Sarah Kiperman-Hibner

Sarah researches culturally-responsive mental health service delivery. Sarah combines evidence-based practices with identified wants from within communities to develop such services using participatory culture-specific intervention methodology. Sarah has developed the programs P.S. Mental Health Matters and P.S. LGBTQ+ Youth Matter using these methods. Sarah received the early career research award through the Society for Scholars of School Psychologists, is the chair of the sexual orientation and gender diversity committee through the National Association for School Psychologists, and a member of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity Committee through the American Psychological Association.

Noteworthy Publications:

Kiperman, S., Lorig, C. E., & Cullen, E. (2025). A call to disrupt hetero- and cisnormativity (HetCisNorms) in school psychology with guidance from the adapting strategies to promote implementation reach and equity (ASPIRE) framework. School Psychology, 40(5), 622–635. https://doi.org/10.1037/spq0000658

Kiperman, S., Clark, K., Renshaw, T. L., Anderson, J. R., Bernstein, E., & Willenbrink, J. B. (2024). Guidelines toward more socially just mental health screening in schools. School Psychology, 39(2), 151.-166. https://doi.org/10.2023-80217-001

Kiperman, S., Schacter, H. L., Judge, M., & DeLong, G. (2022). LGBTQ+ youth’s identity development in the context of peer victimization: A mixed methods investigation. International journal of environmental research and public health, 19(7), 3921.

Kiperman, S., Brown, N., Kelly, O., & Treisman, R. (2023). An Exploratory Evaluation Case Study on Latinx-Maternal Acceptance Promotion of LGBTQ+ Youth Using Participatory Culture-Specific Intervention Modeling (PCSIM) Methods. Youth, 3(3), 777-799.

July 2026