Students in the Clinical-Forensic component develop skills to be used in clinical practice or research in the forensic arena. Both components offer the Ph.D. degree in psychology. Graduates of the Clinical-Forensic Component receive a departmental diploma signifying their specialty training in Forensic psychology. St. Louis University St. Louis University offers training in Psychology and Law within the Department of Psychology. This is a Ph.D. Program in Social Psychology with an emphasis on legal psychology.
Course work is available within an interdepartmental structure.
The program provides training for research and consultation within the legal system. There are 5 faculty in the Group, with interests spanning Psychology and Law. These interests include jury decision making, eyewitness identification and memory, questioning effects in eyewitness reports, forensic psychology, and applied decision making in child abuse cases. Excellent opportunities for collaboration exist with faculty from the allied Criminal Justice Program and the departments of Political Science and Sociology. The multicultural setting of El Paso provides rich opportunities for research on culturally sensitive aspects of law and behavior.