About the Program
The Program in Individual, Organizational, and Community Transformation
Oriented towards practice in a unique way, our Psy.D. program offers a substantive theoretical core informing the way students approach their research and practica. Following the forty-year departmental tradition of rigorous and creative scholarly inquiry guided by a humanistic and transpersonal orientation that integrates personal growth, the doctoral program is designed to cultivate self-awareness and academic depth. A variety of other traditions also serve as guides to the program's formation. These include research and engagement informed by a broader interest in social justice and cultural effects. We aim to develop innovative approaches to questions raised at the edges between consciousness and social context. By developing reflective disciplines of mind - self-awareness, analysis, radical questioning, contemplation, gratitude - students gain skills to empower others, both individually and communally.
Our training emphasizes qualitative approaches for which the generation of knowledge is a collaborative effort. Students will engage phenomenological, transpersonal, critical, historical, action-research, discursive, and hermeneutic approaches in their course of study. In addition to research, students may explore integrative coursework addressing topics such as: developing a global sensibility, human consciousness, psychospirituality and transformation, human development, mind and body, psycho-social studies, psychoanalytic approaches to subjectivity, hermeneutics, group process, epistemology and ethics, and innovative approaches to community.
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