Join us in this webinar titled Beyond the therapy room: Ethical and Professional issues in community-level advocacy for racial/ethnic minorities and LGBT people with guest speaker Miguel E. Gallardo, PsyD. Dr. Gallardo is an Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of Aliento, The Center for Latina/o Communities at Pepperdine University. He teaches courses on multicultural and social justice, intimate partner violence and professional practice issues. Dr. Gallardo’s areas of scholarship and research interests include understanding the psychotherapy process when working with ethno-cultural communities, particularly the Latina/o community and in understanding the processes by which individuals develop cultural awareness and responsiveness. Dr. Gallardo is currently Director of Research and Evaluation for the Multiethnic Collaborative of Community Agencies (MECCA), a non-profit organization dedicated to serving monolingual Arab, Farsi, Korean, Vietnamese and Spanish speaking communities. Dr. Gallardo has published refereed journal articles and book chapters in the areas of multicultural psychology, Latina/o psychology, and ethics and evidence-based practices. Dr. Gallardo will highlight his perspective of some obstacles that professionals in psychology face at the community-level when advocating for disadvantaged and disenfranchised communities, particularly racial/ethnic minorities and LGBT people. Dr. Gallardo will highlight his perspective of some obstacles that professionals in psychology face at the community-level when advocating fordisadvantaged and disenfranchised communities, particularly racial/ethnic minorities andLGBT people.
This is a great opportunity for students and current practitioners to attend!
Who: Miguel E. Gallardo, PsyD
What: Beyond the therapy room: Ethical and Professional issues in community-level
advocacy for racial/ethnic minorities and LGBT people
When: May 29th, 2014
Where: online webinar; link will be sent to you prior to talk.
Time: 1pm-2pm (PST), 3pm-4pm (CST), 4pm-5pm(EST)
Email James J. García at jjg0136@unt.edu to RSVP prior to May 29th, 2014.
James J. García & Christopher Decou
Division 45 Student Committee Liaisons
Division 45 Student Committee Liaisons
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