University of California Santa Barbara Catalog

Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology
Gevirtz Graduate School of Education
Education Building 2103
Telephone: (805) 893-3375
Website: www.education.ucsb.edu/ccsp
Chair: Steven Smith

Overview

The Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology offers three courses of study:

1) a Counseling/Clinical Psychology Ph.D.
2) a School Psychology Ph.D.
3) a School Psychology M.Ed.

The doctoral program adheres to a scientist-practitioner training model and provides students with both research and practitioner knowledge and skills. The program’s primary goal is to train students who are interested in academic and research positions; a secondary goal is to prepare psychological service providers who will exercise influence on professional psychology through teaching, research, and leadership. The organizing themes that integrate the identity of the Department are the values of human diversity and individual differences, health and development across the lifespan, and ecological (e.g., family, school, community) influences on human behavior.

Interviews are scheduled for the most highly qualified applicants who meet admission criteria and have interests well suited to faculty interests.

The Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology also offers a Minor in Applied Psychology.

Faculty

Miya Barnett, PhD, Central Michigan University, Associate Professor
Specialization: Dissemination and implementation; Mental health service disparities for ethnic minority children and families; Parent-child interaction therapy

Fernanda Castellon, Assistant Professor

Andres Consoli, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Professor
Specialization: Transnational collaborations; Multicultural supervision; Psychotherapy integration and training; Systematic treatment selection; Ethics and values in psychotherapy; Access and utilization of mental health services within a social justice framework; Bilingual (English/Spanish) academic and mental health workforce

Erin Dowdy, PhD, University of Georgia, Professor
Specialization: Behavioral/social-emotional assessment and classification particularly early identification of child behavior problems and strengths; School-based mental health; Culturally-responsive assessment and prevention practices

Erika Felix, PhD, DePaul University, Professor
Specialization: violence prevention; bullying; youth; school based interventions; disaster mental health; trauma; PTSD; community violence

Jon Goodwin, PhD, Associate Teaching Professor
Specialization: Assessment of learning differences; psychoeducational services for high ability students; and identification of students for gifted/talented programs and academic acceleration

Shane Jimerson, PhD, University of Minnesota, Professor
Specialization: Early intervention and prevention behavior and academic; School violence and safety; Dropouts; Reading education; Safety education; Educational psychology; Educational measurement; Elementary education; Behavior sciences: abnormal, developmental, social development

Janine Jones, Professor

Nolan Krueger, Assistant Professor

Arlene Ortiz, PhD, Assistant Teaching Professor
Specialization: Bilingual assessment of culturally and linguistically diverse students; training and supervision of bilingual school psychologists

Matt Quirk, PhD, University of Georgia, Professor
Specialization: School readiness; academic assessment and intervention; academic motivation and engagement; early reading development

Jill Sharkey, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Professor
Specialization: Antisocial Behavior, Juvenile Delinquency, Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Developmental Psychopathology, Risk and Resilience, School Violence, Student Engagement, Assessment and Measurement

Shola Shodiya-Zeumault, Assistant Professor

Steve Smith, PhD, University of Arkansas, Teaching Professor
Specialization: Psychodynamic/interpersonal psychotherapy, psychology education

Miriam Thompson, PhD, Associate Teaching Professor
Specialization: Training and professional issues in psychology; psychological assessment; recruitment and retention of junior faculty of color

Ty Vernon, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Associate Professor
Specialization: Autism; assessment and measurement

Heidi Zetzer, PhD, UC Santa Barbara, Teaching Professor
Specialization: Family violence; culturally competent and empirically-based treatment; multicultural supervision

Emeriti Faculty

Michael Brown, PhD, Southern Illinois University

Jesus Casas, PhD, Stanford University

Merith Cosden, PhD, University of New Mexico

Michael Furlong, PhD, UC Santa Barbara

Tania Israel, PhD, Arizona State University

Maryam Kia-Keating, PhD, Boston University

Robert Koegel Jr, PhD, UC Los Angeles
Joint Appointment: Education

Gale Morrison, PhD, UC Riverside