Courses are divided into five areas of specialization:
- Foundations
- Statistics and Research Methodology
- Social Behavior, Development and Abnormal Behavior
- Assessment
- Intervention Techniques and Professional Issues
These areas are progressively developed over the five levels of
the program. The following is a breakdown, by area of
specialization, of the required courses in the program.
Foundations
These offerings are designed to transmit a basic fund of knowledge
relating to the history and science of the discipline.
606 Perception I, or 616 Principles of Learning, or 617
Cognitive Psychology
648 Physiological Psychology
650 History and Systems of Psychology
Statistics and
Research Methodology
These courses provide instruction in research and methodology with
the aim of understanding basic research, designing investigation
procedures and applying research to help solve personal and social
problems. In addition to predissertation and doctoral dissertation
research, the following courses are required:
608 Statistical Design in Research
609 Research in Clinical Psychology I
614 Multivariate Statistics
659 Psychological Measurement and Scaling
900 Master's Research
950 Doctoral Research
Social Behavior, Development and Abnormal
Behavior
622 Social Psychology
623 Developmental Psychology
726 Psychopathology Across the Lifespan I
727 Psychopathology Across the Lifespan II
Assessment
Evaluation of people using the skills of observation, interviewing
and psychological testing; the theory, development, reliability,
validity, appropriate usage, administration, scoring,
interpretation and reporting of the results of the assessment
techniques.
635 Objective Personality Assessment, or 835 Neuropsychological
Assessment
660 Assessment I: Intelligence Testing
663 Assessment II: Personality Assessment
668 Assessment Lab I
670 Assessment Lab II
Intervention and Professional
Issues
Theory, research, techniques, and supervised experience in various
methods of intervention.
627 Cultural Diversity in Psychological Services
631 Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy I
658 Professional and Ethical Issues
701 Clinic Practicum I
702 Clinic Practicum II
705 Clinic Practicum III
706 Clinic Practicum IV
741 Assessment and Intervention Practicum I, III
742 Assessment and Intervention Practicum II, IV
750 Behavior Therapy
760 Marital and Family Therapy (Clinical Child Track)