Elsy E. Quintero
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES & EVENTS
September 2014 – June 2015
LYNN YMCA, Lynn, MA
World AIDS day program
Participate in meetings as community
Annual program that involve YMCA youth programs, Mayor
City of Lynn, Lynn organizations to create awareness about
AIDS facts and personal stories.
May 2015
NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Lynn, MA
NSCC DiverCity Series Group
Group of collaboration with other NSCC departments, faculty,
staff and students. Logo design.
A series of activities that will provide the opportunity to share
and reflect on one’s identities: culture, race, social class,
ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, abilities.
October 2014
NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Lynn, MA
Panel. Perspective on Latino Identity.
Group collaboration and event leader.
Educational program to create awareness about the governmental
assignation of the term Latino level to represent all Latino
American population in the United States.
December 2009 – December 2013
NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Lynn, MA
World AIDS Day
Event coordinator since 2011.
Annual educational program developed to create awareness
about sexual transmitted diseases and statistics regarding AIDS
eradication.
April 2006 – April 2015
NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Lynn, MA
Fit & Fun, Health Fair
Program Assistant, volunteer’s activities coordinator, designer of
media materials and work in collaboration with Marketing.
Elsy E. Quintero
WRITING SAMPLE AND GROUP PROPOSAL
PSY 530: Directed Study in Psychology
Instructor: Joanna Barr
Student: Elsy Quintero
Salem State University, MA, Summer 2014
Cognitive Behavioral Art Therapy and Trauma-Informed Art Therapy
The task of transformation is not only our sacred duty before the gods, but our biological duty
before the imperatives of life itself. Stein is keen to point out that transformation
must never be categorized as a uniquely ‘Jungian’ concept, that it is a biological and spiritual given,
and that if we view it as somehow specific to Jungian psychology we have missed the point…
the phenomenon of transformation is not limited
to any school of thought or therapy but is intrinsic to our experience of the world.
Jung, C. G. (1964/1970). Civilization in Transition. CW 10.
Introduction. With the intention to find specific characteristics that differentiate cognitive
behavioral art therapy and trauma-informed art therapy, the literature referred me to what
probably is the root of both, art therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. It is part of the process
of development, and hopefully improvement of the psychology structure, that theories, models,
discoveries and discussions emerge trying to explain scientifically the meaning of psychology. It
is interesting to realize that different psychologists who received their initial training in
Psychology appreciate some principles of psychoanalysis but also about its limitations; this
inspired them to explore other methods to provide different explanations of human behavior and
to provide structure to the field; as a result, Cognitive Behavioral theory and therapy is the
foundation of talk therapy today. Fascinating disciplines related to cognition as cognitive
science, which study cognition through different fields as psychology, philosophy, artificial
intelligence, neuroscience, linguistics and anthropology; and cognitive neuroscience which
studies the relation between cognitive process and brain activities (Reed, 2007, p.4-7). With the
same sense of exploration, art therapy represents another interventions to treat the effects of
mental and emotional disorders such as PTSD, offering different modalities as visual and media
Elsy E. Quintero
same sense of exploration, art therapy represents another interventions to treat the effects of
mental and emotional disorders such as PTSD, offering different modalities as visual and media