About

A. Jordan Wright is a Clinical Associate Professor and Program Director of the combined Clinical/Counseling Psychology PhD program in the Department of Applied Psychology at NYU. He received his PhD in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University and a Masters in Psychology in Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Assessment Psychology (ABAP) and the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP), and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the Society for Personality Assessment (SPA). Jordan’s scholarship centers on social justice and LGBTQIA+ psychology, including LGBTQ+ microaggressions, as well as evidence-based psychological assessment and their interaction. He has authored multiple widely-used books on psychological assessment, including 'Conducting Psychological Assessment: A Guide for Practitioners', 'Essentials of Psychological Tele-Assessment', 'Essentials of Psychological Assessment Supervision', and the sixth edition of the 'Handbook of Psychological Assessment'. His latest book is 'Essentials of Culture in Psychological Assessment', and he is working on the next edition of the 'Handbook of Psychological Assessment'. He is also a co-author of the Wright-Constantine Structured Cultural Interview (WCSCI), a qualitative technique to assess clients’ lived experience of culture, privilege, and oppression. Jordan is the founding director of the Center for Counseling and Community Wellbeing (CCCW), the training clinic in NYU's Clinical/Counseling Psychology PhD program, and he coordinates and teaches the psychological assessment curriculum for the doctoral program. Prior to NYU, he spent five years on faculty at Teachers College, Columbia University, and six years at Empire State College, SUNY, where he coordinated the statewide online psychology curriculum and served as Department Chair of Psychology. He has also run the mental health department for The HOPE Program, a workforce development program for under- and unemployed adults in Brooklyn.

Research topics

• Biology
• Genetics
• Computational biology
• Evolutionary biology
• Computer Science
• Information Retrieval
• Statistics
• Engineering
• Clinical psychology
• World Wide Web
• Applied psychology
• Software engineering
• Psychotherapist
• Psychology
• Virology
• Data science
• Mathematics
• Cancer research
• Bioinformatics

Selected publications

• Forensic Assessment of Psychological Injury Claims

  2025-01-01 · 1 citations

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• A unifying, process-oriented model of competency in health service psychology.

  Training and Education in Professional Psychology · 2025-06-02 · 1 citations

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• Privilege in the room: Training future psychologists to work with power, privilege, and intersectionality within the therapeutic relationship.

  Psychotherapy · 2025-01-13 · 1 citations

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  Between the racial reckoning of 2020 and wider spread policy development that is explicitly homophobic and transphobic, there have been consistent and resurgent calls for clinicians to address aspects of power and privilege in psychotherapy. This is especially important in a field that continues to be largely White, cisgender, and heterosexual (not to mention abled, socioeconomically privileged, and privileged in many other aspects of human diversity). However, too few models for how to accomplish this in actual practice are offered in the literature. Further, while there is little guidance for clinicians on how to address power, privilege, and intersectionality in the therapy room, there is even less direction for how to train those learning to be clinicians to do this from the start. The purpose of this article is to translate existing knowledge into a framework for supervisors to guide trainees' application in psychotherapy. The article provides an overview of social location, including an analytic framework, as well as a set of practical steps for supervisors and trainees. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved).

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• AI-augmented human biocuration in Reactome

  Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd · 2025-01-01 · 1 citations

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• Advancing curation of viral life cycles, host interactions, and therapeutics in Reactome

  Journal of Virology · 2025-04-23 · 1 citations

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  Reactome (reactome.org) is a manually curated, peer-reviewed, open-source, open-access pathway knowledgebase of essential human cellular functions. Reactome includes viral life cycles that capture a broad range of virus-induced human pathology. Here, we describe a workflow using collaborative curation strategies, orthoinference procedures, and literature triage to rapidly create reliable molecular models of emergent viruses. The resulting pathway data set rigorously details viral infection pathways, interactions with normal human biological processes, and potential therapeutic compounds.

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• Jordan’s Five Rules for Assessment Report Writing

  2024-01-01

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• Unlocking biological insights: Reactome's comprehensive pathway analysis and developmental lineage path project

  Faculty of 1000 Research Ltd · 2024-01-01

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• Truce: Outcomes and mechanisms of change of a seven-week acceptance and commitment therapy program for young people whose parent has cancer

  Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science · 2024-07-01 · 1 citations

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  Truce is an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy group program for young people who have a parent with cancer. In a pragmatic controlled trial, we compared Truce with a wait-list condition to assess its effect on unmet needs and distress. We also investigated how process variables—mindfulness, cognitive inflexibility, family functioning, and life events—might influence outcomes. Participants' unmet needs improved over time (β^ = −5.01, SE = 16.48, p = 0.036, effect size = 0.42), and those improvements were greater for the intervention group compared to controls (β^ = −5.03, SE = 2.41, p = 0.040, effect size = 0.29). There was no evidence of a significant program benefit for distress. For the intervention group, greater improvements in unmet needs were associated with higher baseline distress ( t = 2.36, df = 47, p = 0.022), and being less mindful at baseline ( t = 2.07, df = 47, p = 0.044). No significant mediators were identified. For the control group only, experiencing negative/mixed life events related to cancer was a significant moderator of improvement ( t = −2.36, df = 33, p = 0.024). Truce appears to offer therapeutic benefits to young people who have a parent with cancer, over and above the expected adjustment to the situation over time. The program seems to buffer the impact of negative cancer-related life events on participants’ well-being, but the mechanisms of change remain unclear. • Truce is a new ACT-based program for young people impacted by parental cancer. • This pragmatic controlled trial compares program outcomes to a wait-list control. • Truce participants experienced greater improvements in unmet needs than controls. • Those with higher distress or lower mindfulness experienced greater benefits. • Truce appears to buffer the impacts of negative cancer-related life events.

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• Blood leukocyte characterisation in Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (EGPA)

  2024-09-14

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  <bold>Background:</bold> Immunological mechanisms are poorly understood in EGPA, a rare disease whereby Severe Eosinophilic Asthmatics (SEA) develop blood & tissue eosinophilia, with associated comorbidities. Our objective was to measure blood leukocyte counts and activity from EGPA patients, including type 2-polarised Innate Lymphoid cells (ILC2s) & Type 2-T helper (Th) /cytotoxic (Tc) cell subsets, using chemokine receptor expression. <bold>Methods:</bold> Cytometry was performed on whole blood from stable EGPA (n=9), SEA (n=8) & healthy volunteers (n=10) to measure leukocyte populations, reported as /100µL blood, median [IQR]. EGPA/SEA patients were on OCS only, or with anti-IL5/IL5R. From PBMCs, we measured ILC subset counts (ILC1/ILC2/ILC3; n=5/group), reported /2x10⁶ PBMCs, and maturity status using CD45RO⁺/CD45RA⁺, expressed as % of each ILC subset, mean [SD]. <bold>Results:</bold> Type 2-polarised lymphocyte (Th/Tc2, CD161⁺ Th/Tc2) counts were similar between EGPA and SEA. Eosinophils, basophils, neutrophils, B cells, Th/c 1, 17 and 22 cell counts were also similar between EGPA and SEA. ILC2 counts were lower in EGPA (13.8[8.8-39.4]) & SEA (16.9[10.6-34.4]) compared to health (45[21.3-120.9]) in whole blood (p=0.0792; p=0.1363 respectively). In PBMCs, a greater proportion of ILC2s expressed CD45RO in EGPA (45.8[16.9]) versus SEA (23.3[14.4]) and health (22.7[4.4]) (p=0.0307; p=0.0259, respectively). <bold>Discussion:</bold> T2-polarised lymphocytes circulate at similar levels between health, SEA and EGPA. ILC2s in EGPA are decreased in blood, but show evidence of increased maturation compared to SEA, suggesting disease specific differences that require confirmation at the functional level.

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• Queering psychological assessment.

  Professional Psychology Research and Practice · 2024-10-03

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Frequent coauthors

• Thomas G. Schulze

  National Institute of Mental Health

  188 shared

• Philip B. Mitchell

  Wellcome Sanger Institute

  181 shared

• Marcella Rietschel

  Heidelberg University

  170 shared

• Stephanie H. Witt

  Heidelberg University

  158 shared

• Stefan Herms

  University of Bonn

  148 shared

• Per Hoffmann

  University Hospital Bonn

  148 shared

• Sven Cichon

  University Hospital of Basel

  146 shared

• Frank Bellivier

  Inserm

  143 shared

Awards & honors

• Diplomate of the American Board of Assessment Psychology (AB…
• Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
• Fellow of the Society for Personality Assessment (SPA)