Assistant Professor - Clinical PsyD Program - Los Angeles

 

Alliant International University is a professional practice University committed to excellence in four areas:  Education for Professional Practice, Scholarship, Multicultural and International Competence and Community Engagement.  The University provides students with the highest quality of education through excellence and innovation in academic scholarship, applied training and research, and community service, particularly to underserved populations.  Through its Mission, the University's goal is to equip students with the competencies they need to provide public benefit and make an impact in their communities by addressing major contemporary social issues.  Core competencies of the University's training programs include cultural diversity, which is infused in courses and field placements and is manifest in the diversity of its students, faculty.

 

Our Mission:
Alliant International University prepares students for professional careers of service and leadership, and promotes the discovery and application of knowledge to improve the lives of people in diverse cultures and communities around the world.

 

 Our Vision:
An inclusive world empowered by Alliant alumni.

 

 

Alliant International University is a professional practice University committed to excellence in four areas: Education for Professional Practice, Scholarship, Multicultural and International Competence and Community Engagement. The University provides students with the highest quality of education through excellence and innovation in academic scholarship, applied training and research, and community service, particularly to underserved populations. Through its Mission, the University's goal is to equip students with the competencies they need to provide public benefit and make an impact in their communities by addressing major contemporary social issues. Core competencies of the University's training programs include cultural diversity, which is infused in courses and field placements and is manifest in the diversity of its students and faculty.

 

Our Mission: Alliant International University prepares students for professional careers of service and leadership and promotes the discovery and application of knowledge to improve the lives of people in diverse cultures and communities around the world.

 

Our Vision: An inclusive world empowered by Alliant alumni.

 

The APA-accredited Clinical Psychology PsyD Program in the California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) at Alliant International University-Los Angeles invites applications for one full-time core faculty appointment in clinical or counseling psychology at the Assistant Professor rank. The program offers three emphasis areas: Clinical Health Psychology (HEALTH), Family/Child and Couple Clinical Psychology (FACE), and Multicultural Community-Clinical Psychology (MCCP). It also offers a Multi-Interest Option (MIO) for faculty and students who choose not to join an emphasis area.

 

We are seeking candidates from diverse backgrounds with clinical research and professional practice expertise to provide doctoral-level instruction and dissertation mentoring in these above emphasis areas and/or the Multi-Interest Option, as well as in core areas of discipline-specific knowledge and profession-wide competency. While other courses may become available, we are particularly interested in applicants whose educational background and/or professional experiences qualify them to teach the following doctoral-level courses:

 

• Child and Adolescent Interventions
• Intellectual and Personality Assessment
• Consultation and Supervision
• Professional Roles of Psychologists
• Law and Ethics
• Biological Bases of Behavior
• Human Development
• Social Bases of Behavior
• Statistics and Research Design

 

 

The position requires participation in Clinical Dissertations as Chair and/or Committee Member, which our faculty find to be one of the most rewarding aspects of their work with graduate students. The position also allows for teaching electives in the candidate’s area of expertise. Areas of special interest to the program are child and family psychology, neuropsychology, sports psychology, forensic psychology, substance use treatment, and diversity related topics that help prepare students for working with underserved populations. Ability to teach clinical topics that help improve the wellbeing of diverse populations and that are well- grounded in research and other evidence-based literature is expected for candidates interested in teaching electives. Ability to integrate clinical expertise into teaching and scholarship is highly desirable. These positions allow for collaboration with faculty across emphasis areas, clinical programs, and all campuses in the Alliant sy