The following are a variety of graduate programs that get shared with the HDFS Department and Faculty. Click to learn more and it is recommended to go to the school website for the most up-to-date program information and application deadlines.
Auburn University Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling Graduate Programs
Auburn_Univ_-_Rehab_Counseling_Fall_2022_Admission.pdf
Auburn_University_CRC_Open_House_Flyer_Fall_2021.pdf
The Master’s Program in Clinical Rehabilitation Counseling, located in the Special Education, Rehabilitation and Counseling Department (SERC) at Auburn University is actively seeking applications for the 2022-23 academic year. I am writing to ask for your help in recruiting qualified candidates for this program. Our program currently offers both an on-campus and distance education option for students. The priority application deadline is February 28th for Fall 2022 admission.
Our program offers limited and competitive RSA Long-term training Scholarships which is one-year funding given to Year one or Year two of the program. We also provide a Vocational Evaluation and Forensic Certificate program which was funded by RSA. Those who are applying to our master program will also be eligible for applying for this certificate program.
More information about the program and funding information can be found by visiting our website.
University of Arizona PhD Program
University of Arizaon FSHD Grad Brochure
The Family Studies and Human Development PhD program at the University of Arizona is now open for Fall 2022 admission. Interested students can contact Graduate Coordinator, Jessica Bee (jbee@arizona.edu), or Graduate Director, Dr. Melissa Delgado (mydelgado@arizona.edu), with any questions regarding the program or application process. Visit their website to learn more.
UC Davis Human Development Graduate Programs
UC_Davis_Human_Development_Graduate_Programs_2020-21.pdf
Information as of October 2020:
We are pleased to announce our upcoming UC Davis HDGG Virtual Town Hall informational meeting on Thursday, October 29th from 7PM-9PM Eastern / 4PM-6PM Pacific time, where attendees can learn about our program and the application process, hear about some of our ongoing faculty research, and meet some of our current graduate students. Here is the meeting link for the event:
https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/93617159757?pwd=SzZkaVpkeXl5STFQUEcyd2IvTkpxdz09
Meeting ID: 936 1715 9757
Passcode: 189696
Many of our faculty members are accepting new graduate students for the 2021-22 academic year, and we would like your assistance in sharing information about our program. The UC Davis HDGG offers a Doctorate degree (Ph.D.) in Human Development and a Master’s degree (M.S.) in Child Development. Priority applications are due December 15, 2020.
For admissions information and degree requirements please visit:
https://humandevelopment.ucdavis.edu/prospective-students
About the UC Davis Human Development Graduate Group: Located in Davis, California, just northeast of the San Francisco Bay area, UC Davis supports a diverse and international community of individuals from many backgrounds, perspectives and identities. Our unique graduate group system takes an interdisciplinary approach, allowing students to study biological, cognitive and socio-emotional development across the lifespan from infancy through late adulthood and aging. The benefits of our graduate group structure are that students can take coursework within various departments, work with faculty in departments and labs on and off campus, and focus on human development issues from a variety of perspectives. Our current students work with faculty members in some of the following departments/schools/centers: Human Development, Community Development, Psychology, Anthropology, Sociology, Economics, Nutrition, the School of Education, the Center for Poverty Research, the Center for Mind and Brain (CMB), the UCD Medical Center, and the Medical Investigation of Neurological Disorders (MIND) Institute.
With 45 faculty members from a variety of backgrounds taking part in the Human Development Graduate Group, our students have the opportunity to engage in study and innovative research on topic areas within social, educational, developmental, mental health, and basic sciences with some of the key professionals in their fields. Topic areas include but are not limited to: family functioning, stress, culture, neighborhoods, cognition, brain development, genetics, mental health, prevention and intervention, and research methodology. For a list of our faculty and their professional and research interests, please visit our https://humandevelopment.ucdavis.edu/people?first=&last=&title=&unit=&field_sf_person_type_target_id%5B%5D=26" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">HDGG Faculty pages.
For more information about the Human Development Graduate Group and about UC Davis and the surrounding university community, visit:
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University of Connecticut HDFS Graduate Program
Information as of October 2020:
Human Development and Family Sciences (HDFS) at the University of Connecticut (UConn) is planning a regular recruiting year for next Fall.
If you’re not already aware, the UConn HDFS department has a great deal of strength and depth. We have a number of long-standing faculty with national and international reputations. In addition, we have 4 new graduate faculty who joined us this Fall. The department has a history of research on lifespan development, diversity and culture, and family. Faculty hires in the past few years have also strengthened our expertise in diversity and culture, prevention, and health. UConn HDFS doctoral students are well funded as research assistants, teaching assistants, and on fellowships, and many masters students are funded as well. The department has a notable track record of placing our graduates in faculty and research positions. UConn HDFS includes the directors of four research centers such as the UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, and strong ties with the Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy. We offer a PhD and a terminal master’s in HDFS. Graduates of our program enter traditional academic positions, as well as positions at non-profit agencies, government agencies, hospitals, and policy institutes.
Graduate faculty expertise includes (note that I have listed each person only once, though most people’s research falls under multiple categories):
Adulthood, Aging, and Gerontology:
- Keith Bellizzi: Cancer survivorship; health behaviors and family adjustment in chronic illness
- Terry Berthelot: Medicare benefits & appeals; healthcare access; hospice; end-of-life care
- Edna Brown: Stressful life transitions during adulthood within diverse social and cultural contexts
- Brian Chapman: Aging; human diversity; intergenerational and lifelong learning; leadership
- Laura Donorfio: Gerontological education; intergenerational learning; family caregiving
- Jolaade Kalinowski: Role of stress in cardiovascular health disparities; women’s health
Child and Adolescent Development:
- Alaina Brenick: Evaluations of & responses to intergroup victimization; interventions for intergroup tolerance
- Rachel Chazan Cohen: Evaluation & improvement of programs for families with young children; early childhood workforce competencies; Public policy effects on parents and children
- Maria LaRusso: Social & emotional development & risk behavior of children & adolescents; clinical and school-based interventions
- Eva Lefkowitz: Sexual health, romantic relationships, & gender and sexual identity during adolescence & transition to adulthood
- Caitlin Lombardi: Social policy; socioeconomic disadvantage; influence of family, early care and education, school, and community on child development
- Kari Adamsons: Fathering, parenting, and coparenting; father influences on childhood obesity; parental identity; family theory
- Beth Russell: Regulation of psychological distress from birth through early adulthood; interventions to reduce caregiver burden for families facing chronic illness
- Shannon Weaver: Family interaction; family theory; remarriage & stepfamilies; gender
- Na Zhang: Mindfulness; family-based interventions; traumatic stress; mental health.
- Annamaria Csizmadia: Ethnic-racial minority youth development (including multiracial & immigrant); interracial marriages & families
- Linda Halgunseth: Cultural influences on parent-child relations; health disparities/minority health
- Sara Harkness: Cultural influences on child development & families; early childhood education & care; home-school relationships
- Caroline Mavridis: Cultural context in parenting and children’s development
- Vida Samuel: Women & sexuality; sexuality & aging; communication in intimate relationships;
- Charles Super: Cultural regulation of human development; parental ethnotheories of child development; interventions to promote wellbeing in children and families
Health, Well-being, & Prevention:
- Preston Britner: Housing & child welfare intervention for families in (or at risk for) foster care; promoting education access for youth in foster care; child-parent attachment
- Lisa Eaton: Sexual orientation, gender, and race related health disparities
- Kim Gans: Community-based interventions with underserved populations; improving eating habits, increasing physical activity and preventing obesity; disseminating effective interventions
- Laura Mauldin: Disability studies/deaf studies; social, cultural, & ethical aspects of health, illness, & healthcare
- Rebecca Puhl: Bullying, stigma, & discrimination experienced by youth & adults who have obesity; health consequences of weight-based bullying & stigma
- Marlene Schwartz: School wellness policies’ & community based interventions’ influences on nutrition & health; how food banks & pantries can improve nutritional quality of products
- Rachel Tambling: clinical process and outcome; motivation to change; expectations about therapy
- Ryan Watson: Sexual/gender minority youth; family acceptance/rejection; sexual health; HIV prevention; substance use disparities; men who have sex with men; PrEP
We hope that you can direct potential applicants to our website to learn more about graduate training in HDFS at UConn. If you have a student with any questions, don’t hesitate to have them contact me directly, or Carla Gomez, HDFSgradprogram@uconn.edu. Applications are due December 15th for the PhD program and March 1st for the HDFS master’s program.
University of Florida Grad Programs in Family, Youth, & Community Sciences
Lipscomb University Austin Center
https://catalog.lipscomb.edu/preview_program.php?catoid=23&poid=7309&returnto=1799
Oregon State University HDFS PhD Program
Oregon_State_Univ_PhD_HDFS_2020.pdf
Information as of October 2020:
We are especially interested in applicants whose interests align with our signature research areas:
- Transitions Across the Life Course
- Resilience and Health Across the Lifespan
- Families in Sociocultural Contexts
- Policies and Applications of Developmental and Family Science
Students are funded through research and teaching assistantships with additional scholarship and fellowship opportunities available. Assistantships include a monthly stipend, full tuition remission and health insurance.
Please share this with interested students. The deadline for priority consideration of applications is December 1, 2020. Questions about the program or application process can be sent to Ms. Suzanna Chase or to Dr. Karen Hooker and Dr. Megan McClelland, who are co-directing the graduate program.
Penn State Child Maltreatment Graduate Programs
Penn_State_2021_Graduate_Faculty_Handout.pdf
The Child Maltreatment Solutions Network at Penn State is able to offer rich and varied training opportunities for new graduate students.
Graduate students can work with Solutions Network faculty advisors by applying to graduate programs in participating departments, including Human Development and Family Studies, Developmental Psychology, Child Clinical Psychology, Biobehavioral Health, Nursing, Education, and Sociology and Criminology. Accordingly, students with a wide variety of interests related to child maltreatment science are encouraged to apply, all along the spectrum from child maltreatment risk to incidence to outcomes to treatment. Multiple opportunities for interdisciplinary work are available. We are also committed to supporting students of color in education, scholarship, and leadership in child maltreatment science.
Please see the attached flyer for information. More information about our P50 Capstone Center, our T32 predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships, and our faculty research interests can be found on the Solutions Network website (www.solutionsnetwork.psu.edu). Please contact Dr. Erika Lunkenheimer with specific questions, ezl5238@psu.edu.
Potential applicants are encouraged to contact and indicate interest in working with the specific faculty listed on the attached flyer.
University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
GSBS_General_Program_Flyer_2020.pdf
UTMB is a leading academic health science center offering a wide array of biomedical science training programs – from studying infectious diseases, such as Ebola, to bioethics, our graduate training programs address the full spectrum of basic, social, translational, computational and clinical research.
- A specially designed integrated curriculum that allows students to complete their PhD sooner than the national average, with a variety of programs to choose from;
- Outstanding research facilities and faculty;
- For those who qualify - generous salary ($31,000 in 2021), tuition and fees, comprehensive health insurance, with dental, vision, and dependent coverage available at low cost;
- Low cost of living on a semi-tropical island (http://www.galveston.com/);
- An unsurpassed atmosphere of collegiality and community among students, faculty, and staff;
- 1:1 faculty-to-student ratio.
Texas Tech HDFS Graduate Programs
Texas_Tech_HDFS_Grad_Program_Info_2020-2021.pdf
Program Information as of October 2020:
http://www.depts.ttu.edu/hs/hdfs/
Prospective students can contact Dr. Elizabeth Trejos-Castillo, Graduate Program Director, with any questions.