Students must complete a distribution of at least 24 credits across five basic areas of psychology. In the Second year, students participate in one or more practicum experiences with supervision and a year of Statistics and Experimental Design. At the same time they begin to choose from a wide variety of elective courses, which include all those given by the clinical faculty and those given by other graduate faculty members at The City College, at the Graduate Center, or at the other senior college campuses of the City University system. The Third and Fourth years are again spent in practicum work and elective courses, and frequently a substantial amount of time is devoted to work on the dissertation. The subprogram offers a variety of practicum experiences, in which clinical work, supervision, and case seminars are integrated.
Experiences doing bother brief and long-term therapy are available.
Supervisor s theoretical orientations are mostly psychoanalytic and interpersonal. In addition a sequence is being developed to provide training that integrates a neurocognitve point of view. 1985-87, Postdoctoral Clinical and Research Fellowship, Yale University School of Medicine. Postdoctoral Fellow, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Auditory and language processing in normal and language impaired children and in adults.