Catherine Stein, Program Director
(419) 372-2278 phone
cstein@trapper.bgsu.edu e-mail
(419) 372-6013 fax

For application materials contact:
Kathy Heim, Graduate Secretary
(419) 372-2306 phone
kheim@bgnet.bgsu.edu e-mail
(419) 372-6013 fax

Our program offers solid clinical training and opportunities to develop a community psychology concentration in working with children, adolescents, and adults. Students can select concentration in community, behavioral medicine, child-clinical, or general adult psychology beginning in their second year. Our program supports collaboration between students and faculty within and across disciplines. The community concentration consists of specific course work and community practica. Students also participate in research groups where faculty and students with common interests plan and discuss empirical research. On-going research topics include community intervention for adults with psychiatric disability and their families, preventive interventions for children, the role of religion in coping with serious physical illness, health psychology and behavioral medicine. Our program graduates individuals who work in a variety of community settings.

Our program is attentive to issues of diversity among students, faculty and community. We discuss issues of diversity in a variety of our courses and structure the program to enable students to have contact with a broad range of people from different socioeconomic, ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Each year, we invite outside speakers and conduct workshops on topics of diversity attended by students, faculty and members of the community. We actively recruit minority faculty and students for our clinical program.