About the Speaker
Edil Torres Rivera, PhD
Professor
Wichita State University
Dr. Edil Torres Rivera is a professor, immediate past president of the American Counseling Association, and the Latinx Cluster coordinator at Wichita State University, Kansas. He is interested in multicultural counseling, group work, chaos theory, liberation psychology, technology, supervision, prison studies, Puerto Rican studies, identity development, and gang-related behavior. Specifically, his primary research focuses on complexity and the necessity of indigenous healing techniques when working with ethnic minority populations in the United States. His work has appeared in the Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development, Journal of Counseling and Development, Journal of Addictions and Offender Counseling, Radical Psychology Journal, Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development, Intervention in School and Clinic Journal, Counselor Education and Supervision Journal, Journal for Specialists in Group Work, Journal of Psychological Practice, Educational Technology, Computers in the Schools, Counseling and Values Journal, Journal of Technology in Counseling, and the Canadian Journal of Counselling. He was on the editorial boards of the Journal of Counseling and Development, Counselor Education, and Supervision Journal. He serves on the editorial boards of the InterAmerican Journal of Psychology and the Journal for Social Action in Counseling and Psychology.
Speaker Sessions
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