Dr. Arthur Cantos is the Director of Clinical Training in the Department of Psychological Science at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and was previously Program Director in the APA approved program at La Universidad Carlos Albizu in Puerto Rico and DCT for the Ph.D. program in Clinical Psychology at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science. He was previously Director of Mental Health for the country of Gibraltar. He practiced as a licensed clinical psychologist in New York State for 15 years working in community mental health, foster care and child abuse, completing forensic diagnostic evaluations and in private practice. He also practiced as a licensed clinical psychologist in Illinois providing services in a specialty clinic for anxiety disorders as well as completing parenting capacity evaluations for the Division of Children and Family Services (DCFS). He holds a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook as well as advanced degrees and diplomas from Middlesex Hospital, Department of Psychiatry, University of London, England and the University of Valencia, Spain. He is bilingual and bicultural. He has over 30 years of experience in practice and academia and is licensed to practice clinical psychology in the states of Illinois and New York, as well as in the United Kingdom. Over the past 30 years he has done extensive work in all aspects of the family violence area and has made numerous presentations on the topic of treatment of male perpetrators of intimate partner violence.
Principal Investigator / Director
Department of Psychological Science
Email:
arthur.cantos@utrgv.edu EIEAB 3.209
Phone: (956) 665-5022
