DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

Social Community Psychology

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

MA in Psychology, with specialization in Social Community 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 .

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 .

MASTERS PROGRAM

The master’s and doctoral levels of the graduate curriculum in psychology are considered the initial and advanced segments of a single program.

Requirements for Admission

In addition to the requirements for admission to graduate study at the Río Piedras Campus, the Department of Psychology requires the following:

1. A bachelor’s degree, or the equivalent, from an accredited university. Students may apply if they will have completed the bachelors degree no later than the summer of the year in which they would begin graduate studies.
2. An overall grade point average of 3.00, or the equivalent, from bachelor degree studies, or an overall grade point average of 3.00 from combined bachelor degree and master’s degree studies, if the student has obtained a master’s degree.
3. Completion of the following courses: (a) Introduction to General Psychology or General Psychology; (b) Social Psychology; (c) Elements of Statistical Reasoning; (d) Research Methodology in Psychology.
4. A full command of English and Spanish.
5. EXADEP or GRE scores.
6. A current résumé.
7. Written essay.
8. An interview.

Requirements for Graduation

In addition to the general requirements for graduation from the Río Piedras Campus, students must fulfill a one-semester residency requirement.

Program of Study

*22 credits required for specializing in either Clinical or Industrial Organizational Psychology.

**Students who will not present a masters thesis may enroll in this course (PSIC 6010) or replace it with PSIC 6995 Practicum: Research.

***As for the thesis, students have three options: (1) to work on, defend, and submit a thesis with aspirations of completing only a masters degree; (2) to work on, defend, and submit a thesis for a masters degree with aspirations of continuing toward a doctorate; (3) to continue toward a doctorate without obtaining a masters degree.

Social Community Psychology

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