Author
Jairo N. Fuertes, PhD, ABPP, LMHC is Professor of Psychology in the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology at Adelphi University and Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry in the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He served as Senior Associate Editor of Behavioral Medicine from 2020 to 2024, and has served on the editorial boards of other top-tier journals, including Psychotherapy and Psychotherapy Research. Dr. Fuertes is a fellow of the American Psychological Association (Divisions 12 and 29) has previously served as Chair of the Education and Training Committee and as Diversity Domain Representative in APA’s Division 29 (Psychotherapy). He is a licensed psychologist and mental health counselor in New York State, and is board certified in both clinical and counseling psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology. For over 20 years he has been a Supervising Psychologist in the Counseling Center at Baruch College, The City University of New York; he also maintains a bilingual private practice in Garden City, NY.
Dr. Fuertes is an immigrant from Colombia, South America. He arrived in the U.S at the age of 10, and graduated from the public school system in Montgomery County, Maryland. He is also a “Triple Terp”, having obtained his Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral degrees from the University of Maryland at College Park. He is a professional percussionist, having recorded several albums over his musical career. He lives with his wife Hnin and their two daughters in Garden City NY.
Racial Bias Related to Lack of Access to Healthcare
Previous research has demonstrated a clear link between perceived racial discrimination and negative health outcomes for those perceiving and experiencing discrimination. The researchers studied the effect of “actual” racial biases on health outcomes of Blacks (i.e., African-Americans). They measured the predictive strength of Whites’ implicit and explicit racial biases on Blacks’ access to affordable health […]
Patrick Mele + 1 more
May 7, 2017
Closing the Gap Between Psychotherapy Research and Practice
Psychology researchers have long lamented that practicing therapists do not make use of research findings in their clinical work. For their part, clinicians have argued that much of what researchers have studied has not adequately addressed the issues that they confront in their practices. This gap between research and practice continues to exist, even in […]
Marvin R. Goldfried, Ph.D., ABPP + 6 more
March 2, 2017
Addressing the Taboo Nature of Race Talk
In Race Talk and the Conspiracy of Silence, Derald Wing Sue (2015) discusses reasons that make discussions of race and racism difficult, even in psychotherapy. The author describes the master narrative of Whites and the counter-narratives of people of Color as dialogical exchanges that often result in unproductive conversations about race. The book addresses the […]
Donna Poon, B.S. + 1 more
December 23, 2015
The Therapy Relationship in Multicultural Psychotherapy
The most consistent and robust predictor of outcome in psychotherapy is the quality of the client-therapist relationship (Lambert, 2013). While we know that therapists’ overall competence and client factors, such as motivation, are relevant and important to treatment, the client-therapist relationship is considered essential to effective treatment, at least in most therapies (Norcross & Lambert, […]
Jairo N. Fuertes, Ph.D., ABPP, LMHC + 3 more
May 12, 2015
Stricter Guidelines for Graduate Admission May Help Solve the Internship Crisis
In 2012, we are facing an internship crisis. The number of trainees registered to participate in the nationwide match sponsored by the Association for Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC) has reached an all-time high. Even if all 3,202 internship positions are filled during the two phases of the internship matching process, over one thousand […]
Valentina Stoycheva + 1 more
February 10, 2013
Student Therapists Seek Out Client Information Online
Few clinicians would dispute their clients’ right to privacy, including when and to what extent to share personal information in therapy. However, as DiLillo and Gale (2011) point out, the current advances in the use of the Internet – such as the development of search engines and social networks, for example – have led to […]
Valentina Stoycheva + 1 more
February 21, 2012