Adrianna J. Valencia, B.S.
Graduate Student
Graduate Student
Adrianna is a fourth-year student in the clinical psychology doctoral program at The University of Memphis. She is interested in understanding how discrimination and other social stressors are associated with gambling problems among individuals from marginalized and underrepresented populations. Adrianna is also interested in how to culturally center psychological treatment and maximize treatment effectiveness for these populations.
SELECT PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
Presentations
Andersland, M. D., McPhail, A., Dow, C. V., Valencia, A. J., Pfund, R. A., Whelan, J. P. (2024, April). Expectations of the effects of nicotine on gambling behavior. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Collaborative Perspectives on Addiction Conference, Denver, CO.
Valencia, A. J., Ginley, M. K., Whelan, J. P., & Pfund, R. A. (2023, October). Effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy for gambling disorder among African American adults. Poster presented at the 2023 Tennessee Psychological Association Conference, Franklin, TN.
Publications
Horn, T. L., McPhail, A., Valencia, A. J., Pfund, R. A., & Whelan, J. P. (in press). Effects of alcohol consumption on gambling warning message recall and recognition. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.
Pfund, R. A., Valencia, A. J., Hudson, E. A., Ginley, M. K., & Whelan, J. P. (in press). Effectiveness of a systems-wide initiative to address motivation and expectations for treatment on initial session attendance to outpatient gambling treatment. Journal of Gambling Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10899-024-10349-9
Ruggeri, K., … Valencia, A. J., …, & Garcia-Garzon, E. et al. (2022). The globalizability of temporal discounting. Nature of Human Behaviour, 6, 1386–1397. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-022-01392-w