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Gargi Roysircar-Sodowsky, EdD
Professor and Director of Diversity Issues
Department of Clinical Psychology
Director of the Multicultural Center
Department of Clinical Psychology
Director of the Multicultural Center
AUNE Contact Information
603.283.2186groysircar@antioch.edu
Highest Degree
EdD, Texas Tech UniversityOverview
Gargi Roysircar received her doctorate in educational and counseling psychology at Texas Tech University. She is the Founding Director of the Multicultural Center for Research and Practice at Antioch University New England and Professor of Clinical Psychology. She conducts research on social justice community outreach, the interface of acculturation and enculturation for immigrant mental health, multicultural competencies in practice and assessment, and training graduate students in culturally sensitive practice. She has authored 75 journal articles and chapters and her recent refereed publications are:
Roysircar, G., Carey, J.C., & Koroma, S. (2010). Asian Indian college students’ science and math preferences: Influences of cultural contexts. Journal of Career Development. 36(10), 324-347.Roysircar, G. (2009). Evidence-based practice and its implications for culturally sensitive treatment. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 37(2) 66-82.
Roysircar, G. (2009). The big picture of social justice advocacy: Counselor, heal society and thyself. Journal of Counseling and Development, 87, 288-295.
Roysircar, G. (2008). Social privilege: Counselors’ competence with systemically determined inequalities. Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 33(4), 377-384.
Kuo, B. C. H., Roysircar, G., & Newby-Clark, I. R. (2006). Development of the Cross-cultural Coping Scale: Collective, avoidance, and engagement coping. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 39, 161-181.
Dr. Roysircar has done psychosocial work in earthquake-destroyed communities in Haiti; tsunami recovery in fishing communities of Southern India; Hurricane Katrina recovery in the United States Gulf Coast; collaborative work with the staff of Southern Africa HIV/AIDS orphanages; and psychoeducation programs in flood-ravaged communities of Villahermosa, Mexico. Dr. Roysircar educates her graduate student volunteers in disaster trauma and resilience, culture-centered response skills specific to a community, and in self-care. Dr. Roysircar received a grant from the Foundation of the Mid South in partnership with the American Red Cross to do community resilience work with response workers in coastal towns of Mississippi.
Dr. Roysircar is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the editor of the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development. She was awarded the American Counseling Association’s the 2007 Research Award for the best empirical article published in ACA journals, as well as its 2002 Extended Research Award. Her recent co-authored books are “Theories and Strategies of Counseling and Psychotherapy: Relevance across Cultures and Settings” (in press, SAGE); Spanish translation of “Multicultural Counseling Competencies”, (2007); and “Handbook of Social Justice in Counseling Psychology” (2006). She is currently writing, “Disaster Recovery: Counseling Interventions.” Her instrument, the Multicultural Counseling Inventory (MCI), is the most frequently cited instrument among published self-report multicultural competency scales. Her article (Sodowsky et al., 1998), which uses the MCI instrument, was ranked 13th over the past decade among 25 most cited articles of the Journal of Counseling Psychology. Dr. Roysircar is ranked in productivity ratings of authors in 5 multicultural psychology journals from 1994-2007. Prior to joining Antioch University New England in 2000, Dr. Roysircar was a tenured associate professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the Department of Educational Psychology.
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