Sona Dimidjian
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 355009 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sona Dimidjian |
| NOMBRES | Sona |
| APELLIDO | Dimidjian |
| FIRMA | DIMIDJIAN S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6473-114X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
A Critical Review and 10-Year Update on Prospects for a Clinical Science of Mindfulness-Based Intervention
Mothers’ Perspectives on a Peer-Delivered Behavioral Activation Program for Recovery Support
Background: Fewer than one in four mothers with substance use disorders (SUD) receive adequate support. Existing interventions often overlook the intersection of recovery and caregiving. Peer-delivered models improve engagement but may lack structured behavioral strategies to address mental health needs within parenting contexts. Objective: To explore mothers’ anticipated acceptability and perceived relevance of a peer-delivered program informed …
Centering justice in the codesign of mindfulness and compassion-based college curricula
Colleges and universities are increasingly common contexts in which young people navigate the transition to adulthood. Research suggests that mindfulness and compassion may support undergraduates as they navigate this developmental transition. Embedding learning about mindfulness, compassion, and flourishing into college curricula demonstrates promise in supporting undergraduate wellness and academic outcomes. However, there is a need to generate…
Are women really (not) more talkative than men? A registered report of binary gender similarities/differences in daily word use
Women are widely assumed to be more talkative than men. Challenging this assumption, Mehl et al. (2007) provided empirical evidence that men and women do not differ significantly in their daily word use, speaking about 16,000 words per day (WPD) each. However, concerns were raised that their sample was too small to yield generalizable estimates and too age and context homogeneous to permit inferences beyond college students. This registered repor…
Using Alma to Alleviate Tristeza Maternal
Humanizing Co-design through attention to educators’ affective and relational experiences
Background Co-design can be challenging and rewarding as educators explore new roles and ideas. Accounts of co-design rarely examine educators’ affective and relational experiences, nor investigate scaffolds for creating humanizing environments. We asked: How did affect and relationship show up in co-design for educators?, How did the affirmation of affect and relationship in the co-design process support the movement of ideas and practices acros…
The use of lullaby to support social and emotional wellness among parents during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted loneliness as a major risk factor for mental health difficulties among parents. Shared musical experiences may be an effective way to create social bonds. We adapted Carnegie Hall’s Lullaby Project to a remote format. Parents experiencing loneliness were enrolled in the study ( N = 40) and completed assessments at pre-intervention, post-intervention, and 1-month follow-up. Participation was associated with si…
Developing the Sense of Belonging Scale and Understanding Its Relationship to Loneliness, Need to Belong, and General Well-Being Outcomes
The construct of belonging has played a central role in psychological theories for many years, prompting research that benefits many people. However, there is little consensus for how to measure sense of belonging. We developed an 8-item measure of belonging that is easily adapted to specific contexts. The items capture a sense of being valued, accepted, included/connected, and fitting into a social environment. Study 1 examined candidate items a…
Stereotypes About Who is Affected by Eating Disorders Disadvantage Risk Perception for Black Girls and Women
The Role of Latina Peer Mentors in the Implementation of the Alma Program for Women With Perinatal Depression
This study examines the role that compañeras (peer mentors) play in the implementation of a program, Alma, which was designed to support Latina mothers who are experiencing depression during pregnancy or early parenting and implemented in the rural mountain West of the United States. Drawing from the fields of dissemination and implementation and Latina mujerista (feminist) scholarship, this ethnographic analysis demonstrates how the Alma compañe…
Understanding children's funds of identity as learners through multimodal self-expressions in Mexico City
Nuestra Escuela, Nuestras Voces (Our School, Our Voices)
It is important that children obtain not only academic knowledge but also skills to express emotion and sustain relationships. Fostering school communities that embody and teach compassion is increasingly recognized as an important component of many social and emotional learning (SEL) approaches. To generate SEL programs that are inclusive of diverse perspectives, it is critical to center community expertise. We engaged the framework of community…
Treating Anxiety During Pregnancy
Perspectives on task-shifting depression care to peers for depressed Latina mothers
The Healthy Activity Program (HAP), a lay counsellor-delivered brief psychological treatment for severe depression, in primary care in India
BACKGROUND: Although structured psychological treatments are recommended as first-line interventions for depression, only a small fraction of people globally receive these treatments because of poor access in routine primary care. We assessed the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a brief psychological treatment (Healthy Activity Program [HAP]) for delivery by lay counsellors to patients with moderately severe to severe depression in primary…
Effects of compassion meditation on a psychological model of charitable donation
Compassion is critical for societal wellbeing. Yet, it remains unclear how specific thoughts and feelings motivate compassionate behavior, and we lack a scientific understanding of how to effectively cultivate compassion. Here, we conducted 2 studies designed to a) develop a psychological model predicting compassionate behavior, and b) test this model as a mediator of a Compassion Meditation (CM) intervention and identify the "active ingredients"…
Behavioral Activation with Adolescents
Pregnant African American women's attitudes toward perinatal depression prevention
Depression during the perinatal period is common, debilitating, and consequential for women and their children, particularly among low income African American women. Viable approaches to prevention of depression have emerged. Yet little is known about women's preferences for approaches to preventing depression. A sample of 60 pregnant, low-income African American women seeking routine prenatal care was presented with standardized descriptions of …
Activación conductual para la depresión
Antidepressant Drug Effects and Depression Severity
CONTEXT: Antidepressant medications represent the best established treatment for major depressive disorder, but there is little evidence that they have a specific pharmacological effect relative to pill placebo for patients with less severe depression. OBJECTIVE: To estimate the relative benefit of medication vs placebo across a wide range of initial symptom severity in patients diagnosed with depression. DATA SOURCES: PubMed, PsycINFO, and the C…
Randomized trial of behavioral activation, cognitive therapy, and antidepressant medication in the acute treatment of adults with major depression.
Antidepressant medication is considered the current standard for severe depression, and cognitive therapy is the most widely investigated psychosocial treatment for depression. However, not all patients want to take medication, and cognitive therapy has not demonstrated consistent efficacy across trials. Moreover, dismantling designs have suggested that behavioral components may account for the efficacy of cognitive therapy. The present study tes…
Behavioral activation treatment for depression
Behavioral activation (BA), as a stand-alone treatment for depression, began as a behavior therapy treatment condition in a component analysis study of the Beck, Rush, Shaw, and Emery version of cognitive therapy. BA attempts to help depressed people reengage in their lives through focused activation strategies. These strategies counter patterns of avoidance, withdrawal, and inactivity that may exacerbate depressive episodes by generating additio…
Nuestra Escuela, Nuestras Voces (Our School, Our Voices)
It is important that children obtain not only academic knowledge but also skills to express emotion and sustain relationships. Fostering school communities that embody and teach compassion is increasingly recognized as an important component of many social and emotional learning (SEL) approaches. To generate SEL programs that are inclusive of diverse perspectives, it is critical to center community expertise. We engaged the framework of community…
Behavioral activation treatment for depression
Behavioral activation (BA), as a stand-alone treatment for depression, began as a behavior therapy treatment condition in a component analysis study of the Beck, Rush, Shaw, and Emery version of cognitive therapy. BA attempts to help depressed people reengage in their lives through focused activation strategies. These strategies counter patterns of avoidance, withdrawal, and inactivity that may exacerbate depressive episodes by generating additio…
Randomized trial of behavioral activation, cognitive therapy, and antidepressant medication in the acute treatment of adults with major depression.
Antidepressant medication is considered the current standard for severe depression, and cognitive therapy is the most widely investigated psychosocial treatment for depression. However, not all patients want to take medication, and cognitive therapy has not demonstrated consistent efficacy across trials. Moreover, dismantling designs have suggested that behavioral components may account for the efficacy of cognitive therapy. The present study tes…
Antidepressant Drug Effects and Depression Severity
CONTEXT: Antidepressant medications represent the best established treatment for major depressive disorder, but there is little evidence that they have a specific pharmacological effect relative to pill placebo for patients with less severe depression. OBJECTIVE: To estimate the relative benefit of medication vs placebo across a wide range of initial symptom severity in patients diagnosed with depression. DATA SOURCES: PubMed, PsycINFO, and the C…
Pregnant African American women's attitudes toward perinatal depression prevention
Depression during the perinatal period is common, debilitating, and consequential for women and their children, particularly among low income African American women. Viable approaches to prevention of depression have emerged. Yet little is known about women's preferences for approaches to preventing depression. A sample of 60 pregnant, low-income African American women seeking routine prenatal care was presented with standardized descriptions of …
Activación conductual para la depresión
Effects of compassion meditation on a psychological model of charitable donation
Compassion is critical for societal wellbeing. Yet, it remains unclear how specific thoughts and feelings motivate compassionate behavior, and we lack a scientific understanding of how to effectively cultivate compassion. Here, we conducted 2 studies designed to a) develop a psychological model predicting compassionate behavior, and b) test this model as a mediator of a Compassion Meditation (CM) intervention and identify the "active ingredients"…
Behavioral Activation with Adolescents
The Healthy Activity Program (HAP), a lay counsellor-delivered brief psychological treatment for severe depression, in primary care in India
BACKGROUND: Although structured psychological treatments are recommended as first-line interventions for depression, only a small fraction of people globally receive these treatments because of poor access in routine primary care. We assessed the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a brief psychological treatment (Healthy Activity Program [HAP]) for delivery by lay counsellors to patients with moderately severe to severe depression in primary…
Perspectives on task-shifting depression care to peers for depressed Latina mothers
Treating Anxiety During Pregnancy
Understanding children's funds of identity as learners through multimodal self-expressions in Mexico City
Nuestra Escuela, Nuestras Voces (Our School, Our Voices)
It is important that children obtain not only academic knowledge but also skills to express emotion and sustain relationships. Fostering school communities that embody and teach compassion is increasingly recognized as an important component of many social and emotional learning (SEL) approaches. To generate SEL programs that are inclusive of diverse perspectives, it is critical to center community expertise. We engaged the framework of community…
The Role of Latina Peer Mentors in the Implementation of the Alma Program for Women With Perinatal Depression
This study examines the role that compañeras (peer mentors) play in the implementation of a program, Alma, which was designed to support Latina mothers who are experiencing depression during pregnancy or early parenting and implemented in the rural mountain West of the United States. Drawing from the fields of dissemination and implementation and Latina mujerista (feminist) scholarship, this ethnographic analysis demonstrates how the Alma compañe…
Humanizing Co-design through attention to educators’ affective and relational experiences
Background Co-design can be challenging and rewarding as educators explore new roles and ideas. Accounts of co-design rarely examine educators’ affective and relational experiences, nor investigate scaffolds for creating humanizing environments. We asked: How did affect and relationship show up in co-design for educators?, How did the affirmation of affect and relationship in the co-design process support the movement of ideas and practices acros…
The use of lullaby to support social and emotional wellness among parents during the Covid-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted loneliness as a major risk factor for mental health difficulties among parents. Shared musical experiences may be an effective way to create social bonds. We adapted Carnegie Hall’s Lullaby Project to a remote format. Parents experiencing loneliness were enrolled in the study ( N = 40) and completed assessments at pre-intervention, post-intervention, and 1-month follow-up. Participation was associated with si…
Developing the Sense of Belonging Scale and Understanding Its Relationship to Loneliness, Need to Belong, and General Well-Being Outcomes
The construct of belonging has played a central role in psychological theories for many years, prompting research that benefits many people. However, there is little consensus for how to measure sense of belonging. We developed an 8-item measure of belonging that is easily adapted to specific contexts. The items capture a sense of being valued, accepted, included/connected, and fitting into a social environment. Study 1 examined candidate items a…
Stereotypes About Who is Affected by Eating Disorders Disadvantage Risk Perception for Black Girls and Women
Are women really (not) more talkative than men? A registered report of binary gender similarities/differences in daily word use
Women are widely assumed to be more talkative than men. Challenging this assumption, Mehl et al. (2007) provided empirical evidence that men and women do not differ significantly in their daily word use, speaking about 16,000 words per day (WPD) each. However, concerns were raised that their sample was too small to yield generalizable estimates and too age and context homogeneous to permit inferences beyond college students. This registered repor…
Using Alma to Alleviate Tristeza Maternal
A Critical Review and 10-Year Update on Prospects for a Clinical Science of Mindfulness-Based Intervention
Mothers’ Perspectives on a Peer-Delivered Behavioral Activation Program for Recovery Support
Background: Fewer than one in four mothers with substance use disorders (SUD) receive adequate support. Existing interventions often overlook the intersection of recovery and caregiving. Peer-delivered models improve engagement but may lack structured behavioral strategies to address mental health needs within parenting contexts. Objective: To explore mothers’ anticipated acceptability and perceived relevance of a peer-delivered program informed …
Centering justice in the codesign of mindfulness and compassion-based college curricula
Colleges and universities are increasingly common contexts in which young people navigate the transition to adulthood. Research suggests that mindfulness and compassion may support undergraduates as they navigate this developmental transition. Embedding learning about mindfulness, compassion, and flourishing into college curricula demonstrates promise in supporting undergraduate wellness and academic outcomes. However, there is a need to generate…
Psychology (15 obras) · Clinical Psychology (9 obras) · Psychiatry (9 obras) · Developmental psychology (6 obras) · Medicine (6 obras) · Anxiety (5 obras) · Clinical Psychology (5 obras) · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (5 obras) · Social Psychology (5 obras) · Depression (economics) (4 obras)