Program Overview
The Doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology provides integrated academic, scientific, and professional training. The training ensures the development of broad-based clinical skills and encourages close, cooperative work with other healthcare specialists, such as pediatricians, internists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, geriatricians, and psychiatrists. The program provides students with intensive instruction in the theoretical framework of psychology and broad experience in methods of practice in clinical psychology. The program is defined by the scientist-practitioner model. Graduates are well-prepared clinicians and researchers because of a solid grounding in theory, practice, and research.
Possible Career Options
The Clinical psychology PhD program prepares students for teaching and research in medical, mental health, and academic settings, as well as for clinical service. Students receive training in a broad range of assessment procedures and intervention approaches with an emphasis on empirically supported interventions. Such training ensures the development of broad-based clinical skills and encourages close, cooperative work with other healthcare specialists, such as pediatricians, internists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, geriatricians, and psychiatrists.
