The clinical faculty strives to create a supportive, close-knit environment. Hear from some of our current students about what they value most in the program.
The following are the core clinical psychology faculty members you will work with closely. They serve on your thesis and dissertation committees, teach the core classes you take, and are often the first clinical supervisors in our in-house training clinic.
Youth and whole family-focused interventions in everyday settings, lay/paraprofessional workforces, community-engaged research/community-based participatory research, implementation science, training and supervision.
(Not accepting new graduate students)
Understanding the effects of interpersonal trauma and duty-related trauma on mental health (e.g., PTSD, depression, somatization); cognitive and emotion regulation processes; mindfulness.
Post-traumatic stress disorder; traumatic stress and its consequences; sexual risk-taking behavior; experiential avoidance; forgiveness; emotion regulation;
Developmental psychopathology; family process; extended family; parenting and co-parenting; economic and cultural diversity; children’s psychological response to natural disaster.
Developmental psychopathology, child disruptive behavior problems, preventive interventions, parenting practices, child emotion regulation, contextual influences (e.g., poverty, parental psychopathology).
(Not accepting new graduate students)
Anxiety disorders; factors that impede or facilitate natural recovery following trauma and during exposure-based treatments for anxiety disorders; early identification and prevention of anxiety conditions, particularly social anxiety.
(Not accepting new graduate students)
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder; dimensional models of psychopathology; experimental psychopathology; personality; psychological assessment/measurement issues.
Kathi West
815-753-0374
kwest1@niu.edu
Laura Pittman, Ph.D.
Co-director of clinical training
Psychology/Computer Science Building 313
lpittman@niu.edu
Holly Orcutt, Ph.D.
Co-director of clinical training
Psychology/Computer Science Building 318
horcutt@niu.edu