Psychology and the Law: A Critical Approach to Interdisciplinary Education

Proposed is a critical theory approach to the interdisciplinary education of doctoral level students in psychology and law. Emphasis is on the necessity of critical approaches to education to accomplish an orientation towards social justice, which both have foundations in ecological or systems theories, as opposed to a more traditional approaches to multiculturalism. The proposed is a fifteen-week curriculum, of three credit academic course. This is broken down into three primary phases addressing theory, critical interdisciplinary dialogue, and case-conceptualizations that include avenues for praxis.