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Professional Background

Assistant Professor of Psychology and Education

Educational Background

 

1990                                  Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

 

1988                                  M.S. in Counseling Psychology

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

 

1983                                  B.A. in English and Psychology with High Distinction

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Scholarly Interests

Social class
 
Poverty
 
Participatory action research
 
The development of socially-just community-based practice
 
 

Selected Publications

Smith, L. (2009). Enhancing training and practice in the context of poverty. Training and Education in Professional Psychology, 3, 84-93.

Smith, L., Chambers, D. A., and Bratini, L. (2009). When oppression is the pathogen: The participatory development of socially-just mental health practice. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 79, 159-168.

Smith, L. (2008). Positioning classism within psychology’s social justice agenda. The Counseling Psychologist, 36, 895-924.

 

Smith, L. (2006). Addressing classism, extending multicultural competence, and serving the poor. American Psychologist, 61, 338-339.

 

Smith, L. (2005).  Classism, psychotherapy, and the poor:  Conspicuous by their absence. American Psychologist, 60(7), 687-696.

 

Smith, L., Baluch, S., Bernabei, S., Robohm, J., and Sheehy, J. (2003).  Applying a social justice framework to college counseling practice.  Journal of College Counseling, 6, 3-13.

 

Smith, L, Constantine, M.G., Graham, S.V., and Dize, C.B.  (2008). The territory ahead for multicultural  competence: The“spinning” of racism. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 39, 337-345.

 

Smith, L., Foley, P. F., and Chaney, M. P. (2008). Addressing classism, ableism, and heterosexism within multicultural-social justice training. Journal of Counseling and Development, 86, 303-309.

 


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Laura Smith

Assistant Professor of Psychology and Education

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