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Gerald C. Davison, Ph.D. Dean, USC Davis School of Gerontology

Perspectives on Psychology in Schools of Communication and Journalism, Architecture, and Gerontology. Gerald C. Davison, Ph.D. Dean, USC Davis School of Gerontology Executive Director, USC Andrus Gerontology Center. The Learners. Annenberg School for Communication – Bachelors, Masters, Ph.D.

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Gerald C. Davison, Ph.D. Dean, USC Davis School of Gerontology

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  1. Perspectives on Psychology in Schools of Communication and Journalism, Architecture, and Gerontology Gerald C. Davison, Ph.D. Dean, USC Davis School of Gerontology Executive Director, USC Andrus Gerontology Center

  2. The Learners • Annenberg School for Communication – Bachelors, Masters, Ph.D. • Architecture – Bachelors and Masters • Gerontology – Bachelors, Masters, Ph.D.

  3. Is Psychology Required? • Only in Gero and for Undergraduate and Masters Students – Human Development and Aging (gateway course); Psychology of Adult Development

  4. Role/Rationale • Gerontology – psychology key core discipline along with biology, sociology, and social policy. • Psychology key for both its content and its methodologies.

  5. Special Issues • Making science relevant in a professional school like the Davis School of Gerontology – the familiar science-practice dialectic. • Inherently interdisciplinary nature of psychology makes it easier for our psychologists to collaborate or at least tolerate the biologists and sociologists and vice versa.

  6. Opportunities and Barriers • Great importance of psychology in analysis of the human condition • Relevance of psychology in cautioning about bias in perception (especially for journalists) • Centrifugal forces in psychology threaten our institutional and scientific-applied identity.

  7. Implications for Psychology • Complex social problems, more and more a mandated focus for higher education, require approaches that go beyond the expertise of today’s existing fields and administrative structures. • Narrow psychology education at all levels will vitiate our ability to integrate with and contribute to interdisciplinary research and training.

  8. Preparing for the Future • Broad and general in psychology is key. • Concentrate on our strengths and evolving knowledge base. • Avoid overly focusing on the applied if it is at the expense of core education and training in the science.

  9. Role for APA • Speak vigorously and consistently about psychology’s central role in understanding the human condition, e.g., we do not assess and treat psychiatric disorders; we assess and treat psychological disorders. • Caveat: APA’s focus on prescription privileges distracts and uses resources better allocated elsewhere.

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