Oct 27, 2022Promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in psychological clinical science through assessment: A global lensAuthored by: Violeta J. Rodriguez Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA, Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Georgia, USA, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois, USA Though the adaptation of psychological interventions for use among specific groups…Diversity6 min readDiversity6 min read
Aug 6, 2022Building Better: Systemic Challenges in Health Service Psychology Internships and What to do About ThemEntry authored by: Roman Palitsky, Ph.D., Deanna Kaplan, Ph.D., Brittany Stevenson, Ph.D., Madeline Brodt, Ph.D. Clinical internship is an essential part of training for clinical and counseling psychologists. The internship spans one year at the end of graduate training and is a requirement for most clinical and counseling psychologists to…Diversity And Inclusion8 min readDiversity And Inclusion8 min read
May 25, 2022Is Your Department Hiring Faculty? Tips and Tricks for Promoting Equity, Diversity, and InclusionBy: Autumn Kujawa, Lisa Fazio, Duane Watson, and Kris Preacher, Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University — Across the 2019–2020 academic year, representatives from each area of the Department of Psychology and Human Development in Peabody College at Vanderbilt University (i.e., clinical science, cognitive, developmental science, and quantitative methods) met to develop a strategic plan for the years to come. In October 2020, faculty across areas voted…Diversity9 min readDiversity9 min read
Published inSociety for a Science of Clinical Psychology·Mar 30, 2022Shouldering the Burden of Many: Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on BIPOC Essential WorkersBy Allie Bond, The New Jersey Gun Violence Research Center, Rutgers University Since March 2020, the Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted the lives of nearly every United States (US) resident. Research has found that COVID-19 may lead to stress and negatively impact emotional functioning (Pfefferbaum & North, 2020). Although the…Covid-196 min readCovid-196 min read
Dec 1, 2021Mental Health in Communities of Color Emerging from the Pandemicby Erika Roach, M.A., University of California, Berkeley The COVID-19 era has been challenging on multiple fronts. While some degree of normalcy is emerging, so too are the mental health ramifications of the past year. As Dr. David Williams, Harvard Professor of Public Health, said, “There is a vaccine for…Mental Health7 min readMental Health7 min read
Jun 23, 2021Culturally Competent Psychotherapy: How we can do betterby Amanda Arulpragasam, Emory University This article was originally published in the PCSAS newsletter on July 21, 2020. Click here to subscribe The recent murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and Rayshard Brooks highlight the continued racism and discrimination experienced by Black Americans. Racist events have been linked…Culture5 min readCulture5 min read
Published inSociety for a Science of Clinical Psychology·Apr 20, 2021Do Clinical Science Programs Need GRE scores in admissions this year, or ever?By Anna Lau & Gregory A. Miller, University of California, Los Angeles This article was originally published in the PCSAS newsletter on July 21, 2020. Click here to subscribe National unrest over racial violence in policing is drawing renewed attention to systemic racism that remains institutionalized and harms Black Americans…Graduate Admission6 min readGraduate Admission6 min read
Apr 5, 2021Diversity SyllabusThe SSCP Diversity Committee has created a Diversity Syllabus (click this link for the overall list), a repository of books and peer-reviewed scholarly articles (click this link to folders with articles), that we hope will serve as a starting point for all involved in advancing psychological science, including researchers, clinicians…Diversity1 min readDiversity1 min read
Published inSociety for a Science of Clinical Psychology·Mar 15, 2021Antiracism Requires Accomplicesby Effua E. Sosoo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Donte L. Bernard, Medical University of South Carolina, and Carrington C. Merritt, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill This article was originally published in the PCSAS newsletter. Click here to subscribe “The opposite of ‘racist’ isn’t ‘not racist.’…Antiracism5 min readAntiracism5 min read
Published inSociety for a Science of Clinical Psychology·Mar 10, 2021Racism in clinical science and academia today and ways to enact changeby Yehsong Kim, University of Southern California This article was originally published in the PCSAS newsletter. Click here to subscribe There is a social movement afoot to root out anti-Black racism in our society. Racism — the belief that someone is less than because of the color of their skin…Racism5 min readRacism5 min read
