As a research group, we are primarily interested in the biological processes that underlie behaviors such as forgiveness, learning, meditation, and stress. We are concerned with basic psychophysiological processes and their application to many health problems (e.g., hypertension, anxiety disorders, attention deficit disorders, and susceptibility to infections). In the past, our research group has provided [...]
The Clinical Psychology Program of the University of Tennessee Knoxville has been fully accredited by the American Psychological Association since 1949.* Our program is designed to train highly competent clinical psychologists who will make significant contributions to the profession and society as researchers, teachers, and clinicians. We follow The Tennessee Model, which represents a set [...]
The counseling psychology program, based upon the scientist-practitioner model of training, places emphasis on the acquisition of scientific knowledge and research skills, as well as the development of professional competencies in counseling. Concerns and problems that individuals or groups encounter in coping with academic, career, personal and interpersonal situations are research foci in the program. [...]
Goals The developmental area provides a framework for the interdisciplinary study of development at multiple levels of analysis, using both non-human animal and human subjects. The goals of the developmental area are to foster collaborative research projects, to encourage cross-fertilization of ideas, theory, and methodology, and to provide a focus of study for graduate students. [...]
In October, 2008, the Grief Outreach Initiative was established through a partnership between the Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling and Dean Bob Rider. Designed as an outreach activity for the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences, the initial program goals included creating a training program on grief outreach, recruiting students from the College [...]
The Industrial/Applied concentration provides education and training in applied psychology in a variety of organizational settings. The concentration places an emphasis on building appropriate skills in research design, measurement, and data-collection in real-world settings, as well as knowledge of applied personality assessment, performance measurement, test development and validation, work groups, organizational development, consultation, and other [...]
Research Interests Stress-related behavior and physiology, including intergroup stress effects on hormones, neural correlates of fear/anxiety, PTSD intervention, stress and alcohol consumption. Biology Dr. Rebecca Prosser Dr. Cynthia Peterson Psychology Dr. Matthew Cooper Dr. Lowell Gaertner Possible Applications Stress is a complex biological psychological phenomena that affects nearly every individual at different times in their [...]
Center Research Interests Cognition and Learning Academic Skills Deficits Assessment Giftedness Rural School Psychology Autism Emotional/Behavioral Disorders Students with Disabilities. Annually, the School Psychology faculty members, who are associated with the KLASS Center, rank within the top three, nationally, in numbers of peer-reviewed journal articles per faculty member. The research is varied and often is [...]
Faculty members of the social/personality psychology area manage ongoing research programs geared toward improving our understanding of a wide range of psychological issues, from the very basic processes that govern how we perceive, make sense of, and relate to the world to pressing social problems. At the very basic level, we study cognitive phenomena such [...]
