Jacob Bentley
Interim Chair and Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology
Email: bentley@spu.edu
Phone: 206-281-2627
Office: Marston 135
Education: BA, Lee University, 2003; MA, Seattle Pacific University, 2007; PhD, Seattle Pacific University, 2011. At SPU since 2015.
Dr. Jacob Bentley completed his graduate education at SPU and pre-doctoral clinical internship at the James A. Haley Veterans Hospital in Tampa, Florida. He went to Johns Hopkins in 2011 for post-doctoral specialty training in rehabilitation psychology, and transitioned into a faculty position there in 2012.
Dr. Bentley is a board-certified rehabilitation psychologist as recognized by the American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP). His current research scholarship is in the areas of chronic disease self-management and international considerations in medical rehabilitation. He maintains an associate appointment in the School of Medicine and the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins.
Dr. Bentley, his wife, daughter, and two dogs live in Seattle, where they enjoy art, music, and hiking. In his spare time, he also enjoys photography and baseball.
Selected publications
Bentley, J.A., Ahmad, Z.S. & Thoburn, J.W. (2014). Religiosity and posttraumatic stress in a sample of East African refugees. Mental Health, Religion & Culture, DOI:10.1080/13674676.2013.784899
Bentley, J.A., Thoburn, J.W., Stewart, D.G., & Boynton, L.D. (2012). Post-migration stress as a moderator between traumatic life events and self-reported mental health symptoms of Somali refugees. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 17(5), 452–469. DOI:10.1080/15325024.2012.665008
Bentley, J.A., Thoburn, J.W., Stewart, D.G. & Boynton, L.D. (2011). The indirect effect of somatic complaints on report of posttraumatic psychological symptomatology among Somali refugees. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 24(4), 479–482. DOI: 10.1002/jts.20651
Please view Jacob Bentley’s CV (PDF) for additional publications.