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Maria Carolina Izquiel
Part-Time Faculty
Maria Carolina Izquiel
Contact
Email: Izquiel@bc.edu
Education
- M.A., Universidad Católica Andrés Bello
- M.S.W., Boston College
Research Interests
Mental health with underprivileged populations; clinical-community interventions; and resilience.
Expertise
- Clinical Practice
- Immigrants and Refugees
- Latinx Communities
- Mental Health
- Social Determinants of Health
- Trauma
Biography
Maria Carolina Izquiel is a Clinical social worker with certificates in trauma and clinical work with the Latinx community. In Venezuela, her country of origin, she was trained as a licensed psychologist with a master’s in clinical psychology.
She has over 20 years of experience as a licensed psychotherapist working specifically with underprivileged populations. She worked as a supervisor in the Clinical Psychology Master’s Program at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello of Caracas for nine years and was a professor of developmental psychology and school psychology at that same university.
Her research work on resilience in contexts of poverty in Venezuela was published as a book and distributed to the country's universities. In the United States, she has published articles on community clinical psychology and global peace.
At Boston College, she designed the course “Advanced Clinal Practice with Latinx Populations” and teaches it at the School of Social Work, along with courses for the training of community leaders at the School of Theology and Ministry.
She works as a psychotherapist for the Latinx Team in the Psychiatry Department at Cambridge Health Alliance and in private practice.