Addressing the Community Psychology Competency Dialectic through Participatory Pedagogy

Author Biographies: Kelly Collins is a graduate student in the Community Psychology program at DePaul University. She received her B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Women’s and Gender Studies from Michigan State University. Her research focuses on violence against women and homelessness. She is interested in community engagement and improving systems and policy through multidisciplinary collaboration. Chris Keys has been teaching community psychology to graduates and undergraduates for over four decades. He has used participatory teaching methods in community, clinical, social and organizational psychology courses and as a finalist for a university-wide teaching award for one of his participatory courses. He helped develop and directed community-organizational, community-clinical and free-standing community psychology doctoral programs at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). He also helped develop an undergraduate major in applied psychology which included a gateway course in community psychology. He helped found an undergraduate concentration in community psychology and contributes to doctoral programs in clinical-community and freestanding community psychology at DePaul University. He has served as treasurer and chair of the Council of Community Psychology Program Directors, forerunner of the SCRA Council of Educational Programs, and as chair of the Council of Training Councils. Martina Mihelicova is a graduate student in the ClinicalCommunity Psychology PhD program at DePaul University. Martina is involved in