School of Behavioral and Applied Sciences

Phone: (626) 815-6000 Ext. 5522
Fax: (626) 815-5015
Email: rwelsh@apu.edu

Robert Welsh, Ph.D., Associate Professor of 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

Presentations
Tavegia, B.T., Houskamp, B.M., Holler, R., Gunn, T.E., Moonilal, J., Welsh, R.K., & Mok, D. (2006, November). Sensory deficits and their relationship to childhood disorders in a community/Head Start preschool population. Paper accepted for presentation at the 4th Annual Conference on Early Childhood, Melbourne, Australia.

McDonald-Hoch, L., Welsh, R.K., Houskamp, B.M., Jiang, Y.H., & Tulleners Lash, A. (2006, November). The factor structure of the Short Sensory Profile with a Latino population. Paper accepted for presentation at the 4th Annual Conference on Early Childhood, Melbourne, Australia.

Free, R., Zaha, N. Arney, D., Chan, W., Stevenson, L., Rudd, A., Smith, J., MacIlnay, J., Reimer, K., & Welsh, R. (2006, August). The ability of computational linguistics to detect sophistication in groups of liars. Paper presented at the 2006 Annual Conference of the American Psychological Association.

Chan, W., Arney, D., Morgan, J., Stevenson, L., Reimer, K., & Welsh, R. (2006, August). Catch a Liar by the Tale: Computational Linguistics and Classifying Deception. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association.

Arney, D., Chan, W., Morgan, J., Stevenson, L., Reimer, K., & Welsh, R. (2006, August). Truth in the Mean: Narrative categories of lying. Poster presented at the 2006 Annual Conference of the American Psychological Association.

Publications
Glassmire, D., Welsh, R., & Clevenger, J. (In Press). The development of a substance abuse program for cognitively impaired dually-diagnosed forensic patients. Journal of Addictions and Offender Counseling.

Wilson, J.S., Ermshar, A.E., & Welsh, R.K. (2006). Stalking as Paranoid Attachment: A typological and dynamic model. Attachment and Human Development, 8(2), 139-157.

Jones, K., Welsh, R., Glassmire, D., & Tavegia, B. (2006) Psychological functioning in siblings of children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Journal of Child and Family Studies.

Welsh, R. (2006). The Third Generation of Schizophrenia Research. [Review of the book Mind, Brain and Schizophrenia] PsycCRITIQUES: APA Review of Books, 51, 10 Article 1.

Welsh, R. (2006). Pay No Attention to that Professional Behind the Curtain [review of the book Managing Elites: Professional Socialization in Law and Business Schools] PsycCRITIQUES: APA Review of Books, 51, 33 Article 18.

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