, 2022.

Sanchez, A. L., Jent, J., Aggarwal, N., Chavira, D., Coxe, S., Garcia, D., LaRoche, M. & Comer, J. S. (2022). Person-Centered Cultural Assessment to Reduce Inequities in Child Mental Health Service Engagement. To be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY, November, 2022.

Sanchez A. L., Weiss M., Schacter T., Baumann A., Calloway A., Davis Goodwine D. M., Mora Ringle V., Becker-Haimes E. M. The Development of a Toolkit to Improve the Cultural Responsiveness of Treatment for Marginalized Youth with Anxiety and OCD. To be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, New York, NY, November, 2022.

Sanchez A. L., Hoskins, K., Pettit, A. R., Momplaisir, F., Gross, R., Brady, K. A., Hoffacker, C., Zentgraf, K., & Beidas, R. S. Stakeholder perspectives on implementing an evidence-based behavioral intervention targeting medication adherence and care retention for people living with HIV: A rapid qualitative analysis. Presentation given at the 14th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation,” Virtual. December 2021.

Hoskins, K., Sanchez, A.L., Hoffacker, C., Momplaisir, F., Gross, R. Brady, K., Pettit, A.R., Zengraf, K., Mills, C. & Beidas R.S. “Implementation Mapping to Increase the Use of Evidence-Based Interventions in the HIV Continuum of Care.” Oral presentation given at the 14th Annual Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation,” Virtual. December 2021.

Calloway, A. (Co-Chair), Sanchez, A. L. (Co-Chair), Schriger, S., Luis Sanchez, E., & Boustani, M. M., Creed, T. A. (Discussant). Utilizing stakeholder input to improve quality of and access to evidence-based practices. Presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, Virtual.