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Study Professional Psychology in the Pacific Northwest CL INICAL P S Y CHOL OGY • APA-accredited Psy.D. degree PSY.D. IN “We need to find a way to combine both the pure value of self-realization and intellectual development and the other, more worldly value of producing leaders who can actually lift up those less fortunate.” academic environment, you can’t just order people around, so addressing their aspirations and fears and getting them to move an institution forward is one of the most complex leadership challenges there is. I often joke with CEOs of corporations that they wouldn’t last in a university for six months. [Leaders] need to put themselves in the shoes of others to be able to really understand what makes them tick. Doing so greatly improves your ability to move the institution forward. There I think psychology comes in extremely handy. how can psychologists help improve education? First of all, psychologists can help advance the science of learning. We continue to teach based on fairly traditional models of teaching and learning, and yet all the data [show] that learning is much more powerful if it’s active. Instead of giving students lectures in class or telling them, “This is the way it is,” and then testing them on it, we need to create opportunities for students to frame the questions, to discover the answers, whether through undergraduate research or other active learning opportunities. The dirty little secret about learning is that we forget. You assess your students’ learning of chemistry during the course and then at the end you give a final exam and stamp a grade and that’s your assessment of what’s been learned. Then we send them out into the world and their transcript follows them everywhere, and yet forgetting is dramatic. In the past, we’ve tended to sweep that under the rug by saying that it’s not important that you specifically learn the chemistry, it’s that you learn to think critically. And that’s true, but even there, there’s dramatic forgetting. Active learning has the advantage of promoting much better retention than passive learning. Psychologists can also help in other things, such as the sequencing of courses. We tend to think that if we organize a curriculum so that first you learn this, then you move on to something else and so on. But it turns out that that’s not the best idea. Studies show that mixing things up, even though it seems messier, promotes better retention in the long run. We might also think about fostering creativity, innovation, leadership and teamwork. These are very hard things to incorporate into an education, and yet that’s really what we want. The United States continues to lead the world in creativity, innovation and leadership. We need to find ways to promote those in higher education. n • Practitioner-scholar model; cutting edge curriculum • Two school-operated training clinics and an APA-accredited internship program • Near Portland, Mt. Hood and the Oregon coast Faculty interests include: Neuropsychology, child psychopathology, forensic psychology, health psychology, organizational behavior, bilingual psychotherapy with Latinos, assessment, behavior therapy, empirically supported treatments, integrative approaches, psychotherapy with minorities, and single case research. ■■ CONTACT US AT: Pacific University College of Health Professions Office of Admissions 190 SE 8th Avenue, Suite 181 Hillsboro, OR 97123 503-352-2218 800-933-9308 admissions@pacificu.edu septeMber 2011 • Monitor on psychology 33

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Monitor on Psychology - September 2011
Letters
President’s Column
Contents
From the CEO
Supreme Court hears psychologists on prison and video game cases
Antipsychotics are overprescribed in nursing homes
New MCAT likely to recognize the mind-body connection
A $2 million boost for military and families
In Brief
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS UPDATE
On Your Behalf
Judicial Notebook
Random Sample
TIME CAPSULE
QUESTIONNAIRE
Speaking of Education
SCIENCE WATCH
An uncertain future for American workers
Advocating for psychotherapy
PRACTICE PROFILE
ETHICALLY SPEAKING
Seared in our memories
Helping kids cope in an uncertain world
APA and Nickelodeon team up
Muslims in America, post 9/11
Bin Laden’s death
‘They expect us to be there’
Answering the call of public policy
Candidates answer final questions
APA News
Division Spotlight
New leaders
AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION
Disaster relief training
Honoring teaching excellence
Personalities

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