Selected Community Psychology Publications

Sweeney, A. M., Brockington, L., Simmons, T., Wilson, D. K., Martin, P., & Zarrett, N. (2026). The role of the “obligation to help others” within the superwoman schema: Implications for physical activity in African American women with low activity levels. Journal of Behavioral Medicine. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-026-00678-y



Quattlebaum, M., Wilson, D. K., Simmons, T., & Martin, P. P. (2025). Systematic review of family-based interventions integrating cultural and family resilience components to improve Black adolescent health outcomes. Annals of Behavioral Medicine , 59(1), kaae079.


Sweeney, A. M., Prine, H., Yang, C. H., Wilson, D. K., Forthofer, M., & Martin, P. (2025). Evaluating the role of interpersonal support on daily physical activity across systems, contexts, and time among African American women: an ecological momentary assessment study. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 59(1), kaaf076.


Simmons, T., Quattlebaum, M., Martin, P., & Wilson, D. K. (2024). Strength-based strategies for addressing racial stressors in African American families: lessons learned from developing the LEADS health promotion intervention. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 1-14.


Williams, A. D., Aronson, K. M., Chavous, T. M., Cooke, D. Y., Glover, C. S., Hoggard, L. S., Kohn-Wood, L., Lesane-Brown, C. L., Lewis-McCoy, R. L., Martin, P. P., Rowley, S. J., Seaton, E. K., Smith-Bynum, M. A., Wout, D. A., Yip, T., & Neblett, E. W., Jr. (2023). Standing on the shoulders of a giant: The legacy of Robert M. Sellers. American Psychologist , 78(4), 441–456. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001129


Sweeney, A. M., Wilson, D. K., Zarrett, N., Martin, P., Hardin, J. W., Fairchild, A., ... & Decker, L. (2023). An overview of the together everyone achieves more physical activity (TEAM-PA) trial to increase physical activity among African American women. Contemporary Clinical Trials , 107207. [ Download PDF }


Martin, P. P., Lewis, R. K., & Guzmán, B. L. (2023). Racial reckoning, resistance, and the revolution: A call to community psychology to move forward. American Journal of Community Psychology , 71(1-2), 3-7. [ Download PDF }


Kipp, C. J., Wilson, D. K., Quattlebaum, M., Simmons, T., Loncar, H. M., Brown, A. M., ... & Zarrett, N. (2022, April). Feasibility of the LEADS Program: An Integrated Stress and Health Promotion Intervention Among African American Families. In Annals of Behavioral Medicine (Vol. 56, No. SUPP 1, pp. S291-S291). JOURNALS DEPT, 2001 EVANS RD, CARY, NC 27513 USA: OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC.


Lewis, R. K., Martin, P. P., & Guzman, B. L. (Eds.). (2022). COVID‐19 and vulnerable populations [Special Issue]. J ournal of Community Psychology , 50(6), 2531-2764. [ Download PDF }


Guzman, B. L., Lewis, R. L. & Martin, P. P. (2021). Notes from the President: A Year in Review. Written The Community Psychologist , 54 (3), 1-4.  [ Download PDF ]


Henderson, D, Joseph, J, Martin, P., Mburi, M., Stanley, M., & McField, A. (2021). Investigating coping strategies across different school race-related stressors among older adolescents and young adults. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 91 (2) 181-192.  [ Download PDF ]


Henderson, D. X., Martin, P. P., & Harris, K. (2019). Special Focus Issue Featured Articles from Around the Globe: A Study on Undergraduate Community at a Historically Black College and University (HBCU). The Global Journal of Community Psychology Practice ,10(1).


Henderson, D., Martin, P., & Harris, K. (2019). A Study on Undergraduate Community  Psychology Pedagogy at an HBCU. Global Journal of Community Psychology . [ Download PDF ]


Livingston, J. N., Smith, N. P., Hamilton, N. S., Bowles, T. A., Martin, P. P., Leach, M. T., ... & Franklin, D. A. (2013). A Case for University Teaching and Engagement: A Culturally Relevant Intervention to Educate Young African‐American Women about Breast Cancer. World Medical & Health Policy , 5(2), 96-110.


Martin, P., & Adkins, L. (2007). Ethnic diversity in religious practices: The call of community psychology for exploring the intersections of faith and race. Pamela Martin (Ed.) for the Committee on Racial and Cultural Affairs Submission. The Community Psychologist , 40 (1), 15-16.  [ Download PDF ]


Martin, P., Lounsbury, D., & Davidson, W. (2004). AJCP as a vehicle for improving community life: An historic-analytic review of the journal’s contents. American Journal of Community Psychology , 34(3-4), 163-173. [Download PDF ]