Graduate Studies

GRADUATE PROGRAM 

Although the program areas vary in their research focus and in some of the specific courses that are required, each of the academic programs seeks to develop the following skill sets: scholarship (knowledge of the history and contemporary nature of the respective fields), critical thinking (the ability to independently evaluate data and theoretical models), facility with empirical methods, creativity, and the highest ethical standards in the conduct of research.

The clinical program also aims to prepare sensitive, ethical, and skilled clinical scientists, and is accredited by the American Psychological Association. Although students in the Clinical Program receive the training necessary to provide high quality clinical services, this program is not designed to train individuals who are primarily interested in becoming full-time clinicians. Rather, the goal of clinical training is to provide our students with the experiences necessary to conduct high quality clinical science that will contribute to the empirical basis for clinical practice.

The overarching objective of all degree-granting program areas is to provide thorough and highly individualized training (via strong mentoring relationships) that will prepare graduates for careers in Research 1 universities, in applied settings (such as hospitals and medical schools), in business, governmental, industrial settings and in liberal arts colleges. By bringing together a select and diverse group of graduate students and allowing them to work closely with our equally select and diverse faculty, we expect to contribute significantly to both science and education.

By means of active collaboration with a highly productive faculty, graduate students acquire more than technical expertise; they become co-creators of useful knowledge and guarantors of psychology’s future. Graduate students also play a key role in the process of mentoring ASU undergraduates, particularly through the mechanism of undergraduate research apprenticeships.

Click here for a list of all ASU faculty affiliated with the psychology program.

Contact Information

If you can't find what you are looking for on our web site, please contact Sno Kleespies at psygrad@asu.edu or 480-965-7606.