Yessica Green Rosas and Isabel López of the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology at GGSE were given the 2020-2021 Ray E. Hosford Awards for Excellence in Professional Behavior for their work at the Hosford Counseling & Psychological Services Clinic at UC Santa Barbara.
Green Rosas is a doctoral student in the CCSP. She has received a grant for her research on Parent-Child Interaction Therapy during COVID-19.
López is a doctoral student in Counseling Psychology working with Dr. Andrés Consoli. She received both her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology-Honors and her Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from California State University, Northridge. She was named a Chancellor’s Doctoral Incentive Program (CDIP) Scholar in 2019, and is also a recipient of the Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship. López’s research interests center on examining and addressing barriers to mental health care, particularly among the Latinx population. She has studied how factors such as acculturation, mental health literacy, and barriers to care influence help-seeing attitudes and behaviors among ethnic minorities. She is working to expand upon this line of research, while also addressing the level of culturally sensitive care provided to Latinx and other ethnic minority families.
The Hosford Counseling & Psychological Services Clinic is a university-based community clinic designed to provide developmentally appropriate, culturally sensitive, low-cost individual, couple, family, and group psychological treatment and testing/assessment services to people living within the central coast community. The Hosford Clinic serves as a training site for students in CCSP and as a clinical-research facility for the faculty and students of the CCSP Department. It also strives to provide educational, consultation, and training services to professional and paraprofessional clinicians and educators in the tri-counties.