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are many ways that GSAPP emphasizes diversity as a value, many
of which are coordinated and/or sponsored by the GSAPP-wide
Committee on Diversity and the GSAPP administration:
ADMISSIONS
Each year, we make special efforts to increase our pool and
consideration of high- level ethnic minority students who
apply to our program. Also, during each admissions interview
day, our Dean stresses that diverse students are welcome here.
ANNUAL
CULTURAL CONFERENCE
This day-long conference exposes approximately 100 local students,
alumni and professionals to experts in many areas of cultural
competency in psychology. This conference is self sustaining,
and our graduate students obtained initial funding for the
conferences from the American Psychological Association Committee
on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention, and Training in
Psychology (CEMRRAT; $3200), and the Rutgers University Office
of the Vice President for Student Affairs Committee to Advance
Our Common Purposes (CACP; $900).
ANNUAL
MINORITY AND INTERNATIONAL ALUMNI DINNER
Typically held in March, this event exposes current graduate
students to the minority and international alumni's activities
and wisdom, and enables networking to occur.
ANNUAL
MINORITY STUDENT RECRUITMENT NIGHT
Typically held on last Friday of each October, this event
is designed to recruit ethnic minority and other students
in the region, and inform them about graduate school.
COLLOQUIA
The COD, combined with the diversity groups, have strived
to include diversity speakers in the GSAPP - wide colloquia
each year.
FOCUS
ON OUR DIVERSITY (FOOD) groups are held regularly
FUNDING
FOR ATTENDANCE AT LOCAL DIVERSITY CONFERENCES
" Teacher's College Multicultural Roundtable
" Multicultural Family Institute Conference
HIGH
GSAPP-WIDE FACULTY AND STUDENT PARTICIPATION AND DEDICATION
STUDENT DIVERSITY GROUPS
All meet regularly, and sponsor bonding, professional development,
and/or community activities
" APSA - Asian Psychology Student Association
" BSGPPP - Black Students in Graduate & Professional
Psychology Programs
" HOPPS - Hispanic Organization of Professional Psychology
Students
" ISA - International Student Association
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Shalonda
Kelly, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Graduate School of Applied & Professional Psychology |
| Department: |
Clinical
department (within GSAPP) |
| Research
Interest: |
Racial
perspectives, couple relationships |
| At
Rutgers Since: |
1998 |
| E-Mail
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skelly@rci.rutgers.edu |
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Pomona
College, BA in Psychology, 1991 |
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Michigan
State University, Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology-Urban
Studies, 1998 |
"I
am proud that GSAPP emphasizes diversity as a value.
Each year, we make special efforts to increase our
pool and consideration of high-level ethnic minority
students who apply to our program, and during each
admissions interview day, our Dean stresses that
diverse students are welcome here. We have many
student and faculty groups that meet regularly,
such as the Committee on Diversity, Asian Psychology
Students Association (APSA), Black Students of Graduate
& Professional Psychology Programs (BSGPPP),
Hispanic Organization of Professional Psychology
Students (HOPPS), International Student Group (ISG),
and the Focus on Our Diversity (FOOD) groups. These
groups provide diversity-related services including
support to students and faculty, programming such
as colloquia, networking with alumni, and ongoing
efforts to increase our recruitment and ability
to serve diverse clientele in our training clinic.
Moreover, my Diversity and Racial Identity course
is one of three courses to have a major focus on
diversity at GSAPP. Thus, not
only is our environment nurturing in this sense,
but we also train our students to be effective with
underserved populations of many hues and backgrounds." |
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Nancy
Boyd-Franklin
Ph.D., Columbia |
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| Research
Interest: |
Multicultural issues; African-American
families in therapy; family and couples therapy;
the treatment of inner-city families through a multisystems
approach |
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Ph.D., Columbia |
Nancy
Boyd-Franklin's special interests include multicultural
issues, the treatment of African-American families,
ethnicity and family therapy, home-based family
therapy, marital and couples therapy, the multisystems
approach to the treatment of poor inner-city families,
issues for women of color, the development of a
model of therapeutic support groups for African-American
families living with AIDS, and issues in working
with African American children and adolescents.
Her publications include numerous articles and chapters
on the above topics. She has written four books
including: Black Families in Therapy: A Multisystem
Approach; Children, Families, and HIV/AIDS: Psychosocial
and Therapeutic Issues; Reaching Out in Family Therapy:
Home-Based ,School and Community Interventions,
with Dr. Brenna Bry; and Boys Into Men: Raising
Our African American Teenage Sons with Dr. Anderson
J. Franklin. In 2003, the second edition of her
book Black Families in Therapy: Understanding
the African American Experience was published.
Her honors include receipt of the award for Outstanding
Contributions to the Field of Ethnic Minority Psychology
and to the Mentoring of Students from Division 45
of the APA (2001), the award for Outstanding Contributions
to the Theory, Practice and Research on Psychotherapy
with Women from Division 35 of the APA (1996), the
Distinguished Psychologist of the Year Award from
the Association of Black Psychologists (1994) and
the Pioneering Contribution to the Field of Family
Therapy Award from the American Family therapy Academy.
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Brian
Chu
Ph.D., Temple |
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Interest: |
Cognitive-Behavioral
Therapy for youth with anxiety and depression, effectiveness
research and dissemination of evidence-based practice
into community settings, psychotherapy process-outcomes
research, and multicultural issues in help-seeking
and health care access |
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Ph.D., Temple |
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C. Chu's areas of interest include the assessment
and treatment of anxiety and depressive disorders
in youth, with a special emphasis on the dissemination
of evidence-based practice, effectiveness research,
and the evaluation of within-session client and
therapist process variables that predict therapy
outcome. He has a developing interest in understanding
multicultural issues that impact help-seeking behavior
and access to mental health services. In addition
to writing journal articles and book chapters in
the above topics, he has co-authored two treatment
manuals, Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapy
for Anxious Children (2nd Ed.) and Behavioral Activation
and Social Exposure (BASE) Group Treatment for Schizophrenia
and other Serious Mental Illness. Dr. Chu applies
the scientist-practitioner model throughout his
research, supervision of graduate students, and
courses he teaches in child psychopathology and
CBT for anxiety and depression. He is an active
member of the Association for Advancement of Behavior
Therapy and is the current president for the Child
and Adolescent Anxiety Special Interest Group and
the Co-Editor of the SIG's Newsletter, posted online
at: http://www.ocs.mq.edu.au/~jhudson/caasig.html.
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