PUBLISHED WORK

Thomas, A., Walsh, T., Cryer-Coupet, Q. R., Harty, J., & Pate, D. (2026). The Health 

Implications of Fatherhood: A Comprehensive Literature Review. Annual Review of Public Health, 47. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-091624-014926 (IF: 20.7)

 

Thomas, A., Gale, A., & Williams, E. (2025). Depression among Black Americans. 

In R. Boyd, B. Chu, E. Hayden, & D. Pizzagalli (Eds.), APA handbook 

of depression. American Psychological Association.

 

Thomas, A., Walsh, T., Quince, H., White, J., & Blackwell, D. (2026). Father 

involvement in pregnancy and attachment to their baby: Depression and partner relationships in a sample of Black fathers. Infant Mental Health Journal, 47(1), e70065. https://doi.org/10.1002/imhj.70065

 

Thomas, A., Li, Y., & Crawford, E. L. (2025). Parental Mediation and Online 

Discrimination: Exploring Psychosocial Distress Among Black and Latino Youth. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 1-11. https://doi-org./10.1080/15374416.2025.2541351

 

Scotland, J., Thomas, A., & Jing, M. (2024). Public emotion and response immediately 

following the death of George Floyd: A sentiment analysis of social media 

comments. Telematics and Informatics Reports, 14, 100143. 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.teler.2024.100143

 

 Cryer-Coupet, Q. R. & Thomas, A. (2023). Two Black fatherhood scholars reflect on 

the (pervasive) myth of the missing Black father. In V. Waldron & T. Socha 

(Eds.), Communicating fatherhood: New directions in theory, research, and 

education. Peter Lang International. Bern, Switzerland.

 

Cooper, S. M., Thomas, A., Harty, J., Garrett, S., Cryer-Coupet, Q., Burnett, M., 

McBride, M., Pate, D. (2023). Honoring foundational Black psychologists' contributions to research on Black fathers. American Psychologist, Pages 535-550. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0001120

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Thomas, A., Gale, A., & Williams, E. (in press). Depression among Black Americans. In

R. Boyd, B. Chu, E. Hayden, & D. Pizzagalli (Eds.), APA handbook of depression. American Psychological Association.

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Thomas, A., Gale, A., & Golden, A. R. (2023). Online racial discrimination, critical

consciousness, and psychosocial distress among Black and Latino adolescents: A moderated mediation model. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 52(5), 967-979.

doi.org/10.1007/s10964-022-01732-z

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Thomas, A., Jing, M., Chen, H. Y., & Crawford, E. L. (2023). Taking the good with the

bad? Social media and online racial discrimination influences on psychological 

and academic functioning in Black and Hispanic youth. Journal  of Youth and 

Adolescence, 52(2), 245-257. doi.org/10.1007/s10964-022-01689-z

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Walsh, T. B., Thomas, A., Quince, H., Buck, J., Tamkin, V., & Blackwell, D. (2023).

Black fathers’ contributions to maternal mental health. Archives of Women's

Mental Health, 26, 117–126. doi.org/10.1007/s00737-022-01284-y

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Thomas, A., Assari, S., Odukoya, E., & Caldwell, C. (2023). Efficacy to avoid violence

and parenting: A moderated mediation of violence exposure for African American urban-dwelling boys. Development and Psychopathology, 35(2), 838-849.                 

doi.org/10.1017/S0954579422000098

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Thomas, A., Wirth, J. C., Poehlmann-Tynan, J., & Pate, D. J. (2022). “When she says

Daddy” Black fathers’ recidivism following reentry from jail. International

Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(6), 3518-3542. 

doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19063518   

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Del Toro, J., Wang, M. T., Thomas, A., & Hughes, D. (2022). An intersectional

approach to understanding the academic and health effects of policing among

urban adolescents. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 32(1), 34-40. doi.org/10.1111/jora.12685

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Cooper, S. M., Thomas, A., & Bamishigbin, O. (2021). Black American fathers

employed in higher-risk contexts for contracting COVID-19: Implications for 

individual wellbeing and work-family spillover. American Journal of Men's 

Health, 15(2), 1-11. doi.org/10.1177/15579883211005617

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Del Toro, J., Fine, A., Wang, M. T., Thomas, A., Schneper, L., Mitchell, C., Mincy, R. B., 

& Notterman, D. (2022). The longitudinal associations between paternal        

incarceration and family well-being: Implications for ethnic/racial disparities in health.

Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 61(3), 423-433.

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Thomas, A., Assari, S., Susperreguy, M. I., Hill, D. E., & Caldwell, C. H. (2020). Age-

specific mechanism of the effects of family-based interventions with African 

American nonresident fathers and sons. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 29, 

3509-3520. doi.org/10.1007/s10826-020-01848-5

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Thomas, A. (2017). Our throw away children: Extending and developing cognitive

behavioural therapy interventions for high-risk populations in the Caribbean.

Caribbean Journal of Psychology, (9)1, 72–96.

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Thomas, A., Caldwell, C. H., Assari, S., Jagers, J., & Flay, B. (2016). You do what you

see: How witnessing physical violence is linked to violent behavior among male 

African American adolescents. Journal of Men’s Studies, 24(2), 185-207.

doi.org/10.1177/1060826516641104

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Thomas, A, Caldwell, C. H., Jagers, R., Flay, B. (2016). It’s in my hood: Understanding

African American boys’ perception of safety in their neighborhoods, 44(3), 311–

326. doi.org/10.1002/jcop.21768

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Thomas, A., & Hope, E. C. (2016). Walking away hurt, walking around scared: A

cluster analysis of violence exposure among young Black males. Journal of Black 

Psychology, 42(5), 453-476. doi.org/10.1177/0095798415603539

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Thomas, A., & Kohn-Wood, L. P. (2015). Chill, be cool man: African American men,

identity, coping and aggressive ideation. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority 

Psychology, 21(3), 369-379. doi.org/10.1037/a0037545

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