Meet Our New JHSP Managing Editor

Kate Brody Nooner, PhD, is the new managing editor for the Journal of Health Service Psychology (JHSP). Dr. Nooner began this role on June 1, 2021, and is fully committed to fostering the translational clinical focus of the journal. As managing editor of the JHSP, she will focus on publishing content of direct clinical relevance to health service psychologists and other behavioral health practitioners. Dr. Nooner hit the ground running at JHSP, working with the outstanding team of Associate Editors and the Editor-In-Chief, Dr. Morgan Sammons. Together, they have committed to ensuring that diversity, equity and inclusion remain priority areas in all topical domains.

As managing editor of the JHSP, she will focus on publishing content of direct clinical relevance to health service psychologists and other behavioral health practitioners. Dr. Nooner has hit the ground running at the JHSP, working with the outstanding team of Associate Editors and the excellent leadership of Editor-In-Chief, Dr. Morgan Sammons. Together, they have committed priority topic areas in various domains, including those pertaining to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

As managing editor for the journal, Dr. Nooner is committed to upholding the highest ethical standards in the peer-review publication practices. Her goals for the first year include indexing the JHSP with APA’s PsycInfo and becoming a member of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics). Longer-term plans include indexing with PubMed Central and continuing to raise the journal’s impact factor. Dr. Nooner will also continue editing original content for health service psychologists and allied professionals in direct clinical practice. Articles will still be centered around a clinical vignette that highlights critical clinical issues. As managing editor, Dr. Nooner supports a diverse range of manuscripts that examine in-depth explorations of highly relevant clinical problems with an evidence-based focus for practitioners.  Dr. Nooner is committed to maintaining an ethical and rigorous peer-review process for the quarterly JHSP issues.

Outside of the journal, Dr. Nooner is a Full Professor and Graduate Coordinator in the Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW). She also directs the Trauma and Resilience Laboratory at UNCW. Dr. Nooner has been a member of the National Register of Health Service Psychologists since 2012. She holds a faculty appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine. Her clinical practice and psychology research are at the intersection of trauma, child and adolescent development, and the brain. Her National Institutes of Health-funded research has included identifying mechanisms of high-risk alcohol use in maltreated adolescents, clinical health disparities, and developing models for understanding resilience following adverse life events in childhood.

Dr. Nooner is a founding member of the General Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at UNCW. She established the General Psychotherapy and Assessment Clinic (GPAC) to provide evidence-based clinical care to the community as part of UNCW’s doctoral program mission.As Graduate Coordinator for the Department of Psychology, Dr. Nooner had a primary leadership role in the APA accreditation process. She is the faculty advisor for UNCW’s chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness on Campus. Dr. Nooner has also acted in leadership roles for the Neurocognitive Therapies Translational Research Special Interest Group within the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. She is also on the editorial board for Child Abuse & Neglect.

Dr. Nooner obtained her B.A. in psychology from Wellesley College and her Ph.D. from the San Diego State University / University of California San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, specializing in developmental psychopathology. She completed her clinical residency with child and adolescent specialization at the Columbia University School of Medicine and her post-doctoral training in trauma and neuroscience at New York University’s Child Study Center. Dr. Nooner is a Licensed Clinical Addictions Specialist credentialed by the North Carolina Substance Use Prevention Board. She holds an American Psychological Association Certificate of Proficiency in the Treatment of Alcohol and Other Psychoactive Substance Use Disorders. Before joining the faculty at UNCW, Dr. Nooner was a tenure-track assistant professor at Montclair State University. She was also a research scientist at the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research.

Learn more about the JHSP editorial team and how to submit a manuscript.