Training Model

The UH Counseling Psychology Program is guided by values and principles that have characterized and distinguished the speciality of counseling psychology since its inception over a half-century ago. These include a thorough grounding in the intellectual foundations and research traditions of academic psychology, an adherence to the scientist-practitioner model of training, an abiding appreciation of individual differences, cultural diversity, person-environment interactions, and preferences for theoretical perspectives and interventions that promote the educational, vocational, relationship, and emotional health and adaptation of persons across the lifespan. Our program is further guided by the view that psychological health, growth, and development, as well as psychological impairment and adaptation failures, are phenomena that involve complex transactions between persons and the social and organizational environments in which they are embedded. Accordingly, we believe that the education and training of doctoral-level counseling psychologists requires a curriculum that advances the knowledge bases, skills, and dispositions needed to address these complexities and to promote positive change.