Alayne "Mimi" Ormerod, Ph.D.
Doctoral Faculty - Clinical Psychology | Fielding Graduate University
Santa Barbara, CA, UNITED STATES
Racial/Ethnic harassment, sexual harassment, and discrimination in the schools, workplace, and military; Sexual violence
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Biography
Alayne (Mimi) Ormerod, Ph.D., is a core faculty member and Director of Research Practicum Training in the School of Psychology at Fielding Graduate University. Dr. Ormerod is the 2018 Chair for the American Psychological Association Committee on Women in Psychology. She has held multiple leadership positions in APA Division 35, Society for the Psychology of Women and is a past associate editor of Psychology of Women Quarterly. An expert on sexual harassment in the workplace, she has consulted to the Department of Defense on their survey program to assess sexual and racial/ethnic harassment and discrimination in the military. Her areas of professional interest are workplace issues and sexual and gendered violence. Dr. Ormerod’s current scholarship focuses on sexual harassment and discrimination in the schools, workplace, and military, and sexual assault in the military.
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Education/Learning
Areas of Expertise (6)
Research in Psychotherapy
Sexual Harassment and Discrimination in the Schools, Workplace, and Military
Sexual Violence
Racial/Ethnic Harassment and Discrimination in the Schools, Workplace, and Military
Research Methods
Psychometric Theory
Education (2)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: PhD, Counseling Psychology
University of California, Santa Barbara: MA, Counseling Psychology
Affiliations (5)
- American Psychological Association (APA), Divisions 14, 17, 19, 35, 44 : Member
- APA Committee on Women in Psychology : Chair 2018
- Illinois Psychological Association : Member
- Association for Psychological Science : Member
- Association for Women in Psychology : Member
Event Appearances (9)
The Role of Religiosity In Self-Control and Adolescent Delinquency: Poster (Gilbert, B., Hull, A., Lyons, D., Silverman, M., & Ormerod, A.J.)
(April, 2018) Midwestern Psychological Association Chicago, Il
Coping strategies that promote resilience to employment discrimination among transgender and gender diverse individuals (Riley, J., Sotilleo, E., Woodrum, T.D., Yuen, N., Mizock, L., & Ormerod, A.J.)
(August, 2017) American Psychological Association Annual Meeting Washington, DC
Sexual Harassment of Adolescent Girls (Ormerod, A. J., & Sagrestano, L. M.)
(August, 2015) American Psychological Association Annual Meeting: Symposium on Violence Against Diverse Women Toronto, Canada
The Role of Climate Perceptions in Predicting School Outcomes and Distress (Poster) (Ormerod, A.J., Alabi, O., Bolt, L., Connell, S., Glass, S., Moore, G., & Palmer, S.)
(May 2015) American Psychological Association Annual Meeting Chicago, IL
Sexual harassment at school and work: Webinar
(October, 2014) Worldwide Network for Gender Empowerment (WNGE) Webinar Series: Violence Against Women & Girls: Continuing Conversations Part Three – Enculturated Violence: Everyday and Everywhere – and Feminist Responses Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA
Contributions of School Climate and Sexual Harassment to School and Psychological Outcomes (Ormerod, A.J., DeBlaere, C., & Sagrestano, L.M.)
(August, 2013) Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association Honolulu, Hawaii
Sexual and Racial/Ethnic Harassment in School: Relative Effects on Well-Being
(August, 2010) Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association San Diego, CA
Impact of Sexual Harassment in School on Sexual Risk-Taking (Sagrestano, L.M., DeBlaere, C., & Ormerod, A.J)
(August, 2013) Annual Meeting of the American Psychological Association Honolulu, Hawaii
Sexual and Racial/Ethnic Harassment in School: Relative Effects on Well-Being (Poster)
(August, 2010) American Psychological Association Annual Meeting San Diego, CA
Research Grants (1)
Outcomes of Sexual Harassment: A Process Model
(2001-2006) National Institute of Mental Health $1,660,989
Co-Principal Investigator
Articles (6)
Sexual assault in the military
APA Handbook of the Psychology of Women: Perspectives on Women’s Private and Public Lives
Ormerod, A. J., & Steel, J.
(2018) C. B. Travis & J. W. White (Eds.) Vol. 2, pp. 195-213). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. doi:10.1037/0000060-011
Coping with transphobia in employment: Strategies used by transgender and gender diverse people in the United States
International Journal of Transgenderism
Mizock, L., Woodrum, T., Riley, J., Sotilleo, E., Yuen, N., & Ormerod, A. J.
(2017) V.18, 282-294. doi:10.1080/15532739.2017.1304313
Transphobia in the Workplace: A Qualitative Study of Employment Stigma
Stigma & Health. Advance online publication
Mizock, L., Riley, J., Yuen, N., Woodrum, T., Sotilleo, E., Ormerod, A.
(2017) Transgender individuals report frequent encounters with transphobia in the workplace, although relatively few studies have investigated this phenomenon. The present grounded theory analysis was conducted with 45 transgender and gender diverse participants to delineate their different experiences with bias and discrimination in the workplace.
Do actions speak louder than words? A comparison of three organizational practices for reducing racial/ethnic harassment and discrimination
Military Psychology
Larsen, S. E., Nye, C. D., Ormerod, A. J., Ziebro, M., & Siebert, J. E.
(November, 2013) We assessed the effectiveness of three commonly suggested organizational practices for reducing racial/ethnic harassment and discrimination (REHD): training; resources for reporting REHD; and implementation actions taken by leadership to reduce REHD.
Racial/ethnic harassment and discrimination, its antecedents, and its effect on job-related outcomes
Journal of Occupational Health Psychology
Bergman, M.E., Palmieri, P.A., Drasgow, F., & Ormerod, A.J.
(2012) A general model of workplace prejudice acts, their antecedents, and their consequences is proposed and examined in the context of racial/ethnic harassment and discrimination (REHD). Antecedents proposed and tested here include context and climate, whereas consequences proposed and tested here include work, supervisor, and opportunity satisfaction and turnover intentions.
Critical climate: Relations among sexual harassment, climate, and outcomes for high school girls and boys
Psychology of Women Quarterly
(June, 2008) This study examined the relationships among peer-to-peer sexual harassment, school climate, adult-to-student harassment, and outcomes (psychological and physical well-being; school withdrawal and safety) for high school girls (n= 310) and boys (n= 259) recruited from seven public high schools in a Midwestern state. More frequent, severe peer harassment was associated with being female; holding climate perceptions that one's school is tolerant of the harassment of girls; and experiencing more frequent, severe harassment by school personnel.
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