My name is Mary-Sue Richardson, professor
Mary-Sue Richardson. My name is Mary
McRae, I am associate professor of applied
psychology in the counseling program.
I'm professor Ronald Moglia and I'm
associate professor in applied psychology.
I'm Kesia Constantine and I work as the
associate director of clinical training
in the counseling psych program, I'm
also associate clinical professor. And
My name is Sumie Okazaki and I'm professor
of applied psychology, I teach in
counseling psychology and counseling
programs. My name is Anil Chacko,
I'm an associate professor in the department of applied psychology. My name is Randolph
Mowry, I am the clinical associate
professor and co-director of the masters
programs in counseling, mental health and
school counseling. My name is Lisa Suzuki
and I am an associate professor in the
department of applied psychology. I think
NYU is a very unique program, we are
really working towards creating
graduates that are multi culturally
competent, so, every course includes
attention to multicultural issues. We're
training students in a very urban
setting, so, that's something that, that
students take into consideration right off
the bat because they're out in the field.
My research area is women and mental
health, I do a lot of research in
domestic violence
shelters and in that research I
understand ways that we can use violence
against women to understand why women
become depressed, and understand fighting
violence against women in order to help
women overcome depression. So, what I do
is both clinically and well research
wise is test an intervention called
insights into children's temperament. We
teach parents and teachers and young
children how to recognized children's
personalities and then to develop
management strategies. The research that
we focus on has to do with examining why
and how certain youth and women
become incarcerated and really sort of
wrapped up into the criminal and
juvenile justice system. The second main
line of research [um], which is a, which is
very exciting for myself as well as a
lot of the graduate and undergraduate
students that we work with, is that, we
design and develop and implement and
evaluate interventions focused on youth
and incarcerated women based on research
findings. And, NYU is just a terrific
place, it's very broad, it's diverse, it's a
big university. Applied psych is a very research oriented
department, has top scholars, a lot of
international emphasis. NYU is an exciting
place to be. This mix of students you
know, here at NYU is just nothing like in
all the universities that I've taught, and students just get a lot out of
really being in the mix, learning from
each other as much as learning from me. Counseling
psychology offers students an
opportunity to learn about and really
appreciate multiple levels of, of
influences on individuals' functioning.
Counseling is important in the sense
that, it takes into consideration the
holistic avenues of human life. So, I
think it's important because you get
both the pathology but you also get
human development in progress, so, I like
that aspect of counseling. What I love
most about New York City is that, it's a
city that really encourages you to be
who you want to be in the way that you
choose to be. There's no one way to be a New Yorker, you can pursue vary
interest and you can pursue finding who
you really want to become. New York City
has been for years a, an epicenter that
has drawn creative people from all over
the world and especially all over the
country. So, students have a lot of
opportunities to engage with various
populations. So, I mean, NYU is a unique
place because there's a course
virtualization of quite a few disciplines,
from the social sciences and the
arts sciences and you also have quite an
eclectic mix of people who are drawn to
New York City, so, essentially you have the
possibility to be very creative, to
understand.... and to apply it in
areas where they've never dreamed of applying it before. There's the theater, there's arts,
there's all kinds of restaurants. You know, New York is just a really beautiful place
to be.
