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Matt Blanchard Melanie Love

Letter from the Editors:

Welcome to the 20th anniversary edition of the Graduate Student Journal of Psychology, 
a student-run, peer-reviewed journal published by the Counseling and Clinical Psychology 
Department at Teachers College, Columbia University. 

Much has changed since we started in 1998—indeed at that time our editors didn’t have 
email, and APA style was only in its 4th edition! But our two-fold mission has remained the 
same throughout: First, to showcase the work of masters and doctoral students in Psychology 
from across the country and the English-speaking world. Second, to be a training ground 
where our peer reviewers, all of them doctoral students or recent graduates, can learn the 
standards and procedures of academic publishing in our discipline.

This volume, our seventeenth edition, includes eight empirical studies with new insights 
on topics such as childhood trauma and risk-taking, working with transgender clients, the 
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treatment to the needs of an undocumented Mexican immigrant. We salute the hard work of 
all our authors and could not be more pleased with the results. 

Our heartfelt thanks goes out as well to the aforementioned peer reviewers, twenty-seven 
doctoral students and early-career psychologists who volunteered their time to read and 
respond to each submission. Often this meant making the tough decision to reject articles that 
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with opaque paragraphs or not-quite-right statistics, asking authors to make major revisions 
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thank our peer reviewers, the backbone of the GSJP for the last two decades, and the decades 
still to come.

Sincerely,