Laura Minero-Meza, a Ph.D. student with the School of Education’s Department of Counseling Psychology, is receiving an Outstanding Women of Color Award from UW-Madison. The 2019-20 Outstanding Women of Color come from varied interests, ranging from a Madison City Council member and a computational chemist to an Alzheimer’s research advocate and a university chief of staff. …
A project led by UW–Madison’s Stephen Quintana that’s designed to strengthen mental health services for Madison’s Latinx community is receiving a $1 million grant over the next five years from the Wisconsin Partnership Program. “The grant addresses ethnic and racial disparities in access to culturally and linguistically competent mental health services by Spanish-speaking and bilingual members of …
UW–Madison’s Mindi Thompson was part of a task force appointed by the American Psychological Association (APA) that wrote new “APA Guidelines for Psychological Practice for People with Low-Income and Economic Marginalization.” Thompson, an associate professor with the Department of Counseling Psychology and the clinical training director of the Ph.D. program in health service psychology, was …
UW-Madison’s Mindi Thompson and the College of New Jersey’s Jason J. Dahling co-authored a report that was published in the flagship American Psychological Association journal’s special issue on poverty. Thompson is an associate professor with the School of Education’s Department of Counseling Psychology, and an affiliate with the Institute for Research on Poverty and the Center for Research …
UW–Madison’s Mindi Thompson was recently accepted as a fellow of the American Psychological Association’s Society of Counseling Psychology. Thompson is an associate professor with the School of Education’s Department of Counseling Psychology and is a licensed and registered health service psychologist. Thompson also directs the Work and Wellness Lab, which studies career development across the lifespan, how environmental …
UW-Madison’s Nick Frost and Susan Andrae participated in the Collaborative Center for Health Equity’s (CCHE) Health Equity Leadership Institute (HELI), which took place June 17-21. Frost is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Counseling Psychology, while Andrae is an assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Kinesiology. HELI is an intensive, weeklong career development …
UW-Madison alumnus Nick Scull was featured among various professionals in American Psychology Association’s (APA) story on American psychologists working abroad. Scull earned his Ph.D. from the School of Education’s Department of Counseling Psychology in 2009. Now, Scull is applying what he learned to his work in Kuwait with Arab and Muslim communities. After earning his degree, Scull …
Like many units across the UW-Madison campus, Stephanie Graham and her colleagues with the Department of Counseling Psychology are often thinking about ways to more effectively integrate multiculturalism and diversity into various aspects of their work. “The mission of our department and its Counseling Psychology Training Clinic is strongly rooted in social justice and training …