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Professor of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts

Note: This website contains only a partial list of my works. To see my full list of publications, please visit my ResearchGate website (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Heidi_Levitt) or my personal website (https://sites.google.com/site/drheidilevitt/).

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Note: This website contains only a partial list of my works. To see my full list of publications, please visit my ResearchGate website (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Heidi_Levitt) or my personal website (https://sites.google.com/site/drheidilevitt/).

Present	Professor of Psychology, College of Liberal Arts, University of Massachusetts Boston
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Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, Psychology, and Gender and Sexuality

Articles (22)

Qualitative psychotherapy research: The journey so far and future directions

Psychology Faculty Publication Series (2015)

This article documents the evolution of qualitative psychotherapy research over the past 3 decades. Clients’ and therapists’ accounts of their ...

Pursuing the question of reflexivity in psychotherapy and qualitative methods ...

Counselling and Psychotherapy Research (2015)

Heidi Levitt, Ethan C. Lu, Andrew Pomerville and Francisco I. Surace

Background: This article documents the intellectual contributions of the psychologist David Rennie to the fields of psychotherapy research, qualitative methods ...

Gay Families: Challenging Racial and Sexual/Gender Minority Stressors through ...

Psychology Faculty Publication Series (2015)

Heidi Levitt, Sharon G. Horne, Julia Puckett and Kristin Kay Sweeney

In the Southern United States, gay family is a term given to constructed social networks formed by mostly African American ...

Interpretation-driven guidelines for designing and evaluating grounded theory research: A ...

Psychology Faculty Publication Series (2015)

This chapter is meant as guidance for not only investigators designing qualitative research projects but for reviewers assessing manuscripts using ...

Judicial Wisdom: The Process of Constructing Wise Decisions

Psychology Faculty Publication Series (2015)

Heidi Levitt and Bridget Dunnavant

Surprisingly little research exists on the role of wisdom within legal decision making. To shed light on this topic, we ...

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans-sexual Butch-Femme Subcultures

Psychology Faculty Publication Series (2015)

Julia Puckett and Heidi Levitt

The terms butch and femme refer to two gender identities that are rooted in sexual minority women's communities. Butch and ...

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer: Bear and Leather Subcultures

Psychology Faculty Publication Series (2015)

Fransico I. Surace and Heidi Levitt

The lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (LGBTQ) community often has been reduced to a homogenous group. However, multiple LGBTQ subcultures ...

The Development of Wisdom in Judicial Decision-Making

Psychology Faculty Publication Series (2015)

Bridget R. Dunnavant and Heidi Levitt

Following a call for nominations of judges who demonstrated legal wisdom in their decision-making and over 250 nominations being received, ...

“Am I Doing the Right Thing?”: Pathways to Parenting a ...

Psychology Faculty Publication Series (2015)

Sarah A. O. Gray, Kristen K. Sweeney, Renee Randazzo and Heidi Levitt

Gender variant (GV) children have a subjective sense of gender identity and/or preferences regarding clothing, activities, and/or playmates that are ...

The impact of counselor self-disclosure on clients: A meta-analytic review ...

Psychology Faculty Publication Series (2014)

Jennifer R. Hennretty, Joseph M. Currier, Jeffrey S. Berman and Heidi Levitt

In an attempt to make sense of contradictory findings, meta-analysis was used to review 53 studies that examined counselor self-disclosure ...

Being transgender: Navigating minority stressors and developing authentic self-presentation

Psychology Faculty Publication Series (2014)

Heidi Levitt and Maria Ippolitio

In this interview-based study, we investigated the common social experiences and minority stressors related to beingtransgender. It is one of ...

Being Transgender: The Experience of Transgender Identity Development

Psychology Faculty Publication Series (2014)

Heidi Levitt and Maria R. Ippolitio

This article is based on a grounded theory analysis of interviews with transgender-identified people from different regions of the United ...

Positive Psychology and LGBTQ Populations

Psychology Faculty Publication Series (2014)

Sharon G. Horne, Julia A. Puckett, Raphael Apter and Heidi Levitt

Extant research suggests that there are benefits and positive aspects of LGBTQ identities and relationships. For example, many sexual minorities ...

Vocal Synchrony in Psychotherapy

Psychology Faculty Publication Series (2014)

Catherine M. Reich, Jeffrey S. Berman, Rick Dale and Hiedi Levitt

Matching of nonverbal behaviors in conversation, known as synchrony, is sometimes shown to predict the rapport between conversational partners. The ...

Wisdom and psychotherapy: Studying expert therapists' clinical wisdom to explicate ...

Psychology Faculty Publication Series (2014)

Heidi Levitt and Elizabeth Piazza-Bonnin

Objective: This research study explores the concept of clinical wisdom. Method: Seventeen psychologists who were nominated multiple times by their ...

A review of client self-criticism in psychotherapy

Psychology Faculty Publication Series (2013)

Divya Kannan and Heidi Levitt

Research on the construct of self-criticism has been gaining attention in the psychopathology and psychotherapy literature. The aims of this ...

Teaching qualitative methods using a research team approach

Psychology Faculty Publication Series (2013)

Heidi Levitt, Divya Kannan and Maria Ippolito

This article is a guide for developing a qualitative methods course in psychology that organizes students into a researchteam conducting ...

Sexual Minority Women's Gender Identity and Expression: Challenges and ...

Psychology Faculty Publication Series (2012)

Heidi Levitt, Julia Puckett, Maria Ippolito and Sharon Horne

Sexual minority women were divided into four groups to study their gender identities (butch and femme), and genderexpression (traditionally gendered ...

A critical review of assumptions about gender variant children

Psychology Faculty Publication Series (2012)

Sarah Gray, Alice Carter and Heidi Levitt

Research on gender variant children (including those who meet criteria for Gender Identity Disorder in Children) originated with the heterosexist ...

Out in the country: Rural sexual minority mothers

Psychology Faculty Publication Series (2011)

Julia Puckett, Sharon Horne, Heidi Levitt and Teresa Reeves

Rural and urban sexual minority mothers' parenting experiences related to sexual orientation were compared. Participants were 414 mothers in same-sex ...

The Resolution of Anger in Psychotherapy: A Task Analysis

Psychology Faculty Publication Series (2011)

Kannan Divya, Jennifer Henretty, Elizabeth Piazza-Bonin and Heidi Levitt

Anger often is conceptualized as a disruptive emotional force, but it may be seen as an adaptive internal signal that ...

Therapists’ and clients’ significant experiences underlying psychotherapy discourse

Psychology Faculty Publication Series (2011)

Heidi Levitt and Elizabeth Piazza-Bonin

This article complements the narrative research that focuses on the process and content of what is said in psychotherapy by ...

Levitt 2019 A Psychosocial Geneology of LGBTQ+ Gender.pdf

Psychology of Women Quarterly (2019)

In this invited article, I present an inclusive theory of gender that clarifies its interconnections with gender identity, gender expression, ...

Levitt 2019 A Psychosocial Geneology of LGBTQ+ Gender.pdf

Psychology of Women Quarterly (2019)

In this invited article, I present an inclusive theory of gender that clarifies its interconnections with gender identity, gender expression, ...