Research output per year
Research output per year
Professor
Diana Formoso, Ph.D. is a Professor in the College of Psychology at Nova Southeastern University. She earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Arizona State University and completed her post-doctoral work at the University of Illinois at Chicago, specializing in children and families and community psychology. She has over 25 years’ experience in understanding risk and protective factors impacting low-income, ethnic minority and immigrant youth and families. She co-developed several interventions to strengthen youth coping skills, parenting, and family and community support for immigrant youth (Bridges serving Mexican American and Mexican immigrant middle schoolers in Phoenix, AZ; Newcomer Center parenting groups for recently immigrated parents of high schoolers in Chicago, IL; and Connections serving elementary students and parents from Latin-America, Haiti, and the English-speaking Caribbean in South Florida).
Her most recent work is leading the Unaccompanied, But Not Alone project, where we use a community-based participatory research approach to learn more about the strengths and needs of unaccompanied immigrant minors in South Florida. This qualitative work has informed a strengths and needs assessment, our understanding of UIM resilience and family, community and policy protective factors, and facilitators and barriers to services for migrant youth and families. The team also has volunteered at legal immigration screening clinics and developed a migrant youth resource guide for our local area. This work is intended to develop strengths-based, culturally-competent interventions for unaccompanied youth, their caregivers and the professionals who serve them. It is also meant to inform community-based services and policy initiatives that can support family relationships and youth well-being.
Dr. Formoso is proud to mentor and collaborate with a multi-cultural group of students with interests and experience in serving immigrant youth. She has developed courses in Assessment and Interventions in Spanish and Children and Families Experiencing Adversity and Transitions. She supervises students working with low-income, ethnically diverse youth and families in local community mental health clinics.
As a bicultural, bilingual psychologist and the proud child of immigrants, Dr. Formoso strives to bring the gift of education back to the communities that raised her.
Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, Arizona State University
… → 2002
M.A. Clinical Psychology, Arizona State University
… → 1998
B.A. Psychology and English Literature, University of Miami
… → 1995
Post Doctoral Research Associate, University of Miami
2006 → 2007
Psychology Intern, Child & Family Guidance Center
2001 → 2002
Mental Health Specialist, Head Start, Southwest Human Development
1998 → 1999
Research Associate, BRIDGES Transition to Junior High School Program, Arizona State University
1997 → 1999
Student Therapist, Clinical Psychology Center, Arizona State University
1997 → 1998
Mental Health Specialist, Early Head Start Teenage Parenting Program, Southwest Human Development
1997 → 2000
Research Assistant, Raising Successful Children, Arizona State University
1995 → 1997
Research Assistant, Qualitative Study of Parenting and Conflict, Arizona State University
1995 → 1998
Research Associate, HEADS UP HIV Prevention Service Utilization Study, Arizona State University
… → 2001
Resident Therapist, Clinical Psychology Center, Arizona State University
… → 2000
Group Leader, BRIDGES Transition to Junior High School Program, Arizona State University
… → 1999
Group Leader, New Beginnings Children of Divorce Program , Arizona State University
… → 1998
Psychology Extern, Parenting Under Stressful Conditions, Central Arizona Shelter Services
… → 1999
Psychology Intern, Department of Pediatrics, Maricopa Medical Center
… → 1998
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Presentation
Research output: Contribution to conference › Presentation
Research output: Contribution to conference › Presentation
Formoso, D. (PI)
1/1/18 → 1/1/19
Project: Research project
Suarez-Morales, L. (Speaker), Pena-Martinez, M. (Speaker) & Formoso, D. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Formoso, D. (Speaker) & Suarez-Morales, L. (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Formoso, D. (Member)
Activity: Membership › Membership of network
Formoso, D. (Member)
Activity: Membership › Membership of network
Formoso, D. (Recipient), 2023
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Formoso, D. (Recipient), 2023
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Formoso, D. (Recipient), 2007
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)