Recent Works

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Recent Publications

Castelli Dransart, D. A., Lapierre, S., Erlangsen, A., Canetto, S. S., Heisel, M., Draper, B., et al. (2019). A systematic review of older adults’ requests for, or attitudes toward euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide. Aging & Mental Health.    DOI:1080/13607863.2019.1697201

Canetto, S. S. (2019). Teaching about women and gender from a transnational and intersectional feminist perspective. International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation, 8, 144-160. doi.org/10.1037/ipp0000111 

Canetto, S. S., Trott, C. D., Winterrowd, E., Haruyama, D., & Johnson, A. (2017). Challenges to the choice discourse: Women’s views of their academic science career and family options and constraints. Journal of Feminist Family Therapy

Canetto, S. S. (2015). Suicidal behavior among Muslim women: Patterns, pathways, meanings, and prevention. Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention, 6, 447-458.

Winterrowd, E., & Canetto. S. S. (2013). The long-lasting impact of adolescents’ deviant friends on suicidality: A 3-year follow-up perspective. Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology, 48, 245-255.

MacPhee, D., Farro, S., & Canetto, S. S. (2013). Academic self-efficacy and performance of underrepresented STEM majors: Gender, ethnic, and social class patterns. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 13, 347-369.

Canetto, S. S. (2011). Legal physician-assisted suicide in the U.S.: Issues, roles and implications for clinicians. In S.H. Qualls & J. Kasl-Godley (Eds.), End of life care and bereavement (pp. 263-284). New York: Wiley.

Canetto, S. S. (2008). Women and suicidal behavior: A cultural analysis. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 78, 259-266.


Recent Presentations

Canetto, S. S. (2020, April). Suicide as cultural scripted: Theory, evidence and implications for prevention. Dublin Award Invited Lecture, American Association of Suicidology, Portland, OR.

Canetto, S. S. (2019, September). Men, masculinities, and suicide. Keynote Presentation, International Association for Suicide Prevention, Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

Canetto, S. S. (2019, June). Whose culture? Challenging the idea of an opposition between the right to culture and women’s human rights. Denmark-Gunvald Award Invited Lecture, International Council of Psychologists, Cadiz, Spain.

Canetto, S. S. (2016, June). Gender and suicidal behavior around the world: Why culture matters. Shandong University Center for Suicide Prevention, Shandong, China.

Canetto S. S., Bloodhart, B., Menendez, J., Pivarunas, B., Wong, M., Kishinevsky, B., Gullett, S., & Johnson, P. (2016, April). Perceptions of work/family conflict by married women in science/engineering doctoral programs. Poster presented at the Colorado State University Celebrate Undergraduate Research and Creativity Showcase, Fort Collins, CO.
Received Colorado State University’s Graduate School Social Justice Research Award

Trott, C. D., & Canetto, S.S. (2014, July). Female graduate students’ perceptions of careers in STEM academia. Poster presented at the Gender and STEM Conference, Berlin, Germany.

Canetto, S. S. (2013, November). Paradossi e percorsi della suicidalita’ femminile (Paradoxes and paths of female suicidality).Universita’ di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy (in Italian).

Canetto, S. S. (2011, June). Gender and suicidal behavior: Why culture matters. Keynote presentation, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.


Recent Student Publications

Surratt, R.A. (2018). Women in Sociology Doctoral Studies Speak about Educational and Career Challenges and Supports in their Field. (Undergraduate thesis).


Recent Publications with Current and Former Students

Asterisks (*) indicate names of current or former students and/or post-docs

Canetto, S. S., Antonelli, P., *Ciccotti, A., Dettore, D., & Lamis, D. A. (2021). Suicidal as normal: A lesbian, gay, and bisexual script? Crisis: The Journal of Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention. 

*Sigurvinsdöttir, R., Ullmann, S. E., & Canetto, S. S. (2020).  Self-blame, psychological symptoms, and suicidality among female African-American sexual assault survivors. Traumatology, 26, 1-10.  DOI: 10.1037/trm0000195

*Winterrowd, E., Canetto, S. S., & *Benoit, K. (2017). Permissive beliefs and attitudes about older adult suicide: A suicide enabling script? Aging & Mental Health, 21, 173-181. doi:10.1080/13607863.2015.1099609 

Canetto, S. S., *Tatum, P. T., & Slater, M. D.  (2017).   Suicide stories in U.S. media: Rare and focused on the young. In T. Niederkrotenthaler & S. Stack (Eds.), Media and suicide: International perspectives on research, theory, and policy (pp. 27-39). Transaction Publishers.

Canetto, S. S., *Trott, C. D., *Winterrowd, E., *Haruyama, D., & *Johnson, A. (2017). Challenges to the choice discourse: Women’s views of their academic science career and family options and constraints. Journal of Feminist Family Therapy, 29(1-2), 4-27. doi: 10.1080/08952833.2016.127317 

*Trott, C. D., & Canetto, S. S. (2014). The abuse of women’s rights: Perspectives from psychology and gender studies. The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social and Community Studies, 7(4), 1-12. 

MacPhee, D., *Farro, S., & Canetto, S. S. (2013). Academic self-efficacy and performance of underrepresented STEM majors: Gender, ethnic, and social class patterns. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy,13, 347-369.

*Winterrowd, E., & Canetto. S. S. (2013). The long-lasting impact of adolescents’ deviant friends on suicidality: A 3-year follow-up perspective. Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology,48, 245-255.

MacPhee, D., *Farro, S., & Canetto, S. S. (2013). Academic self-efficacy and performance of underrepresented STEM majors: Gender, ethnic, and social class patterns. Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 13, 347-369.

Canetto, S. S., *Trott, C., *Thomas, J., & *Wynstra, C. (2012). Making sense of the Atmospheric Science gender gap: Do female and male graduate students have different career motives, goals, and challenges? Journal of Geoscience Education, 60, 408-416. doi: 10.5408/12-296.1 

*Hosoi, S. A., & Canetto, S. S. (2011). Women in graduate engineering: Is differential dropout a factor in their underrepresentation among the engineering doctorates? Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, 17, 11-27. doi: 10.1615/JWomenMinorScienEng.v17.i1.30