What is the difference between the Human Services Psychology program and the Applied Developmental Psychology program (both offered through UMBC’s Psychology Department)?
The Human Services Psychology Program is an innovative, integrative conceptual structure encompassing three component specialty programs in behavioral medicine, clinical psychology, and community and applied social psychology. Within the HSP Program’s conceptual framework, these programs are regarded as differing primarily in their particular focus within the human services matrix and in how they conceive of and approach the generic problems of diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of psychological and physical disorders. The Applied Developmental Psychology program encompasses three concentrations in early development/early intervention, socioemotional development of children within and across cultures, and educational contexts of development. There is flexibility both within and between concentrations. The ADP program is designed to prepare its graduates for careers as practitioner researchers concerned with the design, evaluation and improvement of ways of enhancing the quality of hu
