The Graduate Department of Clinical Psychology (GDCP) is a program within George Fox University, a Christian institution of higher education that provides liberal arts, pre-professional, and professional training in a setting that is vitally Christian, intellectually vigorous, socially wholesome, and physically healthful. It is assumed that sound scholarship and faith are mutually interdependent and meaningful, and that sound education must integrate these in the growing experience of the student. To read more about the university's stated beliefs about faith and learning, use one of these links: Overall Belief Statement, statement of faith, Mission Statement, Values Statement.
The GDCP program supports the statements found within the above links. Further, since the students and faculty within the GDCP work very closely within the program they desire to create a close-knit learning and interpersonal community. Therefore, in accordance with Christian convictions expressed in the GFU belief statement found above, the GDCP community endorses a lifestyle that is expressed in the values explicit in the "fruit of the Sprit," including love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control (Galatians 5:22, 23). Sensitive efforts to open one's life to the control of the Holy Spirit enable Christians to avoid specific behaviors that are declared by Scripture to be immoral, such as theft, lying, sowing of discord, gossip, profanity, premarital sex, adultery, homosexual behavior, drunkenness, and occult practices.
Community expectations in the GDCP program recognize that while the Scriptures do not provide specific instructions regarding all social practices, they advocate principles of self-restraint and deference to others, and they present an impressive model of love in the life as well as the teachings of Jesus Christ. In our efforts to relate in a Christian manner, we have adopted the following prudential standards: abstaining from the use or possession of non-medical drugs (including alcohol and tobacco) and pornographic articles or literature while on campus, on property designated for University use, during attendance at a university activity or while representing the university. Also, in accordance with Christian convictions, the university and GDCP program believe that sexual relations are expressed only in the context of a legally established marriage between one man and one woman. Furthermore, the university and GDCP program prohibit discrimination against others on the basis of ethnicity, color, gender, age, veteran status, marital status or disability.
Reservations with any portion of this community standard do not necessarily result in rejection of an applicant, but any divergence should be discussed carefully with program faculty prior to enrollment to ensure that the student and program are a good match given the goals of the each.
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