Marcela Losantos, Ph.D.
Universidad Católica Boliviana and Vrije Universiteit Brusel
Calle 2 Obrajes Nº 4807
Phone: 591-22782222 (int. 2256)
Mobile: 591-76720408
Email: marcela.losantos@ucb.edu.bo
Web: http://www.iicc.ucb.edu.bo/
Marcela Losantos trained as a therapist in 2006, ending the
Specialization in Brief Therapies and the training in the Bolivian
Institute of Family Therapy. In 2009, She received the title of Master
of Psychology of Health, at the Bolivian Catholic University. Moreover
she worked for the period of ten years as a psychologist and coordinator
of the Alalay Foundation designing care intervention models for
children and adolescents at social risk.
As a result of this experience Marcela began in 2010, a joint PhD
program at the the Catholic University and the Vrije Universiteit
Brusel. Funded by the Flemish University Council VLIR-UOS, she defended
in September 2015 her doctoral dissertation on the permanence of
children and young people on the streets of the city of La Paz, based on
social constructionist epistemology, graduating with distinction “Summa
Cum Laude”.
Marcela is a professor of the undergraduate and postgraduate programs of
family therapy at the UCB and coordinates the Research Institute in the
Behavioral Sciences at the same university.
Marcela Losantos, Ph.D. Files & Links
- Dissertation PDF (3.93 MB)