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2009 DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE SHOWCASE
About 70 current students, faculty, alumni and prospective students attended the Department’s 8th Annual Diversity and Social Justice Research and Practice Showcase on March 6, 2009.
The Showcase highlighted student, faculty, and alumni research and practice related to social justice and diversity. The event also provided an opportunity for prospective doctoral and masters students to meet and interact with faculty and current students in order to learn about the Department.
The Diversity and Social Justice Committee organized the Showcase, “Counseling psychologists as change agents: Implications for research, theory, and practice,” with the counseling psychologists work to effect change at individual and societal levels.
Several students presented their work throughout the afternoon including topics on gender roles and cultural gender stereotypes, feelings of belongingness within lesbian communities, transgender identity development, persistence of diverse racial/ethnic groups in higher education, and therapist cultural competence.
Current students shared their perspectives on the ways that the Department’s Counseling Psychology Training Center serves the Madison community and alumni described how their career involvement reflected the advocacy and promotion of social justice and the reduction of oppression.
Armando Hernandez provided this year’s keynote address, “Integrating social justice into the practice of counseling psychology.”
Dr. Hernandez both incorporated the topics presented throughout the day in a creative synthesis, and engaged attendees in a dialogue about how to integrate social justice into their clinical practice.
He challenged attendees to consider useful individual, group, and organizational change strategies to work effectively across the multiple systems influencing clients’ lives.
The Showcase illustrated the department’s continued commitment to social justice initiatives in counseling psychology training and practice. Attendees concluded the day with a social mixer and dinner.
For more information on the Showcase, please visit the Diversity and Social Justice Programming page.
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