Our Department has the largest doctoral program at VCU and the second largest undergraduate major at VCU. We offer 4 PhD programs: Clinical, Counseling, Health, and Experimental (Biopsychology, Developmental, Social). We have over 1600 undergraduate majors, over 120 graduate students, and 41 full-time faculty. Last year, our faculty published over 130 articles and chapters, and 247 of our undergraduates participated in research internships.
During 2011-12, our faculty received nearly $5.7 million in new funding, including $2.8 million from the National Institutes of Health in fiscal year 2012, and $1.3 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue to fund an Academic Center of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention. Twelve faculty were principal investigators on major federal grants from the NIH, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, CDC, or Department of Education.
Catherine Kirk earned her undergraduate degree in psychology in 2008. She conducted her Honors in Psychology thesis research with Dr. Michael Southam-Gerow. She then received graduate training in Public Health and currently works as Program Manager for a project designed to prevent mental health issues in children affected by HIV in Rwanda. read more...
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We are excited to share our latest newsletter! We distribute a regular newsletter to alumni, former and current faculty, current students, and friends of the department as a way of letting you know about all of the exciting things happening along the 800 block of West Franklin Street. Alumni are encouraged to complete our survey to share updates in future newsletters. view newsletter ...
Our department offers a variety of Service Learning courses. Students in a Fall 2012 Fieldwork Practicum course with Dr. Langberg provided peer mentoring services to over 30 VCU students. Students in the practicum were trained to use motivational interviewing strategies to implement organization, time-management, and study skills interventions. Each student in the practicum provided peer mentoring services to 3 VCU students and learned to collect and analyze treatment outcome data to monitor students' progress with the interventions.
