Psy.D. in Individual, Organizational and Community Transformation:
A Program in Consciousness and Society
Psy Dept Home | PsyD Home | About the Program | Policies & Curriculum | Faculty | Apply | Related Links | Contact Us a
.gif)
More on the Program Vision and Possible Careers for Graduates
The doctoral program in Individual, Organizational, and Community Transformation offers a diversity of theoretical perspectives and methodologies enabling the practice of an integrative and critical psychology of transformation.
This orientation guides graduates of the program towards a distinctive psychological practice informed by knowledge and wisdom. Students may explore integrative coursework addressing topics such as:
- Human Consciousness
- Science, Technology and Consciousness
- Epistemology and Ethics
- Depth Psychology
- History of Consciousness
- Approaches to Community
- Group Process
- Culture, Society and Subjectivity
- Psychospirituality and Transformation
- Human Development
- Mind and Body
- Psychoanalysis, Hermeneutics
- Community Building
The program's combination of interdisciplinary perspectives, qualitative research, individual and social focus, self-awareness and reflexivity has a unique value. The emphasis is on an intimate empiricism adequate to the task of addressing the complexity and subtlety of human life from multiple points of view. This is an approach that balances attention to human subjectivity and value with rigorous detachment and discrimination.
Such research respects the insight that experience is always situated and that inquiry into context is critical to transformation. This is not a clinical program, although it fosters therapeutic skills that are applicable in a range of areas beyond traditional individual, couple, or group counseling. All students must complete an internship in which they develop expertise in a particular social setting or toward a specific human concern. Some arenas of practice:
- Psychoeducation
- Transformative pedagogy
- Community and family building
- Group and organizational facilitation
- Program design and evaluation
- Contemplative practice
- Teaching and research