The Gevirtz Graduate School of Education is excited to announce the hiring of Dr. Miriam Thompson as an assistant teaching professor in the Department of Counseling, Clinical and School Psychology (CCSP).
Thompson is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist and comes to UC Santa Barbara from the School Psychology Department at William James College where she taught courses on psychoeducational assessment; cross-cultural psychology; and history and systems in psychology. In 2016, she earned a Ph.D. in School Psychology at the University of Arizona and completed an APA-accredited pre-doctoral internship at the Multidisciplinary Evaluation & Consulting Center at Florida State University. Her research interests include: internship attainment trends in APA-accredited school psychology programs; diversity, equity, and social justice in school psychology; graduate student well-being; and recruitment and retention of faculty of color in school psychology training programs. Her teaching interests include: assessment and evaluation; diversity and multiculturalism; child and adolescent psychopathology; and specific learning disorders.