The DCIOP emphasizes the education philosophy of self-regulated learning through learning by doing, with theoretical reflection and practical training to prepare students with humanities appreciation, societal concern, and international vision. Students, whether choosing to continue their studies or enter employment after graduation, can have high competitive competency in their career development.
Special Highlights (The Bachelor's Program)
Counseling, industrial/organization, and clinical psychology in one department
The DCIOP provides courses in the three major concentrations: counseling, I/O, and clinical psychology, comprehensively covering the range of the mental health field. Students can explore greater horizons through diverse studies, and build specialized expertise with cross-concentration.
Competitive competencies in professional licensure, research, practice, and international perspectives
Courses of the DCIOP can prepare students to become middle school guidance teachers and school counselors. Annual Department conferences, practicums, international exchange activities, and practical projects are attached to special courses. In addition, the multi-national composition of the university’s student body enables students to build their practical capability for work while they study, and also fosters international perspectives and mindset. With such international and extensive extracurricular activities available to students, students are encouraged to gain a global perspective, take practice opportunities and build practical ability to put theory to work for cultivating multiple competences for their future employment.
Wealth of practice experiences among faculty
The Department’s faculty appointments specially emphasize their practical abilities, experience in the workplace and instruction-in-English capabilities. All full-time faculty in the Department hold doctoral degrees and have some years of practical experience. The Department also invites licensed professionals (such as clinical psychologists, counseling psychologists, psychiatrists, etc.) from hospitals, schools and related fields to support lecturing, research and co-supervise of students; this extensively enriches the depth, breadth, and extent of course contents.
Special Highlights (The Master's Program with concentration in counseling psychology)
Counseling, industrial/organization, and clinical psychology in one department
The DCIOP provides for the three major concentrations: counseling, I/O, and clinical psychology, not only meeting the requirements of counseling psychologist license examination, but comprehensively covering the range of the mental health field and distinctively differing from other such programs. The aim is to train students with deeper and broader mental health professional vision and ability.
Strengths in academia-industry collaboration
Through academia-industry collaboration agreement with Taoyuan Psychiatric Center, under the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Master’s Program students in the Counseling concentration can learn from psychiatrists in the professional practical training setting for one academic year. This is the only psychiatry academia-industry cooperative learning model for counseling psychology students in the R.O.C.
In addition, the Department has established year-long collaboration models with Taipei Prison, ShouShan High School, GuiShan Middle School, TianJin AnDing Hospital in China, and several other institutions. The Bachelor’s and Master’s Program students may apply to enter these institutions for research and practical training, thus bridging between academia and industry to effectively prepare for the job market upon graduation.
Abundance of learning and teaching software and hardware
The DCIOP faculty in counseling and clinical psychology are licensed practicing professionals. To cultivate students' professional knowledge and ability, learning and training opportunities are offered for students to establish a multi-concentration study plan. The Department has the nation's top resources in psychological assessment and a number of research, teaching, learning software and hardware facilities. Students are encouraged to develop professional competence through an abundance of learning resources and training opportunities.
Special Highlights (The Executive Master's Program with concentration in I/O psychology)
Specialization in industrial/organization psychology
Uniquely different from human resources management or business administration, I/O Psychology provides professional training from a psychological point of view of management and organization planning.
Additional course electives
With the present advantages in counseling and clinical psychology, the DCIOP provides many relevant courses, such as Positive Psychology, Psychopathology in the Workplace, Counseling Psychology, and Social Psychology, etc. which enable students to establish an excellent foundation of effective and healthy psychological knowledge, even if unable to take the counseling psychologist license examination.