School of Behavioral and Applied Sciences

Phone: (626) 815-6000 Ext. 5522
Fax: (626) 815-5015
Email: rwelsh@apu.edu
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Robert Welsh, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology, chairs the Department of Graduate Psychology, is the Director of the PsyD and Coordinator of the Forensic Psychology Elective Concentration in the APA accredited PsyD program at Azusa Pacific University. Dr. Welsh also coordinates the dissertation process within the doctoral program. Prior to working at APU, Dr. Welsh worked as a forensic psychologist for the California Department of Mental Health at Patton State Hospital and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in emergency services at the University of Tennessee School of Medicine. Currently Dr. Welsh maintains a private practice in forensic psychology and psychotherapy. Dr. Welsh’s areas of practice include the detection of faking mental illness, violence risk assessment, providing expert testimony in court and psychotherapy with severe mental disorders. His research interests include the detection of deception, the assessment of violence, and psychotherapy outcome research with mentally disordered offenders.

Ph.D. - Clinical Psychology, Rosemead School of Psychology, Biola University
M.A. - Clinical Psychology, Rosemead School of Psychology, Biola University
B.A. – Psychology, Biola University

Honors, Awards, Recognition
1999 Mary Cerney Award, Outstanding Student Paper on Personality Assessment, Society for Personality Assessment

Associations, Boards, Committees
American Psychological Association (APA)
APA Division 41, American Psychology and Law Society
APA Division 43, Family Psychology
American Bar Association (Associate, non-lawyer)

Psychopathology (PPSY 563)
Research Design I (PPSY 722)
Research Design II (PPSY 723)
Psychopharmacology (PPSY 757)
Introduction to Forensic Psychology (PPSY 770)
Forensic Assessment (PPSY 771)