College of Education and Human Development

Institute of Child Development

Hopewell Hodges

  • Pronouns: she, her, hers

  • Doctoral Candidate

  • Institute of Child Development
    Carmen D. and James R. Campbell Hall
    51 East River Parkway
    Minneapolis, MN 55455

  • hhodges@umn.edu
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Areas of interest

Assessment and evaluation; Culture, cross-culture; Early childhood; Families and parenting; Infant and early childhood mental health; Prenatal; Prevention/intervention; Resilience; Stress and maltreatment; Vulnerable populations

Degrees

University of Minnesota – Institute of Child Development: MA in Psychology, 2023
Yale Divinity School: MA in Religion and Literature, 2020
Yale College: BA in English, 2018

Biography

With my networks of community and academic partners, I conduct community-engaged research on collective and individual resilience processes that support positive outcomes for young people exposed to multi-system adversities like forced displacement and housing loss. My work focuses on the collaborative design of culturally responsive interventions that leverage locally effective resilience mechanisms. Because children’s health depends so much on the health of the systems around them, I also believe in interventions that build the capacities of the systems in the adult world to respond sensitively and creatively to children's needs. My primary research advisors are Dr. Ann Masten and Dr. Saida Abdi.

Developmental Psychopathology and Clinical Science Community/Clinical Work

I have provided therapy to young children and families through the Behavioral Health Center for Families and the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain's Early Childhood Mental Health Clinic, supervised by Drs. Danielle Vrieze and Katie Lingras. In addition, I have provided pre- and perinatal mental health support through the Women's Wellbeing Program, supervised by Drs. Colleen Doyle and Kristina Reigstad. I have co-facilitated school-based skills groups for Spanish-speaking elementary school children who have recently arrived in the United States using the Trauma Systems Therapy for Refugees model.

Publications

Example publications:

Hodges, H. R., Wahidy, Z., Bashari, K., & Abdi, S. M. (in press). Cognitive and neuropsychological assessment of Afghan refugee children. Professional Psychology.

Hodges, H. R., Gillespie, S., Cherubini, F. D. S., Ibrahim, S. A., Gibson, H., Ali Daad, A. M., Davis, S. L., Abdi, S. M, Senesathith, V., Food, Culture, and Health Study Data Collection Team, and Ferguson, G. M. (2024). Ethical applications of digital community-based research with Black immigrant and refugee youth and families. American Psychologist. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001191

Hodges, H. R. & Abdi, S. M. (2024). Forced displacement. In Neblett, E. & Troop-Gordon, W. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-323-96023-6.00018-X

Hodges, H. R. & Masten, A.S. (2023). Resilience of children. In Allison, S.T., Beggan, J.T., & Goethals, G.R. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Heroism Studies. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17125-3_397-1

Cohodes, E.M., McCauley, S., Pierre, J.C., Hodges, H. R., Haberman, J.T., Santiuste, I., Rogers, M.L., Wang, J., Mandell, J.D. & Gee, D.G. (2023). Development and validation of the Dimensional Inventory of Stress and Trauma Across the Lifespan (DISTAL): A novel dimensional assessment of traumatic stress exposure across the lifespan. Developmental Psychobiology, (65), 4. e22372. https://doi-org.ezp1.lib.umn.edu/10.1002/dev.22372

Simenec, T.S., Gillespie, S., Hodges, H. R., Ibrahim, S. A., Eckerstorfer, S., JUS Media? Adaptation Team, & Ferguson, G. M. (2022). A novel blueprint storyboarding method using digitization for efficient cultural adaptation of prevention programs to serve diverse youth and communities. Prevention Science, 24, p. 688-700. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-022-01460-7

Oberg, C.N., Hodges, H. R., Gander, S., Nathawad, R., Cutts, D. (2022). The impact of COVID-19 on children’s lives in the United States (worsening inequities & the need for a just recovery). Current Problems in Child and Adolescent Health Care.

Cohodes, E.M., Kribakaran, S., Odriozola, P., Bakirci, S., McCauley, S., Hodges, H. R., Sisk, L.M., Zacharek, S.J., Gee, D.G. (2021). Migration-related trauma and mental health among migrant children emigrating from Mexico and Central America to the United States: Effects on developmental neurobiology and implications for policy. Developmental Psychobiology, 1-29.