I am very pleased to announce that Theopia Jackson will be a keynote at the 8th Annual Conference of the Society for Humanistic Psychology, Division 32 of APA. Theopia Jackson, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and an Executive Faculty member at Saybrook University in San Francisco. In addition, she is a health psychologist at Childrens Hospital & Research Center Oakland in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Jackson serves on the Diversity Task Force for Div. 32 Society for Humanistic Psychology and is the Chair of the General Assembly and Co-Chair for the Education and Training committee for the Association of Black Psychologists (ABPsi). At Childrens Hospital, Dr. Jackson provides child, adolescent, and family therapy services; trains psychology students; and specializes in serving populations coping with chronic illness and complex trauma. At Saybrook University, she teaches several clinical courses and supervises dissertation/master students; she has served as the past Assistant Chair of Psychology and as the Assistant Academic Dean/Dean of Students. Dr. Jackson received her masters degree in psychology from Howard University in Washington, DC and a doctorate in clinical psychology from The Wright Institute in Berkeley, Ca. She is a member of the Association of Family Therapists of Northern California (co-founding member of the Cultural Accountability Committee), Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., advisory board for the Sickle Cell Community Advisory Committee (SCCAC), and Board of Directors for BayKids. Selected scholarly endeavors include serving as a reviewer for the Journal of Humanistic Psychology and Journal of Black Psychology; she is a contributing author in The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology: Theory, Research, and Practice, Second Edition. Additionally, Dr. Jackson provides professional and consumer cultural competency workshops/seminars and has been invited to participate in several national and local initiatives intended to establish integrative health care that is culturally attuned and linguistically responsive. Dr. Jackson is committed to serving children, adolescents, and their families in diverse settings with special interest in the adaptability of Western psychological theories/interventions within diverse multicultural contexts and the integration of cultural/creative healing practices. She is psychodynamically trained, yet family systems theory, humanistic perspectives, multiculturalism (African-centered theory), relational theory/feminist thinking, and narrative approaches (social justice) inform her clinical practice. Most importantly, Dr. Jackson is a wife, mother of 3, oldest of 6 from a single-parent household, and a life learner who believes that professional knowledge both shapes and is shaped by community(communal) wisdom. The conference will be held March 26-29 at the Chicago School of Professional Psychology in Chicago, Illinois. Further announcements of special speakers will be forthcoming soon.
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 16:56:27 +0000
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