Department of Educational Psychology

Please note that because my primary appointment is at the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, I am no longer accepting students to work with me in as advisees or in a research capacity.

My interest in multicultural counseling and more specifically, ethnic and racial identity issues began with my investigation of the connection between ethnic identity and academic achievement among Mexican origin youth. I have continued this line of work and believe that counseling psychology has much to add to the dialogue on the educational struggles of Latino subgroups. However, I have also developed broader interests with regard to identity issues, such as how racial identity constructs, originally designed to capture the experiences of African Americans and White individuals, may or may not capture the experiences of Asian Americans and Latinos. Having now taught the Multicultural Counseling course for several semesters, and now that my primary appointment involves diversity education on campus, my research interests have come to focus on diversity training and the development of multicultural competencies. These interests currently focus on school counselors and teachers.

PhD Counseling Psychology

Guzmán, M.R. & Carrasco, N. (2011). Counseling Latino/as. Cengage Learning.

McCarthy, C., Van Horn Kerne, V., Calfa, N.A., Lambert, R., & Guzmàn, M. (2010). An Exploration of School Counselors' Demands and Resources: Relationship to Stress, Biographic, and Caseload Characteristics. Professional School Counseling, 13, p146-158.

Brabeck, K., & Guzmán, M. R. (2009). Exploring Mexican-Origin Intimate Partner Abuse: Survivors’ Help-seeking within Their Socio-cultural contexts. Violence and Victims, 24, 817-832.

Guzmán, M. R. (2009). Developing Women of Color Leaders in Higher Education. Communiqué: Ethnic Minority Leadership, August 2009, XXXIII-XXV.

Santiago-Rivera, A. L. & Guzmán, M. R. (2008). Psychological issues and psychotherapeutic approaches with recent immigrants. In W. B. Walsh. (Ed.) Biennial Review of Counseling Psychology. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

 

DiversityFirst Award, Texas Diversity Council, October 2009

Faculty Professional Development Award, UT Austin Hispanic Faculty Staff Association, Spring 2007

Faculty Member of the Year Award, UT Austin Hispanic Faculty Staff Association, Spring 2007

Summer Research Assignment, University of Texas at Austin, Summer 2006 Project: Examining Guidance Counselor Utilization and Future Planning in Latino High School Students in Texas

Through my position at the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, I am actually on the other side of the grant process. Much of what I do is research grant initiatives, author requests for proposals (RFP), review proposals, and manage grant programs.

My most recent project is the Texas Psychology Internships Initiative which will award over 1.6 million dollars to three organizations over five years to create new psychology internships. This issue is very important to doctoral training programs, students, and the psychology profession, as there has been an inbalance in the number of internships available versus the number of students seeking internships in the last few years. See the Hogg Foundation webpage for more information: http://www.hogg.utexas.edu/initiatives/psychology_internships_initiative.html

Please note that because my primary appointment is at the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, I am no longer accepting students to work with me in as advisees or in a research capacity.

My interest in multicultural counseling and more specifically, ethnic and racial identity issues began with my investigation of the connection between ethnic identity and academic achievement among Mexican origin youth. I continued this line of work early in my career and believe that counseling psychology has much to add to the dialogue on the educational struggles of Latino subgroups. However, I also developed broader interests with regard to identity issues, such as how racial identity constructs, originally designed to capture the experiences of African Americans and White individuals, may or may not capture the experiences of Asian Americans and Latinos. Having taught the Multicultural Counseling course for a decade, and having spent a few years in higher education administration focusing on diversity education on campus and in the community, my research interests have come to focus on diversity training and the development of multicultural competencies. Most recently these focus on school counselors and teachers.

At the Hogg Foundation I serve as the program officer for a program that awards grants to tenure-track assistant professors conducting research on mental health issues.

• American Psychological Association (APA)
• National Latino Psychological Association (NLPA)
• Leadership Texas Committee of the Board