Meridian University

Meridian offers four graduate degrees in Psychology that educate students to work in clinical and/or cultural contexts. These degrees provide a cumulative, emergent, and integrated curriculum, empowering the student’s transformation both personally and professionally.

1. To acquire the knowledge base of Imaginal Psychology.
2. To develop creative inquiry practices and skills.
3. To develop leadership capacities which further professional engagement with the profession of psychology.
4. To identify one's own culturally constituted, perceptual lenses.
   

1. To develop the skills of approaching therapeutic interactions as an imaginative collaboration.
2. To identify individual concerns and shadow issues relative to legal and ethical aspects of the helping professions, and to apply legal and ethical principles to dilemmas that arise in psychological work involving conflicting values.
3. To identify the historical developments through which different approaches to psychotherapy have emerged, and to articulate the strengths and limitations of different approaches to psychotherapy for specific clients, issues, and situations.
4. To develop skills for working with trauma, anxiety, depression, and other states of psychological distress.

The Doctoral curriculum builds cumulatively upon the Master's curriculum.

1. To understand and implement appropriate uses of psychological assessment resources, with a specialized awareness of individual differences and cultural diversity.
2. To articulate and apply key concepts and major principles of psychopathology to all levels of human systems (individual, couple, family, organization, communities, and societies.
3. To develop creative inquiry practices and skills.
4. To develop leadership capacities which further professional engagement with the profession of psychology.

1. To develop research and cultural praxis skills.
2. To develop conceptual understanding and the capacities and skills to undertake participatory research that can create new meaning and serve to potentially revitalize personal and cultural transformation.
3. To develop creative inquiry practices and skills.
4. To develop leadership capacities which further professional engagement with the profession of psychology.
   

Psychology Program:

• M.A. in Psychology
• M.A. in Counseling Psychology
• Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology
• Ph.D. in Psychology

Concentration Options Within the Ph.D. in Psychology: