Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) Counseling Psychology: Community Psychology

Position Type:

Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) Counseling Psychology: Community Psychology

Position Type:

Regular

Salary Range:

Salary and benefits are competitive, and the compensation package includes potential eligibility for SCU’s housing assistance program. The salary range for this position is $85,947 to $95,410 depending on the successful candidate's years of teaching experience at the college-level.

Purpose:

As one of the nation’s premier master’s programs preparing licensed therapists, the Counseling Psychology Department trains therapists (MFT and LPCC) to be skilled in transformative therapeutic perspectives and methods to improve lives. Our school is dedicated to “A world in which everyone receives the education and the psychological tools and support needed to live flourishing lives of meaning, purpose, and connection.” The Counseling Psychology Department supports this mission through our work in preparing highly-trained, culturally-informed, and compassionate therapists and related professionals who strive to advance equity, justice, and inclusion within their communities. The successful candidate will actively strive toward multicultural fluency, cultural humility, and respect for diversity in clinical applications. We are especially interested in candidates whose experience includes clinical work with BIPOC and underserved communities.

We are a highly collegial department that embraces theoretical pluralism and integrative approaches to clinical work. The program focuses on theory and practice, and on the personal development of the therapist. Our students and graduates work in schools, hospitals, clinics and other settings with individuals and families. We share a common belief in integrative clinical approaches. Extant theoretical perspectives include Emotion-Focused, Existential-Humanistic, Cognitive-Behavioral, Psychodynamic, and Family Systems approaches. Our program also offers five optional areas of emphasis: Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Alternative and Correctional Psychology, Health Psychology, Latinx Counseling, and LGBTQ+ Counseling. Our program and faculty are growing, with six recent tenure-track faculty hires at the Assistant, Associate, and Professor level. Successful candidates will join a thriving department that values being in community with each other.
 

We are looking to an Assistant Professor in Community Mental Health. Responsibilities include maintaining a program of research leading to publication of high-quality scholarship; teaching the standard academic-year 2-course per quarter course load for tenured and tenure-track positions; advising students, and providing service to the Department, School, and University.
 

We seek a candidate with an intersectional approach to community mental health. The ideal candidate uses a critical lens to examine existing practices, and is committed to finding innovative ways to support system-impacted individuals, youth, and families (e.g., foster care, probation, child and protective services, criminal justice system). We have a large number of students enrolled in the “Alternative and Correctional” emphasis whose interests include supporting system-impacted individuals, youth, and families within the criminal justice system. While the emphasis has traditionally focused on corrections, we seek to shift the emphasis to focus more broadly on community mental health to address the mental health needs of system-impacted individuals, youth, and families across various systems. This shift aligns with the experiences and settings our students and graduates encounter in their clinical work. We anticipate that this candidate will help to lead the department in revisioning this emphasis to highlight the needs of system-impacted youth and adults across systems. Experience within multi-disciplinary teams is desirable. This individual would be qualified to teach courses from among the following: Theories and Practices in Community Mental Health; System-Impacted Youth: Trauma and Effects; Correctional Psychology; Transitional Treatment and Vocational Planning; Substance Abuse; Multicultural Counseling; as well as other courses related to their expertise.
 

Santa Clara University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, committed to excellence through diversity and inclusion, and, in this spirit, particularly welcomes applications from women, persons of color, and members of historically underrepresented groups. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, status as a protected