Clinical-Community Psychology, Ph.D.

Learning Outcomes

• Students will identify common errors and biases in thinking and reasoning (meta-cognition) and demonstrate knowledge of specific methods that can be used to minimize errors and bias in judgment/decision making. Students will use these skills appropriately when planning, implementing, and evaluating one’s own research and practice activities.
• The student demonstrates understanding of differences in beliefs and practices that emerge from various aspects of identity and how these different beliefs and practices have important effects on psychological phenomena related to interpersonal functioning, research, professional practice, and social justice.
• The student can listen and comprehend new information in aural and written form from both professional/scientific sources and from laypeople as needed to function effectively as a scientist and practitioner in Clinical-Community Psychology. The student can express their knowledge in oral and written form to both professional/scientific audiences and laypeople as needed to function effectively as a scientist and practitioner in Clinical-Community Psychology.
• Students identify appropriate areas for interaction with peers, colleagues, and professional experts that enhance applied or research knowledge, or provide meaningful service to the profession of psychology.
• When addressing an applied problem, the student can identify multiple stages of potential intervention (e.g., primary prevention, targeted prevention, etc.) and multiple potential methods for intervention and compare the strengths and weaknesses of these options.