Teaching: Dr. Stacciarini teaches undergraduate Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing and Nursing Research for undergraduate and graduate students. She was an assistant professor at the School of Nursing/UMass Amherst. She also has experience teaching undergraduate and graduate students in Brazil.
Research: Dr. Stacciarini research interests are in the area of depression among minorities, community-based interventions for minorities population and group-treatment among minorities.
Service: Dr. Stacciarini holds membership in the American Psychiatric Nurses Association and Sigma Theta Tau.
Area of expertise: Dr. Stacciarini has clinical expertise in Psychiatric Nursing and Mental Health.
Education: Dr. Stacciarini received her BSN in Nursing at the Catholic University of Goias (Brazil). She received her master in Psychiatric Nursing and Mental Health at the University of São Paulo/ College of Nursing Ribeirão Preto and her PhD in Psychology at the University of Brasilia (Brazil).
During her PhD she received a Fulbright Scholarship and came to the US as a visitor scholar at the Psychology department/University of Massachusetts
Selected Publications:
Stacciarini, J. M. R. (submitted). Focus Group: Cultural Appropriateness of Therapeutic Exercises for a Group Intervention with Depressed Puerto Rican Women. Journal of Transcultural Nursing
Stacciarini, J. M. R., Okeeffe, M. & Mathews, M. (accept for publication). Group Therapy as Treatment for Depressed Latino Women: A Review of the Literature. Issues in Mental Health Nursing.
Stacciarini, J. M. R. & Tróccoli, B. T. (2004) Ocupational Stress and Constructive Thinking: health and job satisfaction. Journal of Advanced Nursing. 46(5), 480-487.
Cunningham, H. Stacciarini, J. M. R. & Towle, S. (2004). Strategies to Promote Success on the NCLEX-RN for Students with English as a Second Language. Nurse Educator, V19, N1, pp15-19.
Jacelon, C. S, Zucker, D. M. Stacciarini, J.M.R. & Henneman, E. A (2003) . Peer Mentoring for Tenure-Track Faculty. Journal of Professional Nursing, V19, N6 (November-December), pp335-338.
Stacciarini, J. M. R. (2002). Experiencing Cultural Differences: Reflections on Cultural Diversity. Journal of Professional Nursing, 18 (6) 346-349.
Esperidião, E., Munari, D. & Stacciarini, J.M. (2002). Desenvolvendo pessoas: estratégias didáticas facilitadoras para o auto conhecimento na formação do enfermeiro. [Developing People: didatic statregies to promote self knowledge in the nursing education] Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem 10 (4): 516-22.
