DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY

MISSION STATEMENT


The Department has three related missions:

Faculty and students in the department conduct research on many topics, including: child development and its relation to education, broadly defined; the investigation of normal and atypical development, including developmental psychopathology, and how to deal with the full diversity of human development; and the impact and potential use of modern technologies to support optimal human development.

1. Human Development and Education, a broad program offering all graduate degrees (M.Ed., M.A., Ed.D., and Ph.D.) within several specializations -- Adaptive Instruction and Special Education, Applied Cognitive Science, and Early Childhood.

2. Child Study and Education, a teacher education program at the M.A. level with a strong focus on child development, located at the Institute of Child Study on Walmer Road.

3. School and Child Clinical Psychology, a graduate program offering the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees, based on a scientist-practitioner model.

The department benefits from a faculty with diverse interests and active research programs in each of these areas, and includes associated faculty with appointments elsewhere in the University; from an equally diverse group of students pursuing study, research, and practice; from a number of participating researchers on a range of projects in the department; and from the efforts of an excellent support staff working with faculty, students, and researchers to advance each of these missions.


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