An Annotated Bibliography on Mental Health and DeafnessPage 1
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A Brief Annotated Bibliography on Mental Health and Deafness
Items in bold are recommended for those wishing to learn general information regarding mental health and deafness. Other articles or books may contain information related to specific topics of interest.
Articles
Anderson, M., Leigh, I., & Samar, V. (2011). Intimate partner violence against deaf women: A review. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 16, 200-206.
Anderson, M. L., Glickman, N. S., Mistler, L. A., & Gonzalez, M. (2015, May 18). Workingtherapeutically with deaf people recovering from trauma and addiction. PsychiatricRehabilitation Journal. Advance online publication.
Anderson, M. L., Sortwell, A., Wolf Craig, K. S., & Ziedonis, D. M. (2016). Symptom patterns of posttraumatic stress disorder among deaf trauma survivors.JADARA, 50(1). Retrieved from
Andreasen, N. C. (1980). Psychiatric dysfluency terms, definitions, and examples. In Scale for theassessment of thought, language, and communication. Unpublished manuscript, University of Iowa,Department of Psychiatry.
Atkinson, J. (2006). The perceptual characteristics of voice-hallucinations in deaf people: Insights into thenature of subvocal thought and sensory feedback loops. Schizophrenia Bulletin.
Baines, D., Patterson, N., & Austen, S. (2010). An investigation into the length of hospital stay for deaf mental health service users. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 15(2), 179-183.
Black, P. & Glickman, N. (2005). Language dysfluency in the deaf inpatient population. Journal of the American Deafness & Rehabilitation Association, 39 (1), Pgs. 1-28.
Black, P. & Glickman, N. (2006). Demographics, psychiatric diagnosis, and other characteristics of North American deaf and hard of hearing inpatients. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education. 11(3), Pgs. 303-321.
Bozzay, M., Kimberly N. O'Leary, Alessandro S. De Nadai, Kim Gryglewicz, Gabriela Romero, Marc S. Karver. (2017).Adolescent Depression: differential symptom presentations in deaf and hard-of-hearing youth using the Patient Health Questionnaire-9,The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 22(2).
Brauer, B. A., Braden, J. P., Pollard, R. Q & Hardy-Braz, S. T. (1998). Hearing impairments and test interpretation. In J. H. Sandoval, C. L. Frisby, K. F. Geisinger, J. Ramos-Grenier & J. Dowd-Scheuneman (Eds.), Test interpretation and diversity: Achieving equity in assessment (pp. 297-315). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
Cerulli, C., Pollard, R. Q., Thew, D., Mastrocinque, J. M., Raimondi, C., DeWindt, L., ... & Chin, N. (2015). What can we learn? Examining intimate partner violence service provision in the Deaf community. Journal of community psychology, 43(2), 142-155.
Cohene, S. & Cohene, L.S. (1990) Art therapyand writing with deaf children, Journal of Independent Social Work, 4:2, 21-46, DOI: 10.1300/J283v04n02_03
Cromwell, J. (2005. Deafness and the art of psychometric testing. The Psychologist18(2), 738-740.
Crowe, T. (2017). Telemental health services as a targeted intervention for individuals who are deaf and hard of hearing.JADARA, 51(1), 1-11. Retrieved from
Crowe, T. (2015). Domestic violence services for the deaf community.JADARA, 49(2). Retrieved from
Crump, C., & Glickman, N. (2011). Mental health interpreting with language dysfluent deaf clients. Journalof Interpretation, 21-36.
Crump, C. (2012). Mental health interpreting: Training, standards, and certification. In our hands: Educating healthcare interpreters. Gallaudet University Press.
Crump, C & Hamerdinger, S. (2017). Understanding etiology of hearing loss as a contributor to language dysfluency and its impact on assessment and treatment of people who are deaf in mental health settings. Community Mental Health Journal. 53(3). Springer Publishing.
Dean, R.K. and Pollard, R.Q. 2013. The demand control scheme: Interpreting as a practice profession.North Charleston, SC.: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
Devinney, J. & Murphy, S. (2002). Mental Health Experiences and Deafness: Personal and Legal Perspectives. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 25 (3) 304-309.
Diaz, D., & Landsberger, S. (2010). Exploring the use of seclusion and restraint with deaf psychiatric patients: Comparisons with hearing patients. Psychiatry Q.
Dolnick, E. (1993, September). Deafness as culture. The Atlantic Monthly. 37-53.
Embree, J. (2012). Prevalence of suicide attempts in a deaf population with co-occurring substance use disorder. Journal of the American Deafness & Rehabilitation Association, 45(2).
Feldman, D. (2004). Concerns and Considerations in Mental Health Practice with Culturally Deaf Older Adults. Journal of the American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association, 37(3).
Fellinger J, Holzinger D, Beitel C, Laucht M, Goldberg DP. (2009). The impact of language skills on mental health in teenagers with hearing impairments. Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica. Feb 5.
Glickman, N. (2007). Do you hear voices? Problems in assessment of mental status in deaf persons withsevere language deprivation. Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 1-21.
Glickman, N., & Harvey, M. (2008). Psychotherapy with deaf adults: The development of a clinical specialization. JADARA, 41(3), 129-186.
Gournaris, M. (2016). Certified peer support specialists: Advancing peer support services in deaf mental health care.JADARA, 50(1). Retrieved from
Gryglewicz, K., Bozzay, M., Arthur-Jordon, B., Romero, G. D., Witmeier, M., Chapple, R., & Karver, M.S. (2017, August 10). A Silenced Population: Uncovering Correlates of Suicidal-Related Behavioramong Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Youth. Crisis. Advance online publication.
Guthmann, D., Lybarger, R. & Sandberg, K. (1993). Providing chemical dependency treatment to the deaf or hard of hearing mentally ill client. Journal of the American Deafness & Rehabilitation Association, 27 (1), 1-15
Hall, W. C. (2017). What you don’t know can hurt you: The risk of language deprivation by impairing sign language development in deaf children. Maternal and Child Health Journal, 21(5), 961-965.
Hall, W. C., Levin, L. L., & Anderson, M. L. (2017). Language deprivation syndrome: a possible neurodevelopmental disorder with sociocultural origins. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 1-16.
Hall, M., Inge-Marie Eigsti, Heather Bortfeld, Diane Lillo-Martin; Auditory Deprivation Does Not Impair Executive Function, But Language Deprivation Might: Evidence From a Parent-Report Measure in Deaf Native Signing Children,The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, Volume 22, Issue 1, 1 January 2017, Pages 9–21,
Hamerdinger, S. & Karlin, B, (2003). Therapy using interpreters: questions on the use of interpreters in therapeutic settings for monolingual therapists. Journal of the American Deafness & Rehabilitation Association, 36(3).
Hamerdinger, S. & Murphy, D. (2000). Using the deaf community as an alternative treatment strategy: developing deaf treatment family homes. JADARA 33(2).
Hamerdinger, S. & Hill, L. (2005). Serving Severely Emotionally Disturbed Deaf Youth: A Statewide Model. Journal of the American Deafness and Rehabilitation Association, 38.3.
Hauser, P.C., O'Hearn, A., McKee, A.S., & Thew, D. (2010) Deaf Epistemology: Deafhood and Deafness.
American Annals of the Deaf, 154 (5), 486-492.
Interpreting in mental health settings. (2007). Registry of interpreters for the deaf standard practice paper.
Horne N, Pennington J. (2010) The role of the Nurse Specialist in the highly specialized field of Mental Health and Deafness. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. 2010 May 1;17(4):355-358.
Horton, H.K. (2010). Linguistic ability and mental health outcomes among deaf people with schizophrenia. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease Sep; 198 (9):634-42.
Hyoguchi, N, Daisuke Kobayashi, Toshio Kubota, Takao Shimazoe; Effects on deaf patients of medication education by pharmacists,The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, Volume 21, Issue 4, 1 October 2016, Pages 416–421,
Joharchi, H. A., Corbett, C. A., & Dadson, M. (2016). An overview of limited literature on diagnosis and treatment of deaf and hard of hearing individuals with pediatric bipolar disorder.JADARA, 50(3), 110-136. Retrieved from
Landsberger, S., & Diaz, D. (2010). Inpatient psychiatric treatment of deaf adults: Demographic anddiagnostic comparisons with hearing inpatients. Psychiatric Services, 61(2), 196-199.
Landsberger, S., Sajid, A., Schmelkin, L., Diaz, D., & Weiler, C. (2013). Assessment and treatment of deafadults with psychiatric disorders: A review of the literature for practitioners. Journal of PsychiatricPractice, 19(2), 87-97.
Mamo, S. K., Oh, E., & Lin, F. R. (2017). Enhancing communication in adults with dementia and age-related hearing loss. Seminars in Hearing 38 (2) pp. 177-183. Thieme Medical Publishers.
McDevitt, N., & Gournaris, M. J. (2015). Culturally affirmative and mobile psychological assessment program for children with hearing loss or combined hearing and vision loss in rural areas.JADARA, 49(3), 145-159. Retrieved from
Merkin, L. & Smith, M.J. (1995). A community based model providing services for deaf and deaf-blind victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. Sexuality and deafness [Special issue]. Sexuality & Disability, 13(2), 97-106.
Mitchell, T., & Braham, L. (2011). The psychological treatment needs of deaf mental health patients in
high-secure settings: A review of the literature. International Journal of Forensic Mental Health, 10,
92-106.
Morere, D., Dean, P., & Mompremier, L. (2009). Mental health assessment of deaf clients: Issues withinterpreter use and assessment of person with diminished capacity and psychiatric populations.JADARA, 241-258.
Morrow, L. (1985). Teaching self-control to dually diagnosed deaf students: Promising procedures. American Annals of the Deaf, 130(6), 502-507.
National Association of the Deaf. (2013). Position statement on mental health interpreting services with people who are deaf. Retrieved from
National Association of the Deaf. (2013). Position statement on mental health services for deaf children. Retrieved from
National Association of the Deaf. (2013). Position statement on mental health services. Retrieved from
NASMHPD. 2002. Reducing Seclusion and Restraint Part III: Lessons from the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Communities.Arlington, VA: National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors.
Hamerdinger, S. & Schafer, K. (2016). Technical Assistance Coalition. Promising and emerging approaches and innovations for crisis intervention for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, and deafblind. National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors.
Niclasen, J, Jesper Dammeyer. (2016).Psychometric properties of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire and mental health problems among children with hearing loss,The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, (2)(1),
Øhre, B., Volden, M., Falkum, E., von Tetzchner, S.; Mental disorders in deaf and hard of hearing adult outpatients: a comparison of linguistic subgroups,The Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 22(1). Retrieved from
Pollard, R.Q. (1996). Professional psychology and deaf people: The emergence of a discipline. American Psychologist, 51(4), 389-396.
Pollard, R.Q. (1994). Public mental health service and diagnostic trends regarding individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. Rehabilitation Psychology, 39(3), 147-160
Pollard, R., Sutter, E., & Cerulli, C. (2013). Intimate partner violence reported by two samples of deaf adults via a computerized American Sign Language survey. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1-18.
Pugh MA, Vetere A. (2009) Lost in translation: An interpretative phenomenological analysis of mental health professionals' experiences of empathy in clinical work with an interpreter.Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 82(3),305-321.
Schild, S., & Dalenberg, C. (2012). Trauma exposure and traumatic symptoms in deaf adults. Psychological
Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 4(1), 117-127.
Sheppard K, Badger T. (2010). The lived experience of depression among culturally Deaf adults. Journal of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing. Nov; 17(9):783-9.
Sipal, R. F., & Sayin, U. (2013). Impact of perceived social support and depression on the parental attitudes of mothers of children who are deaf. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 22(8), 1103-1111.
Sullivan, P. et al. (1992). The effects of psychotherapy on behavior problems of sexually abused deaf children. Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal, 16(2), 297-307.
Thacker, A. (1994). Formal communication disorder: Sign language in deaf people with schizophrenia. British Journal of Psychiatry, 165, 818–823.
Trumbetta, S., Bonvillian, J., Siedlecki, T. Jr., & Hasins, B. (2001). Language-related symptoms in persons with schizophrenia and how deaf persons may manifest these symptoms. Sign Language Studies, 4(3), 228–253
Williams, C., & Abeles, N. (2004). Issues and implications of deaf culture in therapy. ProfessionalPsychology: Research and Practice, 35(6), 643-648.
Wilson, J., Guthmann, D., Embree, J., & Fraker, S. (2015). Comparing outcomes from an online substance abuse treatment program and residential treatment programs for consumers who are deaf: A pilot study.JADARA, 49(3), 172-184. Retrieved from
Young, A., Ferguson-Coleman, E., & Keady, J. (2014). Understanding the personhood of Deaf people with dementia: Methodological issues. Journal of Aging Studies, 31, 62-69.
Books
Allan, Joyce. (2003). Because I love you: The silent shadow of child sexual abuse.
Aranda, B. (Ed.). (2014). Mental Health and Some Sociocultural Issues in Deaf People. Nova Science Publishers.
Austen, S., & Crocker, S. R. (2004). Deafness in mind: Working psychologically with deaf people across the lifespan. Wiley.
Austen, S., & Jeffery, D. (Eds.). (2006). Deafness and challenging behaviour: the 360° perspective. John Wiley & Sons.
Bakke, D. (2000). God Knows His Name: The True Story of John Doe (No. 24). SIU Press.
Boggs-Qualls, R. & Greene, D. (2001). Walking Free: The Nellie Zimmerman Story. Densmore-Reid Pubns.
Bolander, A. M., & Renning, A. N. (2000). I was number 87: A deaf woman's ordeal of misdiagnosis, institutionalization, and abuse. Gallaudet University Press.
Burch, S., & Joyner, H. (2007). Unspeakable: The Story of Junius Wilson. University of North Carolina Press.
Critchfield, A.B. 2002. Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Persons Who Are Deaf. Washington, DC.: National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors.
Crone, E. & Goodman, C. (2004) They Hear Through Their Eyes: Referring and Serving the Deaf Client in Recovery. Author House.
Denmark, J. C. (1994). Deafness and mental health. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Du Feu, M. & Chovaz, C. (2014). Mental Health and Deafness. Oxford University Press.
Glickman, N. S. & Harvey, M. A. (1996). Culturally affirmative psychotherapy with deaf persons. Routledge.
Glickman, N. S., & Gulati, S. (Eds.). (2003). Mental health care of deaf people: A culturally affirmative approach. Routledge.
Glickman, N.S.(2008). Cognitive behavioral therapy for deaf and hearing persons with language and learning challenges. New York: Routledge.
Glickman, N. and Harvey, M. (1996). Culturally Affirmative Psychotherapy with Deaf Persons.Mahwah, NJ. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.
Glickman, N. (ed) 2013. Deaf Mental Health Care. New York. Routledge.
Glickman, N. S. (2016). Preparing Deaf and Hearing Persons with Language and Learning Challenges for CBT: A Pre-Therapy Workbook. Routledge.
Glickman, N.S. (2018). Language deprivation disorder in Deaf mental health care. Not yet released.
Gutman, V. (ed.) (2002)Ethics in Mental Health and Deafness.Washington, DC: GallaudetUniversity Press.
Harvey, M. A. & Harvey, D. (2003). Psychotherapy with deaf and hard of hearing persons: A systemic model. Routledge.
Harvey, M.A. (2002). Psychotherapy with deaf and hard of hearing persons: A systemic model, second edition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers.
Harvey, M. A. 1998 Odyssey of Hearing Loss. San Diego, CA. DawnSign Press.
Hindley, P., & Kitson, N. (2000). Mental health and deafness. Wiley.
Lane, H. 1992. The mask of benevolence: Disabling the deaf community. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Lane, H., Pollard, R., & Hedberg, U. (2011). The people of the eye: Deaf ethnicity and ancestry. New York, NY: OxfordUniversity Press.
Leigh, I.W. (ed.) 1999. Psychotherapy with Deaf Clients of Diverse Populations. Washington, DC: Gallaudet University Press.
Leigh, I. (2009). A lens on deaf identities. New York, NY: OxfordUniversity Press.
Leigh, I. & Andrews, J. (2016). Deaf People and Society: Psychological, Sociological and Educational Perspectives. Taylor & Francis.
Leigh, I. W., & Pollard, R. Q. (2003). Mental health and deaf adults. Oxford handbook of deaf studies, language, and education, 1, 214-226.
Marschark, M. (1997). Psychological development of deaf children. Oxford University Press on Demand.
Marschark, M., & Hauser, P. C. (Eds.). (2008). Deaf cognition: Foundations and outcomes. Oxford University Press.
Meadow, K.P. 1987. Psychosocial intervention with deaf children. In B. Heller, L.M. Flohr, L.S. Zegans (Eds.). Psychosocial interventions with sensorially disabled persons. New York: Grune and Stratton.
Morere, D., & Allen, T. (2013). Assessing literacy in deaf individuals: Neurocognitive measurement and predictors. New York, NY: Springer.
Poizner, H., Klima, E. S., & Bellugi, U. (1990). What the hands reveal about the brain. MIT press.
Pollard, R. (1998). Mental health interpreting: A mentored curriculum [Videotape and users' guide]. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester School of Medicine.
Raval, H., & Tribe, R. (2014). Working with interpreters in mental health. Routledge.
Sacks, O. 1989. Seeing Voices. Berkley. University of California Press
Scheetz, N. (2003). Psychosocial Aspects of Deafness. Pearson.
Schlesinger, Hilde S. & Meadow, Kathryn P. 1972. Sound and Sign. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
Schild, S., & Dalenberg, C. (2012). Trauma exposure and traumatic symptoms in deaf adults. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 4(1), 117.
Sleeboom-van Raaij, I., & Aranda, B. D. E. (Eds.). (2015). Mental Health Services for Deaf People: Treatment Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges. Gallaudet University Press.
Tidyman, E. (1975). Dummy.
Vernon, M. & Vernon, M. (2010). Deadly charm: The story of a Deaf serial killer. Gallaudet University Press.
Vernon, M. & Andrews, J.F. (1990). The psychology of deafness: Understanding deaf and hard of hearing people. New York: Longman.
Zand, D. H., & Pierce, K. J. (Eds.). (2011). Resilience in deaf children: Adaptation through emerging adulthood. Springer Science & Business Media.
Revised: September 2017