UCR School Psychology Program

We are so excited to congratulate the newly conferred Dr. Monteiro, Dr. Baker, Dr. Klaib, and Dr. Choy!!! We are immensely proud of you all and can’t wait to see what you do next. Wishing you all the best in your coming endeavors 💙💛

Congratulations to Kevin Han, Cameron Alexander, and Viviana Padilla for completing their thesis defense this quarter. Pictures are Cameron and Viviana, PhD 2nd years who participated in yesterday’s commencement ceremony for their completing the requirements for Master’s degree. Great work!! We are proud of you!!

Second-year KeAysia Jackson and third-years Danielle Zahn and Mikaela Pulse walked in the commencement ceremony today following completion of their master’s degrees, which is an important milestone in the School Psychology PhD program 🎓🎉

Congratulations to them and to the other students who completed their degrees but did not attend commencement. Keep up the good work!

Congratulations to the new doctors! 🎓

Our end of the year social was a success! Hope everyone has a great summer 😎☀️

Our program would like to extend our thanks to , who recently presented a talk about restorative practices in schools. It was great learning experience!

UCR SPSY goes international! Third-year doctoral student Hayley McAvoy recently presented her research at 👏👏👏 Great job, Hayley!

Third-year doctoral student Linsey Donovan recently presented her research at the inaugural Black School Psych Summit. Excellent work, Linsey!

Congratulations to fourth-year doctoral student Elissa Monteiro on winning third place at the UC-wide competition! 🏆

Congratulations, Elissa, for winning first place at UCR’s 2023 Grad Slam competition! 🥇Best of luck as you go on to represent UCR at the UCOP competition in May!

Several students from presented at the CQIE conference last week. Nice work everyone 👏👏👏

The is presenting at the Critical Questions in Education Conference this week!

It was great to see our students and faculty represent our program at

Several of our students presented at the UC SPEDDR conference today. Great job everyone!

Our program kicked off finals week with a trivia night!

Third-year PhD student Mikaela Pulse represented the School of Education at the AUSD Learning Summit 🍎📚✏️

Congratulations to UCR students Laura, Tyler, Barbara, Elissa, and Nina on their recent publications in The School Psychologist. Excellent work!

It was great to see our program represented at

We are excited to congratulate the newly conferred Dr. Alba, Dr. Suchilt, Dr. Ramirez, Dr. Bains, Dr. Pfenning, Dr. Veytsman, Dr. Katic & Dr. Losh! We’re so proud of you and can’t wait to hear about all of the amazing things that you will do next!

Students Tyler A. Womack and Elissa M. Monteiro wrote a paper about special education staff wellbeing during the pandemic. Read their interview with UCR news about the impact of their paper here: https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2022/04/27/special-education-staff-felt-lower-well-being-and-effectiveness-during-pandemic

We are so excited to celebrate our 4th years! They have successfully navigated the internship application process and will be headed off to internship this fall. Congratulations!

We are excited to be back on campus with the start of the fall quarter. Please join us in welcoming two of our newest students!

On behalf of SEARCH and Autism Speaks U at UCR, please join GSOE staff and students in celebrating Autism Awareness Month at our upcoming event! This event is free and open to all. No RSVP required.

Panel Discussion: "Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Autism but Were Afraid to Ask: Q&A"

Monday, April 11th | 6 - 8:30pm | UC Riverside HUB South 302.

Panelists include Dr. Jan Blacher, SEARCH Founding Director, &
Dr. Katherine Stavropoulos, Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education

For questions about the event, please call (951) 827-3849.

Joy the Baker’s New Orleans Favorites

For those of you going to NASP this year!! A list of GOOD FOOD and activity ideas! http://joythebaker.com/2015/12/joy-the-bakers-new-orleans-favorites/

joythebaker.com When people ask me how I like living in New Orleans I ask a question in return. Have you ever been to New Orleans? If you’ve been here, you have an idea of the strange, joyous, be…

National Association of School Psychologists

It's great to see the topic of restorative justice appearing in major media outlets. What are your thoughts on the article?

To all our current and past students, happy holidays and a happy new year! Hope all of you are enjoying a relaxing and cheerful break with family and friends. We are so excited for the new year and are so grateful to all of our faculty and colleagues for their support this year. May we continue our tradition of collaboration and ongoing enthusiasm. We look forward to an exciting and productive new year!

For prospective students, keep checking out our website and page for updates on the application process.

To our current students on internship, we hope you are enjoying your time away. We know you are doing an amazing job representing UCR. We can't wait to have you back. Good luck and keep up the good work!

Seasons Greetings to all and Happy New Year!! :)

Dr. Robert Ream joined us today for our first faculty Brown Bag to kick off the year presenting on his latest research related to wealth and its impact on social emotional skill development in youth.

Interested in a career in School Psychology or Education? Not sure if School Psychology is for you? Come learn more about our program and have your questions answered during our annual information session. Please join us for a free and informative event!

We're so excited to start the school year, our students are hard at work cleaning our lounge! Sure, it's not Spring, but we're busy researchers okay!