Melissa Morgan: Insights Informing Multicultural Social Justice Counseling

Morgan was awarded her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Loyola University Chicago. She earned her M.A. in Clinical Psychology from Stephen F. Austin State University and her B.A. in Psychology from Southwestern University.

Tell us about your background in academia.

For the past two years I was professor and associate department chair in the Department of Clinical Psychology at Adler University of Chicago. Prior to Adler, I was a professor in the Counseling, Clinical and School Psychology Department for sixteen years at the University of California, Santa Barbara with affiliate status in the Departments of Chicana and Chicano Studies and Latin American and Iberian Studies.

What are your research interests and teaching foci?

My research interests lie in the areas of resilience, thriving, social justice and immigration in Latinx populations. I teach courses on multicultural issues, theories, gender issues in counseling, ethnic and racial issues in counseling, prevention, CBPR, and qualitative methods.