The concentration is only available for students who entered GSAPP prior to
September 2015 and took the semester-long course in Community
Psychology
(820:593), last offered in the fall of 2015.
Practicum
The community psychology practicum is required for one semester, one day per
week. It is subject to approval of the community psychology concentration practicum subcommittee based on a brief student
proposal of community relevance of the practicum.
Courses
1. Program Planning and Evaluation: two semesters (required)
2. Core courses currently required for all Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology students
that have a community focus:
- Community
Psychology
- Psychological
Interventions--Ethnic and Racial Minority Clients and Families OR Diversity
and Racial Identity
- Theoretical
Foundations of Intervention: Organizational
3. Choice of one of the following:
- Crisis
Intervention
- Adult
Learning and Training
- Innovation
Implementation and School Change
- Family
Therapy
- Consultation
Methods
- Qualitative
Research Methods
- Severe
Mental Illness
- Course
from another Rutgers unit such as Public
Health or Ph.D. in Psychology (e.g., Strength-Based Consultation to
Religious, Public Education, and Private Education Settings: A Community
Psychology Approach) approved by community psychology concentration faculty
Encouraged
A community psychology dissertation approved by the community psychology concentration subcommittee based on a brief student proposal of community relevance. Committee
must include one of the listed community psychology faculty.
