• General Curriculum Information
• Requirements
• Curriculum and Credit Hours
• Summary of Clinical-Community Curriculum

General Curriculum Information

The Clinical-Community curriculum has been designed to provide students the flexibility to obtain broad training in the theory, research, and applied skills of clinical and community psychology. This curriculum should make students aware of the individual, group, and community influences upon human behavior and the implications of each perspective for prevention, treatment and social change. The integrated program includes courses which are sufficiently broad in their focus to introduce students to major concepts in clinical and community psychology.

The integrated specialization in Clinical-Community Psychology is designed to provide a student with sufficient clinical training to compete for a traditional clinical internship and to be eligible subsequently for licensing as a clinical psychologist. The curriculum also provides sufficient training in community psychology to allow students to compete for internships that have a substantial community component. We believe that the integration of clinical and community psychology training provides students with an ecological, systems model for understanding human behavior, developing assessment and intervention skills at the individual, family, organizational setting, and broader system levels.

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Requirements

The program consists of training delivered through coursework, graduate level exams, and other training experiences as listed below:

1. Curriculum and Credit Hours (76 hours + 12 Dissertation Hours)
2. Qualifying Requirements (completion of particular courses with a satisfactory grade)
3. Masters Thesis and Masters Oral Exam
4. General Comprehensive Examination (Comprehensive Paper)
5. Clinical or Community Specialty Comprehensive Examination
6. Oral Comprehensive Examination
7. Ph.D. Dissertation
8. Internship (year-long full-time, or two-year-long half-time, experience in professional psychology)

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Curriculum and Credit hours

In order to obtain a Ph.D. in psychology from the Department, all students must complete a program which includes 88 credit hours. For students enrolled in the Clinical-Community Program, 43 of these hours comprise General Content and Research courses. These basic courses fit into two main categories:

1. "Core" Psychology courses:
   • Psychometrics and Psychological Testing – 3 hours (A)
   • Quantitative Methods and Research Design--6 hours (B&C)
   • Learning/History and Systems--2 hours (D)
   • Biological bases of behavior--2 hours (E)
   • Social bases of behavior--3 hours (F)
   • Developmental bases of behavior – 2 hours (G)
2. Research courses (courses in this category are designed to provide the student a background in applied research methodology and actual practice in the conduct of applied research):
   • Individual research apprenticeship First Year (PSYC 773a,b) -- 2 hours (H)
   • Research methods course (PSYC 772)--3 hours (I)
   • Thesis Preparation Second Year (PSYC 799) -- 6 hours (J)
   • Individual research apprenticeship Third Year (PSYC 816) – 2 hours (K)
   • Dissertation research--12 hours (L)

In addition to General Content and Research courses, all Clinical-Community students must complete a set of required Specialty Content courses (16 credit hours) and Specialty Practica (14 credit hours) within the Program area.

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Summary of Clinical-Community Curriculum

	General Content & Research	43 hours
	Clinical-Community Specialty Content	16 hours
	Clinical-Community Specialty Practica	14 hours
	Electives	15 hours
	Total	88 hours

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