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Main Contact
Kerth O'Brien, PhD
SocCommInquiry@lists.pdx.edu
Area description and Program goals
Applied Social & Community psychology is concerned with practical questions
of how individuals’ thoughts, feelings, and actions are influenced by other people and by social institutions. Topics focused on at Portland State University include, but are not limited to Socialization Processes, Self, Social Relationships and Social Roles, Health Psychology, Sociocultural Psychology, Community Psychology & Prevention, Gender and Sexuality,
Methods of Social Change and Intervention, & Ethics.
Faculty
Janice Haaken, Ph.D.
Keith Kaufman, Ph.D.
Eric Mankowski, Ph.D.
Katherine McDonald, Ph.D.
Cynthia Mohr, Ph.D.
Kerth O’Brien, Ph.D.
PSU hosts Pacific Northwest Community Psychology Conference, October 13-14th, 2006
Graduate courses focusing on Applied Social & Community Psychology
PSY 514/614 Advanced Applied Social Psychology
PSY 507/607 Qualitative Research Methods in Psychology
PSY 510 Psychology of Men and Masculinities
PSY 510/610 Program
Evaluation
PSY 510 Domestic Violence Intervention Systems
PSY 510 Ecological-Environmental Psychology
PSY 534 Introduction to Psychopathology
PSY 540 Group Process
PSY 571 Health Psychology
PSY 580/581/582 Community Psychology (3 course sequence)
PSY 597 Applied Survey Methods
PSY 598 Field Observation Methods
PSY 532/632 Clinical Interviewing
PSY 533/633 Contemporary Social Psychology
PSY 564/664 Social Psychology of Mental Health
PSY 589/689 Adult Socialization
Employment settings of recent graduates
Oregon Department of Human Services, Institute for Social Research (The University of Michigan), Care Oregon, Northwest Professional Consortium, Foundation for Accountability, Providence Health Care System, Multnomah
County Health Department, Regional Research Institute, Oregon Health & Science University.
Applied Social & Community Comprehensive Exam Reading List
To download the Fall 2007 version of the Comprehensive Examination Reading List (pdf file, 85KB) in Applied Social
Psychology make a right mouse click and"Save files as...".
Web sites with more information about Applied Social & Community Psychology
Social Psychology Network
APA Division 8: Personality and Social Psychology
APA Division 9: Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
APA Division 27: Society for Community Research and Action
APA Division 38: Health Psychology
APA Division 51: Society for the Study of Men and Masculinity
APA Division 45: Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues
American Psychological Society
International Association for Relationship Research
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