Selected presentations from last decade (more from this decade and previous ones available on request, publications not included but were based on presentations). Bold indicates a student.
1. Meehan, K., Muran, J. C., Keefe, J., Nelson, S., Rudenstine, S., & Sexton, J. (2025, Spring). Advances in psychotherapy process research: Opportunities and future directions [Invited oral presentation]. APA Division 39 Spring Meeting, American Psychological Association
2. Sexton, J., Camelo-Cerro, U., Diaz Quintana, L., & Bailey, N. (2025, Spring). Are Latina mothers defensive? The limitations of universal norms [Poster presentation]. APA Division 39 Spring Meeting, American Psychological Association.
3. Boyd, E., Carpenter, C., Quigley, E., Adsul, S., & Sexton, J. (2025, Spring). Personality as moderating genetics associated with ADHD [Poster presentation]. APA Division 39 Spring Meeting, American Psychological Association.
4. Atiyeh, G., Hopkins, C., Bejjani, Y., & Sexton, J. (2025, Spring). Emotional differentiation as a mediator of trauma on subsequent outcomes, and indicator of emotional and defensive dysregulation [Poster presentation]. APA Division 39 Spring Meeting, American Psychological Association
5. Crawford, K. A., Wongmuangkan, N., Jivan, A., Chambers, R. P., & Sexton, J. (2025, Spring). Seeing your daughter clearly: Could estimations of ADHD and mother’s insecurities in her own romantic relationship. [Poster presentation]. APA Division 39 Spring Meeting, American Psychological Association
6. Lambert, P. E., & Sexton, J. (2025, Spring). Exploring the influence of community for African American men in increasing health literacy about prostate cancer from a psychodynamic perspective [Poster presentation]. APA Division 39 Spring Meeting, American Psychological Association.
7. Fedio, A., Nastea, K., Swartz, A., Okeke, C., Rafel, H., Atiyeh, G., & Sexton, J. (2024, November). Let’s get the conversation going! Group intervention with brain injury survivors to promote communication with family and friends about their recovery. [Poster presentation]. The National Academy of Neuropsychology 44th Annual Conference, Austin, TX
8. Essig, T, Lewis, K, Meehan, K, Seifert, C, Sexton, J, & Trub, L. (April 2024). Technology and Psychoanalytic Research. An invited panel at Division 39 of the American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.
9. Du, Y, Chen, S, & Sexton, J, (April 2023) Examining the Moderating Roles of Personality Functioning on Well-Being Across Intersectionalities, Division 39 of the American Psychological Association NYC, NY.
10. Ledesma, D., Ho, E. & Sexton J. (August, 2022). Moving Towards a Moderational Model of Personality Traits and Functioning: A More Nuanced Approach. Poster presentation at the American Psychological Association Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN
11. Yifei, D., Xing, F., & Sexton J. (August, 2022). A Moderating Role of Anger Expression for Neuroticism's Influence on Personal Growth. Poster presentation at the American Psychological Association Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN
12. Sexton J. & Steinbrunner, P. (August, 2022). Variables that Impact the Effectiveness of Court Mandated Treatment During Covid. Poster presentation at the American Psychological Association Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN Done in collaboration with New Horizons Treatment Center
13. Rassuli, A, Dowey, C, & Sexton, J., (March 2022). The Impact of COVID-19 on the Mental Health of Video Gamers, Society of Personality Assessment, supported by research grant from Society of Personality Assessment.
14. Saleem, M, Zimmerman, T, Gruden, A, & Sexton, J, (March 2022). Differential impact of trauma and neglect on personality traits and organization, and how this can later impact levels of psychological distress., Division 39 of the American Psychological Association,
15. Rassuli, A, Dowey, C, & Sexton, J., (March 2022). Personality and video gaming during COVID19: Quantitative and Qualitative results, Division 39 of the American Psychological Association
16. Ho, E, Driwech, W, Sexton, J, Moehringer, J, & Knable, M, (March 2022). Predictors of treatment failure at a residential treatment facility, Division 39 of the American Psychological Association, Done in collaboration with Clearview Clinic Treatment Center.
17. Taneja, H & Sexton, J, (March 2022). Trait predictors of recreational stimulant and hallucinogenic substance use from the MMPI-2, Division 39 of the American Psychological Association
18. Fedio, A., Fedio, P., & Sexton, J., (November 2021) Predicting Post-Traumatic Growth following TBI in different domains of Quality of Life, Presentation at the National Academy of Neuropsychology.
19. Kalahasthi, R., Hedlund, S., & Sexton, J., (April 2021) Cultural Difference in the Comprehensive System for the Rorschach Inkblot Test: Lambda, M and X percentage in the Indian population, Presentation at the Conference honoring Dr. Richard Ruth, George Washington University.
20. Sexton, J., Todd, V., Babbar, D., Falasiri, E., & Zhang, M. (August 2021). Intersectionality – How representativeness and standard analyses fail to capture the diversity experience. Symposium presentation at the American Psychological Association Conference
21. Blue Ribbon Award winner Fedio, A., Fedio, P., Campbell, K., Priluck, J. and Sexton, J. (August 2021). Post Traumatic Growth in Moderate to Severe TBI. Poster presentation at the American Psychological Association Conference
22. Banks, K., Blackwell, P., Joseph, K., & Sexton, J. (August 2021). The Impact of Gender, Race, and Trauma on Help-Seeking Behaviors. Poster presentation at the American Psychological Association Conference
23. Lavey, K., Scopelliti, K., Parise, G., & Sexton, J. (August 2021). Differential impacts of trauma on relationships and therapy. Poster presentation at the American Psychological Association Conference
24. Todd, V., Mai, J., Gherman, A., & Sexton, J. (August 2021). Depression, Heart Disease, and Self-Care: A Replication. Poster presentation at the American Psychological Association Conference
25. Babbar, D., Zhang, M., Falasiri, E., & James Sexton (April 2021). Ethgender effects of Anger Expression and Control on Depression. Poster presentation at Division 39 of the American Psychological Association Conference
26. Abadi, A., Gruden, A., & James Sexton, (April 2021). The Personality, Its Defenses, and Implications for Substance Abuse. Poster presentation at Division 39 of the American Psychological Association Conference
27. Todd, V, Dubendorff, J., Gherman, A. & Sexton, J. (April 2021). Depressive Personality Patterns, Physiological Stress, and Disease Poster presentation at Division 39 of the American Psychological Association Conference
28. Carton, A., & Sexton, J. (April 2021). Longitudinal impact of trauma on struggles with maintaining a healthy weight in adults. Poster presentation at Division 39 of the American Psychological Association Conference
29. Lu, L., Gaspard, A., Babbar, D. & Sexton, J. (February 2020). In defense of personality functioning: Understanding and demonstrating how missing the essential moderation term implicit in Kernberg’s model of personality traits and functioning can result in inaccurate models of personality pathology. Poster Presentation at the American Society of Psychoanalytic Association, NYC, NY.
30. Kumar, S., and Anand, S. & Sexton, J. (February 2020). Reconsidering anger control as an indicator of functioning: Replicating Kernberg and Caligor's trait-functioning moderation hypothesis across two samples with anger. Poster Presentation at the American Society of Psychoanalytic Association, NYC, NY.
31. Kalahasthi, R., Hedlund, S., and Sexton, J. (February 2020). Gender comparison for the Comprehensive System for the Rorschach Inkblot Test in the Indian population. Poster Presentation at the American Society of Psychoanalytic Association, NYC, NY.
32. Babbar, D., Zhang, M., Falasiri, E., and Sexton, J. (February, 2020). Understanding Implications of Intersectionality: How Traits are Best Understood within the Intersection of Gender and Ethnicity. Poster Presentation at the American Society of Psychoanalytic Association, NYC, NY.
33. Conference Award Winner Lui, K., Bi, X., Todd, V., & Sexton, J., (March 2019). Blatt's subtypes of depression related to serotonin, cortisol, platelet levels, and treatment perceptions: Implications for heart disease and diabetes risks. Poster presentation at Division 39 of American Psychological Association.
34. Rosen, A., Hilton, M., Das, A., & Sexton, J., (March 2019). Social media discusses common themes of successful and unsuccessful psychotherapy: What patients are saying works for them. Poster presentation at Division 39 of American Psychological Association.
35. Das, D., Hilton, M., Bagioni, E., & Sexton, J., (February 2019). Anaclitic and introjective depression and intimate partner violence in high school students versus adult offenders and survivors. Poster presentation at the American Psychoanalytic Association. NYC, NY
36. Hilton, M., Benson, S., Rosen, A.& Sexton, J. (February 2019). Exploring Kernberg’s model of personality functioning as moderating traits: Focusing on DSM-5’s Alternative Model of Personality Disorders. Poster presentation at the American Psychoanalytic Association. NYC, NY
37. Rosen, A., Benson, S., Das, A., & Sexton, J., (February 2019). Is functioning unidimensional? Ways functioning can have two or even three dimensions. Poster presentation at the American Psychoanalytic Association. NYC, NY
38. Fedio, A., Sexton, J., Cummings, S., Roper, C., Buonopane, V., Lebedun, A., & Fedio, P, (October 2018). Importance of health professionals informing brain-injured patients about functional changes. Poster presentation at the International Neuropsychological Society.
39. Dinsmore, C., Sexton, J., Mills, S., O’Brien, S., &; Watson, J., (August 2018). Intergenerational effects of anaclitic and introjective depressive traits as mediated by parental conflict., Poster presentation at the Maryland Psychological Association.
40. Rosen, A., Hilton, M., Das, A., & Sexton, J. (March, 2019). Social media discusses common themes of successful and unsuccessful psychotherapy: What patients are saying works for them. Division 39 of American Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA
41. Sexton, J., Jureller, D., & Klienman, O., (June, 2018) Focusing on clinical complexity in assessment, case formulation, and treatment planning, Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Intergration
42. Sexton, J., (May, 2018) Test-retest and contextual validity for Levels of Personality Functioning, Symposium presentation at the Society for Personality Assessment
43. Sexton, J., Das, D., Hilton, M., & Tulipan, M. (May, 2018) The Role of Dimensional Aspects of Depression in Family-Oriented Prevention Program Outcomes, Society for Personality Assessment
44. Fedio, A., Sexton, J., Cummings, S., Roper, C., Buonopane, V., Lebedun, A., & Fedio, P, (October, 2018) Importance of health professionals informing brain-injured patients about functional changes., International Neuropsychological Society
45. Lin, T., Sexton, J., Vintinner, L., Carlson, G., Villegas, M., Holland, C., & Wetters, M., (August 2017). Depression, self-harm, and pain with or without opiate abuse, American Psychological Association,
46. Richards, C., Sexton, J., Kamel, K., Moise, J., & Nowicki, E, (August 2017) The Link Between Facebook Experiences and Depression Subtypes, American Psychological Association
47. Nowicki, E., Sexton, J., Dunlap, K., Lawson, G., & Richards, C. (August 2017). The Interaction of Depressive Subtypes and Video Game Use Over 30 Days, American Psychological Association
48. Nelson, S., Huprich, S., Baade, L., Dauphin, B., Jackson, J., Macaluso, M., Sexton, J., Seifert, C., Zackula, R. (March 2017). Preliminary psychometric evaluation of the DSM-5 Levels of Functioning Questionnaire in two clinical outpatient samples. Presentation at the Society for Personality Assessment, NYC, NY.
49. Sexton, J. (March 2016). Subtyping depression using the BDI-II: Construct validity, gender, ethnicity, clinical predictive validity, and future directions. Symposium at the Society for Personality Assessment, Chicago, IL.
50. Sexton, J. & Sabo, M. (June 2015). The interaction of social support and types of depression: Identifying a trait dimension that can help integrative psychologists adjust treatment. Presentation at the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration in Baltimore, MD.
51. Sexton & Holland, C. (June 2015). Empirical analysis of the influence of depressive personality traits on treatment outcomes. Presentation at the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration in Baltimore, MD.
52. Sexton, J. (March, 2015). Mental health myths. Invited speaker at ChiFi conference, Chicago, IL.
53. Sexton, J. (March, 2015). Battle for the future of video games. Invited speaker at ChiFi conference, Chicago, IL.
54. Sexton, J. & Micelli, E. (March, 2015). Empirical analysis on the influence of depressive personality types on treatment outcomes. Presentation at the Society of Personality Assessment, NYC, NY.
55. Sexton, J. & Sabo, M. (March, 2015). Traits predicting parenting outcomes for teen mothers and issues of self/other report accuracy. Presentation at the Society of Personality Assessment, NYC, NY.
56. Nazarova, A., Sexton, J., & Raman, A. (March, 2015). Anaclitic and introjective personality traits predict reactions to trauma. Presentation at the Society of Personality Assessment, NYC, NY.
57. Wang, Z., & Sexton, J. (March, 2015). Emotion regulation and attachment style-related emotional expression. Presentation at the Society of Personality Assessment, NYC, NY.