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Mental Health Awareness Month

Newly-Formed Club Compiles Mental Health Resources

May. 2, 2025

COE graduate students in the Counseling Psychology program have formed a new Counseling Psychology Club.

Madeline Sharkey will serve as the club's first president alongside board members Irene Sanchez, Emely Zavaleta and Temma Schaechter. 

"We created this club with the goal of fostering community between all students within the Counseling Psychology graduate programs; promoting the professional development of students currently in or interested in the counseling field; and encouraging student advocacy and service on Lehigh’s campus and beyond," Sharkey said. "We are very excited to get started next year — please feel free to reach out to us with questions and suggestions!"

Members have compiled resources to recognize Mental Health Awareness Month and help students through finals week. Shoutout to Sharkey, Sam Keller and Temma Schaechter for putting this document together.

    Josselyn Alvarenga

    Alvarenga Prepares for a Career in Community Research

    Josselyn Alvarenga, a second-year doctoral student in the COE’s Counseling Psychology program, is passionate about supporting healthy child development in marginalized families. Her research looks at how culture shapes the ways in which young children learn to handle and show their emotions.

    Focusing on Black and Latinx families, Alvarenga looks at how parents and caregivers respond to their child’s distress, the child’s feelings of closeness and security with their caregivers, and how the child manages stress. She hopes that her research and the research of others within the Hands and Hearts Together project where she works, will promote wide-scale changes that positively impact family relationships and behaviors in these communities.

    Dr. Susan Woodhouse

    Laying the Foundation for Healthy Child Development

    A strong bond between a young child and their caregiver plays an important role in laying the foundation for children’s future health and wellbeing. This bond, or attachment, can be measured as the level of connection and safety young children feel with their parent or caregiver. As the director of the CARE Lab at Lehigh, Susan Woodhouse and her team study caregiving attachment and how children learn to manage and express their emotions. They then share this information to help parents respond to their children’s needs.

    2025 COE Student Research Colloquium

    COE Grad Students Present at 2025 Colloquium

    What a great event! Thirty-three COE graduate students shared their high-impact research at the Inaugural College of Education Student Research Colloquium last Friday. Students from the Counseling Psychology, Educational Leadership, School Psychology, Special Education and Teaching, Learning and Technology programs participated in the Mountaintop campus poster session.

    Thank you to everyone who came out to show their support.