Lisa M. Wexler

• Lee, H. W., Gauthier, G. R., Ivanich, J. D., Wexler, L., Khan, B., & Dombrowski, K. (in press). A statistical framework for network-based measurement of the social effectiveness of interventions in community-based participatory research. PLoS ONE.
• Williams, D. Y., Wexler, L., & Muller, A. (in press). Suicide postvention in schools: What evidence support our current national recommendations? School Social Work Journal.
• Rivkin, I., Black, J., Lopez, E. D. S., Filardi, E., Salganek, M., Newman, J., Haire, J., Nanouk, M., Philip, J., Charley, D., & Wexler, L. (in press). Integrating mentorship and digital storytelling to promote wellness for Alaska Native youth. Journal of American Indian Education, 59(2-3), 169-193.
• Haroz, E. E., Wexler, L., Manson, S. M., Cwik, M., O’Keefe, V., Allen, J., Rasmus, S.Buchwald, D., & Barlow, A. (In press). Sustaining suicide prevention programs in American Indian and Alaska Native communities and Tribal health centers. Implementation Research and Practice.
• Bec, C., White, L., Schmidt, T., Rataj, S., McEachern, D., Wisnieski, D., Moto, R., Kirk, T., Garnie, J., & Wexler, L. (in press). Adapting PC CARES to continue suicide prevention in rural Alaska during the covid-19 pandemic: narrative overview of an in-person community-based suicide prevention program moving online. American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research, 29(2), 126-154.
• Wexler, L. Schmidt, T., White, L., Rataj, S., Bec, C., Moto, R., Kirk, T., & McEachern, D. (2022). Collaboratively adapting culturally-respectful, locally-relevant suicide prevention for newly participating Alaska Native communities. Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology, 14(1), 124-151.
• Markowski, K., White, L., Schmidt, T., McEachern, D., & Wexler, L. (2022). What kinds of support are Alaska Native youth experiencing? An examination of types, quantities, sources, and frequencies of support. Health Promotion Practice.
• Wexler, L., Apala Flaherty, A., Begum, F., White, L., Kouassi, L., Wisnieski, D., Davis, A., & Foster, CE. (2022). Describing meanings and practices related to firearms, safety, and household storage in rural Alaska Native communities. Journal of Rural Mental Health.
• White, L., Wexler, L., Weaver, A., Moto, R., Kirk, T., Rataj, S., Trout, L., & McEachern, D. (2022). Implementation beyond the clinic: community driven utilization of research evidence from PC CARES, a suicide prevention program. American Journal of Community Psychology.
• Salusky, I. R., Kral, M., Amarok, B., & Wexler, L. (2021). Navigating between two the worlds of school and 'being on the land': Arctic Indigenous young people, structural violence, cultural continuity and selfhood. Journal of Youth Studies.
• Allen, J., Wexler, L., & Rasmus, S. (2021). Protective factors as a unifying framework for strengths-based intervention and culturally responsive American Indian and Alaska Native suicide prevention. Prevention Science, 23, 59-72.
• Wexler, L., Rasmus, S., Ullrich, J., Flaherty, A. A., Apok, C., Amarok, B. Q., Black, J., McEachern, D., Murphrey, C., Johnson, R., & Allen, J. (2020). The development of a measure of Alaska Native community resilience factors through knowledge co-production. Progress in Community Partnerships, 14(4), 443-459.
• Trout, l., & Wexler, L. (2020). Arctic suicide, social medicine, and the purview of care in global mental health. Health and Human Rights. Special Issue on Mental Health, Well-being, and Human Rights, Journal of Health and Human Rights, 22(1), 77-89.
• Wexler, L., Rataj, S., Plavin, J., Ivanich, J., Johnson, R., & Dombrowski, K. (2019). Community mobilization for rural suicide prevention: Perceived knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behavioral outcomes from Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Suicide (PC CARES) in Northwest Alaska. Social Science and Medicine, 232, 398-407.
• Barnett, J., Schmidt, T., & Wexler, L. (2019). A pilot evaluation of culture camps to strengthen Alaska Native youth wellness. Health Promotion Practice.
• Lee, H. W., Melson, M. Ivanich, J., Habecker, P., Gauthier, G. R., Wexler, L., Khan, B., & Dombrowski, K. (2018). Mapping the structure of perceptions in helping networks of Alaska Natives. PLoS ONE, 13(11).
• Trout, L., McEachern, D., Mullany, A., White, L., & Wexler, L. (2018). Decoloniality as framework for Alaska Native youth suicide prevention: Promoting community conversations about research to end suicide. American Journal of Community Psychology, 62(3-4), 396-405.
• Collins, P., Delgado, R., Apok, C., et. al…& Wexler, L. (2018). RISING SUN: Prioritized outcomes for suicide prevention in the arctic. Psychiatric Services, 79(2), 152-155.
• Trout, L., Wexler, L., & Moses, J. (2018). Beyond two worlds: Identity narratives and the aspirational futures of Alaska Native youth. Transcultural Psychiatry, 55(6), 800-820.
• Wexler, L., Barnett, J., Trout, L., & Moto, R. (2018). Making a difference: How Northwest Alaska is working to reduce youth suicide. Special Issue: The fight of our lives: Preventing suicide among Indigenous people. Northern Policy Affairs, 6(3).
• Wexler, L., Trout, L., Rataj, S., Kirk, T., Moto, R. & McEachern, D. (2017). Promoting Community Conversations About Research to End Suicide: Learning and behavioural outcomes of a training-of trainers model to facilitate grassroots community health education to address Indigenous youth suicide prevention. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 76(1).
• Curran, T. & Wexler, L. (2017). School-based positive youth development: A systematic review of the literature. Journal of School Health, 87(1), 71-80.
• Weinronk, H., Wexler, L., Trout, L., Rowlet, K., Klakegg, I., Zhen, S., Valenzuela, S., & Moses, J. (2017). New understandings of ourselves and communities: Community-based participatory research with Alaska Native and Lower 48 youth. Educational Action Research Journal, 26(3), 439-455.
• Wexler, L., Poudel-Tandukar, K., Rataj, S., Trout, L., Poudel, K. C., Woods, M., & Chachamovich, E. (2017). Preliminary evaluation of a school-based youth leadership and prevention program in rural Alaska Native communities. School Mental Health, 9(2), 172-183.
• Eglinton, K., Gubrium, A., & Wexler, L. (2016). Digital storytelling as arts-inspired inquiry for engaging, understanding, and supporting indigenous youth. International Journal of Education and the Arts, 18(5),
• Wexler, L., McEachern, D., DiFulvio, G., Smith, C., Graham, L. F., & Dombrowski, K. (2016). Creating a community of practice to prevent suicide through multiple channels: describing the theoretical foundations and structured learning of PC CARES. International Quarterly of Community Health Education, 36(2), 115-122.
• Wexler, L., Dam, H. T., Silvius, K., Mazziotti, J., & Bamikole, I. (2016). Protective factors of Native youth: findings from a self-report survey in rural Alaska. Journal of Youth Studies, 19(3), 358-373.
• Silveira, M. L., Wexler, L., Chamberlain, J., Money, K., Spencer, R. M. C., Reich, N. G., & Bertone-Johnson, E. R. (2016). Seasonality of suicide behavior in Northwest Alaska: 1990–2009. Public Health, 137, 35-43.
• Wexler, L., Chandler, M., Gone, J., Cwik, M., Kirmayer, L., LaFromboise, T., Brockie, T., O’Keefe, V., Walkup, J., & Allen, J. (2015). Advancing suicide prevention research with rural American Indian and Alaska Native populations. American Journal of Public Health, 105(5), 891-899.
• Wexler, L., & Eglinton, K. (2015). Reconsidering youth well-being as fluid and relational: A dynamic process at the intersection of their physical and social geographies. In H. Cahill & J. Wyn (Eds.), Handbook of Children and Youth Studies. Springer Reference.
• Wexler, L. & Gone, J. P. (2015). Exploring alternatives for indigenous suicide prevention: Responding to cultural understandings and practices. In J. White, I. Marsh, M. Kral, & J. Morris (Eds.), [Suicide and] Suicide Prevention: Critical Perspectives. Cambridge University Press.
• Wexler, L., White, J., & Trainor, B. (2015). Why an alternative to suicide prevention gatekeeper training is needed for rural Indigenous communities: Presenting an empowering community storytelling approach. Critical Public Health, 25(2), 205-217.
• Ulturgasheva, O., Rasmus, S., Wexler, L., Kral, M. J., & CIPA Team (2014). Indigenous youth resilience and vulnerability: Comparative analysis of adolescent experiences across five circumpolar communities. Special Issue Transcultural Psychiatry, 51(5), 735-756.
• Allen, J., Hopper, K., Wexler, L., Kral, M., Rasmus, S., & Nystad, K. (2014). Mapping resilience pathways of indigenous youth in five circumpolar communities. Special Issue Transcultural Psychiatry, 51(5), 601-631.
• Wexler, L, Joule, L., Garoutte, J., Mazziotti, J., Baldwin, E., Griffin, M., Jernigan, K. & Hopper, K. (2014). "Being responsible, respectful, trying to keep the traditional alive:" Cultural resilience and growing up in an Alaska Native community. Special Issue Transcultural Psychiatry, 51(5), 693-712.
• Willox, A. C., Stephenson, E., Allen, J., Bourque, F., Drossos, A., Elgarøy, S., & Wexler, L. (2014). Examining relationships between climate change and mental health in the Circumpolar North. Regional Environmental Change, 15(1), 169-182.
• Wexler, L. (2014). Looking across three generations of Alaska Natives to explore how culture fosters indigenous resilience. Transcultural Psychiatry, 51(1), 73-92.
• Wexler, L., Jernigan, K., Mazziotti, J., Baldwin, E., Griffin, M., Joule, L., Garoutte, J. & CIPA (2014). Lived challenges and getting through them: Alaska Native youth narratives as a way to understand resilience. Health Promotion Practice, 15(1), 10-17.
• Wexler, L., Eglinton, K., & Gubrium, A. (2014). Using digital stories to understand the lives of Alaska Native young people. Youth and Society, 46(4), 478-504.
• Wexler, L., Moses, J., Hopper, K., Joule, L., & Garoutte, J. (2013). Central role of relatedness in Alaska Native youth resilience: Preliminary themes from one site of the Circumpolar Indigenous Pathways to Adulthood (CIPA) Study. American Journal of Community Psychology, 52(3-4), 393-405.

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