About

Steven Lopez

Professor of Psychology

Contact Information
E-mail: lopezs@usc.edu
Phone: (213) 740-6310
Office: SGM 1001
Office Hours: MW : 10-11

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Curriculum Vitae
 

Biographical Sketch
Steven R. López is a professor of psychology at the University of Southern California. His research provides a critical cultural perspective to the study of psychopathology, assessment, and intervention of Latinos and other ethnic minority groups. In one line of research, his research team has developed a heuristic model of cultural competence for clinical practice, which, with NIMH support, they are currently testing. In a second line of research, Professor López studies the relationship of family factors and the course of schizophrenia, particularly among Mexican American families. One of their aims is to identify what family members do to prevent relapse. In collaboration with Dr. Carmen Lara in Puebla, Mexico, Dr. Lopez has also developed a public education campaign to help Spanish speaking family members recognize the key signs of psychosis so that they will be able to seek services promptly. His research brings together basic and applied research in an effort to reduce disparities in mental health care. He was one of the five science editors for the Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health: Culture, Race and Ethnicity.
 

Education
Ph.D. Psychology (Clinical), UCLA, 8/1983
 

Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History
Professor of Psychology, University of Southern California, 2008-2009   
 

Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests
Culture and psychopathology, assessment, and intervention with particular attention given to Latino communities, both in the United States and Mexico.
 

Funded Research

Contracts and Grants Awarded
Disparities in Mental Health Care for Latinos with Serious Mental Illness, (National Ctr Minority Health & Health Disparities), Steven Lopez, $1,200,000, 03/28/2009-11/30/2013  
Development of Cultural Competence (National Institute of Mental Health), Steven R. Lopez, Linda Garro, Alex Kopelowicz, $410,193, 03/01/2006-02/28/2010  
 

Publications

Book Chapter
Kopelowicz, A., Lopez, S. R., Vega, W. A. (2009). Disabled Populations. pp. 198-209. Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins: Disparities in psychiatric care: Clinical and cross-cultural perspectives.
Lopez, S., Guarnaccia, P. (2008). Conceptions of psychopathology: The social world’s impact on mental illness. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum Associates.
 

Journal Article
Lopez, S., Lara Munoz, M., Kopelowicz, A., al., e. (2009). La CLAve to Increase Psychosis Literacy of Spanish-speaking. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. Vol. 77, pp. 763-774.
Breitborde, N. J., Lopez, S. R., Kopelowicz, A. (2009). Expressed emotion and health outcomes among Mexican Americans with schiozphrenia and their caregivers. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.
Lopez, S. R., Ramirez Garcia, J. I., Ullman, J. B., Kopelowicz, A., Jenkins, J., Breitborde, N. J., Placencia, P. (2009). Cultural variability in manifestation of expressed emotion. Family Process. Vol. 48, pp. 179-194.
Polo, A. J., Lopez, S. (2009). Culture, context, and the internalizing distress of Mexican American youth. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. Vol. 38, pp. 1-13.
Breitborde, N. J., Lopez, S., Neuchterlein, K. (2009). Expressed emotion, human agency, and schizophrenia: Toward a new model for the EE-relapse association. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry.. Vol. 33, pp. 41-60.
Breitborde, N. J., Lopez, S. R., Chang, C., Kopelowicz, A., Zarate, R. (2009). Emotional overinvolvement can be deleterious to for caregivers’ health: Mexican Americans caring for an ill relative with schizophrenia. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology. Vol. 44, pp. 716-723.
O’Brien, M. P., Zinberg, J. L., Bearden, C. E., Lopez, S., Kopelowicz, A., Daley, M., Cannon, T. D. (2008). Parent attitudes and parent adolescent interaction in families of youth at risk for psychosis and with recent-onset psychotic symptoms. Early Intervention in Psychiatry. Vol. 2 (268-276)
Dorian, M., Ramirez Garcia, J., Lopez, S., Hernandez, B. (2008). Acceptance and expressed emotion in Mexican American caregivers of relatives with schizophrenia. Family Process. Vol. 47 (2), pp. 215-228.
Lee, C. S., Abrantes, A. M., Colby, S. M., Lopez, S., Jordan, T. (2008). Medical student judgments of adolescents with alcohol use disorders (AUD. Substance Use and Misuse. Vol. 43 (5), pp. 709-721. http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=issue&issn=1082%2d6084&volume=43&issue=5
Aguilera, A., Lopez, S. (2008). Community determinants of Latinos’ use of mental health services. Psychiatric Services. Vol. 58 (4), pp. 385-394.
 

Service to the Profession

Conferences Organized
Program Chair, Western Psychological Association, Acapulco, Mexico, 2009-2010   
 
 
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