Maria Teresa Coutinho
Advocating for Equity in Healthcare
Although healthcare is often viewed as separate from race, ethnicity, and social equality, for Maria Teresa Coutinho, a professor of counseling psychology at BU Wheelock, they are inextricably linked. Coutinho, who studies how race, health, and psychology overlap, focuses her research on the ways psychology can address the inequities in healthcare for children of color. […]
BU Wheelock Welcomes New Faculty for Fall 2022
This fall, BU Wheelock welcomed 11 new faculty members who bring a mix of scholarly interests, including play therapy, the experiences of LGBTQ language learners, young people’s relationship to their ethnic and cultural background, and psychological interventions for perfectionistic athletes. Through their work, they question inequitable structures of power, support through teaching and learning, promote […]