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Bryan N. Cochran is affiliated with the University of Montana in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a particular emphasis on social psychology and gender studies. The range of their work includes topics related to LGBTQ health, identity, and policy, racial and ethnic identity research, gender, feminism, and media, as well as attachment and relationship dynamics.

The scientist has contributed to several papers in notable academic venues. Key recent publications include:

  • Real-time associations between discrimination and anxious and depressed mood among sexual and gender minorities: The moderating effects of lifetime victimization and identity concealment, 2020, published in Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity
  • Inconcealable: A cognitive-behavioral model of concealment of gender and sexual identity and associations with physical and mental health, 2020, Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity
  • Mental health providers' biases, knowledge, and treatment decision making with gender-minority clients, 2020, Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity
  • The Availability of Sexual and Gender Minority (SGM) Specific Substance Use Services, 2022, Substance Use & Misuse
  • "For all the role asks of us, it gives us so much more": a descriptive study of gender and sexuality alliance advisors' usual practices, training experiences, and motivations, 2022, Journal of LGBT Youth

The frequent co-authors collaborating with Bryan N. Cochran include Kelly M. Davis, Kinsie Jean Dunham, James Michael Brennan, Morgan Bowlen, and Gabriella Ji. Their contributions appear consistently across multiple projects and publications.

Cochran's work has been published most frequently in the journal Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, followed by contributions in Substance Use & Misuse and the Journal of LGBT Youth. Other venues include the Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care and Psychology in the Schools.

The main fields of study for Bryan N. Cochran center around psychology, with subfields encompassing social psychology, gender studies, sociology and political science, infectious diseases, and reproductive medicine.

The core topics of their research work include:

  • LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Gender Roles and Identity Studies
  • HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
  • Reproductive Health and Technologies

Best Publications

  • Cultural and contextual influences in mental health help seeking: a focus on ethnic minority youth.

    Ana Mari Cauce;Melanie Domenech-Rodríguez;Matthew Paradise;Bryan N. Cochran

  • Challenges Faced by Homeless Sexual Minorities: Comparison of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Homeless Adolescents With Their Heterosexual Counterparts

    Bryan N. Cochran;Angela J. Stewart;Joshua A. Ginzler;Ana Mari Cauce

  • Offsetting risks: High school gay-straight alliances and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth.

    Nicholas C. Heck;Annesa Flentje;Bryan N. Cochran

  • Prospective memory and aging: forgetting intentions over short delays.

    Gilles O. Einstein;Mark A. McDaniel;Marisa Manzi;Bryan Cochran

  • Victimization and posttraumatic stress disorder among homeless adolescents.

    Angela J. Stewart;Mandy Steiman;Ana Mari Cauce;Bryan N. Cochran

  • Overcoming the Odds? Adolescent Development in the Context of Urban Poverty

    Ana Mari Cauce;Angela Stewart;Melanie M. Domenech Rodríguez;Bryan Cochran

  • Characteristics of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals entering substance abuse treatment.

    Bryan N. Cochran;Ana Mari Cauce

  • Mental Health Characteristics of Sexual Minority Veterans

    Bryan N. Cochran;Kimberly Balsam;Annesa Flentje;Carol A. Malte

  • Treatment choice for PTSD.

    Lori A. Zoellner;Norah C. Feeny;Bryan Cochran;Larry Pruitt

  • Factors predicting development of opioid use disorders among individuals who receive an initial opioid prescription: mathematical modeling using a database of commercially-insured individuals.

    Bryan N. Cochran;Annesa Flentje;Nicholas C. Heck;Jill Van Den Bos

  • Do specialized services exist for LGBT individuals seeking treatment for substance misuse? A study of available treatment programs.

    Bryan N. Cochran;K. Michelle Peavy;Jennifer S. Robohm

  • Ecological momentary assessment of daily discrimination experiences and nicotine, alcohol, and drug use among sexual and gender minority individuals.

    Nicholas A. Livingston;Annesa Flentje;Nicholas C. Heck;Allen Szalda-Petree

  • Reducing risk for illicit drug use and prescription drug misuse: High school gay-straight alliances and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth

    Nicholas C. Heck;Nicholas C. Heck;Nicholas A. Livingston;Annesa Flentje;Kathryn Oost

  • Veterans administration health care utilization among sexual minority veterans.

    Tracy L. Simpson;Kimberly F. Balsam;Bryan N. Cochran;Keren Lehavot

  • Substance abuse treatment providers' explicit and implicit attitudes regarding sexual minorities.

    Bryan N. Cochran;K. Michelle Peavy;Ana Mari Cauce

  • Sequential Progression of Substance Use Among Homeless Youth: An Empirical Investigation of the Gateway Theory

    Joshua Aaron Ginzler;Bryan N. Cochran;Melanie Domenech-Rodríguez;Ana Mari Cauce

  • Cultural and contextual influences in mental health help seeking

    Ana Mari Cauce;Melanie Domenech-Rodríguez;Matthew Paradise;Bryan N. Cochran

  • Real-time associations between discrimination and anxious and depressed mood among sexual and gender minorities: The moderating effects of lifetime victimization and identity concealment.

    Nicholas A. Livingston;Annesa Flentje;James Brennan;Ethan H. Mereish

  • Missing data in substance abuse research? Researchers' reporting practices of sexual orientation and gender identity.

    Annesa Flentje;Cristina L. Bacca;Bryan N. Cochran

  • Intake Interviewing with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Clients: Starting from a Place of Affirmation

    Nicholas C. Heck;Annesa Flentje;Bryan N. Cochran

  • Therapeutic burnout among borderline personality disordered clients and their therapists: Development and evaluation of two adaptations of the maslach burnout inventory

    Marsha M. Linehan;Bryan N. Cochran;Corinne M. Mar;Eric R. Levensky

Frequent Co-Authors

Annesa Flentje
Annesa Flentje University of California, San Francisco
Ana Mari Cauce
Ana Mari Cauce University of Washington
Debra Srebnik
Debra Srebnik University of Washington
Kimberly F. Balsam
Kimberly F. Balsam Palo Alto University
Marsha M. Linehan
Marsha M. Linehan University of Washington
Norah C. Feeny
Norah C. Feeny Case Western Reserve University
Katherine Anne Comtois
Katherine Anne Comtois University of Washington
Lori A. Zoellner
Lori A. Zoellner University of Washington
Tracy L. Simpson
Tracy L. Simpson University of Washington
Les B. Whitbeck
Les B. Whitbeck University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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