UMass Boston

Decolonial clinical community psychology praxis; Trauma, resilience, and healing justice; Racism and racialization; Resistance to settler colonialism, coloniality, and interlocking systems of oppression; Community-based, participatory, action-oriented approaches to research; Qualitative methods, situational analysis

PhD, University of Massachusetts Boston

• Atallah, D.G. & Masud, H.R. (2021). Transitional or transformative justice? Decolonial enactments of adaptation and resilience within Palestinian communities. In J.N. Clark's & M. Ungar's Resilience, Adaptive Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice: How Societies Recover after Collective Violence (pp 234-256). Cambridge University Press.
• Atallah, D.G. & Dutta, U. (2021). ‘Creatively in Coalition’ from Palestine to India: Weaving stories of refusal and community as decolonial praxis. Journal of Social Issues.
• Atallah, D.G. (2021). Decolonial enactments of human resilience: Stories of Palestinian families from beyond the Wall. In M. Ungar (Ed)'s Multisystemic resilience: Adaptation and transformation in contexts of change (pp.565-583). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
• Atallah, D.G., & Ungar, M. (2020). Indigenous communities facing environmental racism: Human rights, resilience, and resistance in Palestinian communities of the West Bank and the Mapuche of Chile. In N. Sveaass, P. Hagenaars, & T. Wainwright (Eds.), Human rights and human rights education for psychologists (pp. 193-206). London, UK: Routledge.
• Atallah, D.G., Bacigalupe, G., & Repetto, P. (2019). Centering at the margins: Critical community resilience praxis. Journal of Humanistic Psychology.
• Atallah, D., Kramer, S., Al Bast, L., Stanley, B., Scales, D., Jawabreh, N., Alazzah, S., Abu Srour, M., Abedrabbu, H., Louis, H., Abu Srour, R., Alazzah, S., Al Mashakhah, M., Darwish, M., Ewise, A., Rumi, M., & Wispelwey, B. (2019). Community health work under occupation: Towards the development of a new model to address social and political determinants of health in Palestinian refugee camps. CHW Central.
• Atallah, D.G, Contreras Painemal, C., Albornoz, L., Salgado, F., & Pilquil Lizama, E. (2018). Engaging critical community resilience praxis: A qualitative study with Mapuche communities in Chile facing structural racism and disasters. Journal of Community Psychology, 46 (5), 575-597.
• Atallah, D.G., Shapiro, E.R., Al-Azraq, N., Qaisi, Y., & Suyemoto, K.L. (2018). Decolonizing qualitative research through transformative community engagement: Critical investigation of resilience with Palestinian refugees in the West Bank. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 15 (4), 489-519.
• Atallah, D.G., Djalali, A., Fredricks, K., Arlington, L., Bussio, M., & Nelson, B.D. (2018). Developing equitable primary health care in conflict-affected settings: Expert perspectives from the frontlines. Qualitative Health Research, 28(1), 98-111.
• Atallah, D.G. (2017). A community-based qualitative study of intergenerational resilience with Palestinian refugee families facing structural violence and historical trauma. Transcultural Psychiatry, 54 (3), 357-383.
• Kronmuller, E., Atallah, D.G., Gutiérrez, I., Guerrero, P., & Gedda, M. (2017). Exploring indigenous perspectives of an environmental disaster: Culture and place as interrelated resources for remembrance of the 1960 mega-earthquake in southern Chile. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 23, 238-247.
• Teran, V., Fuentes, M., Atallah, D.G., & Yang, Y. (2017). Risk and protective factors impacting burnout in bilingual Latina/o clinicians. Professional Psychology: Research & Practice, 48(1), 22-29.
• Atallah, D.G. (2016). Toward a decolonial turn in resilience thinking in multifaceted disasters: Example of the Mapuche from southern Chile on the frontlines and faultlines. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 19, 92-100.

Devin G. Atallah, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Dr. Atallah's research team in the Clinical Psychology Program is entitled: the Decolonial Antiracism Research & Action (DARA) Collective for Healing & Liberación. You can visit the DARA Collective website here: https://www.daracollective.com. Dr. Atallah's work aims to engage decolonizing, narrative, and community-based participatory approaches to critical inquiry. As an activist, scholar, practitioner, and healer, Dr. Atallah focuses on understanding and directly contributing to intergenerational resistance, healing justice and decolonization/decoloniality. Dr. Atallah aims to honor and anchor his work in local and/or Indigenous knowledges of communities in struggle contesting racism and settler colonialism, primarily within his long-term partnerships with communities in Palestine; communities of color in Boston; and with Mapuche communities in Chile. 

Psychological Trauma; Community Psychology; Qualitative Methods; Multicultural Counseling