Professor Lynda Brown Wright

Associate Professor of Educational Psychology

Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology University of Kentucky 239 Dickey Hall Lexington, KY 40506 Phone: 859-257-7889 E-Mail: lynda.brownwright@uky.edu

Research Interests

Lynda Brown Wright, Associate Professor, (vita) received her Ph. D. in Counseling Psychology from Texas A & M University in 1991. Her current areas of research interests include multicultural counseling and psychotherapy training models and their effect on the development of cultural sensitivity; psychosocial and familial influences on African American child development; determinants of academic achievement among minority children and youth; and psychosocial correlates of the development of cardiovascular disease risk in children and youth. Dr. Brown-Wright currently teaches courses in assessment and multicultural development. She is a NIH Career Development Award recipient. Dr. Brown-Wright was awarded the 2009 American Psychological Association Minority Fellowship Program's Dalmas Taylor Award for her outstanding contributions towards the development of ethnic minority psychologists. Full graduate faculty.