Wendy Heller, Program Director
(217) 333-6130 phone
wheller@s.psych.uiuc.edu e-mail
(217) 244-5876 fax

For application materials contact:
Lori Hendricks
(217) 333-2169 phone
lhendric@s.psych.uiuc.edu e-mail
(217) 244-5876 fax

The clinical/community psychology program at the university of Illinois-Urbana Champaign is a member of the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science, which is a coalition of doctoral psychology training programs that share a common goal of producing and applying scientific knowledge to the assessment, understanding, and amelioration of human problems. Membership in the Academy is granted only after a thorough peer review process. Its membership in the Academy indicates that our program is committed to excellence in scientific training and to using clinical science as the foundation for designing, implementing, and evaluating assessment and intervention procedures.

Our educational philosophy emphasized a creative, scholarly, and socially responsible approach to clinical psychology. Our mission is to produce graduates who assume leadership roles and who contribute to the discipline and to society. For example, our graduates have gone on to careers as university professors, college teachers, public policy analysts, faculty in medical centers and research institutes, and directors of community mental health centers. We do not aim to train students for careers in private practice.

Attention is paid to issues of diversity in our ongoing coursework, our commitment to recruiting and retaining a diverse student body, and our weekly seminar on diversity issues. In addition, current research areas of interest to faculty include: primary and secondary prevention programs for unserved and underserved populations, mutual help organizations, sexual victimization, minority and gender issues in psychology and psychological intervention.