Race, Ethnicity and Mental Health: Treatment Innovations and Cultural Adaptations of Evidence-based Interventions

Friday, May 1, 2009

Conference Presenters included Guillermo Bernal, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Director of the Institute for Psychological Research at the University of Puerto Rico-UPR, Río Piedras; Nancy Boyd-Franklin, Ph.D., professor at Rutgers University in the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology; Priscilla Dass-Brailsford, Ed.D., a native of South Africa, a graduate of Harvard University and an Associate Professor at Lesley University; Donald Meichenbaum, Ph.D., Research Director of The Melissa Institute and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada who also served as Moderator of the Conference. Expert Discussants who served on the panel included Etiony Aldarondo, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Research in the School of Education at the University of Miami, where he directs the Office for Research in Educational and Community Well-being; Guerda Nicolas, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Educational and Psychological Studies, School of Education at the University of Miami.