Florencia Iturri Mariaca, M.S., has received a ‘Diversity in Psychology and Law Research Award’ from the Minority Affairs Committee (MAC) of the American Psychology-Law Society (AP-LS). The award promotes diversity by supporting student research on psycho-legal issues related to diversity as well as research by students from underrepresented groups. Iturri’s $1,000 grant will fund her dissertation, “Culture, Gender, and Sex: Experiences and Attitudes in a Sexually Diverse Sample of Latino Men.”
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LEAD STORY President O'Connor and Distinguished Professor Muñoz Share Their Experiences as Mentees and Mentors
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A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
Maureen O'Connor, Ph.D., J.D.
PAU’s master’s in counseling program with an emphasis in clinical mental health was named one of the best accredited master’s in counseling programs in the United States—and one of only two programs in California to receive this honor. The announcement was made by HumanServicesEDU.org which just released its ‘2019 Best Counseling Program’ list.
HumanServicesEDU.org assessed hundreds of schools around the nation to develop the annual list that helps potential students find information about accredited programs and bring recognition to top quality programs.
Palo Alto University Professor Joyce Chu, Ph.D., is a guest co-editor of a special issue of the Asian American Journal of Psychology that is dedicated to the understanding of suicide among Asian Americans. The Journal (2018, Vol. 9, No. 4), which she co-edited with Michigan State University's Frederick T. L. Leong, Ph.D., and Stanford University’s Shashank V. Joshi, M.D., includes a compilation of studies that shed light on the current state of knowledge about suicide in Asian American communities and highlights innovative approaches to suicide prevention and management.
PAU’s Kimberly Balsam, Ph.D., was awarded a prestigious Presidential Citation from the president of the American Psychological Association at the 2019 National Multicultural Conference and Summit held in January in Denver, Colorado. Dr. Balsam, chair of PAU’s Department of Psychology and director of the Center for LGBTQ Evidence-Based Applied Research, received the award in recognition of her leading work on LGBTQ psychology.
Mentoring has been a major theme in the life of Saranya Sundaram, a fourth-year student in PAU’s clinical psychology Ph.D. program. She has mentored youth ages 10 to 17, including those from underserved populations and with truancy issues, as well as her fellow PAU graduate students. Saranya has also been a beneficiary of mentorship throughout her clinical and academic career.