Academic Catalog

School of Psychology, Family, and Community

About the School

Katy Tangenberg, PhD, Dean

School of Psychology, Family, and Community Faculty

School of Psychology, Family, and Community Website

Each of the graduate psychology programs at SPU is unique, from Industrial-Organizational Psychology and Marriage and Family Therapy to Medical Family Therapy or a doctoral program in Clinical Psychology.

All the SPFC graduate programs share a common core commitment to rigorous learning standards informed by faith, and your chosen graduate program will help prepare you to serve with character and competence in a broken world.

Our Mission

The faculty, staff, and students of the School of Psychology, Family, and Community (SPFC) at Seattle Pacific University strive to become a community of learners:

  1. Guided by faith
    1. Exploring the implications of vital expressions of Christian faith for the human condition, as well as for emotional and relational healing and health.
  2. Rooted in academic discipline
    1. Fostering rigorous and creative learning environments, as well as contributing primary scholarship to the scientific study of psychological and social processes.
  3. Committed to service
    1. Grounding our learning community in the theory, research and application of our disciplines in order to produce skilled graduates who can serve with character and competence in a broken world.
    2. Nurturing creative partnerships with our local community and beyond in order to serve in and learn from socially and culturally diverse settings.