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Graduate Students
The Graduate Programs at PGSP are deeply committed to educating well rounded clinical psychologists who are capable and competent as both researchers and clinicians. Students are taught to be science minded while appreciating the larger role of psychology in alleviating suffering in the world. This balance includes learning to value evidence-based clinical models while maintaining the responsibilities psychologists have to their community, society, and profession. An outstanding faculty of clinicians and researchers provides rigorous classroom instruction, clinical supervision, and research mentoring to help students find the right balance for them.
Our professors are role models who demonstrate firsthand the unique contributions of psychology to the helping professions. They are actively engaged in both clinical practice and research, and share their work experiences— whether clinical or research —with students, both in the classroom and in independent study. Also, our colloquium program provides a forum for a wider network of invited professionals who share their current work and interests with the PGSP community.
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“My advisor is Allison Briscoe-Smith. I did research with her last year. Now my focus has changed, but her door s always open if I need advice or encouragement. She is incredibly approachable, accomplished, and a truly nspiring mentor.
Dr. Gore-Felton and Dr. Koopman have been strong mentors too. They speak about professionalism, developing positive relationships with your colleagues, networking at conventions. We’re in the Psy.D. program, but they are researchers as well as clinicians, so they encourage us to think about poster presentations or even publishing papers. Their professional outlook has opened doors for us.
I’ve learned so much from Dr. Gore-Felton. I aspire to be even a fraction of the person, clinician, and researcher that she is. She’s such a great mentor. She deserves an award!”
--STEPHANIE SHIPPEN, PSY. D. STUDENT, 2008
“Looking back on my years at PGSP, I think the quality of instruction I received was first-rate. I had highly reputable professors, like Dr. Roger Greene. Everyone uses his textbooks on MMPI. So I learned about the instruments from the authority.
Dr. Zimbardo was on my dissertation committee. Larry Thompson, who taught us about aging and cognitive behavioral therapy with older adults, is extremely well known in that field. Just today, a coworker asked if I had read one of his papers. Naturally I had, because he was my teacher at PGSP.
More than once I’ve discovered that people I’ve worked with one-on-one at PGSP are actually the top people in their fields. I know them personally; I’ve visited their homes and met their families.”
--AMBER JENKINS, 2008 PH.D. GRADUATE
“ We are a professional school that integrates science and practice in the service of others. We combine the advantages of a professional school and a university to offer unmatched training in clinical psychology."
--DR. WILLIAM FROMING, VICE-PRESIDENT FOR ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
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