Psychological Services Center (PSC)

The PSC functions as an outpatient mental health clinic, providing outpatient evaluation, intervention, and educational services for children, adolescents, and adults. Evaluation services include interviewing procedures as well as formal psychological and educational testing. Intervention services include individual therapy, marital therapy, family therapy, group therapy, and brief consultations to individuals, families, and organizations. Educational services include the delivery of presentations and the dissemination of mental health newsletters.

The clinic consists of seven individual/family therapy rooms, two group therapy rooms, and a large multi-media observation room. Each therapy room has an adjacent observation area, which affords the option of allowing students and faculty to observe live clinical activity. Each observation room also allows for videotaping, audiotaping, and two-way communication between the therapy and observations rooms. Simultaneous observation and videotaping, as well as video playback are possible in this facility.

Also available in the clinic are computerized scoring and interpretation programs for commonly used psychological testing instruments; a collection of developmentally appropriate toys for play assessments and therapy; portable television/VCR; Macintosh and IBM compatible computers; and a full range of office support machines and supplies. Licensed faculty members closely supervise all clinical activity conducted by graduate students through the use of videotape, audiotape, and live observation in both individual and group supervision formats. Clinical work is practiced in accord with the ethical and legal requirements of the American Psychological Association, the American Counseling Association, and the Pennsylvania Board of Professional Psychology, as well as the mission statements of Marywood University and the Graduate School at Marywood University.

Learning Resources Center (LRC)

Research and educational support materials are available in the University's Learning Resources Center, which includes both the Library and the Media Center. It is open 91 hours a week. Full reference service by the professional library faculty is available during all open hours. The University has active subscriptions to 98 print and electronic psychology journals that appear in the American Psychological Association Journal Catalog and an in-depth collection of psychology books, audiotapes, and videotapes. The library also maintains a dynamic web page that contains links to a variety of topic-related databases, including: PsycInfo, ERIC, Contemporary Women's Issues and Social Work Abstracts, as well as multidisciplinary full-text databases such as EBSCO Host's Academic Search, EBSCO Online, IAC's Searchbank, H. W. Wilson's OMNI Megafile, and LEXIS-NEXIS. Students may download or print abstracts and many full-text articles from any networked computer on campus. Access also is available from remote sites, through the library's web page. In addition, the library is a member of several borrowing consortia. The Northeastern Pennsylvania Library Network (NPLN) is the first of these; it is a multi-type library consortium, with full borrowing privileges for members, that will soon implement a virtual union catalog for students. The library is also a member of PALCI (Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc.), a consortium of 37 academic libraries in Pennsylvania, and the OCLC interlibrary loan program, an interlibrary loan program with access to over 42 million items. Finally, the library has an interlibrary loan agreement with the University of Scranton, with requested articles obtained in 24 hours.

McGowan Center for Graduate and Professional Studies

Housed in the McGowan Center, the Department of Psychology and Counseling maintains a broad range of teaching, clinical and research equipment in support of its graduate training mission. The students in the Psy.D. program have full access to these resources, including:

Multimedia Classrooms: The classrooms in the McGowan Center are fully equipped with state-of-the-art technology. Each classroom contains a VCR and Macintosh computer, loaded with PowerPoint and internet access. Installed ceiling projectors allow for PowerPoint presentations, internet sites, videos, and CD-ROM training materials to be displayed on a full-size screen, with accompanying audio.

	Shared Research Laboratory (McGowan 1061): This laboratory includes a group meeting room and eight individual cubicles. Each of the research cubicles houses a computer (loaded with research, office, and Internet software) that allows students to run 'on-line' data collection. On-line psychological testing programs are supported in one of the cubicles. Another cubicle supports the creating of full screen digital video, frame grabbing, image scanning, the creation of CD-ROM and other research materials.
	Stress and Coping Laboratory (McGowan 1064, 1064a): This laboratory provides students with access to psychophysiology monitoring equipment (biofeedback, polygraph integrated with a computer interface), videotape editing, digital video, and CD-ROM authoring capabilities.
	Neuropsychology Laboratory (McGowan 1062, 1063): This laboratory provides access to several neuropsychology assessment devices (e.g., the Halstead-Reitan Battery) and a private testing room with observation capabilities through a one-way mirror, equipped for videotaping.
	Psychology and Counseling Library (McGowan 1052): This library is part of the Curriculum Laboratory and houses books and journals related to psychology. Students are encouraged to use this library to support their research. This facility also contains the Psychological Assessment Laboratory, which includes specimen sets of more than 100 psychological assessment devices.

In addition to the specialized Psychology Department facilities described above, the McGowan Center also houses a general use IBM Computer Laboratory (McGowan 1057), housing 21 computers.

Online Application/Requestion Information

To request information by mail, fax or phone, please contact:

Graduate Admissions Office
Marywood University
2300 Adams Avenue
Scranton, PA 18509
570-340-6002 or 1-866-279-9663, ext. 6002
fax: 570-961-4745
e-mail: grad_adm@marywood.edu

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