Gargi Roysircar-Sodowsky, EdD

Professor and Director of Diversity Issues

Department of Clinical Psychology

Director of the Multicultural Center

Department of Clinical Psychology

ANE Contact Information

603.283.2186
groysircar@antioch.edu

Highest Degree

EdD, Texas Tech University

Overview

Received her doctorate in educational and counseling psychology from Texas Tech University in 1988 and a master’s degree in comparative literature from the University of Jadavpur, Calcutta, India. Dr. Roysircar has worked to broaden the profession’s understanding of diversity through research in a variety of areas. These include multicultural counseling competencies; acculturation, acculturative stress, post-immigration trauma, and identity of immigrants, children of immigrants, refugees, and international students; interface of culturally sensitive treatment with empirically supported treatments; and prevention of disaster trauma through resilience and self-care.

Dr. Roysircar developed the frequently used Multicultural Counseling Inventory. A study by her that used this measure ranks in the last 10 years among the 20 most cited articles of the Journal of Counseling Psychology. Her recent co-authored.-edited books include: Theories and Strategies of Counseling and Psychotherapy: Relevance Across Cultures and Settings (in press, SAGE); Handbook of Social Justice in Counseling Psychology: Leadership, Vision, and Action (2006, SAGE); and the Spanish translation of Multicultural Counseling Competencies 2003: Association for Multicultural Counseling and Development (2006, ACA).

Dr. Roysircar is involved in global outreach within communities affected by hurricanes in the United States, the tsunami in Southern India, floods in the City of Villahermosa, Tabasco, Mexico, and HIV/AIDS in South Africa and Botswana. She, accompanied by a small team of Clinical Psychology students, call themselves Disaster Shakti, which means being empowered, resilient, and strong in the face of a disaster. Shakti’s Gulf Coast work earned Antioch University New England in 2007 the United States President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction for Hurricane Relief Services. Dr. Roysircar was awarded in 2008 a one-year grant of $50,000 to develop and conduct a series of self-care and resilience workshops for Hurricane Katrina first responders and caregivers in Mississippi. This grant was awarded by the Foundation of the Mid South in partnership with the American Red Cross.

Among her honors, Dr. Roysircar is a Fellow of APA. She is the editor of the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development. In 2006, she and her student co-authors received ACA’s Research Award for: Roysircar G., Gard, G., Hubbell R., & Ortega, M. (2005), Development of counseling trainees’ multicultural awareness through mentoring ESL students. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, 33(1), 17-36. Dr. Roysircar has given keynote addresses to psychological associations in New Zealand, Mexico, South Africa, as well as at the 2009 Multicultural Summit in the United States.

Last Updated: 10/19/09