PALO ALTO, Calif., July 23, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --
Palo Alto University (PAU) is very
proud to announce their PhD Clinical Psychology Program has been
selected as the winner of the 2017 Richard M. Suinn Minority
Achievement Award by the American Psychological Association
(APA) Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention, and
Training II (CEMRRAT2) Task Force.
This program is deeply committed to educating well-rounded
clinical psychologists who are capable and competent as both
researchers and clinicians. This balance includes learning to
value evidence-based clinical models, while accepting the
responsibilities psychologists have to their community, society,
and profession.
Recognition from the APA award letter to PAU's PhD program: "The
CEMRRAT2 Task Force was very impressed by the clinical program's
upward trend of enrollment of racial or ethnic minority students
which proves its commitment to recruiting, training, and graduating
students of color. The program's long-time efforts to prepare and
produce culturally competent practitioners of color is impressive
and timely. Please note that the program's nomination was advanced
by several of your own students. Such action highlights the
important and valuable work the program accomplishes to mentor
scholars of color. Clearly, the program's work and its dedication
to the education and training of psychologists has not gone
unnoticed by your students and your nomination was unanimously well
received by the Task Force."
The following national awards received by PAU's PhD program and
its students are a testament to the abovementioned "long-time
efforts to prepare and produce culturally competent practitioners
of color":
- In 2011 the Diversity and Community Mental Health area of
emphasis received APA's Board of Educational Affairs Award for
Innovative Practices in Graduate Education in Psychology
- Also in 2011 the PhD program's Diversity and Community and
Mental Health area of emphasis received NCSPP Award for
Innovation in Professional Psychology Education
- Several PAU's PhD students have received APA Minority
Fellowship Awards: Jeannie
Celestial (2013--14), Kahanaaloha
Kuikahi (2014-15) and Margareth V. Del
Cid (2017-18)
This award reflects staff and faculty working together to
prepare students to serve a diverse community, both locally and
globally. PAU would like to thank all their community members
for their efforts to make their PhD Program one of the best in
cultural competency training in clinical psychology.
About Palo Alto
University
Palo Alto
University (PAU) paloaltou.edu, was founded in 1975 and is
dedicated to education with an emphasis in the behavioral and
social sciences; to promoting future innovators and leaders for the
benefit of society; to generating knowledge through research and
scholarship of the highest level; and to providing services to the
community informed by science and scholarship.
CONTACT
Helena Ting,
hting@paloaltou.edu, 650-520-3451, Vice President of Community
Development
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