New and Noteworthy |
- Monday, February 5, 2024
This academic year, a new practicum at SCU’s in-house Center for Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) broke ground, facilitating a unique opportunity for CPSY students to support fellow Broncos while garnering valuable experience working with young people in a crucial developmental stage of their lives.
- Monday, February 5, 2024
For 10 years, ECP has offered a fellowship called SEMILLA, developed to recruit and prepare high-quality teachers and to expand the number of bicultural and bilingual teachers to serve in high-need schools. ECP spoke with alum Erik Ugalde about his journey that inspired him to eventually join the fellowship, his experience in the program, and how he’s applying the experience to his work.
- Monday, February 5, 2024
ECP caught up with alum Rubi Lorenzana Vazquez as she continues her journey to remove the stigma around youth mental health and support students at her former high school.
- Thursday, November 16, 2023
ECP will be launching an Inclusive Education Professional Support Program with principals and school district administrators within Santa Clara County. The three-year pilot program is designed to coach school leaders in methods to better integrate classrooms that account for students across diverse learning needs and backgrounds.
- Thursday, November 16, 2023
For 40 years, ECP has offered a Health Psychology emphasis within its Counseling Psychology Master’s Program that has attracted the largest number of students since its inception. To provide a deeper look into the emphasis and the health psychology landscape, ECP spoke with Health Psychology Coordinator and Professor Dale Larson.
- Thursday, November 16, 2023
ECP Assistant Professor Won Jung Kim welcomed educators from South Korea to campus to engage in a workshop around integrating environmental and climate justice into K-12 science classrooms.
In the News |
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Broncos Rise: ECP Alum Kim Panelo Xue Brings Trauma Support Group Back to SCU for a Second Year
ECP alum Kim Panelo Xue and her company Era Center just announced that Broncos Rise, an eight-week closed support group for SCU student survivors of assault, has been renewed for the 2023-2024 academic year.
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Claudia Rodriguez-Mojica - Conscious Classrooms Review
Associate Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Education, Claudia Rodriguez-Mojica, recently co-authored the book Conscious Classrooms with Allison Briceño. The book was reviewed on The California Reader.
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Mike Valdez - Counseling Psychology
Bridging the Tech Industry and Mental Health
Mike Valdez, a first-generation Latinx counseling psychology student, is working towards blending the world of mental health with the tech industry.
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Master of Arts in Teaching + Credential online
Santa Clara University Offers New Online MA in Teaching + Credential
In response to the growing demand for flexible teacher-education programs, Santa Clara University’s School of Education and Counseling Psychology (ECP) is bringing its Teacher Education programs online, offering a Master of Arts and teaching credential for public, private, and Catholic school teachers. Aligning with the commitment to prepare educators dedicated to ensuring all learners are supported in the classroom, this program is the first online offering from the School of Education and Counseling Psychology.
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Marco Bravo, PhD, is Transforming the Future of Bilingualism in STEM for Educators
$2.7M Grant to Support Project Leverage
Santa Clara University professor and associate dean of the School of Education and Counseling Psychology Marco Bravo has received a $2.7 million grant from the National Professional Development Program of the Department of Education to fund “Project Leverage.”
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Sherry Wang & Ling Lam - Counseling Psychology
AAPI, Mental Health, and You — How to Get Involved
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month. This month celebrates and highlights the intersection of two topics that are so important to our community and the broader community that our students and graduates serve every day. Counseling psychology faculty, Sherry Wang, Ph.D., and Ling Lam, Ph.D., offer a few resources to support the AAPI community and raise awareness about mental health.
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Kathy Sun - Teacher Education
SCU Receives $3 Million NSF Grant for STEM Teachers
To help support the development of high-quality mathematics teaching in high-need schools, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $3 million grant to Santa Clara University to pay for 20 future math teachers to earn both a master’s degree and teaching credential, while learning cutting-edge approaches to teaching math.
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Tanesha Cartwright ’18, M.F.T. ’23
Forging a Path, Reflecting Community
Searching for a therapist that would get it led former hairstylist Tanesha Cartwright ’18, M.F.T ’23 to change everything—and return to SCU.
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Michelle U. Nguyen Endowed Scholarship
Gift for mental health in the Vietnamese community
ECP alumna and advisory board member, Michelle Nguyen, has made a generous gift to support student scholarships.
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Dale Larson - Counseling Psychology
In Conversation About Teen Mental Health, Emotional Healing, and Resilience
SCU professor of counseling pscyhology professor Dale Larson speaks with Digging Deep Founder, Sheri Sobrato about the the importance of mental health as well as what parents, teachers, and professionals can do to work with teenagers and young adults to guide emotional well being and resilience.
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Santa Clara University Launches EdD in Social Justice Leadership
An inaugural cohort of 20 students will begin the three-year degree program in September 2021.
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Sherry Wang - Counseling Psychology
Sherry Wang discusses racial trauma on ABC news
Sherry Wang discusses layers of racial trauma experienced by Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Community
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Sobrato-Brisson Endowed Chair
The SECP Receives Leadership Gift from Sobrato-Brisson Family
ECP alumna Sheri Sobrato Brisson MA ’94, and Eric Brisson have made a generous gift to the School of Education and Counseling Psychology for the establishment of the largest endowed chair in the history of Santa Clara University. In addition to the creation of the endowed chair in child and adolescent mental health, the gift provides funding to support research, a new specialization in child and adolescent mental health, community outreach, and thought leadership programming related to this critical area.
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Kathy Stoehr - Teacher Education
Teacher Shortage and Supporting Educators
Kathy Stoehr shares her perspective and expertise on overcoming the teacher shortage facing our nation and ways to support educators
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Ling Lam - Counseling Psychology
The Power of Feeling Safe - TEDx
SCU Counseling Psychology faculty member presents at TEDx Belmont Shore on the Power of Feeling Safe: How Kindness Restores Resilience. Polyvagal Theory is the science of feeling safe.
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Sherry Wang, PhD - Counseling Psychology
How to Contain the Virus of Racism During Coronavirus Outbreak
Being Asian in the midst of coronavirus means being scared for our health while simultaneously facing unpredictable racism and xenophobia. So, how do we cope? Assistant Professor Sherry Wang offers strategies in an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Dale Larson - Counseling Psychology
Helping SCU Students Cope During COVID-19
A campus expert offers insights into emotional wellness, resilience.
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Shauna Shapiro - Counseling Psychology
Shauna Shapiro published in Harvard Business Review
Professor Shapiro and colleagues' recent publication in the Harvard Business Review on the impact of mindfulness on creativity, innovation and problem solving in engineers
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Dale Larson - Counseling Psychology
Dale Larson honored by the National Hospice Foundation
The National Hospice Foundation recognized Dale Larson, Ph.D. as “… one bold innovator who forged ahead in the face of conventional wisdom for a vision of a world where everyone facing serious illness, death, and grief will experience the best that humankind can offer.”
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Marco Bravo and Claudia Rodriguez-Mojica - Teacher Education
$2.3 Million Grant from the U.S. Department of Education
Marco Bravo, Ph.D. and Claudia Rodriguez-Mojica, Ph.D. have secured a $2.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to enhance teacher preparation for dual language environments.
