Frankie Denise Powell

Training the Person of the Therapist in an Academic Setting

Drexel Universitys Couple and Family Therapy Department recently introduced a formal course on training the person of a therapist. The course is based on Apontes Person-of-the-Therapist Training Model that up until now has only been applied in private, nonacademic institutes with postgraduate therapists. The model attempts to put into practice a philosophy that views the full person of therapists, and their personal vulnerabilities in particular, as the central tool through which therapists do their work in the context of the client-therapist relationship. This article offers a description of how this model has been tested with a group of volunteer students, and subsequently what had to be considered to formally structure the training into the Drexel curriculum.

Manhood, Scholarship, Perseverance, Uplift, and Elementary Students: An Example of School and Community Collaboration

Dr. Larry D. Fields, the former principal of Rowland H. Latham Elementary, led the development of a complementary learning model that became known as the Latham Way. The Latham Way produced remarkable academic success among poor minority students. The chi-square of the expected and the actual scores in reading and mathematics were significant at p < .001. There are important lessons in that success for those who understand the significance of educating all our children to the future well-being of the nation.

Perinatal Depression in Minority and Underserved Rural Women

Perinatal depression is defined as major and minor depressive episodes that occur either during pregnancy or within the first 12 months following delivery. As the number of individuals with depressions rises globally, the number of new mothers with perinatal depression is predicted to rise from five percent to twenty-five percent depending upon the assessment method, the timing of the assessment and population characteristics. Studies of this form of depression include Caucasian and African American populations, however, do not include Native American and Hispanic populations. The goals of this project were to estimate the prevalence of postpartum depression in Caucasian, African American, Hispanic and Native American women, determine any racial or ethnic differences and develop more effective treatment plans.