Roderick Watts, PhD.
Professor Emeritus, Psychology
The Graduate Center
City University of New York (CUNY
Practicing Clinical Psychologist: Georgia License #PSY002879
Specializing in group and individual work with men of African descent. For more information contact me at the email address below.
Email address (replace ## with the “at” sign, and the ^ to a period):
rjwatts##action-research^co
**************** BIOGRAPHY ****************
Watts is a fellow in the American Psychological Association and in the Society for Community Research and Action. In past years, Watts held positions at Georgia State University, DePaul University, The Consultation Center and the School of Medicine at Yale University, and Howard University. He is both a community psychologist and a licensed clinical psychologist. Because his practice of psychology and applied research emphasizes social justice, his approach to interventions reflect an integrative analysis—one that includes larger social forces and qualities of community—along with growth at the personal level.
As a consultant, he has worked with governmental organizations, schools, foundations, research and public-policy organizations, universities, and other nonprofit organizations on diversity, program development and evaluation, and training. His interests as a scholar include liberation studies and action (with roots in liberation psychology), and youth sociopolitical development. Past work includes a four-year, international study of youth community organizing and civic engagement. (www.research2action.net)
In the area of psychological services, his skills lie in holistic health and men’s development, with a particular interest in men’s well-being.