FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Department of Phychology
Address : Box 23345, San Juan, Puerto Rico 00931-3345
Telephone : (787) 763-5499, (787) 764-0000, exts. 3164, 4173, 4175, 4176
Fax : (787)763-4599
Web page : http://psic.uprrp.edu
DEGREE OFFERED
PhD in Psychology
FACULTY
Ana Isabel Alvarez-Salgado ,
PhD, University of Massachusetts, 1979, Professor.
History of the psychology of the islands of the Caribbean and Latin America;
psychological research methods.
Guillermo Bernal-Martínez ,
PhD, University of Massachusetts, 1978, Professor.
Family psychology; psychotherapeutic research; depression; disorders
in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood; participative research;
program evaluation .
Carmen Cividanes Lago ,
DPhil, University of Oxford, 1993, Assistant Professor.
Psychology
of human development; education and human resources; comprehension
of verbal-mathematical problems in children; continuous graphic
information and the role of equivalent strategies in verbal,
mathematical and causal problem solving.
Eileen Colberg-Luciano , PhD, Georgia State
University, 1984, Professor.
Gender and sex psychology, spirituality
in psychology, ethics and psychology; the power of silence
and gender .
Nydza Correa-De Jesús ,
Doctorate, National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1979,
Professor.
City, subject, citizenship, epistemology,
and methodology in Social Psychology; sciences and gender;
work and citizenship .
Heidi
Figueroa-Sarriera , PhD, University of
Puerto Rico, 1991, Professor.
Cultural representations of high technological systems in communications, especially in computer
mediated communications .
Laura Galarza ,
PhD, Rice University, 2000, Assistant Professor.
Industrial and organizational psychology; computer mediated communications;
space psychology; human resources selection training; organizational
climate; international and global management .
Tania
García-Ramos , PhD, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 1995, Assistant Professor.
Industrial organizational psychology; historicity-discursiveness; work theorization;
epistemology of complexity; psychology and philosophy of perception;
health in Vieques .
María de los A. Gómez,
PhD, Université de
Paris V, 1991 , Professor.
Psychoanalysis; psychic process involved in chronic illness; AIDS in the elderly;
rethinking the field of mental health; psychosis clinics; the
logic of addictions.
Sylvia Martínez, PhD ,
University of Puerto Rico, 1998, Assistant Professor.
Early intervention; affective link; autism.
Milagros Méndez , Fordham University , 1993, Assistant Professor.
HIV, STI and AIDS prevention in adolescents; violence prevention in adolescents.
Dolores Miranda-Gierbolini , PhD, Temple University,
1987, Professor.
Community development; social movements; social
policy; oral history; alternative methods in evaluation, research,
and education; self-management .
Edgardo Morales ,
EdD, Boston University, 1986, Assistant Professor.
Language and metaphor as modes of construction of social organizational
and personal realities .
Ivonne Moreno-Velásquez ,
PhD, University of Puerto Rico, 1998, Assistant Professor.
Job satisfaction; evaluation of total quality and organizational
development; personal psychology and organizational development .
Amarillys
R. Muñoz-Colón , PhD,
University of Puerto Rico, 1998, Associate Professor.
Violence;
domestic violence; clinical work; psychotherapy; clinical intervention
in persons facing terminal illnesses .
Edna Nazario ,
PhD, City University of New York, 1987, Professor.
Psychoanalysis;
psychotherapy; mother-child bond; child analysis; play therapy .
Ruth
V. Nina-Estrella , PhD, National Autonomous
University of Mexico, 1991, Professor.
Family, couple, adolescents,
sexuality; cultural studies.
Blanca Ortiz-Torres ,
PhD, JD, New York University, 1991, Professor.
Technology transfer to community-based organizations; heterosexual men in
Haiti; social support for HIV & women .
Josué W.
Quinteros-Salazar , Doctorate,
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos , Peru, 1986, Professor.
Epistemology and methodology of psychology .
Juana M. Rodríguez ,
PhD, Temple University, 1987, Professor.
Evaluation of psychological instruments; psycho-diagnostic evaluation; outcome
research; development of psychological instruments and test;
psycho-educational evaluation .
Jeannette Rosselló ,
PhD, New York University, 1980, Professor.
Juvenile depression,
depression treatment; psychoballet; adolescents with diabetes
mellitus.
Irma Serrano-García ,
PhD, University of Michigan, 1978, Professor.
Program evaluation; teaching and mentoring methods, public policy;
HIV/AIDS prevention.
Raúl Sosa-Arrufat ,
Doctorate, National Autonomous University of Mexico, 1980,
Associate Professor.
Methodology; psychology of oppression;
abuses of drug psychotherapy .
Giovanni Tirado ,
MA, McGill University, 1994, Instructor.
Biopsychology of learning and the memory; cognitive psychology; philosophy
of the mind; biopsychology of aging and Alzheimer’s
disease.
José Toro-Alfonso ,
PhD, Centro Caribeño de Estudios Postgraduados, 1990, Associate Professor.
Family therapy; sexuality-homosexuality; masculinity; gender; domestic
violence; HIV/AIDS: primary and secondary prevention, ethics, program
evaluation, public policies and mental health .
Carlos Toro-Díaz , PhD, Purdue University,1976,
Professor.
Action theories in the organizational context;
learning in organization; effectiveness of social work systems .
Otomie
Vale , PhD, University of Puerto Rico,
1993, Associate Professor.
Composition of the human subjectivity;
gender (construction); criticism of traditional psychological
notions; language and subjectivity; curricular development .
DOCTORAL PROGRAM
The graduate curriculum in a master's
and doctoral programs is considered in initial and advanced segments
of the same program. The doctoral program in Psychology places
emphasis on the broad theoretical and methodological aspects of
the disciplines.
Requirements for Admission
Besides all the admission requirements
of the graduate studies for the Rio Piedras Campus, the student
is required to:
- Have, or being in the process of completing no later than the summer
corresponding to the year chosen for the commencement of his/her
graduate studies, a bachelor's degree of an institution or
accredited university.
- Have a general undergraduate grade point average no less than 3.00
(or its equivalent in the grading system of the previously
attended university) or a general grade point average (bachelor's
and master's) no less than 3.00 if he /she has a master's
degree.
- Have completed the following courses: General or Introductory Psychology,
Social Psychology, Elements of Statistical Reasoning, Methods
and Techniques in Psychology Research.
- Be fluent in English and Spanish.
- Submit the EXADEP (PAEG before) or GRE scores.
- Submit a Resume.
- Write a paper.
- Attend an interview.
Students must satisfy all admission requirements
of the Río Piedras Campus of the University of Puerto Rico, including
those related to the Masters Degree required by the Graduate Program in
Psychology (except the thesis, if so chosen). In addition, s(he) must
be recommended by the faculty of her (his) Concentration field for continuation
towards doctoral studies.
Requirements
for Graduation
In addition to the general requirements for graduation from the Río Piedras Campus, students must receive must fulfill a one-semester residency requirement.
Program of Study
|
Program Requirements
|
Credits
|
Courses for the masters degree in Psychology, with a specialization in one of four areas |
43 |
Required Doctoral Courses |
18 |
PSIC 6105 Advanced Social Psychology I or
PSIC 8015 Advanced Social Psychology II |
3
3 |
PSIC 6317 Advanced Physiological Psychology or
PSIC 6305 Statistics and Advanced Methodological Designs |
3
3 |
PSIC
8027 Advanced Psychobiology: Foundations, Uses, and Controversies |
3 |
PSIC
6325 A Psychological Approach to the Study of Cognitive Processes or
PSIC 8125 Social-Cultural Study of the Mind |
3
3 |
PSIC
8000 Philosophical Foundations of Psychology |
3 |
PSIC
8017 Seminar: Research Perspectives II |
3 |
Electives |
18 |
PSIC 8495 Internship in Clinical Psychology (2,000 hours; only for students in Clinical Psychology) |
0 |
Candidacy Examination |
0 |
Doctoral
Dissertation |
0 |
PSIC
8001 Dissertation Seminar |
0 |
PSIC
8002 Dissertation Work |
0 |
Total
Credits |
79 |
Description of Courses (PDF)
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