Alberta M. Gloria

Professor, Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Program
Professor, Department of Counseling Psychology

Dr. Alberta M. Gloria was the Director of the Chican@ & Latin@ Studies Program from the Summer of 2006 to Summer of 2008. In addition to her role as director, she is a full time professor in the Department of Counseling Psychology, where she is the first Chicana to be tenured or promoted to full professor. She is interested in the educational experiences of Latina/o students and how students personally and academically excel when they have an academic family and maintain their cultural values. She grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico and is the proud tia of William, Christopher, and Nathan.

Education

• Ph.D., Arizona State University,  Counseling Psychology
• M.S., University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, Industrial Organizational Psychology
• B.S., University of Oklahoma, Psychology

Specialization and Research Interests
Psychosociocultural factors for Chican@sand other racial/ethnic minority students in higher education. Issues of cultural congruency for students within the academic and cultural environment, as well as academic support for racial and ethnic minorities and professional development issues for counselors in training.

Selected Publications

• Research considerations and theoretical application for best practices in higher education: Latina/os achieving success. Coauthored with J. Castellanos. Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, 6, 378-396, 2009.
• Latinas/os and their communities. In Council of National Psychological Associations for the Advancement of Ethnic Minority Interests. Co-authored with J. Castellanos. Education and Training from Ethnic-/Culture-Specific Perspectives/. Washington, D. C.: American Psychological Association, 2009.
• The Latina/o Pathway to the Ph.D.: Abriendo Caminos. Ed. by Jeanett Castellanos, Alberta M. Gloria, and Mark Kamimura. Forewords by Melba Vasquez and Hector Garza. Sterling, VA: Stylus. 2006.
• Ambrocia and Omar go to college: A psychosociocultural examination of Chicanos and Chicanas in higher education. Co-authored with T.M. Segura-Herrera. In R.J. Velasquez, B. McNeill, & L. Arellano (Eds.). Handbook of Chicana and Chicano psychology. Lawrence Erlbaum. In press.
• The Cultural construction of Latinas: Practice implications of multiple realities and identites. In D.B. Pope-Davis and H.L.K. Coleman, Eds. The intersection beteween race, gender, and class: Implications for multicultural counseling (pp. 3-24). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 2001.
• Counseling Latino university students: Psychosociocultural issues for consideration. Co-authored with E.R. Rodriguez. In Journal of Counseling and Development, 78(2), 145-154. 2000.
• Apoyando estudiates Chicanas: Therapeutic factors in Chicana college student support groups. In Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 24(3), 246-259. 1999.

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