We intentionally seek to cultivate and sustain this ethos by actively inviting students and faculty underrepresented in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Programs to pursue excellence in scholarship and clinical service as members of a supportive and welcoming community - one that promotes the good of everyone with preference to individuals and communities who have been historically and traditionally marginalized and wounded by our society.
The goals of diversity and justice initiatives in the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Programs are to:
- Infuse themes of diversity and individual differences into the environment, pedagogy, and programmatic ethos;
- Broaden definition of diversity beyond racial and ethnic representation - without minimizing their importance – to include class, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and physical/ cognitive abilities;
- Re-invigorate our mission of serving diverse unjustly-served communities and reframing this mission as the practice of integrating clinical psychology and biblical/ theological studies; and
- Create sustained ethos of inclusion – for all students, faculty, and staff.
