GGSE News Archive

One year after the end of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions in California, adolescents reported an increase in feeling disconnected from their communities and negative thoughts about society in general, according to a UCSB study on adolescent “social well-being.” The research found pervasive decreases in social well-being, and a significant portion of the students surveyed did not recover to their pre-COVID level by 2022.

Seven graduate students from the Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology (CCSP) at the UC Santa Barbara Gevirtz Graduate School of Education have earned prestigious 2024 internships across the country to complete their work for a Ph.D. 

The UCSB Gevirtz Graduate School of Education held its Fellowship Breakfast on January 19, to celebrate  47 of the school’s most promising graduate students who have received fellowships this year and the people who support them. Total fellowship funds awarded this year were nearly $264,000.

Adverse and potentially traumatic experiences are too common among school-age children, leaving teachers, administrators and staff struggling to help students. In response to the growing need during and following the pandemic, UCSB researchers have formed a university-community partnership with local educators and the James S. Bower Foundation to develop practices that promote resilience and thriving.

The Department of Counseling, Clinical, and School Psychology Research Festival is Monday, November 13, 2023

Santa Barbara Psychology Internship Consortium Offering 6 Doctoral School Psychology Intern Positions for 2024-2025

UC Santa Barbara psychologists Dr. F. Gregory Ashby, Distinguished Professor Emeritus from the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, and Dr. Heidi A. Zetzer, Teaching Professor and Director of the Carol Ackerman Positive Psychology Clinic at the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, will be offering a presentation entitled, "Just Do It: A Neuropsychological Theory of Agency, Cognition, Mood, and Dopamine," as part of the University of Montana’s Presidential Lecture Series, on September 26, 2023.  

María Jiménez Muñoz (on the phone screen), Sarely Licona, and Dr. Miya Barnett