The curriculum is designed to meet APA and Massachusetts licensing requirements and better reflect the time and training students devote to clinical placements and research.
Students take courses full time for the first two years and half time during the third year.
The first year academic requirements are devoted to students obtaining a strong grounding in basic psychology and a model of clinical psychology. Students move to more specialized clinical training in their second year and may begin to follow possible tracks in areas such as neuropsychology, emotional disorders, family and child interventions, trauma studies, schizophrenia, addictions, and long-term psychotherapy. In the first semester of the 3rd year, one course and one elective will be required. The required course will focus on in depth considerations of theoretical processes underlying behavior change with an emphasis on the emerging commonalities among theories. Research Students are expected to engage in ongoing research throughout their academic career.