Kremen School of Education and Human Development

Sergio Pereyra

Assistant Professor

Counselor Education and Rehabilitation | 559.278.3341 | Office: ED 451

spereyra@csufresno.edu

Education

Brigham Young University - Ph.D. Marriage and Family Therapy, 2016
Brigham Young University - M.S. Marriage and Family Therapy, 2012
Brigham Young University - B.S. Psychology, 2009

Courses Taught

COUN 201: Seminar in Multicultural Aspects of Counseling
COUN 239: Field Placement in Counseling
COUN 220: Seminar in Career Development Theory
COUN 280T: PhD Prep & Advanced Research Methods
COUN 200: Seminar in Counseling Techniques
COUN 208: Practicum in Counseling
COUN 234E: Seminar in Consultation
COUN 298: Project

Dr. Sergio Pereyra is an assistant professor in the Counselor Education and Rehabilitation department. His mother is from Mexico and his father is from Argentina, so he identifies as a Mexican-Argentine, even though he was raised in Houston, TX.

Dr. Pereyra is a two-time receiver of the SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program Award under the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT), is an AAMFT Approved Supervisor, and taught culturally sensitive parenting courses to low-income Latino/a families for the Utah Department of Public Health for five years. Dr. Pereyra has numerous national, state and local presentations and peer reviewed publications regarding various topics among the Latino/a population.

As a Latino with a strong cultural identity, Dr. Pereyra has years of experience providing clinical services for Latino/a couples, families and individuals in Spanish and has also provided supervision for therapists-in-training who served Spanish-speaking clients. Dr. Pereyra owns his own Private Practice, is fully licensed in the state of California and the State of Utah and his clinical expertise include Spanish-speaking therapy for couples and families, parenting training, infidelity issues, pornography and other sexual addictions, intimacy issues, acculturation challenges, immigration issues and working with adolescents.

Currently, he serves as a member of the University Task force on Climate Change and is a member of the Research Committee in the Kremen School of Education. He also serves as the Field Placement Coordinator for the Marriage, Family and Child Counseling program.

Areas of Expertise Include:

Cultural Humility
Latino Critical Race Theory (LatCrit)
Nationalism & Immigration
Eco-developmental Theory
Structural Equation Modeling
Mediation and Moderation Research Methodologies

Dr. Pereyra has a very active research agenda with research interests including Latino/a couples research, parenting, family functioning, Latino/a cultural values, clinical outcomes among Spanish-speaking clients and research with other ethnic minorities.

Current Research Projects:

Bernal-Arevalo, K. E., Pereyra, S. B., Griffin D. M., & Sharma, G. (Work in progress). Achieving the Dream: The High School Counselor Role in Supporting the Transition of Undocumented College-bound Latino/a Students.

Pereyra, S. B., Crane, J., & Yang, C. (Work in Progress). The effects of abuse on relationship satisfaction as mediated by attachment among Latino Couples: An actor-partner analysis and multiple group comparison.

Pereyra, S. B., Busby, D., & Marroquin, G. (Work in progress). The Latino Cultural Value of “Personalismo”: Psychometric Properties of the Measure.

Pereyra, S. B. & Whiting J. B. (Work in progress). The Latino Experience of Therapy: New Perspectives on Help Seeking among the Latino Population.

Pereyra, S. B., Busby, D. & Supancic, M. (Work in Progress). Pathways to Intimate Partner Violence In Latino/a Couples.

Rodríguez-González, M., Bell, C. A., Pereyra, S. B., Martínez-Díaz, M. P., Schweer-Collins, M., & Bean, R. (Work in progress). Differentiation of self, attachment, marital quality and marital stability: A path analysis of dyadic and longitudinal data from Spanish & U.S. couples

Selected Publications

Pereyra, S. B. (2021). “Sí, Se Puede Educar”: Impacts on the Classroom Environment from the Perspective of a US-Born, Latino Male, Religious Minority Faculty. In K. M. T. Quek & A. L. Hsieh (Eds.), Intersectionality in Family Therapy Leadership: Professional Power, Personal Identities (pp. 43-52). Springer International Publishing.

Weir, K., Pereyra, S. B., Crane, J., Greaves, M., Childs, T. S., & Weir, A. (2020). The Effectiveness of Theraplay® as a Counseling Practice with Mothers and Their Children in a Substance Abuse Rehabilitation Residential Facility. The Family Journal (Alexandria, Va.), 29(1), 115–123.

Pereyra, S. B., Bean, R. A., Ruiz, J. & Velasco, B. (2020). The Effects of parenting, the student-teacher relationship, and academic achievement on externalizing behavior among Latino adolescents. The Family Journal. 28(3), 290-299.

Andrade, M., Pereyra, S. B., & Yang, C. (2019). Role models and family stress impact on Latino student’s school achievement and substance use. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse. doi.org/10.1080/15332640.2019.1685050

Pereyra, S. B., Bean, R. A., Yorgason, J., Lee, C., Sandberg, J. G., & Miller, R. (2019). Longitudinal study of externalizing behaviors in Latino/a adolescents: An examination of parenting and educational factors. Children and Youth Services Review, 107, 1-9.

Sandberg, J. G., Rodríguez Gónzalez, M., Pereyra, S. B., Willis, K., Perez, L., & Lybbert, R. (2019). The Experience of learning EFT in Spanish-speaking countries: A Multi-national replication study. Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 37, 393-410. doi.org/10.1111/jmft.12383

Pereyra, S. B. & Bean, R.A. (2017). Latino adolescent substance use: A Mediating model of inter-parental conflict, deviant peer associations, and parenting. Children and Youth Services Review, 76, 154-162.

Pereyra, S. B., Sandberg, J. G., Bean, R. A., & Busby, D. (2015). The Effects of spirituality on relationship quality among different groups of Latino and Anglo couples mediated by negative communication. American Journal of Family Therapy, 43, 480–493.