Amanda L Sanchez

Assistant Professor

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

Dr. Sanchez will be taking a new PhD student for Fall 2026.

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:

(1) Examine the effects of person-centered culturally responsive practices on youth mental health. We define person-centered culturally responsive strategies as those that intentionally assess and incorporate clients’ culture (e.g., salient social identities, beliefs about mental health and treatment, values) and context (e.g., stressors and strengths related to social identities and lived environment) into therapy.

(2) Identify barriers and facilitators to implementation of person-centered culturally responsive care and collaborate in developing strategies to address them.

(3) Understand and explore strategies for addressing underlying structural and systemic barriers to quality care for youth and their families.

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

Selected Publications

*Flowers, S. N., Sanchez A. L., Siddiqui, A., Weiss, M., Becker-Haimes, E. M. (2025). Clinician-reported person-centered culturally responsive practices for youth with OCD and anxiety. Children.

Sanchez, A. L., Mills, C., Coley, D., Hoskins, K., Momplaisir, F., Gross R., Brady, K. A., & Beidas, R. S. (2025). Systemic Inequities, Dignity, and Trust in the Context of HIV Care: A Qualitative Analysis. International Journal for Equity in Health,24(1), 123.

Becker-Haimes, E.M., Weiss, M., Schaechter, T., Young, S., & Sanchez, A.L. (2025). Practice-based research examining effectiveness of exposure-based CBT for youth in a community mental health setting. Journal of Mood and Anxiety Disorders,100129.

*Schaechter, T., Flowers, S., Weiss, M., Becker-Haimes E. M., & Sanchez A. L. (2025). Culturally Adapted Interventions for Youth Anxiety and Related Disorders: A Systematic Review. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 1-20.

*Rudrabhatla, A., Flowers S., Becker-Haimes, E. M., Sanchez A. L. (2024). Centering Equity in the Implementation of Exposure and Response Prevention for Pediatric OCD: Current Evidence and Future Directions. Current Developmental Disorders Reports.

Becker-Haimes, E. M. & Sanchez A. L. (2024). The Road to Equitable OCD Treatment: Commentary on Justice Based treatment Considerations for Identity-Related OCD. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice

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., Javadi N., & Comer J. S. (2024). Family engagement in a behavioral parenting intervention: A randomized comparison of telehealth versus office-based treatment formats. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 92(6), 344.

Urcuyo A. E., Conroy, K., Sanchez, A. L., Silva, K., Furr, J. M., Bagner, D. M., & Comer, J. S., (2023).. Psychometric Evaluation of the Abbreviated Multidimensional Acculturation Scale (AMAS) in a Treatment-Seeking Sample of First-Generation Immigrants. Child Psychiatry and Human Development.

Sanchez, A. L., Comer, J. S., & LaRoche, M. (2022). 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.

Sanchez, A. L., Cliggit, L. P., Dallard, N. L., Irby, D., Harper, M., Schaffer, E., Lane-Fall, M., Beidas, R. S. (2023). Power Redistribution and Upending White Supremacy in Implementation Research and Practice in Community Mental Health. Psychiatric Services.

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

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.