Faculty Profile – Psychology

Paul Angelo S. Arcega
Lecturer 10
Educational Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Motivation, Adolescence and Young Adults, Culture and Psychology

John Jamir Benzon Aruta
Associate Professor 10
Environmental Psychology, Counseling, Climate change and mental health nexus, prompting pro-environmental behaviors

Allan Benedict I. Bernardo
Distinguished Full Prof. 1
Social psychology: intergroup relations; cultural ideology; socioeconomic inequality; Educational psychology: motivation, social cognitive dimensions of learning and achievement; Positive psychology: hope theory

Marissa O. Calleja
Associate Professor 3
Attention and memory processes

Darren E. Dumaop
Associate Professor 2
Religious/Secular Identity, Diversity, & Tolerance; Mental Health & Religious Dis/Affiliation; Religion/Secularism in the Sociocultural and Political Context

Melissa Garabiles
Associate Professor 5
Mental health, Migration, Wellbeing, Resilience

Roberto E. Javier Jr.
Full Professor 10
Filipino Psychology, Aging, Child, Mental Health

Chester Howard M. Lee
Senior Lecturer 8

Cely D. Magpantay
Associate Professor 2
Clinical Psychology, Sports Psychology, Forensic Cases and Mental heath

Geselle Manguiat
Associate Lecturer 7
Addiction, Trauma, Emotion-regulation, Psychological assessment and test development, Intervention, Well-being, Bullying and Self-regulation, Indigenous concepts

Rene M. Nob
Associate Professor 10
Self-regulated learning, Motivation, Motivation Regulation, Bullying

Jaymee Abigail K. Pantaleon
Assistant Professor 2
Children and adolescent development; Trauma and resilience; Clinical and counseling psychology

Shayne Polias 
Associate Professor 1
Interpersonal Emotion Regulation (affect improvement; affect worsening), culture, well-being, scale development, human development

Monica Renee Policarpio
Associate Lecturer 9
Reasoning, Judgment and Decision Making; Self-Regulation; Metacognition

Ron R. Resurreccion
Associate Professor 10
Mental health, Families of Children with Autism, Positive Youth Development

Melissa Lucia L. Reyes
Full Professor 9
Youth development and values formation in social contexts; Individual differences in learning and cognition; Social-psychological consequences of poverty; Cross-country comparisons of social and psychological indicesy

Maria Guadalupe C. Salanga
Associate Professor 7
Social Psychology, Cultural Psychology – Intergroup relations, Applied Psychology – Health interventions, I/O Psychology – Mental health in the workplace

Roseann R. Tan-Mansukhani
Assistant Professor 7
Mental health literacy, Positive psychology (spirituality, wisdom, beauty), Narrative self, Mental health, Adolescent psychopathology, Adolescents at risk

Maria Caridad H. Tarroja
Full Professor 5
Child and family research, OSAEC (online sexual abuse and exploitation of children), Psychological Assessment, Clinical Psychology

Monica Camille C. Tongson
Associate Lecturer 6
Mental health and well-being, cognitive impairment, aging population, emerging and young adults

Homer J. Yabut
Associate Professor 10
Social Psychology, Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, Religious Identity, Political Psychology, Mental Health

Geralyn Claire Alcalde
Lecturer 2
Mental Health and Wellbeing, Health Behaviors, Health Communication and Education, Patient-provider Interactions

Alethea Patrcia Arenillo
Lecturer 10

Samuel Francis L. Bautista
Lecturer 10
Developmental Psychology – parenting, interventions, neurodivergent development

Peejay Bengwasan
Assistant Professorial Lecturer 2
Trauma and Neurodevelopment, Child and adolescent psychotherapy, Delinquency, conduct and externalizing problems, Psychology of Hope and Well-Being, Sociocultural determinants of well-being and mental health

Alexis Aeriel C. Bonanza
Lecturer 2
Medicine, Neuropsychology, Abnormal Psychology, Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatry

Reynaldo Nuelito Q. Canlas
Assistant Professorial Lecturer 2
Sport Psychology, Industrial-Organizational Psychology

England Danne Castro
Lecturer 1
Critical Psychology, Discursive Psychology, Political Psychology, Qualitative Psychology
 

Filemon R. Cruz
Lecturer 10

Maria Elena Severina Cruz
Lecturer 2
Cutlure & emotions, motivation & social-emotional support, adult development, aging

Angela Lorraine P. Cunanan
Assistant Professorial Lecturer 2
Mental health and well-being, Hope, Stigma, Help-seeking, Altruism and prosociality

Avila Odia S. De Jesus
Assistant Professorial Lecturer 1

Clarissa F. Delariarte
Associate Professorial Lecturer 1
Psychological Well-Being, Mental Health, Positive Psychology, Quality of Life

Myra G. Gahid
Lecturer 1
Mental health, Clinical psychology (especially depression, anxiety, and trauma disorders), Grief, Cyberpsychology (especially teletherapy and podcasts), Filipino Psychology, Transpersonal Psychology

Mark Lawrence Gale
Lecturer 4
Mental health, Metacognition, Neuroscience, Psychology of Appetite, Behavioral Economics

Bernadette S. Go
Lecturer 10

Francis Andro Lee
Lecturer 1
 Mental health and wellbeing, positive psychology and hope, parenting and parental involvement, emerging adulthood

Kimberly Kaye C. Mata
Assistant Professorial Lecturer 1

Marc Sherwin Ochoco
Lecturer 5
Career & vocational psychology, positive psychology & well-being, emerging & young adults

Karmia A. Pakingan
Associate Professor 1
Mental health, mental health of people living with HIV, environmental psychology, digital mental health interventions

Gerald B. Peñaranda
Assisttant Professorial Lecturer 1
Work Psychology

Joanne Salve Popanes
Assistant Professorial Lecturer 8

Sweet Marvelous Rafinian
Lecturer 1
Trauma, Exceptional Children, Abuse and Exploitation

Sixtus Dane A. Ramos
Assistant Professorial Lecturer 2
Addiction, Therapeutic Communities, Positive Interventions, Locus-of-Hope, TraumaAddiction, Therapeutic Communities, Positive Interventions, Locus-of-Hope, Trauma

Johann Andrew V. Sagmit
Assisttant Professorial Lecturer 1

Ma. Cristina E. Saldivar
Associate Professorial Lecturer 1
Parenting, Life Transition, Marital Therapy, Counseling and Supervision

Jeffrey Sanchez
Lecturer 1
Mental health (anxiety, depression) and psychological well-being; psychological assessment, projective techniques

Russel Santos

Adolescent Development, Positive Youth Development, Psychological Safety in Schools

Madelene A. Sta. Maria
Professorial Lecturer 7

Irene Carmelle S. Tan
Assistant Professorial Lecturer 4
Mental Health, Psychopharmacology, Psychotherapy, Psychological disorders

Mary Jearette Criskim Tan
Lecturer 1

Joanne Rachelle Valle
Lecturer 10

Reinier Dave P. Zapanta
Lecturer 6
Psychopathy, martial arts and psychological outcomes, bullying