The Counseling Psychology program at UNL is an exciting place in terms of its cutting edge opportunities for research and training. Here are a few highlights from faculty and student work in the past several years.

• NORTHEAST Project
  

  This project really epitomizes what we believe the profession of counseling psychology represents, because this is a prevention program using counseling, career development interventions, group counseling, consultation, and family systems work. We also are working with diverse cultures at the school. We provide counseling to adolescents at this Lincoln high school who are at-risk for dropping out of school. This is an outreach program with a research component so that we can assess our effectiveness plus build a prevention model to work with this population. We are interested in promoting motivation and engagement with school for students who have been feeling defeated in school settings for some time. The program also provides training to students in working with adolescents in a school environment. Currently 11 students are involved as counselors in the program.

• Immigrant and Refugee Issues

Many of our students participate in research and training with immigrants and refugees. Dr. Oksana Yakushko has strong interests in mental health issues of immigrants and refugees. Her particular areas of research are gender issues, assessment issues, and career development issues in work with immigrant and refugee individuals and families. Many of our students receive in-depth training with the For Immigrants and Refugees Surviving Torture project and the Lincoln Action Program. Our students can become well prepared to be on the cutting edge of work with this underserved population.

• National Visibility

Our students and faculty remain visible nationally and internationally in their work. Here is a selective list of student and faculty presentations at the recent American Psychological Association convention. Our faculty and students are also involved with APA Divisions 17, 35, 45, 52 as well as such organizations as Psychologists for Social Responsibility, International Association of Applied Psychology, American Women in Psychology, and others.