Associate Professor Andrés Consoli of UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School has been chosen to receive the 2015 Interamerican Award by the Interamerican Society of Psychology. The award aims to highlight the contributions of psychologists to the development of the discipline in the Americas. Prior recipients of this prestigious award include Albert Bandura, Alice Eagly, and Robert Sternberg. Consoli received the award at a ceremony held during the opening of the XXXV Interamerican Congress of Psychology in Lima, Peru on July 12, 2015.
The Interamerican Society of Psychology (SIP) was founded in Mexico City by a group of behavioral scientists in 1951. SIP is a member of the International Union of Psychological Sciences (IUPsyS), a division of the International Council of Scientific Unions. SIP’s objectives are: to provide a means of communication among psychologists with similar interests in North, Central, and South America, and the Caribbean, and to promote the development of psychology in the western hemisphere; to contribute to international understanding by means of an enlarged understanding of cultural differences and communicating across national boundaries; and, to aid and promote research and academic and professional exchanges among the nations of the American continents.
Andrés J. Consoli is associate professor in the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology. Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dr. Consoli received a licenciatura degree in clinical psychology at the Universidad de Belgrano, a Masters and doctorate in counseling psychology at UCSB, and postdoctoral training in behavioral medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. Prior to joining UCSB Andrés was professor and associate chair of the Department of Counseling, College of Health and Social Sciences, at San Francisco State University. He is a visiting professor at the Universidad del Valle in Guatemala and a licensed psychologist in California. Dr. Consoli’s professional and research interests involve transnational collaborations, multicultural supervision, psychotherapy integration and training, systematic treatment selection, values in psychotherapy, access and utilization of mental health services within a social justice framework, and the development of a bilingual mental health workforce.