The Bikos RVT is involved in service at varying levels of the institution and the profession of psychology.

Community - University Partnerships


Click to listen to a screencasted discussion about our program evaluation collaboration with KCSARC.

For more than 15 years the BikosRVT has had a program evaluation partnership with King County Sexual Assault Resources Center. Our primary program has been to provide three waves of evaluation (intake, post, follow-up) for the legal advocacy program. In consultation with the legal advocates, we developed a bilingual survey (Spanish, English) that assesses a host of variables about coping, well-being, secondary victimization, social support, and satisfaction with the program. This mutually beneficial arrangement provides regular program evaluation data to KCSARC as well as provides RVT members a rich opportunity for dissertations and other research. At WPA 2022, members of the RVT contributed to a symposium that described the KCSARC partnership.

Image of the title slide from the WPA presentation.

A new KCSARC program is aimed at preventing sexual assault and is starting in the public schools. The curriculum addresses Again, the BikosRVT is providing program evaluation support through Qualtrics-hosted surveys that assess changes in the students’ understanding of boundaries and consent as well as their self-ratings of empathy and pro-social behaviors.


Image of the title slide from the “So much more than infographs” WPA presentation.

With all community partners, we aspire to the practices of community-based, participatory research. In this symposium presentation at WPA 2022, we outline some of those standards.

Image of the Clara, Desta, and Caitlin staffing the SPU booth at WPA.

Western Psychological Association


Annually, nearly 80% of the team attends the Western Psychological Association. The BikosRVT works the entire WPA with a number of responsibilities that typically include:

  • staffing an SPU exhibit from the admissions office
  • co-sponsoring/coordinating the WPA CE program
  • representing APA’s Division 52/International Psychology by
    • hosting a student/early-career-professional poster contest
    • coordinating internationally focused symposia

Additionally, we present our own posters and symposia and attend the “stats camp” (2 hours, daily).


APA’s Division of International Psychology


Dr. Bikos has been involved with D52 for a number of years. She recently completed a 3-year position as Vice President for Engagement.

Annually, we coordinate poster contests for WPA and APA. This involves soliciting posters in advance of the convention, having them reviewed/scored, calculating the awards, and distributing the poster certificates and ribbon badges at the convention. Contrasting with the typical gatekeping role of peer review, the poster contests are intended to celebrate globally-focused research (broadly defined) and engage those who are interested in international psychology in conversation with each other.


Image of the Dr. Bikos carrying globe ballons for D52 at WPA.


APA-Approved Continuing Education


The Department of Clinical Psychology at SPU is an approved provider of APA CE (both live and homestudy formats). Another GAA-ship surrounds supporting the CE program. This entails ensuring that co-sponsorships of CE meet the requirement and in-depth work with Qualtrics for the purpose of gathering/organizing presenter information, obtaining necessary evaluation/verification information from CE particpiants, and distributing certificates. We have learned to make Qualtrics do much, much, work for us. Given the rigorous standards and the annual audit, this is detail-oriented, professional work.



Peer Reviewing


Dr. Bikos is a member of the editorial board of several journals: Journal of Vocational Behavior, Career Development Quarterly, International Perspectives in Research. Most journals allow co-reviewing with doctoral students. One goal is for each advisee to co-review at least two articles (more are possible) during the program.


Institutional Review Board


At SPU each school is primarily responsible for review of IRB applications from within that school. Because of her role as Associate Dean, one of her advisees often takes the role as administrative coordinator for IRB. the GAA (Graduate Administrative Assistant) receives, quick-checks, logs the application’s receipt, assigns the application to an IRB reviewer, and tracks its process.