Mar 7, 2022 By: yunews
Frontiers in Psychology, a joint program between the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology and Yeshiva College and Stern College for Women, is Ferkauf’s effort to enlist and educate the next generation of forward-looking psychologists and therapists.
The program is coordinated by Michael Gill, assistant dean of Ferkauf, and Meirah Shedlo, academic advisor and special projects manager at Stern College. As Gill pointed out, this initiative “directly helps the psychology students understand the various areas and opportunities available in psychology at the graduate level,” and Shedlo noted that because the program “allows our students to discover a range of topics within psychology guided by stellar faculty and research scholars,” the program has garnered “great positive feedback from our undergraduates.” (More on that below.)
Frontiers offers six sessions designed to prep the undergraduates for later graduate-level study in psychology.
- Dr. Leslie F. Halpern, dean of Ferkauf, and Director of Admissions Edna Augusta– “Overview of Graduate School in Psychology”
- Dr. Kenneth Critchfield, Program Director, Clinical Psychology PsyD - “Love and Psychotherapy ”
- Dr. Melanie Wadkins, Program Director, School-Clinical Child Psychology PsyD – “An Introduction to Exposure Therapy for Anxiety”
- Dr. Jon Feldman, Program Director, Clinical PhD (Health Emphasis) – “An Introduction to Clinical Health Psychology: How Clinical psychologists Can Help Patients with Asthma”
- Dr. Lindsdale Graham, Clinical Assistant Professor, Mental Health Counseling MA – “Culturally Responsive Counseling”
- Dr. William Salton, Program Director, Marriage and Family Therapy MS “Working with Asylum Seekers – the Arrival of the Fittest”