
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
FRIDAY
8:00 am
Sign-In & Refreshments
Get settled in over coffee/tea
8:45 am
Opening Remarks
9:00 am to 10:30 am
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Stephanie Fryberg
“Giving Voice to Omission as the Modern Form of Bias Against Indigenous Peoples”
10:45 am to 12:00 pm
A new approach to the literature review for qualitative research
Moderator: Ruthellen Josselson
Discussants: Phil Hammack & Leo Kiralla
Moderator: Kathia Rebeca Arreola Rodríguez
Discussants: Rahul Sambaraju, Kathia Rebeca Arreola Rodríguez
Knowledge Networks: Shared Reflections on Learning and Doing Qualitative Research
Roundtable Dialogues
Paper Presentations
Human Reflection in Qualitative Inquiry
Ritual, Reflection, and Revelation: An Organic Inquiry into Embodied Research
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From Reflection to Integration: How Qualitative Inquiry Fosters Personal Growth
The Necessity of Narrative: Patience, Gespräch, and Being in the Midst
Keeping the Other as Other: The Woes of Explanatory Frameworks
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Hemalatha Swaminathan
Chris Wells
Leo Kiralla
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David Goodman, Taiga Guterres, Mookie Manalili, Shelly Xue, Sam Aston, Sophia Shieh, Lydia Li
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Qualitative Psychology Journal Report
LGBTQ+ Experiences
Amplifying LGBTQ+ Voices: Qualitative Insights for Community Action and Advocacy
Integrating Art and Research in Exploring Black Gay Men's Resilience
Reimagining Queer Labeling: Fluidity of Sexual and Gender Experiences in
Communities
How to Change Your Mind About Gender and Sexuality: A Person-Centered Narrative
Inquiry of Psychedelic Experience
Zak Keith & Adriana Manago
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Daniel Gaztambide, Obi Onwukanjo, Tina Singanporia, Barnard Tarver & Isa
Anastaria Rivas
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Dhuha Wasfie & Phil Hammack
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Phil Hammack, Oona Coffey, Tyler Branham, Jay Fowleer, Jake Morgali & Kiersten Waters
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1:30 pm to 2:30 pm
Difference, Autism & Disability
Parent Perspectives on Autistic Children's Anxiety Before and After Intervention
At the intersections of critical psychology and neurodivergence: The illegitimacy of
Black-Canadian neurodivergent identities
Exploring the “critical” in the critical phenomenology of mobility aids
Molly Berman, Jessie Beyer & Amy van Hecke
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Rashelle Litchmore
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Jeffery Yen
Indigeneity, Spirituality & Worldviews
Giving Back: Existential Analysis Meets Contemporary Embodiments of Indigenous Worldviews/Spiritualties
Queering Spirituality through Listening Guide Methodology
The curious case of Dharmapada: A demonstration of the scopes and limits of moral imagination
Antonie Dvorakova
Bridget Woods
Séamus Power
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Imagination & Futurity
Imagining Tomorrow: Metarealism and Our Political Future
Harnessing Black Imaginaries: What Afrofuturism Can Teach Psychology
Developing Theory of Change for Compassionate Systems, British Columbia, Canada
Mathew Clemente
Amanda Nkeramihigo
Suchitra Sarda & Kimberly Schonert-Reichl
12:15 pm to 12:30 pm
12:15 pm to 1:15 pm
LUNCH: Buffet of sandwiches and wraps, salad, fruit, and dessert
Paper Presentations
Ecology and Ecosystems
How Ecological Emotions Take Shape: A Narrative Inquiry
Degrowth in Psychological Research: Macintyre’s Moral Enquiry as a Way Forward?
How can ecosystems be effectively utilized to realize radical innovation? - An abductive qualitative inquiry
Exploring Ecologies of Resilience in Filipino Frontiers’ Experience of Stress and Strength
Alexis Chavez
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Dominique Mailloux
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Sagar Gaikwad
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Angelique Pearl Virtue P. Villasanta, Christelle Johanna Reganion, Anna Czarina Mikael Isaguirre, England Danne B. Castro, Clarisse Aeaea M. Kilboy, Jessica Camille De Guzman, Teresita Panganiban, Liane Peña Alampay, Karina Therese G. Fernandez, Janneke Agustin, Iris Trinidad, and Katrina Llorente
2:45 pm to 4:00 pm
Teaching Doctoral Qualitative Psychology: Epistemological, Practical, and
Political Challenges
Chair: Sue Motulsky
Embodied Knowledge in Crisis: Qualitative Methods as Resistance, Refuge, and
Renewal
Chair: Katia Henrys
Symposia
Walking the tightrope: Balancing among competing priorities
Teaching qualitative methods at a time of heightened precarity: A student-centered pedagogy
Teaching qualitative inquiry: Past, present, and future
Sue Motulsky
Phil Hammack
Lori Koelsch
Politics of (dis)embodiment: Privilege and our (In)Ability to Witness and Respond to Social Crises
Pedagogies of Quiet Resistance: Collective Care in the Age of Anticipatory Obedience
“May I Never Lose that Terror that Keeps Me Brave”: Qualitative Methods to Tackle Present Challenges
Friederike Windel
Emese Ilyes
Katia Henrys
Self and Relationship Narratives Manifest and Resist Societal Power Systems
Chair: Ed de St. Aubin
Intergenerational Storytelling as a Form of Resistance in LGBTQ+ Communities
Examining Racial/Ethnic Conversations Through a Master Narrative Framework
Negotiating Dominant Narratives in Life Stories from Intersectional Spaces
Nic M. Westrate
Dulce Westburgh
Betsy Miller
4:15 pm to 5:30 pm
Highlighted Panel
6:00 pm
Community Dinner
8:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Student and Early Career Social
SATURDAY
8:15-8:45 am
Morning Refreshments
9:00 am to 10:15 am
Self and Relationship Narratives Manifest and Resist Societal Power Systems
Paper Presentations
VOCES Narrating the South: Geopolitics of knowledge production
Pathways to the therapist paragon: a decolonial grounded theory
Colonial Patriarchies: Gender and Class in the Colonial Mentality Study
Giazú Enciso Domínguez, Marisela Montenegro
Jude Bergkamp
Daniel Gaztambide, Andrea Hernández Vega, Edlyane Veronica Medina Escobar,
Tyce Purvis, Gabriella Diaz, Beatriz Torres
Industriousness and Struggle
Quality of Work Life among Senior Managers in an Indian Organisation
Emotional labour in qualitative doctoral research with emotionally sensitive content
I Can't Play my Instrument Anymore: A Heuristic Study
Kriti Singh
Monika Naslund
Elizabeth B.V. Brisola, Alexandra Leblanc L’Ecuyer & Floris T. van Vugt
Methodology
Advancing Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) through through a Narrative Variation (NIPA)
Research with youth: Interpretivist analysis of online open-ended survey questions
Threads of Insight: A Narrative Approach to Conceptual Metaphor Theory
Nathan Thomas
Angelique Pearl Virtue P. Villasanta, Mira Alexis P. Ofreneo, Gilana Kim T.
Roxas, Juleini Vivien I. Nicdao, Anne Therese Marie B. Martin
Benjamin Stevenson, Karen Fergus, Iana Ianakieva, Lucas Norton
Youth, Education & Development
Fear of Social Death: Youth Suicidal Distress and 'Love Problems' in Rural India
Exploring Life After Sexual Violence Through A Rhizomatic Narrative Methodology
The Grind Never Stops: A Study of Hustle Culture among Youth
Varnica Arora
Michelle Dusko Biferie, Johanna Sam, Bowen Xiao & Jen Shapka
Shalini Sharma & Harsahiba Kaur
AI, Technology & Education
Exploring Student Use of ChatGPT: AI as a Cognitive Mentor in Higher Education
‘Didn’t think you could do that’: the collaborative construction of ‘potential’ in human AI conversations and other issues for AI in qualitative inquiry
No smartphone movement in HK: a discourse analysis
Samuel Colón de la Rosa, Melissa Rivera Flores, Priscila Perez Mercado, Ashley Lebron Vázquez, Laura Mendoza Valiente, Andrea Torres Lebrón & Nashley Fuentes Sanabria.
Rahul Sambaraju
Fu Wai
10:30 am to 11:45 am
Roundtable Dialogues
Integrating AI in Qualitative Research: Opportunities, Challenges, and Ethical Considerations
Into the future of teaching qualitative research methods
Moderator: Corinne Datchi
Discussants: Corinne Datchi, Kathia Rebeca Arreola Rodríguez
Moderator & Discussant: Cynthia Lubin Langtiw
Having Our Say: A Culturally Rooted Conceptualization of Reflective Functioning
Moderator: Vivian L. Tamkin
Discussants: Lizette Hernández, Ja’Toria, Shawna Tran, Zoha Farrukh, Laura Wallerstein & Samara Veerapal
Paper Presentations
Interventions
Stories of Disempowerment in Evidence-based practices - Reflections from Case Report
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Shaping the future through integrating the past: An ethical will intervention
Past Agent/Present Sufferer: Exploring Regret's Dialectics Through Chair Work
Ummul Fatima & Gitanjali Narayanan
Hollen N. Reischer & Kristen M. Johnson
Allison Yang, Kaori Wada & Derrik Klassen
12:00 pm to 12:15 pm
SQIP Presidential Trio Remarks
12:15 pm to 1:00 pm
Community Lunch
Tex-mex buffet (gluten-free and vegan friendly)
1:15 pm to 2:30 pm
Roundtable Dialogues
A strength-based approach to Latinx student research: Weaving positionalities into methodologies
Using qualitative research to understand catastrophic health expenditures of abortion
Toward an Ethnographic Sensibility in Psychology
Moderators & Discussants: Saul Lopez & Elizandra Sandoval
Moderator: Autumn Kirkendall Discussant: Hillary Gyuras
Moderator: Jeanne Marecek
Discussants: Elizabeth Fein, Suzanne R. Kirschner & Jeanne Marecek
Paper Presentations
Emerging Adulthood
The meaning of emerging adulthood for students at the public university
Anxiety and Belonging in Emerging Adulthood: The Role of Online and Offline Connection Strategies
Stigma of Students from Private Universities in Hong Kong
Bengi Sullu
Carol DiFalco
Fu Wai & Thompson Nigel
2:45 pm to 4:00 pm
Patient Experience
Perceptions of Cancer Patients Regarding Their Caregivers in Puerto Rico: Challenges, Support, and Healthcare Barriers
Reimagining Care: Photovoice Research on the Medical Trauma of Sexual Assault
Survivors with Borderline Personality Disorder and Complex PTSD in Emergency Care
Fending Off Fraudulent Participants While “Hank the Heart” Phights PH
Cristal E. Marquez Moyeno
Sophia Shieh
Barbara K. Giambra, Michelle Cash, Kimberly Luebbe, Melissa Magness, Russel Hirsch, Ryan Moore, Kimberly Miles, Michael Kim, Lara Stone & Paul Crister
Refuge, Displacement & Conflict
Elevating refugee youth voices: Syrian and Iraqi adolescent experiences post resettlement
Tracing the Landscape in the Psyche Across Journeys of Immigration and Belonging
Perceptions of the Sociopolitical System Among Lay Cypriots: Exploring the dual Status Quo realities
Emma Heidorn, Mary Bunn, Stone Yan & Jeanne Marsh
Bengi Sullu
Andreas Michael, Irene Kadianaki & Chris Psaltis
Race and Otherness
“I want to lift my people up”: Exploring the psychological correlates of racial themes within the life stories of midlife Black Americans
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Keeping the Other as Other: The Woes of Explanatory Frameworks
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Education Experiences of Older American Indians: A qualitative study
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Ananya Mayukha, Ambar Guzman, Sirin Jitklongsub & Dan P. McAdams
Tiaga Guterres, Mookie Manalili, Shelly Xue, Sam Aston, Sophia Shieh, Lydia Li
Maria McCready, Freshness Uzo-Hez, Victoria Tran & Steven Verney
Participatory & Community-Based Research
Partnering with Community Member Peer Researchers to Address Food Insecurity
Sustainable Practices and Barriers: Insights from a Participatory Workshop
3. Methodological Reflections in Contexts of Social Vulnerability: Breaking the Dynamics of Exclusion through Research with People Experiencing Homelessness
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Barbara K. Giambra, Michelle Gorecki, Chelsey Anderson, Jasmine Robinson,
Vernisha Finch, Alyssa Banister, Michael Truitt, Mary Carol Burkhardt, Melissa
Klein, Carley Riley, Chidiogo Anyigbo & Kristen Copeland
Julián Laboy-Rodríguez
Isabel Pellicer, Catalina Ramírez & Jorgelina Di Iorio
Intergroup Collaboration
From Struggle to Strength: A Collaborative Multiracial Photo-narrative Fighting the Deficit Narrative
Striving for Language Equity: Multilingual Qualitative Research in Pediatric Psychology
Combating Ageism Through Intergenerational Learning
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Jacey Keys & Giazú Enciso Dominguez
Amy Olen, L. Sophia Rintell, Charles B. Rothschild, W. Hobart Davies & Rachel Neff Greenley
Katherine Kwong, Monica Franzone, Juanita-Dawne Bascu, Hye Won Chai,
Andrew C. Pickett & Mathew Lee Smith
4:15 pm to 5:45 pm
Keynote: Dr. Alex Gillespie
“Qualitative research in the age of generative artificial intelligence”
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Poster Session and Refreshments
Parent Perspectives on Autistic Children's Anxiety Before and After Intervention
Berman, Molly, Beyer, Jessie, Van Hecke, Amy
Listening for Cultural Outcomes: Multiracial Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Kabita Chhetri, Amira Y. Trevino, & Karen W. Tao
Students of color and Sense of Belonging at a PWI
Koebe S. Diaz, Kaylen Vine, Veronica Heredia, Alan Luna, Bella Campos-Moya,
Alana Morales Sanchez, Lucas Torres
Language and Identity: Investigating Narrative Structure in Ethnic-Racial Identity Turning
Points
Pauline Ho, Yue Yao, Jiaxin Li
An Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis of New Mothers' Experiences with IVF
Samantha Barrett
Latinx People’s Experience in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis
José Luiggi-Hernández, Fabian Feliciano Graniela, Esaí Ortiz Rivera
The Experiences Of Autistic Youth In Extracurricular Programs In Their Communities
Catherine A Sargent
Animal Assisted Learning: Developing and Optimizing Data Collection Tools
Robbins, Jeremy
Exploring the Role of Qualitative Synthesis in Evidence-Based Practice
Luis Ibarra-Alexanderson, Allison Yang
Family Factors Driving Academic Success in First-Gen Hispanic Students
Sidal Yurt, PsyD student, Corinne Datchi, PhD, ABPP, Kevin Czerny, Osbaldo Rojas Abad, Dionicio Hernandez, Camila Bazan
Qualitative Inquiry as Means to Explore Hope Sparked by Imagination
Kathryn Stone, Jackson Rowley, David Goodman
Grieving Beyond Reason: Symbolic Ways of Knowing in Parental Loss Stories
Kiana Cogdill-Richardson, Susan Bluck, Hope Schroeder
Avocadoes, Monarchy and Discourse: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s Interview
Michelle Dusko Biferie
Identity Development in Women’s Career Stories: A Master Narrative Analysis
Sarah C. Jennings & Dan P. McAdams
How Do College Students 19-24 Use Instagram and TikTok for Marijuana Decisions?
Gerson L. Jimenez, B.A., Rose Vail, B.A, Corinne Datchi, PhD, ABPP, Isabelle M. Flores, B.A., Shana’e Walker, B.A
Digital Communication and Adolescent Development: Perspectives from a Tzotzil-Maya Community
Adriana Maria Manago, Isabelle Gross, Isabelle Brianni Newson, Paloma Nicole Olmedo, Fatima Itzel Arias
Potential Role of Psychedelics in Reducing Racial Bias
Jana Sladkova, Darron Smith
Feminist Approaches to Understanding Trauma Transmission in Latin American Mother
Daughter Dynamics
Isabella Villarreal
Exploring the Role of Qualitative Synthesis in Evidence-Based Practice
Luis Ibarra-Alexanderson, Allison Yang
El Arte Como Refugio: Latin Students Expressing Identity, Grief, and Resilience in Higher
Education
Isabella Villarreal
Equity For All Children Regardless of Their Identity
Jeniffer Nicole Camacho Soto; Monica Sesma-Vazquez; Tara Collins
Experiences of Interpersonal Relationships in Grieving Emerging Adults
Jessica Cooke, Matthew Stapleton
Qualitative Insights from Rural Healthcare Volunteers
Zachary Ellis, Joseph R. Ferrari
A Feminist Relational Psychodynamic Inquiry into Attachment, Desire, and Boundaries
Ellis Jennings
Climate Action by Racially Minoritized Youths: An Arts-based Qualitative Investigation
Stephanie Lam & Carlie D. Trott
Forming Identity as a Teenage Father
Sarah Ramp, Hui Zhang, PsyD
Who do minorities co-ruminate about discrimination with?
Kamila Redd, Ashley Tudder, Calvin K Lai
Infinite Versions of Love: Reflections of Prejudice and Discrimination Against African
American Moms
Vivian Tamkin, Lizette Hernandez, Zoha Farrukh, Ja'Toria Palmer, Shawna Tran, Laura Wallerstein, & Samara Veerapal
The Fiction of Haruki Murakami: A Postmodern Picture of Japanese Mental Health
Brinda Vaidya