Oona Appel, PsyD
Assistant Professor
Psychiatry
School of Medicine

Awards

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• Toy Caldwell-Colbert Student Contributions to Service Award, APA Division 45: Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity, and Race, 2017
• Outstanding Dissertation Award, The Wright Institute, 2017

Education & Training

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• Postdoctoral Fellowship in Forensic Psychology Medical University of South Carolina 07/2018
• PsyD Clinical Psychology The Wright Institute 09/2017
• Predoctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology Saint Elizabeths Hospital 07/2017
• BA Postcolonial Studies New York University 05/2006

Publications (3)

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HousingSocial Determinants of HealthMental Health ServicesLos AngelesMental CompetencyCriminal LawYoung AdultRacismPrisonersCommunity IntegrationMental DisordersSocial MarginalizationInsanity DefenseMiddle AgedAdolescent

• Cross-Sectional Study of Homeless High Service Utilizers in Los Angeles County Jails: Race, Marginalization and Opportunities for Diversion.
  Ethnicity & disease 2020 Shadravan S, Stephens D, Appel O, Ochoa K
• Differential Incarceration by Race-Ethnicity and Mental Health Service Status in the Los Angeles County Jail System.
  Psychiatric services (Washington, D.C.) 2020 Appel O, Stephens D, Shadravan SM, Key J, Ochoa K
• Decriminalization in action: lessons from the Los Angeles model.
  CNS spectrums 2019 Ochoa K, Appel O, Nguyen V, Kim E