Message from the Chair
As Chairperson of the Department of Psychology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, I am pleased to welcome you to the department home page. We have the largest program in the College of Arts and Sciences with approximately 600 undergraduate majors and 70 Ph.D. students. Over the years, we have had over 3,100 Bachelor’s graduates and more than 165 Ph.D. graduates in Psychology. Most of the department is housed in Stadler Hall. We have a skilled and dedicated faculty committed to excellence in teaching and research. Many of our faculty are nationally and internationally known scholars in their fields of research. In turn, this expertise informs the content of what we teach. Our faculty span the general areas of clinical psychology, industrial-organizational psychology, and experimental psychology. Specific interests of faculty include child and developmental psychology, behavioral neuroscience, quantitative methods, existential psychology, gerontology, end-of-life issues, sex roles, negotiation, personnel selection, nonverbal communication, homelessness, and trauma studies. The Department of Psychology is also home to the Community Psychological Services (CPS) and the Center for Trauma Recovery (CTR). The CPS is a treatment facility providing assessment and therapy for individuals in the community, with fees assigned on a sliding-scale basis. The CPS also serves a training vehicle for graduate students in the Clinical Ph.D. program. The CTR is a research and clinical facility that focuses on adult trauma survivors and is housed on the south campus in the Weinman building.
Our Bachelor’s graduates go into a wide variety of careers and professions, especially in the social service and business areas. Many of our majors go on to graduate school in psychology, counseling, and other social science disciplines. Our Ph.D. graduates serve in public and private institutions and organizations as clinical psychologists, industrial-organizational psychologists, and researchers. A number of our Ph.D. graduates work in private practice as therapists and consultants while others are in academic positions at a wide range of colleges and universities. The home page contains more information about our programs and the faculty. I hope that we see you in our courses and that you consider Psychology as a major. I think that you will find the field of Psychology interesting and varied, with relevance to a wide range of real world issues.
Dr. Robert Calsyn
Department Chair