Ena Vazquez-Nuttall Explained

Birth Date:	January 27, 1937
Birth Place:	Salinas, Puerto Rico
Death Date:	October 20, 2011
Death Place:	Framingham, Massachusetts
Alma Mater:	Boston University
Thesis Title:	Creativity in boys; a study of the influence of social background, educational achievement, and parental attitudes on the creative behavior of ten year old boys
Thesis Url:	https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2690682
Thesis Year:	1969

Ena Vazquez-Nuttall (1937 - 2011) is known for her work on the relevance of cultural diversity in the field of psychology.

Early life and education

Vazquez-Nuttall was born in 1937 in Salinas, Puerto Rico.^[1] She has a bachelor's degree from the University of Puerto Rico. She earned a master's degree from Radcliffe College, and an EdD in counseling and school psychology from Boston University.^[2]

Career

Vazquez-Nuttall started graduate programs in school psychology at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and Northeastern University. She was the Associate Dean and Director of Graduate School of the Bouve College of Health Sciences from 1992 until 2004.^[3] She retired from Northeastern University in 2009 after working there for 21 years.^[4]

Honors and awards

In 1990 the received a National Association of School Psychologists Presidential Award. In 2004 Vazquez-Nuttall was honored by the National Latino Psychological Association. In 2004 she received a lifetime achievement award from the Massachusetts School Psychologists Association, and the association established a scholarship in her name.^[5] Upon her death in 2011, Northeastern University's Bouvé College of Health Sciences instituted the Ena Vazquez-Nuttall Award for students who demonstrate outstanding multicultural contributions to the discipline.

Selected publications

• Vazquez-Nuttall . Ena . Romero-Garcia . Ivonne . Leon . Brunilda De . 1987 . Sex Roles and Perceptions of Femininity and Masculinity of Hispanic Women: A Review of the Literature . Psychology of Women Quarterly . en . 11 . 4 . 409–425 . 10.1111/j.1471-6402.1987.tb00915.x . 0361-6843.
• Book: Assessing and screening preschoolers: psychological and educational dimensions . 1999 . Allyn and Bacon . 978-0-205-26676-0 . Nuttall . Ena Vazquez . 2nd . Boston . Romero . Ivonne . Kalesnik . Joanne.
• Sue, D. W., Carter, R. T., Casas, J. M., Fouad, N. A., Ivey, A. E., Jensen, M., LaFromboise, T., Manese, J. E., Ponterotto, J. G., & Vazquez-Nutall, E. (1998). Multicultural counseling competencies: Individual and organizational development. Sage Publications, Inc.
• Vazquez-Nuttall . Ena . Li . Chieh . Kaplan . Jason P. . 2006-10-18 . Home-School Partnerships with Culturally Diverse Families: Challenges and Solutions for School Personnel . Journal of Applied School Psychology . en . 22 . 2 . 81–102 . 10.1300/J370v22n02_05 . 1537-7903.

Notes and References

1. Chieh Li . Shriberg . David . Lifter . Karin . Hoffman . Jessica . Kruger . Louis . Sanchez . William . Mason . Emanuel . Chung . Y. Barry . 2012 . IN MEMORIAM: Ena Vazquez-Nuttall, 1937-2011 . Communiqué, Bethesda, National Association of School Psychologists . 41 . 1 . 22–22.
2. Vazquez-Nuttall, E. Ethnicity and Health in American Psychological Association: Psychologists of Color. Retrieved March 4, 2023, from https://www.apa.org/pi/oema/resources/ethnicity-health/psychologists/vazquez-nuttall
3. Web site: In Memoriam . 2024-04-08 . www.nlpa.ws . en-us.
4. News: September 2009 . Personalities . 2024-04-08 . 40. 8. 84.
5. Web site: Massachusetts School Psychologists Association - Ena Vazquez-Nutall Scholarship . 2024-04-08 . mspa.wildapricot.org.