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The Clinical Psychology Program offers opportunities for professional development and the integration of science with practice through course work, practica, community externships, and the predoctoral internship. Students also participate in activities such as departmental colloquia, clinical program workshops, and the annual "Research Deluge." Human diversity is an important theme throughout the curriculum, cutting across courses, practicum experiences, and faculty-student research.
The curriculum balances broad training in research methods and core content areas with opportunities for concentration in areas such as clinical neuropsychology, health psychology, family psychology, psychotherapy research, sleep research, interpersonal violence, program evaluation, and mental health policy and law. In each of these areas we encourage students to think critically about current research and practice and to contribute to scientific dialogue through publications, conference presentations, and other formats of professional exchange. Most of students' research training, and much of their clinical training, is grounded in mentorship experiences tailored to each student’s career goals and stage of professional development.
Given our emphases on both science and practice, an overarching curricular theme is to integrate the two. Thus, practicum courses in assessment, psychosocial intervention, and clinical neuropsychology are embedded in, and integrated with, didactic curricular sequences designed to accentuate the interdependence of theory, practice and research. All of these sequences are directed by core clinical faculty who themselves model the scientist-practitioner role. The integrative theme is also reflected in collaborative "translational" research, through which faculty and students apply basic psychological theories and empirical findings to real-world clinical problems such as addiction, depression, sleep disorders, sexual abuse, and neurological impairment. All of this occurs in the context of a psychology department committed to scholarly excellence and effective integration, not just of research and practice, but also of research and teaching at all levels of the graduate and undergraduate curriculum.
Structure of curriculum (requirements, timing, units).
The curriculum of the Clinical Psychology Program encompasses (a) university
and departmental requirements; (b) required clinical core courses in
psychopathology, assessment, and intervention; (c) a choice of courses
and other means to satisfy breadth requirements in social, cognitive,
and biological bases of behavior, and in human development across the
life-span; (d) assessment and intervention practicum experiences, both
in-house and in community agencies; (e) a wide range of elective clinical,
research methods, and general courses and seminars which can meet either
major or minor requirements, and (f) a full-time internship year. All
required courses are part of the major in clinical psychology; the electives
can satisfy either major or minor requirements, depending on the individual
student's track. Minor (concentration) areas that have been frequently
chosen include clinical neuropsychology, family psychology, health psychology,
and college teaching. The following outline includes indicators of progression
through the program – for example, certain courses should be taken in
specified years, and the comprehensive exam (often called, prelims)
has to be completed and the dissertation proposal approved before a
student is eligible for internship application.
Departmental Requirements
- Courses
| 500a History |
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(3 units, fall of first year) |
| 586 Ethics |
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(3 units, spring of first year) |
| 507a,b |
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Statistics and Methods.
(6 units plus lab, Fall and Spring
of first year) |
- Masters project. A proposal should be approved by the beginning
of the second year, thesis completed by end of second year or the beginning
of the third year.
- Comprehensive Examination (written and oral). The written
component has to be approved prior to scheduling the oral exam, and
both written and oral components of the comprehensive exam must be completed
before approval of dissertation proposal.
- Dissertation. A proposal needs to be approved before students
are eligible to apply for internship application. (Eligibility is confirmed
in Part 2 of the AAPI form.)
Clinical Program Requirements
- Courses and practica
| Assessment Sequence (Year 1) |
| 621 |
Clinical Assessment Methods: |
3 units, Fall [Allen] |
| 694a |
Clinical Assessment Practicum: |
2 units, Fall [Allen]
3 units, Spring [Prouty] |
| Intervention Sequence (Year 2) |
| 625a,b |
Psychosocial Interventions: |
4 units, Fall & Spring
[Arkowitz, Bootzin,
Shoham] |
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Intervention Practicum: |
3 units, Fall
[Rohrbaugh, Garland,
Glauber]
3 units Spring
[Rohrbaugh, Miretsky] |
Externship (Years
3 and 4)
Clinical work outside the department in university and community
agencies, usually about 20 hrs/wk in the third and/or fourth years.
All students on externship are required to register for 694c. |
| 694c |
Consultation & Supervision: |
1 unit, Fall & Spring,
[Shoham, Rohrbaugh] |
| 694e |
Motivational Interviewing |
3 units [Arkowitz] |
| (Although this in-house advanced practicum is not required, most students opt to take it) |
| Psychopathology course (any year) |
| 582 |
Advanced Psychopathology: |
3 units, one semester
[Arkowitz] |
- Breadth of scientific psychology:
| Biological bases of behavior [area instructor: Allen] |
| One of the following courses: |
| | 504 | Brain and Behavior |
| | 501a | Psychophysiology |
| | 625 | Human Neuroscience |
| Or: |
| | 696b |
Biological
Bases of Behavior [Allen] |
Additional courses that serve as partial fulfillment of 696b include:
- Sleep and Sleep Disorders (Psyc 578)
- Clinical Pharmacotherapy of Mental Disorders (PhSc 589)
| Cognitive/Affective bases of behavior |
| One of the following courses: |
| | 506B | Fundamentals of Cognitive Psychology |
| | 526 | Advanced Human Memory |
| | 527 | Cognitive Neuroscience |
| | 532 | Psychology of Language |
| | 536 | Visual Cognition |
| Or: |
| | 696c |
Cognitive/Affective
Bases of Behavior [Bootzin] |
Additional courses that serve as partial fulfillment of 696s include:
- Inter-Group Conflict: Stereotypes and
Prejudice (596 series)
- Social Psychology: The Social Self (596 series)
- Social Psychology: Attitudes and Persuasion (596 series)
Additional courses that serve as partial fulfillment of 696d include:
- Youth and Violence (PSYC 579)
- Adult Development and
Aging (PSYC 559)
- Gerontology: A Multidisciplinary Perspective (PSYC
524)
- Advanced Human Development (FSHD-547)
- Advanced Adolescent Development
(FSHD-503)
- Topics in Human Development (FSHD-607 series)
- Predoctoral
internship The predoctoral internship is a full-time, twelve-month training
experience in either a CoA-accredited setting or in a setting approved
by the Clinical Training Committee.
- Elective Courses listed in the University of Arizona Graduate College
Catalogue http://grad.arizona.edu/catalog/doctoral/
can be part of major or minor requirements.
Graduate students who decide to take the clinical neuropsychology area of emphasis are required to take the complete Clinical Neuropsychology sequence, including a basic course on Brain and Behavior (504) followed by Clinical Neuropsychology (580). Both courses are pre-requisite for the Clinical Neuropsychology Practicum (694d). Although not required for the clinical neuropsychology sequence, students in this area of emphasis are also encouraged to take the Neuroanatomy (502) and Human Neuroscience (NEUR 625) courses. Sequence Director: Kaszniak. For further details on the clinical neuropsychology area of emphasis, see program’s Areas of Study.
Graduate students who are jointly enrolled in the Clinical Psychology Program and the Psychology, Policy and Law (PPL) Program take Forensic Assessment: Intervention and Treatment (563), Violence and Youth (558), Child Maltreatment and the Law (588A), Developmental Psychopathology (583A), and Mental Health Law and Policy (562). In addition, their Master's Thesis, Preliminary Examination Paper, and Doctoral Dissertation all must focus on topics within the interface between the two programs. For further details on the PPL program, see:
http://psychology.arizona.edu/programs/g_each/ppl.
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