Acquire competency in providing diagnostic and psychotherapeutic services, and will generate their own ideas about how these services can be improved. Acquire a sensitivity to the social, moral, and ethical dimensions of their profession, with special attention to how these issues are affected by changes in the profession and the society. The program is committed to providing financial support through at least the first four years of graduate study. Top of page Program Many faculty members strongly adhere to a psychodynamic model, and required skills courses and laboratories are structured around this psychoanalytic orientation. Nevertheless, other points of view are represented on the clinical faculty and there are required theory courses dealing with alternative views, as well as skills courses offering exposure to behavioral and phenomenological techniques.
All course work involves critical evaluation of the literature, and attention to research findings.
Course work in clinical specializations such as hypnosis, family therapy, group processes, treatment of sexual dysfunction, neuropsychological assessment, and organizational issues is offered. The program emphasizes direct clinical and research experience under supervision. At the point of internship our students have two or three times more supervised clinical experience in assessment and psychotherapy than is the case with many other programs. Almost all of our students have published their original research work or presented it at national or regional meetings. The Department's Psychological Clinic serves as a setting in which students receive supervised experience in assessment and psychotherapy.