Department of Psychology

About Us

Psychology is a theoretical and applied science. All developed countries, such as USA, Canada, Japan, Australia and other European countries have tried hard to understand the human mind and have done a lot of studies in psychology. As an almost developed country, the need for psychologists is increasing in Taiwan.　

Taiwan enacted Psychologist Law in Oct. 31, 2001. At the same time, there was a need to transform our college into a medical university, by taking the ride, with the importance of psychology in mind, we established the Department of Psychology in 2002 and the Graduate Institute of Clinical Psychology in 2007 to train more clinical psychologists and counselors.

The department and institute has been set up for about 20 years, there are about 200 under-graduate students, 60 graduate students, and 12 full-time faculties with specialties in psychological assessment, psychological treatment, cognition, neuroscience, biopsychology, personality, social psychology, developmental psychology and health psychology.

The department has an ambition to be the center of clinical psychology in the central area of Taiwan. At the same time, by cooperation with nursing, allied-health, health management, public health, social work, and other related professions, we would try to organize an excellent research team to provide assistance and medical services to the newly-transformed best medical university.

Academics

The faulty is interested in research in many fields of psychology including cognition, rehabilitation psychology, attachment, parenting group, additive behaviors, PTSD, ADHD, ASD, occupational health psychology, and so on. Several original research papers are published in journals every year. Conference posters by postgraduate students are presented as well. The department hosts various conference or symposium from time to time.

Faculty profile

Please refer to faculty profile link.

Research

A variety of research projects are currently taken in this department ranging from Clinical Psychology, Biopsychology, Health Psychology, Clinical child psychology and many others. Individual research interest of each faculty members should be able to find on their profiles.