Event

The Department of Behavioural Sciences hosts a guest lecture by Dr Lewis Aptekar, Professor of Counselor Education at San Jose State University, titled “Street Children and Homeless Youth: A Cross-Cultural Perspective”. The lecture takes place on Wednesday June 18, 2014, from 7pm-8pm, at Room 100 West, Faculty of Social Sciences.  

All interested staff and students are invited to attend. 

Contact: Dr Nasser Mustapha, Senior Lecturer – Sociology, at nasser.mustapha@sta.uwi.edu, or 662-2002 ext. 83045 

 

More on Dr Aptekar 

Dr Aptekar received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Michigan. After having post-graduate training in Clinical Psychology from Texas Tech Medical School, he became licensed as a Clinical Psychologist.  

He is a Professor of Counselor Education at San Jose State University with academic awards including two Fulbright scholarships (Colombia and Swaziland), and the Kellogg/Partners of the Americas Fellowship in International Development. He is past President, Society of Cross-cultural Research, a former Scholar at the Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center (Bellagio, Italy), a Senior Fulbright Specialist, Honduras, and a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship, University of Zambia.