Research & Presentations
My academic and professional work has explored trauma, culture, identity, belonging, psychotherapy, and culturally responsive approaches to psychological care.
Presentations
Abdel-Salam, L. (2026, April). Bayn el Sotoor: Trauma panel. American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.
Abdel-Salam, L. (2025, December). Fear without solution: Disorganized attachment and Complex PTSD. American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt.
Abdel-Salam, L. (2024, November). Beyond Diagnostic Splitting: Integrative Approaches for Clients with BPD and Complex PTSD features. Presented as part of Columbia Social Work’s School Office of Professional Excellence Program.
Abdel-Salam, L. (2024, April). Providing psychotherapy to Arab American and MENA populations. Guest lecture at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY.
Abdel-Salam, L. (2024, March). Beyond Diagnoses: Integrative approaches for clients with BPD and Complex PTSD features. Presented at the Columbia Social Work Trauma Conference, virtual conference.
Abdel-Salam, L. (2022, September). “What are you?” Racial ambiguity, belonging, and well-being among Arab American women. Presented at the American Arab, Middle Eastern, and North African Psychological Association Annual Convention, virtual conference.
Abdel-Salam, L. (2019, August). Experiences of gender among Arab American women: A qualitative study. Presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois.
Abdel-Salam, L. (Chair) (2019, August). Arab American Voices: Making the Invisible Visible. Symposium conducted at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Chicago, Illinois.
Abdel-Salam, L., Alves-Nishioka, S., Lei, N., Motulsky, W., & Postalache, N. (2019, February). Micro-offenses: Addressing and discussing prejudice between people of color. Presented at the Annual Winter Roundtable, New York, NY.
Smith, L., Abdel-Salam, L., Madon, N., McVicar, C., Model, Z., Srinivasan, R., Scott-McLaughlin, R., Williams, M., & Xu, S. (2018). De-pathologizing women and youth in poverty: Counseling in the context of public systems. Presented at the Annual Winter Roundtable, New York, NY.
Smith, L., Abdel-Salam, L., & Srinivasan, R. (2017, August). Youth participatory action research in the context of poverty. Presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Washington, DC.
Smith, L., Semel, R., Srinivasan, R., & Abdel-Salam, L. (2016, August). Race, social class and other socio-cultural identities: Everyday lessons from the cultural landscape. Presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Denver, Colorado.
Publications
Abdel-Salam, L., & Smith, L. (2024). “What are you?” Racial ambiguity, belonging and well-being among non-veiled Arab American women. The Counseling Psychologist.
Smith, L., Abdel-Salam, L., Madon, N., Trojanovic, N., & Scott-McLaughlin, R. (In press). Exploring preferences for multicultural workshop formats: Does the race of the trainer matter? Professional Psychology.
Smith, L., Abdel-Salam, L., Scott-McLaughlin, R., Baranowski, K., Madon, N., & Williams, M. (2022). Counseling psychology and participatory justice: “Sharing the university.” Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 1–19.
Awad, G. H., Ikizler, A., Abdel-Salam, L., Kia Keating, M., Amini, B., & El-Ghoroury, N. (2021). Foundations for an Arab/MENA psychology: Advancing an alternative cultural paradigm. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 1–23.
Smith, L., Abdel-Salam, L., Coyne, M., McVicar, C., Robin, D., & Scott-McLaughlin, R. (2020). Listening to #2A: Applying qualitative method to Twitter dialogue. The Qualitative Report, 25(7), 1856–1872.
Abdel-Salam, L., Rifkin, R., Smith, L., & Zaki, S. (2019). Experiences of gender among Arab American women: A qualitative study. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 66(3), 225–268.
Smith, L., Baranowski, K., Abdel-Salam, L., & McGinley, M. (2018). Youth participatory action research: Agency and un-silencing as an anti-classist practice. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 4(2), 176–186.