Dr. Melba Vasquez will present her program, "Cultural Competence in
Psychotherapy: Death, Dying and Bereavement" on
Thursday, October 10 at
8:30 p.m. in the Ballroom of Strosacker Hall on the Baldwin Wallace University campus. A reception will
immediately follow the program. Dr. Vasquez is a Past President of the
American Psychological Association, co-founder of the APA Division 45:
Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, and of
the National Multicultural Conference and Summit. Dr. Vasquez's visit to BW is sponsored by the Harrington Visiting
Professor Fund. As part of the Harrington Visiting Professor Series, the
Psychology Department offers monthly colloquia or lectures with experts
in various fields of Psychology. Past colloquium topics have included
forensic psychology, clinical hypnosis, eating disorders, autism
disorder, sports psychology, traumatic brain injury recovery, anxiety
disorders, and domestic abuse, and previous speakers include Robert Sternberg, Albert Bandura, Elizabeth Loftus, and David Matsumoto.
The colloquia are free and open to the
public.
