Bio

Joseph E. Trimble (PhD, University of Oklahoma, Institute of Group Relations, 1969) retired in June 2020. He was a Senior Scholar at the Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research and an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Colorado State University and a Research Associate for the National Center for American Indian and Alaska Native Mental Health Research at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. From 2000-2001, he was a Fellow and Visiting Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University. Also, he was a President’s Professor at the Center for Alaska Native Health Research at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. In 2017-2018 he was a Visiting Scholar in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. 

Dr. Trimble earned a baccalaureate degree from Waynesburg College (now University) in 1961 and pursued graduate studies in psychology at the University of New Hampshire, Harvard University, and the University of Oklahoma. In addition, he pursued postdoctoral studies at the University of Colorado, Ohio University, and the University of Hawai’i-Manoa, /East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii.

A dedicated teacher, researcher and scholar, Dr. Trimble was the recipient of four awards from Western Washington University: The Outstanding Teacher-Scholar Award in 1985, the Excellence in Teaching Award in 1987, the Paul J. Olscamp Outstanding Faculty Research Award in 1999, and the Diversity Achievement Award in 2016.
         
Throughout his career, he has focused his efforts on promoting psychological and sociocultural research with indigenous populations, especially American Indians and Alaska Natives. For 25 years, he worked on drug abuse prevention research models for American Indian and Alaska Native youth and collaborated on a series of studies concerning the etiology of drug abuse among American Indian youth, and America's other ethnic minority populations. Since 1972, he continuously served as a member of numerous scientific review committees and research panels for the following federal agencies: NIAAA; NIDA; NIA; NIMH; National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute; NICHD; NCI; National Center for Research Resources, NIH; Risk, Prevention, and Health Behavior, NIH; Center for Substance Abuse Prevention; National Academy of Sciences; NSF; NIDA’s Subcommittee on Epidemiology and Prevention Research, Risk, Prevention: and the Center for Scientific Review’s Health Behavior Initial Review Group; and NIDA’s Health Services Research Subcommittee. In March 2010, NIH and the Center for Scientific Review appointed him as a Distinguished Editorial Reviewer.

Dr. Trimble has held offices in the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology and the American Psychological Association; he holds Fellow status in five divisions in the APA (Divisions 2, 9, 27, 45, and 48). He is past-President of the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues (Division 45 of the American Psychological Association) and a Council member for the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues (Division 9 of the American Psychological Association). In 1994, he received a Lifetime Distinguished Career Award from the American Psychological Association's Division 45 for his research and dedication to cross-cultural and ethnic psychology. In 1991, he received a Certificate of Commendation for Outstanding Contributions to the Development and Implementation of the National Institute on Drug Abuse's Special Populations Research Programs.

He has presented over 200 papers, invited addresses, and invited lectures at professional meetings and various colleges and universities, and generated more than 180 publications and technical reports on topics in psychology and higher education research, including 22 authored or edited books. His books include The Handbook of ethical research with ethnocultural populations and communities (with C. B. Fisher), Counseling across cultures, 7th Edition (with P. Pedersen, J. Draguns, W. J. Lonner, and Maria Scharron del Rio), Diversity and leadership (with J. Chin), The handbook of multicultural psychology (with F.T.L. Leong, L. Comas-Dias, G.N. Hall, and V. McLloyd), Foundations of multicultural psychology (with T. B. Smith), and The culturally diverse leader: New Dimensions, opportunities and challenges for business and society (with J. L. Chin and J. Garcia). Currently he is a co-editor (with Miguel Gallardo, Norweeta Milburn, Sumie Okazaki, and Allen Ivey) for the Cognella Textbook Series on Advances in Culture, Race, and Ethnicity for Cognella Academia Publishing.

In 2001, Dr. Trimble received the Eleventh Annual Janet E. Helms Award for Mentoring and Scholarship in Professional Psychology at the Teachers College, Columbia University, 18th Annual Roundtable on Cross-Cultural Psychology and Education. In 2002 the Washington State Psychological Association awarded him the Distinguished Psychologist Award for the year. In 2004, he received the Peace and Social Justice Award from the American Psychological Association’s Division on Peace Psychology. In 2006, he was awarded the Allen L. Edwards Lecturer Fellowship from the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington. In 2007, he received the Distinguished Elder Award from the National Multicultural Conference and Summit. In 2008, he received the Mary Hennessey Blum Lecturer Award from the Department of Psychology, University of New Hampshire. And, in 2009 he received the Henry Tomes Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Advancement of Ethnic Minority Psychology from the American Psychological Association’s Council of National Psychological Associations for the Advancement of Ethnic Minority Interests and the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues. Also in 2009 he received the International Lifetime Achievement Award for Multicultural and Diversity Counseling awarded by the University of Toronto's Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. In 2012 the American Psychological Association named him the G. Stanley Hall/Harry Kirke Wolfe Senior Lecturer for the year.

In 2013 Dr. Trimble received The National Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award. This award is given to current or former academic faculty members who have inspired their students to "create an organization which has demonstrably conferred a benefit on the community at large." He also received in 2013 the Francis J. Bonner, MD Award from the Department of Psychiatry at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA, which recognizes an individual who has made significant contributions to the field of ethnic minority mental health.

In 2017 the Society for the Psychological Study of Culture, Ethnicity and Race in Psychology (Division 45 of the APA) established the Joseph E. Trimble and Jewell Horvat award to honor significant contributions to Native and Indigenous psychology and making psychology responsive and relevant to the needs of Native and Indigenous communities. Two awards are given each year: One to a promising graduate student who has demonstrated a commitment to achieving an admirable balance between community development and potential leadership in the field of psychology; the other award is given to a senior-level contributor to the field of Native and Indigenous psychology who inspired their former students to create benefits for indigenous communities through their scholarship, practices, and leadership.

In 2017 Dr Trimble received the Gold Medal Award for Lifetime Achievement in Psychology in the Public Interest from the American Psychological Foundation. Last, and most recently, he received the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Arts and Sciences at his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma.

Selected Publications

Trimble, J. E. (2020). “The Circling Spirits Call Us Home;” Marginal Methods, the Shaman, and Relational Approaches to Healing Research. In D. F. Ragin & J. Keenan  (Eds.), Handbook of research methods in health psychology. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.

Noisy Hawk, L. & Trimble, J. E. (2019). Well-being considerations among selected North American Indian populations: Relationships, spirits, and connections. In C. Fleming, & Manning, C.(Eds.), Routledge handbook of indigenous healing, pp. 97-108. London: Taylor & Francis.

Rivkin, I., Trimble, J. E., Johnson, S., Lopez, E., & Orr, E. (2018). Cultural values, coping, and hope in Yup'ik communities facing rapid cultural change. Journal of Community Psychology, 473), 611-627

Trimble, J. E. & Chin, J. L. (2019). Editorial: Exploring culturally diverse leadership styles: A mindset and multicultural journey. Social Behavior Research and Practice - Open Journal, 4(1), e1-e2.

Trimble, J. E., King, J. LaFromboise, T. &  Subia Bigfoot, D. (2019). Selected cultural characteristics and perspectives on American Indian and Alaska Native mental health services and treatment approaches: An overview with reservations. In, R. Parekh & Trinh Nhi-Ha, (Eds.), The Massachusetts General Hospital textbook on cultural sensitivity and diversity in mental health. New York: Springer Nature.

Rivkin, I. D., Johnson, S., Lopez, E., Trimble, J. E., Quaintance, T., & Orr, E. (2017). Yup’ik understanding of stress within the context of rapid cultural change. Journal of Community Psychology, 45(1), 33-52.

Trimble, J. E. & Bhadra, N. (2014). Ethnic gloss. In K. Keith (Ed.), Encyclopedia of cross-cultural psychology (pp. 500-502).New York: Wiley.

Gone, J. P., & Trimble, J. E. (2012). American Indian and Alaska Native mental health: Diverse perspectives on enduring disparities. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 8, 131-160.

Trimble, J. E. (2010). The virtues of cultural resonance, competence, and relational collaboration with Native American Indian communities: A synthesis of the counseling and psychotherapy literature. The Counseling Psychologist, 38(2), 243–256.

Trimble, J. E. (2010). Cultural measurement equivalence. In C. Clauss-Ehlers (Ed.), Encyclopedia of cross-cultural school psychology (pp. 316-318). New York: Springer.

Trimble, J. E., Scharron-del Rio, M. & Bernal. G. (2010). The itinerant
researcher: Ethical and methodological issues in conducting cross-cultural mental health research. In D. C. Jack & A. Ali (Eds.), Cultural perspectives on women's depression: Self-silencing, psychological distress and recovery (pp.73-95). New York: Oxford. PDF

Trimble. J. E. (2010). Bear spends time in our dreams now: Magical
thinking and cultural empathy in multicultural counselling theory and practice. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 23(3), 241-253. PDF

Trimble, J. E., & Clearing Sky, M. (2009). An historical profile of American Indians and Alaska Natives in psychology. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology, 15(4), 338-351.

Trimble, J. E. (2007). Prolegomena for the connotation of construct use in the measurement of ethnic and racial identity. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 54(3), 247-258. PDF

Trimble, J. E. (2005). An inquiry into the measurement of racial and ethnic identity. In R. Carter (Ed.), Handbook of racial-cultural psychology and counseling: Theory and research (pp. 320-359), Volume One. New York: Wiley.

Trimble, J. E. (1988). Stereotypic images, American Indians and
prejudice. In P. Katz & D. Taylor (Eds.), Toward the elimination of racism: Profiles in controversy (pp. 181-202). New York, NY: Pergamon. PDF

Trimble, J E. (1987). Self-understanding and perceived alienation among American Indians. Journal of Community Psychology, 15(July), 316-333.

Selected Publications

Chin, J. L., Trimble, J. E. & Garcia, J. E. (Eds.). (2017). The culturally diverse leader: New Dimensions, opportunities and challenges for business and society. Bingley, United Kingdom: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.    

Smith, T. B., & Trimble, J. E. (2015). Foundations of multicultural psychology: Research to inform effective practice. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.    

Chin, J. L. & Trimble, J  E. (2014). Diversity and leadership. Los Angeles: Sage.

Leong, F.T.L., Comas- Dias, L., Hall, G. N., McLloyd, V., & Trimble, J. E. (Eds.) (2013). Handbook of multicultural psychology, Volumes I and II. Washington, DC; American Psychological Association.

Trimble, J. E. & Fisher, C. (2006). Handbook of ethical considerations in conducting research with ethnocultural populations and communities. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.