UCR School Psychology Program

#StudentSpotlight: Congratulations to Tyler Womack, a third year school psychology doctoral student, who received a national fellowship with the American Psychological Association's Minority Fellowship Program. The APA MFP is an innovative, comprehensive and coordinated training, mentoringand career development program that aims to help promising graduate students, postdoctoral trainees and early career professionals achieve lasting success in areas related to ethnic minority psychology. Tyler stated: Through this fellowship, I will have access to a lifetime network of psychologists and other professionals that aim to provide high-quality, culturally responsive services to minoritized children and families. I am excited for this opportunity and the ways in which I will become a more culturally competent practitioner and researcher.

#StudentSpotlight: Congratulations to third-year school psychology doctoral student Nina Mandracchia who received the 2021 Trainers of School Psychologists (TSP) Graduate Student Scholarship. According to the awards notification letter, TSP recognizes the value of graduate students to the mission of our organization and the field. This award is given to school psychology graduate students who are contributing to the advancement of our field by advancing their professional ...development. Nina is GSOE’s school psychology program’s current California Association of School Psychologists (CASP) student representative, National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) student leader, and Student Affiliates in School Psychology (SASP) chapter president. Her research interests include the effect of training on school psychology practice, educator/education professional training, and bridging the research to practice gap especially through professional development. See more

Congratulations to Elina Veytsman, PhD student, who received the Michael Goodman Research Award, California Association of School Psychologists, November 2020, for her poster "Observed Effects of the PEERS Social Skills Intervention for a Diverse Sample of Adolescents with ASD". The Michael Goodman Memorial Research Award recognizes the most outstanding research paper or poster presented at the annual CASP Convention. . . . In the CASP newsletter, Elina said, As an aspiring clinical researcher, I strongly believe that the value of research can be measured by its ability to have a direct impact on the youth and families it seeks to benefit . . . Our team implemented and adapted the first-ever PEERS intervention for Latinx families, who have been historically underrepresented in ASD intervention research.

Mark your calendars! We have another Brown Bag event this Friday from 9-11am. Dr. Bryn Harris will present Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Autism Identification. Update! This event has been rescheduled to Friday 2/19 from 9am-11am.