Ken Maton, Program Director
(410) 455-2567 phone
maton@umbc2.umbc.edu e-mail
(410) 455-1055 fax

The Community-Social Ph.D. Program in Human Services Psychology offers students the opportunity for psychology training from a systemic and ecological perspective. Special areas of focus include urban minority youth, women and families; policy; and program evaluation. The program is uniquely flexible in allowing students to work with core or affiliated faculty in community, applied social, applied developmental, health, policy, or clinical psychology. Its location in the Baltimore-Washington corridor makes it ideally situated to contribute to and benefit from the rich scholarly, policy, scientific, technological, cultural and psychological resources of the region. The program is relatively small in size, allowing for close working relationships with faculty and a strong sense of support and community among students.

Our program continues to make strides toward addressing issues of diversity, within our program, department, university and community. UMBC, as a University, has a commitment to training ethnic minority students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels as well as to providing services and services and resources to underserved sections of the surrounding Baltimore metropolitan community. A number of our faculty are actively involved in these training and service activities including mentoring activities with undergraduates at neighboring historically Black colleges. Our department's mission also includes training psychologists to provide competent services to underserved communities. In addition to courses offered at the department level, a new program-level specialty course entitled, "Cultural Issues in Psychological Research and Intervention" is also in the planning for next year.