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Programs of Study

The Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) Department of Psychology offers doctoral training in four areas: applied psychology (AP), brain and cognitive sciences (BCS), clinical psychology, and counseling psychology. The clinical and counseling programs are accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA). All programs involve a full-time course of study, typically four years on campus, with an additional internship year for both the clinical and counseling programs. Students complete Departmental course requirements (primarily methodology), a carefully developed program curriculum, an empirical M.A. thesis, and a doctoral dissertation. The Department does not admit students seeking a terminal master’s degree; students earn the M.A. en route to a Ph.D. Rarely, students earn a terminal M.A. or nonempirical M.S. when they or the faculty members reconsider their suitability for doctoral study. The Department has a strong collegial atmosphere, and students benefit from access to faculty members from all programs. Throughout their studies, students are engaged in diverse preprofessional training assignments appropriate to their program, involving wide-ranging activities related to teaching, basic and applied research, and clinical or counseling services.

Research Facilities

The Department maintains extensive and quite comprehensive research facilities. Active human laboratories permit the use of methodologies such as eye tracking, single-unit recording, computer presentation of stimuli, controlled delivery of substances, recording and coding of child behavior, three-dimensional animation, neural network modeling, EEG recording, evoked potential recording, and human genotyping of individual differences related to personality, psychopathology, and substance use. Animal laboratories permit studies of animal learning (operant chambers and mazes), recovery of function, specific nerve stimulation, experimental surgery, contingent delivery of substances, psychopharmacology, and other areas of neuroscience. Diverse field research opportunities are available; collaborative sites include the campus Clinical Center, Student Health Service, the Department’s Career Development and Resource Clinic, and local mental health and human service agencies, in addition to access to equipment necessary for survey development and scanning, telephone and in-person interviewing, computer-assisted interviewing and data collection, and still and video recording. Students also have access to state-of-the-art computer labs, including a small lab dedicated to psychology graduate students.

Financial Aid

The SIUC Department of Psychology has a very strong record of supporting students. All students in good standing are guaranteed support for their first academic year (nine months), and they typically receive nine to ten months of support for four or more academic years. Assistantship support comes from diverse sources such as college teaching assistantships, Graduate School fellowships, research grants, and service contracts with campus and local agencies, providing valuable preprofessional training opportunities. Assistantships include tuition waivers.

Cost of Study

In-state graduate tuition is $328 per credit hour in 2009–10. Out-of-state tuition is 2.5 times the in-state tuition rate ($820 per credit hour). Graduate students with at least a 25 percent appointment as a graduate assistant receive a tuition scholarship. Fees vary from $589.03 (1 credit hour) to $1557.50 (12 credit hours). Students with a graduate assistantship receive a 50 percent reduction in the primary care medical fee. New graduate students from Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, and Tennessee qualify for the alternate tuition rate, which is equivalent to the in-state graduate tuition rate.

Living and Housing Costs

For married couples, students with families, and single graduate students, the University has 690 efficiency and one-, two-, three-, and four-bedroom apartments that rent for $499 to $720 per month in 2009–10. Residence halls for single graduate students are also available, as are accessible residence hall rooms and apartments for students with disabilities.

Student Group

The program usually admits approximately 20 students per year. Typically, the program has approximately 80 students, of whom roughly 65 percent are women, 20 percent are members of minority groups, and 5 to 10 percent are international.

Location

SIUC is 350 miles south of Chicago and 100 miles southeast of St. Louis. Nestled in rolling hills bordered by the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and enhanced by a mild climate, the area has state parks, national forests and wildlife refuges, and large lakes for outdoor recreation. Cultural offerings include theater, opera, concerts, art exhibits, and cinema. Educational facilities for the families of students are excellent.

The University

Southern Illinois University Carbondale is a comprehensive public university with a variety of general and professional education programs. The University offers associate, bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees; the J.D. degree; and the M.D. degree. The University is fully accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. The Graduate School has an essential role in the development and coordination of graduate instruction and research programs. The Graduate Council has academic responsibility for determining graduate standards, recommending new graduate programs and research centers, and establishing policies to facilitate the research effort. Southern Illinois University Carbondale is a state-funded university founded in 1869.

Applying

Applications are accepted once a year (December 15 and February 1 application deadlines, depending on the program) for admission the following fall. Applications are available on the Department’s Web site or may be requested via e-mail or phone or by mail. All application materials should be sent to the Psychology Graduate Program Office. A complete application includes the Departmental application form; the Graduate School application form, which must be completed online; a personal statement; a summary of research/professional experience; three letters of recommendation; two copies of official transcripts of all college work; official GRE scores; the official Advanced Psychology GRE score (not required, but preferred); and a $50 application fee.

The Faculty and Their Research

• Mary Louise Cashel, Ph.D., North Texas, 1997. Clinical: Child and adolescent assessment, juvenile delinquency and preventative interventions, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
• Kathleen Chwalisz, Ph.D., Iowa, 1992. Counseling: Health psychology, neuropsychology, group process and intervention, personality.
• M. H. Clark, Ph.D., Memphis, 2004. Experimental–Applied Psychology: Methodology, quasi-experimentation, meta-analysis, statistics.
• David DiLalla, Ph.D., Virginia, 1989. Clinical: Personality and psychopathology, personality assessment, computer-assisted assessment, behavioral genetics, sexual violence, social development.
• *Lisabeth DiLalla, Ph.D., Virginia, 1987. Experimental–Brain and Cognitive Sciences: Behavioral genetics, social cognition.
• Stephanie Clancy Dollinger, Ph.D., Syracuse, 1989. Experimental–Brain and Cognitive Sciences: Aging and cognition, identity development and cognition across the lifespan.
• Stephen Dollinger, Director of Clinical Training; Ph.D., Missouri, 1977. Psychotherapy, personality, child-clinical.
• Paul E. Etcheverry, Ph.D., Purdue, 2004. Experimental-Applied Psychology: Interpersonal relationships and health, social network influence on relationship outcomes and substance use.
• Ann R. Fischer, Ph.D., Missouri–Columbia, 1995. Counseling: Counseling, gender issues, multicultural issues.
• Brenda Gilbert, Ph.D., Florida, 1983. Clinical: Child behavior therapy, pediatric psychology, child abuse.
• David Gilbert, Ph.D., Florida State, 1978. Clinical: State-dependent motivation, marital research, substance use, smoking, psychophysiology, personality, emotions, cerebral asymmetries.
• Reza Habib, Ph.D., Toronto, 2000. Experimental–Brain and Cognitive Sciences: Cognitive neuroscience, brain imaging, cognition and memory.
• Michael R. Hoane, Ph.D., Texas Christian, 1996. Experimental–Brain and Cognitive Sciences: Effects of vita-nutrients in brain injury and neurodegenerative diseases.
• Eric A. Jacobs, Ph.D., Florida, 1997. Experimental–Applied Psychology and Brain and Cognitive Sciences: Experimental analysis of behavior, human operant behavior, verbal behavior, choice and self-control, behavioral ecology, behavioral economics, behavioral pharmacology, contingency management, radical behaviorism, cultural materialism.
• Michelle Y. Kibby, Ph.D., Memphis, 1998. Clinical: Child assessment, clinical neuropsychology, reading disorders.
• Meera Komarraju, Ph.D., Osmania (India), 1982; Ph.D., Cincinnati, 1987. Experimental–Applied Psychology: Life-stages and career-stages, work-family interface, cross-cultural influences on work values, academic motivation and dual-career phenomena, management of health-care quality.
• Usha Lakshmanan, Ph.D., Michigan, 1989. Psycholinguistics, bilingualism, child first-language acquisition (monolingual and bilingual), child and adult second-language acquisition, language and cognition.
• Benjamin F. Rodriguez, Ph.D., Catholic University, 2001. Clinical: Anxiety disorders, PTSD, religion and coping, epidemiology.
• Patrick J. Rottinghaus, Ph.D. Iowa State, 2004. Counseling: Vocational psychology, counseling psychology.
• Matthew Schlesinger, Ph.D., Berkeley, 1993. Experimental–Brain and Cognitive Sciences: Early cognitive development, problem solving, motor control, computational models of sensorimotor cognition.
• Douglas Smith, Ph.D., Kansas State, 1977. Experimental–Brain and Cognitive Sciences: Biopsychology, neurophysiology, vision, development, learning and memory, recovery of function, epilepsy, psychoactive drugs.
• Margaret Stockdale, Ph.D., Kansas State, 1990. Experimental–Applied Psychology: Industrial/organizational, gender bias in personnel decision, sexual harassment, workplace violence.
• Jane Swanson, Ph.D., Minnesota, 1986. Counseling: Career choice and development, career assessment, adolescent career exploration.
• Alan Vaux, Ph.D., Trinity College (Dublin), 1979; Ph.D., California, Irvine, 1981. Clinical and Experimental–Applied Psychology: Community psychology, social support and stress, close relationships and personality, violence, prevention, social interventions.
• Yu-Wei Wang, Ph.D., Missouri–Columbia. Counseling: Stress, trauma, and coping/problem solving; sexual abuse/assault; multicultural and international issues; research methodology.
• Rebecca Weston, Ph.D., North Texas, 2001. Experimental–Applied Psychology: Interpersonal relationships, violence, psychological abuse, sexual assault, and relational outcomes; advanced multivariate statistics.
• Michael Young, Ph.D., Minnesota, Twin Cities, 1995. Experimental–Brain and Cognitive Sciences: Learning (of causal and temporal relationships and of categories), abstract concepts, judgment and decision making, computational modeling of learning processes (with a focus on radial basis function neural network models).
• Emerita/Emeritus Faculty
• Linda Gannon, Ph.D., Wisconsin, 1975. Clinical: Psychology of women, feminist therapy, behavior medicine, depression, cognitive styles.
• Robert Jensen, Ph.D., Northern Illinois, 1976. Experimental–Brain and Cognitive Sciences: Neurobiology of learning and memory, psychopharmacology, drug dependence, behavioral development.
• Jack McKillip, Ph.D., Loyola of Chicago, 1994. Experimental–Applied Psychology: Program evaluation, training and certification program development and evaluation, needs assessment, secondary data analysis.
• James O’Donnell, Ph.D., Pittsburgh, 1965. Clinical: Child psychopathology, clinical neuropsychology, child and adult learning disabilities, attention deficit disorders.
• Robert Radtke, Ph.D., Iowa, 1963. Experimental: Memory, cognitive processes.
• Nerella Ramanaiah, Ph.D., Oregon, 1971. Experimental and Clinical: Personality and prediction, test theory, quantitative methods.
• Thomas Schill, Ph.D., Oklahoma State, 1963. Clinical: Personality theory and dynamics, personality evaluation, rational emotive psychotherapy.
• Ronald Schmeck, Ph.D., Ohio, 1969. Experimental: Teaching methods, individual differences in learning, learning style, cognitive style.
• John Snyder, Ph.D., Loyola Chicago, 1965; ABPP. Counseling: Disaster intervention; American Red Cross Mental Health professional.
• Barbara Yanico, Ph.D., Ohio State, 1977. Counseling: Gender roles and stereotyping, preferences for and expectations of counselors, stress and coping, racial/ethnic identity, personality and attitude measurement.
• *Cross-appointed faculty member

Correspondence and Information

Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Graduate Program Office
Department of Psychology
Room 281A
Carbondale, Illinois 62901-6502
Telephone: 618-453-3564
Email: gradpsyc@siu.edu