Gov. Reeves appoints MSU’s Armstrong to statewide psychology board
Contact: Sarah Nicholas
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Gov. Tate Reeves has appointed a Mississippi State University associate professor to the governing board regulating practicing Magnolia State psychologists.
Kevin Armstrong is serving a five-year term on the Mississippi Board of Psychology. The board protects the well-being of the state’s citizens by ensuring only qualified individuals practice psychology. This is achieved through education and training credential review, basic competency exam administration, ongoing professional education requirements, practice complaint investigation, and professional standards and ethics violation penalty enforcement.
“I look forward to contributing to this board in any way I can,” said Armstrong, a veteran MSU faculty member with 27 years of experience. “I think this will be a good service opportunity for me as I both teach a doctoral-level graduate course that focuses on ethical and professional issues in clinical psychology and supervise doctoral students training in our department’s Psychology Clinic. I know this experience will be challenging and will also be informative for my training responsibilities back here on campus.”
The MSU Psychology Clinic is a nonprofit mental health service, training and research center located in Rice Hall. Its doctoral student-clinicians are supervised by licensed mental health professionals and provide a wide range of affordable care, including therapy and assessment services. In addition to the direct care provided to clients, the clinic participates in several community outreach activities ranging from on-campus mental health screenings to collaboration with faculty members on service-grant activities. More on the Psychology Clinic’s services is available by calling 662-325-0270.
For more details about MSU’s College of Arts and Sciences and Department of Psychology, visit www.cas.msstate.edu and www.psychology.msstate.edu.
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