OKSANA YAKUSHKO, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Educational Psychology
235 Teachers College Hall

University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0345
(402) 472-2119

Biography

Oksana Yakushko is an Assistant Professor in the Counseling Psychology program in the Department of Educational Psychology. Her research interests include immigrant's mental health and well-being, psychology's responses to globalization, women and women's movements, qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches, feminist methodologies, critical psychology, women and embodied spiritualities, and interdisciplinary work within women's studies and psychology.

Recent Publications

Journal Articles

Hobza, C., Yakushko, O., & Walker, K. (in press). What about men? Evolution, social comparison, and the effects of media images on body and self-esteem. Psychology of Men and Masculinity.

Yakushko, O. (in press) Do feminists feel better about their lives? Examining patterns of feminist identity development and women’s subjective well-being. Sex Roles: Journal of Research.

Yakushko, O. (in press). Career development in the former USSR. Journal of Career Development.

Yakushko, O. (in press). Xenophobia: Understanding the roots and consequences of negative attitudes towards immigrants. The Counseling Psychologist.

Sanford, T. C., Davidson, M. M., Yakushko, O., Martens, M. P., Hinton, P. S., & Beck, N. C. (2005). Clinical and subclinical eating disorders: An examination of collegiate athletes. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 17, 79-86..

Yakushko, O. (2005). Ambivalent sexism and relationship patterns among women and men in Ukraine. Sex Roles: Journal of Research, 52, 589-596.

Yakushko, O. (2005). Mental health counseling in Ukraine. Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 27, 161-167.

Yakushko, O. (2005). Protective and damaging roles of religion in the lives of gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals. International Journal for the Advancement of Counseling, 27, 131-143.

Yakushko, O., & Chronister, K. (2005). Immigrant women and counseling: The invisible others. Journal of Counseling and Development, 83, 292-299.

Davidson, M. M., Yakushko, O., & Sanford, T. C. (2004). Counseling center services utilization by racial and ethnic minority students: An archival study. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 32, 359-371.

Hinton, P. S., Sanford, T. C., Davidson, M. M., Yakushko, O., & Beck, N. C. (2004). Nutrient intakes and dietary behaviors of male and female collegiate athletes. The International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism, 14, 389-405.

Flores, L. Y., Scott, A. B., Wang, Y. W., Yakushko, O., McCloskey, C. M., Spencer, K. G., & Logan, S. A., (2003). Annual review: Practice and research in career counseling and development-2002. Career Development Quarterly, 52, 98-131.

Wang, Y., Davidson, M. M., Yakushko, O., Savoy, H. B., Tan, J. A., & Blier, J. (2003). Scale of ethnocultural empathy: Development and validation. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 50, 221-234.

Book Chapters

Yakushko, O., & Espín, O. (in preparation). Immigrant and refugee women. In H. Landrine (Ed.), Bringing cultural diversity to feminist psychology: Theory, research, and practice. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Yakushko, O. (in press). Immigrant women and work. In J. Johnston & R. Dalla (Eds.), Perspectives on immigrant families.

Yakushko, O.,  & Razzhavaikina, T. (in press). Counseling international students from the former USSR. In H. D. Singaravelu & M. Pope (Eds.), Handbook of counseling international students. Washington, DC: American Counseling Association.

Yakushko, O. (2006). Career development of immigrant women.In W. B. Walsh & M. J. Heppner (Eds.), Handbook of career counseling of women (pp. 387-426). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Navarro, R., & Yakushko, O. (2005). Attending to the career development needs of diverse students. In P. Gore (Ed.), Facilitating the career development of students in transition (pp. 103-119). Columbia, SC: National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition.