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The Department of Psychology includes a high quality undergraduate curriculum in addition to four doctoral programs (clinical, clinical health, counseling, experimental psychology). Faculty offices, research spaces, and affiliated clinics and centers are all located in Terrill Hall on the UNT Denton campus. Come visit us!

Graduate Programs

Celebrating diversity in all its forms.

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Undergraduate Program

More than 1,000 UNT undergrads currently major in Psychology.

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Faculty

The collegial faculty atmosphere fosters cutting edge collaborative research.

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Clinics & Centers

Serving the larger community and advancing research.

Psychology Clinic
Center for Sports Psychology
Center for Psychosocial Health Research
Sleep and Health Research

Alumni

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News & Events

Keeping our community and guests informed.

Faculty Spotlight

Wright Joins Faculty
The Department of Psychology welcomes Dr. Rex Wright to the faculty! Dr. Wright's expertise centers on the determinants and cardiovascular...

Student Spotlight

Counseling Students' Research: APA 2012
Student researchers from the Counseling program will be well represented at the upcoming 2012 Americ...

Regional/National Resources:
American Psychological Association (APA)

American Psychological Society (APS)

Texas Psychological Association (TPA)

Texas State Board of Examiners of Psychologists

Web Resources:
60-Second Podcast on Psychology (from Scientific American)

All in the Mind (from ABC National Radio)

News

Congratulations to the following graduate student recipients of travel awards to professional conferences during summer 2012: Anne Hubbard, Alexander Yu, Troy Moles, Marciana Ramos, Elizabeth Wrape, Justine Chatterton, Amber Wright, Troy Rieck, Nicole Stillo, Elissa Woodruff, Estee Marchesani, Bashir Abdullah, Alexandra Wike, Gurminder Sanhu, Kimberly Lewis, Joey Ramaeker, Allison Wilkerson, and Katherine Marczyk.

We are pleased to announce the following 2012 Departmental Award Recipients:

Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award and Recipient of the Louis C. Weber Scholarship
Sarah Forsyth

Psi Chi Award
Jenlyn Meyers

Outstanding Graduate Student Award and Recipient of the Charlotte Friedersdorff Boyd Memorial Scholarship
Nate Gillard

Bonney Honor Student in Psychology
Kellye Schiffner Carver

Ladenberger Honor Student in Psychology
Bashir Abdullah

Anna Wright Memorial Scholarship
Jennifer Steadham

Dr. G. Frank Lawlis Scholarship
Karen Benson

Frank Collins Memorial Scholarship
Sara Pollard

Ernest H. Harrell Memorial Award
Chris Heath

UNT Teaching Fellow Nominations
· David Gonzalez
· Chris Heath
· Eliot Lopez

Please join us in congratulating these deserving students!

Laura Cardona, a doctoral candidate in the Clinical program (Dr. Craig Neumann, dissertation chair), was the 2011 recipient of the Impact Award. This recognition is awarded by Toulouse Graduate School to the graduate student whose work "shows the greatest evidence of international scope and application." Click below to see a recent interview with Laura:

Untitled from Toulouse Graduate School on Vimeo.

Health Interventions with Underrepresented Populations: What Must You Ask Before You Begin?

The literature on ethnicity and health and disease has been growing rapidly lately. However it is not clear what these data tell us about how best to work with these populations. This talk will describe how to use what we know about underrepresented populations to provide better assessments.

Elizabeth A. Klonoff, Ph.D., ABPP. A clinical and health psychologist, she currently serves as Professor of Psychology at San Diego State University (SDSU) and Professor of Psychiatry at University of California San Diego.

February 10, 2012, 10:00 AM

University Union Silver Eagle Suite

Bashir Abdullah of the Counseling Psychology program has been selected to attend the COMPACT for Faculty Diversity in Atlanta, GA. The conference is an invitation only event by the Institute on Teaching and Mentoring. The Compact for Faculty Diversity goal is to increase the number of minority students who earn doctoral degrees and become college and university faculty.