Tag: Graduate Education
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Since the Summit: Future Directions
by Tom Rodebaugh, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Since the Summit, the Planning Committee has been working on how to move the work of the Summit out into the world. (See Cindy Yee-Bradbury’s description of the background of the Summit for more details about the planning committee.) I…
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Equity and Justice in Clinical Science: A Student Perspective
by Jaisal Merchant, M.A., Washington University in St. Louis As a clinical science graduate student engaged in efforts to advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) in our training programs, I was honored to be part of the introductory talk on Equity and Justice in Clinical Science at the APCS…
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Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in Clinical Psychology: One Program’s Early Initiatives
by Allycen R. Kurup, Adilene Osnaya, Keisha D. Novak, & Kelly L. LeMaire, Purdue University In response to racial unrest, clinical psychology departments are likely beginning to implement myriad initiatives to advance diversity and inclusion (D&I) within their graduate training programs and may be seeking examples from other programs. This article details initiatives implemented in…
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Antiracism Requires Accomplices
by Effua E. Sosoo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Donte L. Bernard, Medical University of South Carolina, and Carrington C. Merritt, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill “The opposite of ‘racist’ isn’t ‘not racist.’ It is ‘anti-racist’” (Kendi, 2019, p. 9) The recent trifecta of shooting deaths that claimed the lives of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor,…
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Do Clinical Science Programs Need GRE Scores in Admissions this Year, or Ever?
by Isabelle Lanser & Alexandra S. Tanner, University of California, Los Angeles As the field of psychology and the clinical science community in particular examine the ways our field has historically been complicit in the discrimination and oppression of marginalized groups, it is important to re-examine the structure of our current training programs to identify…
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A Message from PCSAS President, Bob Levenson
The inaugural PCSAS student newsletter is a bellwether event. It clearly underscores the central role that graduate students have played in the evolution of the clinical science movement and their critical leadership role now and in the future. Although PCSAS’ long-term goals have been to harness existing science and foster new scientific discoveries to reduce…