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Dr. Algernon Felice’s practice has been informed by many years of teaching, consulting, learning, clinical work, research, writing, presenting, and working intimately with and within a variety of social and ethnic disadvantaged and underrepresented cultures and cultural sub-groups.
Our communities are becoming more and more diverse. As a result, our K-12 systems are becoming more diverse in its student population. However, our entire academic apparatus and the systems that service it (higher education, businesses, social service agencies, etc.) struggle to understand these populations, their acculturative processes, and how to provide adequate services to them. As an internal or external Educational Consultant, Dr. Felice provides guidance to a variety of K-12 and higher education institutions. He develops, guides the implementation, and assesses the efficacy of culturally relevant strategies toward increasing ethnic and social minority family and student engagement and success. Dr. Felice develops strategies to move higher education institutions toward greater levels of inclusive excellence, and ethnic minority staff and student recruitment and retention.
Dr. Felice is a highly respected and knowledgeable trainer and presenter on issues of culture and dynamics of the acculturative process – how social and ethnic minority cultures negotiate and navigate the majority culture. He presents and leads trainings at a variety of universities, agencies, and experiential, social activism, and diversity conferences throughout the Midwest.
Dr. Felice specializes in acute and chronic life stressors that evidence themselves in maladaptive behaviors. These may include, but not be limited to, depression, truancy, acting out or aggressive behaviors, physical or emotional abuse, AODA, cutting, and negative and repeated interaction with law-enforcement. Dr. Felice has a long history of working with teenagers, multi and inter-cultural couples, and families. He works closely with school social workers and school psychologists on students who, through individualized education programs (IEP) have been identified EBD or OHI. Dr. Felice also partners with social workers, psychiatrists, medical doctors, and other mental health professionals in determining the best mode of treatment for clients under their care. Dr. Felice’s choice of treatment mode marries closely into the client’s cultural self-identification and his or her current needs. Dr. Felice draws heavily on the strengths-based, brief solution-oriented, feminist, behavioral, and cognitive-behavioral models.
Dr. Felice’s area of specialization is Cultures. He is particularly interested in the acculturative process and challenges that occur as individuals and families from disadvantaged or underrepresented cultures attempt to navigate and negotiate the larger dominant Eurocentric culture. His dissertation investigated African American male success at predominantly White institutions. He has presented at a variety of conferences and seminars throughout the Midwest including at the University of Wisconsin-Plateville, Oshkosh, Madison, and Edgewood College.
Dr. Felice pens a very popular blog on inter-cultural, intra-cultural, and educational issues. His blog site can be linked to at http://www.diversitycontact.wordpress.com. He also accepts and responds to a variety of educational, relationship, and parent-child concerns around culture. Dr. Felice has a number of pieces archived in the Madison Times, Capital Hues, and Northwestern newspapers. He has alsowritten for the world-renowned Progressive Magazine.
Dr. Felice is the author of a number of multicultural children-oriented books. He is also a popular storyteller, presenting at a variety of venues including the Wisconsin Book Festival 2011, 2012, and Edgewood College. A few of his storied presentations may be visited on-line at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoT1dbf9DBI&feature=related.
Dr. Felice holds a Bachelor of Arts in Teacher Education from the Government Teachers’ College, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago. He holds an additional Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise & Fitness Management from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. His initial Master of Science degree is in Exercise Physiology specializing in Cardiac Rehabilitation from Purdue University. Dr. Felice has pursued three (3) years of Doctoral Studies in Clinical Sport Psychology from the University of Wisconsin- Madison. Dr. Felice holds and additional Master of Science degree and Doctorate in Counseling Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He specializes in the assessment and treatment of cultural minority and underserved populations.
• American Psychological Association (APA)
• Employee Assistance Professional Association (EAPA) of South Central Wisconsin
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