School of Natural and Social Sciences
Department of Psychology

 

Fary M. Cachelin
Professor and Chair

Office: KH D3087
Phone: (323) 343-5005
FAX: (323) 343-2281
Email: mailto:fcachel@calstatela.edu

 

Introduction Teaching Interests Research Interests
Educational Background Schedule & Office Hours

Introduction

I enjoy teaching undergraduate and graduate students from diverse backgrounds, supervising research and training students. I enjoy teaching in areas such as general and abnormal psychology, psychological testing and clinical assessment, health psychology (including topics such as dieting and addiction), personality, developmental psychology, and research design and methods of experimental psychology.

Teaching Interests

 I teach health psychology, behavior disorders in children, research methods, personality psychology and abnormal psychology.

Research Interests

My research interests are in clinical psychology with particular emphasis on eating disorders and developmental psychopathology. In the area of eating disorders, particular focus is on the perceptual and cognitive distortions that are common in anorexia and binge eating. More recently, my lab has been conducting studies examining disordered eating, dieting, and obesity in women and men of various ethnicities. Specifically, I am interested in investigating barriers to treatment seeking and health care utilization in these populations.  My newest project, funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, will focus on developing and testing a guided self-help program to treat binge eating in Mexican American women.

 

Representative Professional Activities

 

Grants and Awards

Date

Title

Source

Amount

2009-2013

Development of a Self-Help Program to Treat Binge Eating in Mexican Americans

NIH/SC1

$1,424,710

2006

Graduate Studies and Research SEED Grant

CSULA

$3,920

2001-2004

Barriers to Treatment for Mexican American Women with Eating Disorders

NIGMS/MBRS SCORE

$230,726

1999

Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Award

CSULA

$9,904

 

Selected Publications

2009

Cachelin, F. M., Dohm, F.A., & Brown, M.  Eating disorders in ethnic minority women:  a review of the emerging literature.  Current Psychiatry Reviews, 5.

2009

Cachelin, F.M., & Regan, P. C.  Binge eating:  What we can learn from multi-ethnic community samples.  In N. Chambers (Ed.), Binge eating:  Psychological factors, symptoms and treatment (pp. 13-22).  New York:  Nova Science.

2009`

Dohm, F. A., Brown, M., Cachelin, F. M., & Striegel-Moore, R. H.  Ethnicity, disordered eating, and body image.  In H. Landrine & N. Russo (Eds.), Bringing cultural diversity to feminist psychology.  New York, NY:  Springer.

2006

Cachelin, F. M., Monreal, T. K., & Juarez, L. C.  Body image and size perceptions of Mexican American women.  Body Image, 3, 67-75.

2006

Cachelin, F. M., Phinney, J., Schug, R. A., & Striegel-Moore, R. H.  Acculturation and eating disorders in a Mexican American community sample.  Psychology of Women Quarterly, 30, 340-347.

2006

Cachelin, F. M., & Regan, P.  Prevalence and correlates of chronic dieting in a multi-ethnic U.S. community sample.  Eating and Weight Disorders, 11, 91-99.

2006

Cachelin, F. M., & Striegel-Moore, R. H. Help seeking and barriers to treatment in a community sample of Mexican American and European American women with eating disorders.  International Journal of Eating Disorders, 39, 1544-161.

2006

Cachelin, F.M., Striegel-Moore, R. H., & Regan, P.  Factors associated with treatment seeking n a community sample of European American and Mexican American women with eating disorders.  European Eating Disorders Review, 14, 1-8.

2006

Regan, P. C., & Cachelin, F. M.  Binge eating and purging in a multi-ethnic community sample. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 39, 523-526.

2005

Cachelin, F. M., Schug, R. A., Juarez, L. C., & Monreal, T. K.  Sexual abuse and eating disorders in a community sample of Mexican American women.  Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 27, 533-546.

2005

Dohm, F. A., Cachelin, F. M., & Striegel-Moore, R. H.  Factors that influence food amount ratings by White, Hispanic, and Asian samples.  Obesity Research, 13, 1061-1069.

2004

Cachelin, F. M.  Women with eating disorders and barriers to treatment. In P. Swain (Ed), Focus on eating disorder research (pp. 89-110). New York: Nova Science Publishers

2003

Cachelin, F. M., Weiss, J. W., & Garbanati, J. A. Dieting and its relationship to smoking, acculturation, and family environment in Asian and Hispanic adolescents. Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention,11, 51-61.

2002

Cachelin, F. M., Rebeck, R. M., Chung, G. H., & Pelayo, E. Does ethnicity influence body size preference? A comparison of body image and body size assessments. Obesity Research, 10(3), 158-166.

2001

Cachelin, F. M. Ethnic differences in body size preferences: Myth or reality? Nutrition, 17, 353-356.

2001

Cachelin, F. M., Rebeck, R., Veisel, C., & Streigel-Moore, R. H. Barriers to treatment of eating disorders among ethnically, diverse women. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 30, 269-278.

2001

Lewis, D. M., & Cachelin, F. M . Body image, body dissatisfaction, and eating attitudes in mid-life and elderly women. Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention, 9, 29-39.

2001

Striegel-Moore, R. H., & Cachelin, F. M. Etiology of eating disorders. The Counseling Psychologist, 29, 635-661.

2001

Striegel-Moore, R. H., Cachelin, F. M., Dohm, F. A, et al. Comparison of Binge Eating Disorder and Bulimia Nervosa in a community sample. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 29, 157-165.

 

 

 

Educational Background

Ph.D., Experimental Psychopathology,1996

Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

M.A., Psychology,1992

Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts

 

B.A.,Psychology,1988

Stanford University

Stanford, California

 

Fall 2009 Office Hours