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Diversity Spotlight: Dr. Nita Tewari

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Diversity Spotlight The current spotlight is on Dr. Nita Tewari whose work focuses on Indian American, South Asian, and Asian American mental health. in Psychology from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) in 1992. In 2000, she completed her doctoral degree in Counseling Psychology at Southern Illinois University.

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Addressing Access in Ethnoracially Diverse Populations: Lessons from a University-Based Community Mental Health Center

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Systemic racism in the economy, the healthcare system, and the field of clinical psychology perpetuates the disparities in access, retention, and effectiveness of mental health services. The FSU Psychology Clinic is a training clinic staffed by doctoral students and housed within the university’s clinical psychology PhD program.

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Microaggressions towards LGBT individuals: what about clinical practice?

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When working with minorities, this also means that we must be aware of the social system we navigate and how social norms, stereotypes, and biases may affect us and the person(s) we take care of in the clinical setting. WHAT DO MICROAGGRESSIONS LOOK LIKE IN THE CLINICAL SETTING? 2020; Anzani, Sacchi, Prunas, 2021). 2012; Morris et al.,

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Diversity Spotlight: Jessica R. LoPresti, PhD

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LoPresti , licensed clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts. in Psychology and American Studies from Williams College and earned her M.A. The post Diversity Spotlight: Jessica R. LoPresti, PhD first appeared on Society of Clinical Psychology. Dr. Beate Neumeier.

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Treating Older Adults: What Do We Need to Know?

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Among the American Psychological Association Center for Workforce Studies survey’s 4,109 doctoral-level respondents, only 1.2% as child and adolescent psychology specialists (Moye et al., Unlike coursework on child and developmental psychology, coursework on aging is often optional in graduate training. Clinical practice.

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Diversity in Mental Health Treatment: Section Student 10 Blog

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This Section 10 Student Blog piece by Bridgett Boxley discusses the important issue of diversity in mental health treatment. It is a widely accepted concept in social and clinical psychology that self-identification begins with acceptance and exclamation of one’s chosen identity. Clinical interviewing. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

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The Promise of Data Informed Patient-Therapist Matching: Context Matters

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Future work should focus on how such evidence-based matching can be implemented in more routine and diverse community mental health settings. To that end, with additional funding from PCORI, our team is about to embark on a large-scale match implementation project that will involve mental health clinics across the United States.