Inna Rivkin
Psychology
University of Alaska Fairbanks
United States of America
Biography
Inna Rivkin Lopez is an assistant professor belongs to the department of Geophysical Institute from the university of Alaska Fairbanks.
Research Interest
The central theme of my research is adaptation in a social and cultural context, involving examination of the factors that promote physical and psychological health for people coping with stressful events. My work explores the effects of health interventions that incorporate cultural and community strengths, such as culturally congruent HIV risk reduction, health promotion, and coping interventions. I am also interested in how actively confronting a stressful event and expressing the accompanying emotions affect health and well-being, and in the role that the social and cultural context play in this process. I am a researcher at the Center for Alaska Native Health Research (CANHR), and investigator on the "Yup'ik Experiences of Stress and Coping" priject. The goal of this project is to understand stress and coping in Yu'pik communities in order to develop a community-informed and culturally-grounded stress-reduction intervention.
Publications
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Johnson, S.*, Rivkin, I.D., Lopez, E., & Orr, E. (2013). The meaning of coping in Yup’ik communities facing rapid cultural change. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 72 (suppl. 1), 506-507.
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Rivkin, I.D., Trimble, J., Lopez, E., Johnson, S.*, Orr, E., & Allen, J. (2013). Disseminating research in rural Yup’ik communities: Challenges and ethical considerations in moving from discovery to intervention development. International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 72 (suppl. 1), 409-416. doi: 10.3402/ijch.v72i0.20958
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Allen, J., Rivkin, I.D., & Lopez, E.D.S. (2013). Health and well-being. In F. Leong, L. Comas-Diaz, G. Nagayama Hall, V. McLloyd, & J. Trimble (Eds.) APA Handbook of Multicultural Psychology: Vol. 1. Theory and Research (pp. 299-311). Washington, DC: APA Press.
