Clinical Psychology and Social Justice with Cara Santa Maria

In this episode we discuss:

• The importance of studying the good death from a multidisciplinary perspective
• The challenges working with at-risk adolescent youth
• What it was like for Cara to shift focus from public science communicator to graduate school
• Cara’s focus on social justice and diversity within her clinical psychology research
• How depression and anxiety look different in different cultures and among different languages
• Barriers to accessibility to studying psychology through a social justice lens
• Cara’s personal hurdles as a woman in science
• Cara’s personal experience with Neil deGrasse Tyson
• The real meaning of free speech
• How #BelieveAllWomen and due process are not diametrically opposed to each other
• The importance of taking into account base rates when reasoning about the prevalence of sexual abuse
• The importance of being as unbiased as possible when encountering individuals
• Balancing #BelieveAllWomen with #NotAllMen
• The need for a multi-pronged approach to making social change
• What to do when social justice narratives conflict with the data
• The importance of existential-humanistic psychology