Applied Human Development

Detris Adelabu

Dr. Detris Honora Adelabu is a clinical professor in the Counseling Psychology and Applied Human Development Department. She is a student-centered, mission-driven educator with a firm commitment to support and enhance the academic development and life opportunities for all students. As a first-generation college graduate, Dr. Adelabu is keenly aware of the power of education […]

Janine Bempechat

Dr. Janine Bempechat is a clinical professor at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She is a developmental psychologist with a deep interest in the socialization of achievement. She studies family, cultural, and school influences in the development of student motivation and academic achievement in low-income children and youth, both nationally and cross-nationally. […]

Carly Block

Dr. Carly Block is a lecturer in sport and performance psychology in the Counseling Psychology & Applied Human Development department at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She teaches and supervises graduate students in the Sport Psychology program. She also directs the BU Sport Psychology team. Dr. Block’s research focus aligns with her […]

Bobby Hiep Bui

Dr. Bobby Hiep Bui is a senior lecturer at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development, where he is the practicum/internship coordinator and director of the EdM in Counseling program. His interests include creating greater access to high-quality and affordable psychotherapy for people adversely affected by persistent poverty or inequality, improving higher education in […]

Dina C. Castro

Dr. Dina Castro is director of the BU Institute for Early Childhood Well-Being and the inaugural Bahamdan Professor in Early Childhood Well-Being at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. Her scholarship focuses on equity and quality in the early care and education of bilingual children in immigrant, migrant, and indigenous communities. It is […]

Kathleen Corriveau

Dr. Kathleen Corriveau is the associate dean for faculty affairs and a professor at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She also directs the  Social Learning Laboratory at BU Wheelock. Her research focuses on social-cognitive development of trust in early childhood, bridging ideas from developmental and social psychology and applying them to educational […]

Maria Teresa Coutinho

Dr. Maria Teresa Coutinho is a clinical associate professor in the Counseling Psychology & Applied Human Development Department at BU Wheelock College of Education. Dr. Coutinho’s research focuses on the impact of cultural, social, and healthcare system factors on healthcare utilization for urban children of color and their families. Dr. Coutinho serves as the director […]

Tina Durand

Dr. Tina Durand is a clinical associate professor of applied human development at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She is a developmental psychologist with a background in community-based programming for families, and a former K-12 public school teacher. Her research and teaching address critically conscious teacher pedagogy, school contextual factors that […]

Deyanira Enriquez

Deyja Enriquez is a doctoral student in the Counseling Psychology & Applied Human Development program at BU Wheelock, where she specializes in sport and performance psychology. Before she joined BU Wheelock, she worked in labs studying microaggressions, race and ethnicity, and stereotyping. Her applied work has been within community juvenile justice services, an inpatient eating […]

Edson Filho

Dr. Filho is an Associate Professor of Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology at Boston University, and the director of the Performance, Recovery and Optimization Lab. His research agenda centers on performance optimization in individual and team settings. More specifically, Dr. Filho studies the individual and shared zones of optimal functioning as well as the relationship […]