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Michael Lawrence Hendricks is an American psychologist, suicidologist, and an advocate for the
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community. He has worked in private practice as a partner at the Washington Psychological Center, P.C., in northwest Washington, D.C., since 1999. Hendricks is an adjunct professor of clinical
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and has taught at
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,
Howard University Howard University is a private, historically black, federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C., United States. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and accredited by the Mid ...
, and
Catholic University of America The Catholic University of America (CUA) is a private Catholic research university in Washington, D.C., United States. It is one of two pontifical universities of the Catholic Church in the United States – the only one that is not primarily a ...
. He is a Fellow of the
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(APA).


Early life and education

Hendricks was raised in a small
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town in
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. He remarked that he spent much of his early life in a state of "quasi-shame" and in "a stealth existence" due to being
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. Hendricks attended
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as a pre-med student before switching from medicine to a degree in
social psychology Social psychology is the methodical study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. Although studying many of the same substantive topics as its counterpart in the field ...
. He later found that while the majority of social scientists worked in academia, he preferred clinical work under the Boulder model. He completed a master's thesis focused on
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. Hendricks earned a doctorate in clinical psychology from
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. His dissertation, published in 1993, is titled "The occurrence of suicidal ideation over the course of HIV infection in gay men: A cross-sectional study". His doctoral advisor was Alan Berman.


Career

At the beginning of his career in the early 1990s, the HIV/AIDS crisis influenced Hendricks to address
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issues. He is a clinician and researcher and has investigated depression, suicide, substance abuse, compulsive behaviors, HIV, and gender diversity issues at the
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,
Georgetown University Medical Center Georgetown University Medical Center is a Washington, D.C.–based biomedical research and educational organization affiliated with Georgetown University that is responsible for over 80% of the university's sponsored research funding and is led ...
, and
Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is a Public university, public research university in Richmond, Virginia, United States. VCU was founded in 1838 as the medical department of Hampden–Sydney College, becoming the Medical College of Virgin ...
. Since 1999, he has worked as a partner at the Washington Psychological Center, P.C. He has worked in various facilities including
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and
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. He was a Chief Psychologist at Umoja Methadone treatment Center and was Chief of Outpatient Mental Health Services at the Washington, D.C. He is board certified in clinical psychology from by the
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. Hendricks is a Fellow of the
American Psychological Association The American Psychological Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychologists in the United States, and the largest psychological association in the world. It has over 170,000 members, including scientists, educators, clin ...
(APA), the Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, the Society of Clinical Psychology, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues. He was the chair of the Research Committee of the Virginia HIV Community Planning Committee for 11 years. Hendricks is an APA Council representative and past president of Division 44, which is the APA's Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. He has held positions as adjunct professor in at
Argosy University Argosy University was a private for-profit university with campuses throughout the United States owned by Dream Center Education Holdings (DCEH), LLC and Education Management Corporation. On February 27, 2019, the U.S. Department of Educat ...
,
Howard University Howard University is a private, historically black, federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C., United States. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and accredited by the Mid ...
, and
Catholic University of America The Catholic University of America (CUA) is a private Catholic research university in Washington, D.C., United States. It is one of two pontifical universities of the Catholic Church in the United States – the only one that is not primarily a ...
., where he has taught graduate-level Clinical Psychopharmacology. He is the lead author, with co-author Rylan Testa on the seminal paper that applied
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's
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model to
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people, published in 2012. He was awarded an APA Presidential Citation. Hendricks is a member of and is a certified healthcare provider of the
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, American Psychology-Law Society, and the
American Association of Suicidology The American Association of Suicidology (AAS) is a 501(c)(3) organization, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization which advocates for suicide prevention. It was established in 1968 by Edwin S. Shneidman, who has been called "a pioneer in suicide preven ...
.


Personal life

Hendricks had a "stealth" lifestyle as a gay man while living in a small town in
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. He is currently "very
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Selected works

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See also

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