Wallis Adams, PhD Faculty Profile

Sociology of Mental Health; Medical Sociology; Public Health; Health Services; Health Equity; Experiential Expertise and Community Knowledge; Community-Involved Mixed-Methods Research

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Boston University
• Ph.D., Sociology, Northeastern University
• M.P.H. (Master of Public Health), California State University, Northridge
• B.A., Gender Studies, Oberlin College

Not teaching this semester.

Adams, W., Duquette, R., de Wet, A., & Rogers, E. 2023. Competing Allegiance in an Unclear Role: Peer and Non-Peer Understandings of Peer Support in Massachusetts. SSM - Mental Health.

Adams, W., Rogers, E., McKnight, L, & Lynde, D. 2023. Examination of Adaptations to the Evidence-Based Supported Employment Model: Individual Placement and Support. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. 

Adams, W., Rogers, E., Edwards, J., Lord, E., McKnight, L, &Barbone, M. 2022. The Impact of COVID-19 on Peer Support Specialists in the US: Findings from a Cross-Sectional Online Survey. Psychiatric Services. 

Adams, W., & Lincoln, A. 2021. Barriers and Facilitators of Implementing Peer Support Services for Criminal-Justice Involved Individuals. Psychiatric Services. 

Lincoln, A., Eyllon, M., Prener, C., Garverich, S., Griffith, J., Adams, W... & Paasche-Orlow, M. 2021. Prevalence and Predictors of Limited Literacy in Public Mental Healthcare. Community Mental Health Journal. 

Adams, W. 2020. Unintended Consequences of Institutionalizing Peer Support Work in Mental Healthcare. Social Science & Medicine.

Scoglio, A., Adams, W., & Lincoln, A. (2020). Meaning and Management of Multiple Medications among Public Mental Health Service Users. Community Mental Health Journal, 56(2): 313-321

Adams, W., & Lincoln, A. (In Press). Forensic Peer Specialists: Training, Employment and Lived Experience. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal.

Lincoln, A., Adams, W., Eyllon, M., Garverich, S, Prener, C., Griffith, J., Paasche-Orlow, M., & Hopper, K. (2017). The Double Stigma of Limited Literacy and Mental Illness: Examining barriers to recovery and participation among public mental health services users.  Society and Mental Health, 7(3): 121-141.

Guzzardo, M., Adams, W., Todorova, I., & Falcon, L. (2017). Harmonizing traditional beliefs with new realities: Social support experiences of Puerto Ricans with disabilities. Sage Open, 7(2).

Lincoln, A., & Adams, W. (2016). “Understandings of community among people using publicly funded community mental health services”. Book Chapter in Advances in Medical Sociology, Vol. 17: 50 Years after Deinstitutionalization: Mental Illness in Contemporary Communities, Ed. Brea Perry. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Guzzardo, M., Adams, W., Todorova, I., & Falcon, L. (2016). Resonating sentiments on Puerto Rican identity through poetry: Voices of the Diaspora. Qualitative Inquiry, 22(5): 428-443.

Guzzardo, M., Todorova, I., Adams, W., & Falcon, L. (2016). “Half here, half there”: Dialogical selves among older Puerto Ricans of the Diaspora. Journal of Constructive Psychology, 29(1): 51-65.

Adams, W., Todorova, I., Guzzardo, M., & Falcon, L. (2015). “The problem here is that they want to solve everything with pills”: Medication use and identity among Mainland Puerto Ricans. Sociology of Health and Illness, 37(6): 904-919.

Adams, W., Todorova, I., & Falcon, L.  (2015). Puerto Rican Victimization and Crime on the Mainland: The Role of Acculturation. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 37(1): 59-74.

Todorova, I., Guzzardo, M., Adams, W., & Falcon, L. (2015). Gratitude and Longing: Meanings of Health in Aging for Puerto Rican Adults in the Mainland.  Journal of Health Psychology, 20(12): 1602-1612.