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Pitzer Professor Expands Mental Healthcare Globally With Friendship Bench Zimbabwe
“Why I train grandmothers to treat depression”: This 2018 TED talk by Dixon Chibanda about Friendship Bench Zimbabwe planted a seed that Associate Professor of Psychology Marcus Rodriguez has brought to fruition in a new cross-cultural partnership. Chibanda founded Friendship Bench Zimbabwe to bridge the country’s mental health treatment gap through community-based psychological intervention. Rodriguez
[Read More...]Students Engage in International, Justice-Oriented Psychology Research
At the Global Mental Health Lab at Pitzer, Assistant Professor of Psychology Marcus Rodriguez makes science a team sport. Rodriguez founded the lab with an active, globally-minded approach to make mental health care more accessible and to give undergraduate students hands-on research opportunities in clinical psychology alongside local and international partners, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty. “I have my students doing the tasks that PhD students might do at another institution. My students are involved at every level of the scientific process.”
Pitzer Students Turn Complex Psychological Concepts into Books for Children
Pitzer College Assistant Professor of Psychology Marcus Rodriguez asked his students to explain complex ideas in a way his six-year-old daughter could understand. Quoting Einstein, he said, “If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
