MA International Disaster Psychology: 创伤 and 全球精神卫生

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• 希望Danecki，麻萨诸塞州
  

  实习 & 实习协调员

  希望Danecki is our Practicum and 实习 Coordinator for the MAIDP program. Her role focuses on the logistics of connecting field placements and internship opportunities with our students. She also helps with the Student Services side of ensuring our MAIDP students meet important benchmarks throughout the program and beyond.
  
  Hope earned a Bachelor of Arts in 历史 from the University of Northern Colorado, and a Master of Arts from Denver Seminary, focusing on cross-cultural engagement. She came to the yzcca88游戏登录网址 after working in various refugee and immigrant support roles since 2014. Hope has extensive experience supporting these populations in fields of cultural integration, 教育, 就业, 和安置, as well as the training and development of others to engage in similar spheres. Getting to support communities and care teams through this role is exciting and life-giving for her.

• 朱迪·福克斯博士
  

  教授

  Dr. Fox is a 教授 in the 研究生院 专业的心理学 and the former director of our Master’s Program in International Disaster Psychology: 创伤 and 全球精神卫生 Program. Serving in the director position for 15 years she developed the foundation of the program and lead a faculty team who deepened its academic and clinical training and global learning opportunities. She founded and was the first director of the program’s 创伤 and 灾难恢复诊所, a community mental health clinic serving transnational populations in Denver who have been impacted by disaster and 创伤. 此外,博士. Fox 监督d and helped to develop the Colorado Resilience Collaborative, an initiative that focuses on the prevention and detection of identity-based 暴力. Throughout her career she has taught both doctoral and masters-level courses and seminars in development across the lifespan through a cross-cultural lens, 临床访谈, 创伤治疗, psychopathology and integrated approaches to child and adolescent diagnosis and treatment. She 监督s students at the masters and doctoral levels and her clinical interests include the impact of 创伤 and disaster on children, 青少年, 以及他们的家人. Her scholarly interests are in attachment and systems theories that include a socio-cultural lens as applied to a variety of populations and settings, mental health stigma and psychotherapy, 家庭功能, 创伤, caregivers of those affected by severe mental illness, and graduate level training and supervision.

  Dr. Fox has a private practice in the Denver area serving clients 以及他们的家人 and has worked in mental health care settings and in Veteran’s Administration and medical training center hospitals providing direct service, training to psychology interns and psychiatric residents, and leading psychosocial teams providing comprehensive care to clients receiving outpatient and inpatient care.

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• 意大利Katsonga-Phiri博士
  

  Clinical 教授 | 创伤 灾难恢复诊所 Director 

  意大利Katsonga-Phiri博士.D., is a Project Lead and Clinical 教师 in the MA program in International Disaster Psychology: 创伤 & 全球精神卫生.  She completed her doctoral internship and post-doctorate fellowship at the Aurora Mental Health Center's Colorado Refugee Wellness Center. She is a Clinical Psychologist with broad interests in child psychology, 难民心理健康, 以及创伤知情的做法. In addition to being appointed the Director of the 创伤 灾难恢复诊所, she will continue to run our Survivors of Torture (SoT) program, a collaboration in partnership with the International Rescue Committee and Denver Health's Human Rights Clinic. Her research has appeared in leading journals, including the Journal of Ethnographic and Qualitative 研究, Archives of Women's Mental Health, 创伤, 暴力, & Abuse, and Prevention Science, among others. 教授 Katsonga-Phiri earned her Ph.D. in Clinical-Child Psychology from DePaul University in Chicago Illinois.

   

• 格温·米切尔博士
  

  Associate 教授 | Co-Director

  Dr. 格温米切尔 is a Co-Director and Associate 教授 in the International Disaster Psychology Master's Program at The 研究生院 专业的心理学, yzcca88游戏登录网址.  She is a clinical psychologist with extensive experience working in the global mental health and humanitarian aid spaces. She has a doctorate in clinical psychology from the yzcca88游戏登录网址 and has been conducting psychological evaluations and providing treatment, both domestically and in the international context, 自1999年以来.   She has provided expert testimony in both immigration and criminal courts in the areas of asylum, 酷刑, 不寻常的困难, 创伤后应激障碍, 复杂的心理创伤, child 滥用 and fight-vs-flight.  Her international work experience includes work with Doctors Without Borders, The Center for Victims of Torture, 开放社会yzcca88游戏登录网址, 和SalusWorld.  在这些训练环境中, she has trained extensively using participant centered and experiential 教育 methodology on topics such as: 创伤 counseling, 基本心理健康, 衰老的心理学, 与前战斗人员合作, child development and child-centered interventions, gender based 暴力 and victim support services, group facilitation and counseling interventions for People Living with HIV/AIDS and LGBTQIA+ communities. She has also played a part in the development of a mental health policy for the country of Liberia and consulted with a number of NGOs as an expert in mental health and 创伤.  Dr. Mitchell has presented at conferences domestically and internationally and co-authored various publications in the areas of: Post 创伤tic Stress Disorder (创伤后应激障碍) in refugees and IDPs, 创伤后成长(PTG), counseling Apply程序s with people of African ancestry, 战争对平民的影响, 治疗摄影, 造成创伤, group counseling with vulnerable groups in Myanmar and the experience of working as a psychologist internationally.

• 劳拉·拉姆齐博士
  

  助理教授

  Dr. 劳拉Ramzy joins the MA program in International Disaster Psychology: 创伤 & 全球精神卫生 from the Lowry 家庭 Health Center, a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) within the Denver Health and Hospital Authority healthcare system.  She is a Clinical Psychologist with broad interests in integrated care, 难民和移民保健, 多元文化的敏感性, 和多样性, 股本, and inclusion (DEI) issues within primary care.  In addition to being appointed the Director of Field Placements for the IDP program, 她会教书, 监督, and provide support to our 创伤 灾难恢复诊所.  She also plans to retain her appointment with Denver Health and continue with projects focused on DEI issues experienced by frontline healthcare workers.  

  Her graduate training is in Counseling Psychology, including a MA degree obtained from the yzcca88游戏登录网址 in 2005 and a Ph.D. degree obtained from the University of Oregon in 2012.  She is a regular presenter at the North American Refugee Healthcare Conference (NARHC).  Laura identifies as Egyptian American and was raised by immigrant parents in Cleveland, 俄亥俄州, and has been involved in the local refugee and immigrant community as a volunteer, 临床医生, 研究员, and advocate for the past 17 years.  Her current areas of interest include traveling and exploring new places with her partner and two young kids and adventuring in the Rocky Mountains.

   

• Bryan Rojas-Araúz，博士
  

  助理教授

  Dr. Bryan Rojas-Araúz brings a wealth of experience and a diverse background to our team. A bilingual bicultural Afro-Latino immigrant of Costa Rican and Panamanian descent, Bryan's journey in the field of psychology has been driven by his deep passion for cultural responsiveness and inclusive mental health practices. Bryan's academic journey began in the Bay Area, 加州, where he immersed himself in community organizing and advocacy as a DREAM activist. 他的学历是B。.A. in Psychology from San Jose State University, a Master’s in Counseling in Marriage, 家庭, and Child Therapy from San Francisco State University, and a doctorate in Counseling Psychology with a Specialization in Spanish Language Psychological Services and 研究 from the University of Oregon.  As a licensed psychologist, author, speaker, and founder of In Lak’ech Counseling, Education, & 咨询, Bryan is dedicated to providing 创伤-informed and culturally responsive psychological services. He brings over a decade of experience working with Spanish-speaking communities, 包括儿童, 成年人, 和家庭. His areas of expertise encompass immigration psychology, Global Majorities' access to mental health and 教育, 族群认同的形成, 关键的意识, and cultural responsiveness development.

• 玛丽亚Vukovich博士
  

  Associate 研究 教授 | Co-Director

  Dr. 玛丽亚Vukovich is a Co-Director and Associate 教授 in the International Disaster Psychology Master's Program at The 研究生院 专业的心理学, yzcca88游戏登录网址. She has over 15 years of experience leading projects and conducting applied research and evaluation of humanitarian and direct service programs with populations affected by human rights 滥用s, 恐怖, 战争, 暴力, 和迁移. Her work has included randomized control trials, cross-cultural measurement studies, 以人群为基础的调查, and community-participatory engaged mixed methods projects in global (East Africa, 拉丁美洲, 中东和北非, 东南亚)和美国.S. settings (Atlanta, Denver, Minneapolis-St Paul, Washington DC). This work has been sponsored by the U.S. 美国国务院.S. Dept of Homeland Security, ORR, CDC, NIH, USAID, UNHCR, UNOCT, and WHO. Her research has been published in Intervention: Journal of Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Areas of Armed Conflict, Journal of International Migration, 卫生和社会保健, BMC家庭执业, BMC精神病学, 创伤学, Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 酷刑杂志, 冲突与健康, 和更多的.

   

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