The PSP Advantage: Expectations, Processes and Outcomes

To give you a sense of what members of the PSP Global community are saying about expectations, processes and outcomes related to their participation in the community, we present the following video clips taken from our interviews with four members of this community—representing different ages, different cultures and both genders.

Expectations

These learners were attracted to PSP because it provides the opportunity for distinctive and career-enhancing education and training leading to increased knowledge and competence in the field of professional psychology.  What does this opportunity look like: what hopes, dreams (and even fears) did these learners of the community hold when joining the PSP community?

Processes

At PSP we try to gain a clear sense of the expectations held by our learners when they enter the community, as well as how they view the process of education and training in which they are engaged and the outcomes that accrue from this participation. This is not easy to do, but we try hard to find out about expectations, processes and outcomes.

We have found that PSP community learners are looking for a collaborative intellectual environment. Did they find it?  What kind of experiences did members of our community have when they began learning and participating with other learners in our global classroom?

Outcomes

One of the ways we find out about expectations, processes and outcomes is through conducting interviews with each member of the PSP Community when we meet each year in person or virtually (the PSP Gathering), or through interviews conducted on-line with our students, using the video conferencing tool (Zoom) that is basic to our on-line learning events.

While the students being interviewed are still enrolled in the graduate programs at PSP, we have found that they are already deriving benefits from their engagement as mature learners. They are already actively engaged in professional human service practices and therefore can immediately apply what they have learned at PSP.