Carmen R. Valdez Assistant Professor

Vita

Dr. Carmen R. Valdez received her masters' degree in Clinical Psychology at Loyola College in Maryland and her doctorate in School Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin. She completed a predoctoral internship at the Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical Center, where she received training and supervision in the Latino development and adaptation of a well-established prevention program for families facing depression. Her clinical and research training in the area of depression and underserved families has been further strengthened through the completion of a postdoctoral fellowship in prevention and intervention research at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She joined the Department of Counseling Psychology at UW-Madison in 2006. In addition, she is an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Cultural Diversity in Healthcare (CDH) at the School of Medicine and Public Health at UW-Madison.

Dr. Valdez's primary area of interest is in depression and community-based interventions with underserved families. She has been actively involved in Keeping Families Strong (KFS), a NIMH-funded prevention program designed to reduce the impact of parental depression on children, particularly the increased risk of depression and other negative outcomes. Prior to her appointment at the UW-Madison, Dr. Valdez was the clinical director of KFS and the lead developer of the parent protocol of the intervention. She has also evaluated the feasibility and acceptability of KFS as a sustainable adjunct service to individual treatment in mental health clinics. Current projects include:

• Adaptation of the KFS Program to Latino families in Wisconsin.
• Assessment of medical and mental health providers’ culturally-centered recognition and treatment of depression in Latinos.
• Evaluation of the effectiveness of a Teen Depression video on teachers’ recognition of depression.

Dr. Valdez is an Investigator on a NIMH-funded study, to begin in the Spring of 2008, to evaluate the effects of parents’ social capital on Latino children’s social and cognitive development. Her work has appeared in journals such as School Psychology Quarterly, Cognitive Therapy and Research, and The Family Psychologist. She has co-authored chapters on childhood depression and intervention. Dr. Valdez is an active member of the American Psychological Association (APA), the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP), the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), and the Society for Prevention Research (SPR). She has presented her work at APA and SRCD.

Office: Rm 350
Phone: 263-4493
Email: cvaldez@education.wisc.edu

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