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Nyasha Grayman
Assistant Professor
Department of Human Development
and Family Studies
Psychologist I
Center for Counseling & Student Development
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Office: 314 Alison West, Newark, DE 19716
Phone: (302) 831-4337; Fax: (302) 831-8776
Email:
ngrayman@udel.edu
Vita
Education:
Ph.D., Counseling Psychology, New York University
M.A., Counseling (Colleges & Community Agencies), New York University
B.A., Child Development & Early Childhood Education, Spelman College
Courses taught:
IFST 101: Human Services and Cultural Competence
IFST 346: Delivery of Human Services
I conduct research that is concerned with the intersectionality of culture and positive psychology. Specifically, I am interested in the ways in which Black American cultural practices influence subjective well-being among Black American adults, Black American families, and Black American communities. Currently, I am working on qualitative explorations of the African American helping tradition and its connection to subjective well-being outcomes.
In addition to my work as a researcher, I have taught a number of undergraduate and graduate courses in human development and counseling. Believing that the work of human services professionals must be informed by the subjective realities of the service populations, students in my classes are challenged to use multicultural perspectives/standpoints as lenses through which they make meaning of traditional understandings of developmental, social, and structural processes.
As a clinician, I have worked with diverse individuals and families in all stages of development, in various capacities, and within a variety of settings. I am a trained therapist who has practiced in inner city community and veteran affairs hospitals, and college counseling centers. Additionally, I have worked as a youth and family program director for the YMCA, and as an elementary and middle school teacher. Currently, in my joint role as Psychologist at the University of Delaware, I spend 20 percent of my time counseling undergraduate and graduate students at the University's Center for Counseling and Student Development.
I am an active member of the Association of Black Psychologists, the American Psychological Association's Society of Counseling Psychology and Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues, and the American Counseling Association's divisions of Multicultural Counseling and Development, and Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling. I am also involved in community work throughout the Delaware Valley through my memberships in the Philadelphia chapters of the Spelman Alumnae Association and Shiloh Baptist Church of Wilmington.
