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NINTH ANNUAL MULTICULTURAL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

Wednesday, April 20, 2005
4:45 - 7:45 p.m.
300A & 300B O'Donnell Hall

4:45 pm (Room 300A, ODonnell Hall)

Opening Remarks Luis A. Vázquez, Ph.D.
Department Head, Counseling and Educational Psychology

5:00 p.m.

Second-year Counseling Psychology doctoral students present their research.

Nick Barneclo, M.S. : Narratives of Success among Mexican-American, First-Generation College Students

Joseph Bosarge: Multicultural Competence and Burnout in School Psychologists

Ralph Espinoza, M.A.: Indicators of Neuropsychological Functioning in White and Latino Domestic Violence Perpetrators: A Pilot Study

Kim Horn, M.S.: Stranger in a Strange Land: An Acculturation Model of International Students in the United States

Merranda Romero Marin, M.S.: Growing Older Gracefully: Resilience and Life Satisfaction Among Mexican-Americans Aged 65 and Older

Janette E. Mialkowski, M.A.: Hispanic Adolescent Clients with Fearful Attachment Styles Views on the Working Alliance in Counseling

6:15 p.m.

Keynote speaker - Luis Vargas, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico

"Is Cultural Competence Really What We Want for Psychologists?"

Dr. Luis Vargas received his PhD in Clinical Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Currently, he is an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dr. Vargas also serves as director of the clinical psychology internship program, in the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and works as a forensic psychologist for the juvenile forensic evaluation service at the Bernalillo County/Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Vargas has published numerous articles, and has procured several grants, relating to diversity and other issues. He is a past associate editor of the journal of Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology and is currently on the editorial advisory Board, for the Encyclopedia of Ethnic-Minority Psychology. Dr. Vargas is a member of APA (Divisions 12, 37, 45; and is a Fellow of Div. 37) as well as a member of the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology and the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (Fellow).

7:00 p.m. (Room 300B, ODonnell Hall)

Reception
Poster display of CEP students' research

Sponsored by

Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology
Funded in part by a grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

For more information contact Eve Adams, 646-1142