Although the clinical program can be completed in four years,
students are urged to consider the merits of a five-year schedule,
which allows more time to absorb a complex body of information and form
one`s identity as a pro- fessional psychologist. Variations on the
model below are possible.
First Year
Fall and Spring Terms
18:820:563 Child Psychopathology (3)
18:820:565 Adult Psychopathology (3)
Ten-week courses (each of the following sets of three courses runs in
sequence for the full academic year, but not necessarily in the order
given below):
18:820:502 Theoretical Foundations of Intervention: Organizations (2)
18:820:503 Theoretical Foundations of Intervention: Analytic (2)
18:820:504 Theoretical Foundations of Intervention: Cognitive Behavioral (2)
18:820:531 Systematic Observation and Interviewing (3)
18:820:634 Psychodynamic Interview (2)
18:820:635 Cognitive Behavioral Assessment of Psychological Disorders (2)
Practica
18:820:689 Professional Practicum Placement (E3 per term)
18:821:546 Psychological Clinic Practicum (E1)
18:821:653 Clinical Practicum Supervision (E1)
Students who do not have graduate assistantships or a two-day practicum
may find it possible to take an additional course and should discuss
this with their adviser.
Summer
18:820:632 Individual Cognitive Assessment (3) or 18: 820:622 Psychopharmacology (3)
18:820:505 Foundations of Cognitive/Affective Psychology (1.5)
18:820:506 Foundations of Social Psychology (1.5)
Note: 18:829:682 Judgment and Decision Making, a 3-credit course given
during the academic year, may be substituted for the two 1.5-credit
courses listed above. It would normally be taken in the second or third
year; it is not listed again below.
Second Year
Fall and Spring Terms
Single term courses
18:820:570 Psychological Interventions with Ethnic and Racial Minority Clients and Families (3)
or
18:820:575 Diversity and Racial Identity (3)
18:820:581 Statistical Methods and Design Analysis (3)
18:820:585 Advanced Statistics and Research Design (3)
18:820:632 Individual Cognitive Assessment (3) or 18:820:593
Community Psychology (3) or 18:820:613 Professional Development
(3) or 18:820:622 Psychopharmacology (3)
Elective or an intervention course (3)
Elective or an intervention course (3)
Note: The above two courses usually involve one or two terms of
therapy courses and/or a term or two of assessment courses, usually
18:820:637 Objective Personality Assessment or 18:820:638 Personality
Assessment-Adult.
Practica
18:820:689 Professional Practicum Placement (E3 per term)
18:821:544 Psychological Clinic Practicum (E2 per term)
18:821:546 Psychological Clinic Practicum (E1 per term)
Summer
18:820:613 Professional Development (3) or 18:820:632 Individual
Cognitive Assessment (3) or 18:820:593 Community Psychology (3)
Third Year
Fall and Spring Terms
Single term courses
18:820:550 Philosophy and Systems of Psychology (3)
Intervention course or elective (3)
Elective (3)
Elective (3)
Note: With permission, students may substitute another course or
courses (taken at some point during their program) for Philosophy and
Systems. Options include: 18:820:560 Self, Psychopathology, and the
Modern Age (3); 18:821:633 Existential, Phenomenological, and
Hermeneutic Approaches to Clinical Psychology (3).
Work on dissertation in professional psychology (6)
Practica
18:820:689 Professional Practicum Placement (E3 per term)
18:821:544 Psychological Clinic Practicum (E2 per term)
18:821:546 Psychological Clinic Practicum (E1 per term)
Fourth Year
Single term courses
Elective (3)
Elective (3)
Elective (3)
Elective (3)
18:820:701 Dissertation in Professional Psychology (3)
Practica
18:821:544 Psychological Clinic Practicum (E2 per term)
18:821:546 Psychological Clinic Practicum (E1 per term)
Note: Students apply for internships during this year.
Fifth Year
18:821:657-658 Internship in Clinical Psychology (3,3)
The five-year program permits part-time employment in the third year
and beyond. The four-year program requires a more concentrated course
load and normally does not permit student employment other than the
practicum.
A total of 1,080 clock hours of preinternship,
supervised practicum experience is required. After completion of the
supervised practicum, the student is eligible to begin the required
full-year internship of 1,750 hours.
Total requirements for
the clinical psychology program are 81 credits in course work,
including 9 credits for the dissertation and 6 credits for internship;
and 1,080 clock hours of preinternship practicum placement (32
E credits).
