Ana T. Flores
Assistant Professor
PhD, MSW
Areas of Expertise: Mental health services for serious mental illness in diverse communities; Latine mental health and intersectional disparities in serious mental illness; Developing and using research tools and interventions that are valid and reliable across different cultural groups; Community engagement and implementation
Biography
Ana T. Flores is an Assistant Professor at NYU Silver School of Social Work. Her scholarship is focused on advancing culturally responsive services for Latines with serious mental illness and identifying strategies for removing structural barriers to quality care. Informed by her own experiences working with diverse individuals and families living with serious mental illness, Dr. Flores’ long-term goals are to (1) contribute to an understanding of the needs and experiences of Latines living with serious mental illness; (2) inform intervention research with the expertise of service users and their families and communities; and (3) to develop equitable community implementation plans that support increased engagement, acceptability, and relevance of mental health treatment for Latines.
Dr. Flores’s dissertation, Social Cognition in Latines with Schizophrenia, was supported by an National Institute of Mental Health F31 Predoctoral Fellowship. During her doctoral studies, Dr. Flores was an active investigator in Cognitive Enhancement Therapy (CET) and Coordinated Specialty Care (CSC) research as related to equitable implementation and ethnoracial outcomes. She was also involved with a qualitative inquiry aimed at understanding cultural adaptations and structural strategies for implementing early intervention services for psychosis in Latine communities. Using mixed methods and critical approaches, Dr. Flores is committed to research that is community-engaged, collaborative, and participatory, all of which contribute to democratizing inquiry into solutions for mental health disparities.
Dr. Flores earned her BA in Psychology from California State University, San Bernardino, and her MSW and PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, School of Social Work.
Publications
Murphy, S. M., Flores, A. T., Wojtalik, J. A., Keshavan, M. S., & Eack, S.M. (2024). Symptom Contributors to Quality of Life in Schizophrenia: Exploratory Factor and Network Analyses. Schizophrenia Research, 264, 494-501.
Fussell-Ware, D.J., Ballentine, K.L., Flores, A.T., Ashcraft, L.E., Mangum, L., MacKenzie, K.T, Thyberg, C.T., Ballard, A.J., & Omowale, S.S. (2023). Using the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research to promote anti-racism in social work higher education. Advances in Social Work 22(2), 680-702.
Flores, A. T., Hogarty, S.S., Mesholam-Gately, R., Barrio, C., Keshavan, M.S., & Eack, S.M. (2022). Cognitive Gains as a Mechanism of Functional Capacity Improvement in Schizophrenia: Results from a Multi-Site Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 151, 554-560.
Labrum, T., Newhill, C., Simonsson, P., & Flores, A. T. (2022). Family conflict and violence by persons with serious mental illness: how clinicians can intervene during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Clinical social work journal, 50(1), 102-111.
Wojtalik, J., Flores, A. T., Keshavan, M.S., & Eack, S.M. (2022). Premorbid Sociality Moderates Social Adjustment Change During Cognitive Enhancement Therapy for Adults with Early Schizophrenia. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 51(3), 312-322.
Labrum, T., Petros, R., Jacobs, L. A., & Flores, A. (2021). Supportive and Problematic Interactions Between Sexual Minorities with Serious Mental Illness and Non-intimate Partner Relatives. Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation and Mental Health, 8, 19-27.
Radovic, A., Odenthal, K., Flores, A. T., Miller, E., & Stein, B. D. (2020). Prescribing Technology to Increase Uptake of Depression Treatment in Primary Care: A Pre-implementation Focus Group Study of SOVA (Supporting Our Valued Adolescents). Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, 27, 766-782.