First-year graduate students begin course work during the summer semester. Training typical ly encompasses course work, research, and clinical experience over a four-year period. Students gain research expe rience from their first year and throughout their graduate careers. A joint Ph.D. program between Clinical and Rehabilitation Psychology focuses on behavioral medicine and clinical applications in rehabilitation settings. The Psychology faculty are readily accessible to students.
Students begin receiving research training in their first year.
Each student is required to sign up for one hour of research credit very semester for four years. The student's research activities are normally conducted with his or her adviser but may also involve work with other clinical and nonclinical faculty members. Although an apprentice relationship with a particular faculty member is often mutually beneficial, students are free to change their primary research affilitation over the course of their training. Laboratories within the clinical area study addictive disorders, chronic pain, children's health problems, child attentional and conduct disorders, social support, marital and family systems, chronic pain, women's health, and adult depression. Interactive terminals linked to the network's computers are located in the department and throughout the university.