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Research Training | Clinical Psychology Respecialization Certificate Program

1. Academic
The primary goal within the academic domain of the Psychology Program is the mastery of the existing body of literature which constitutes the content areas of clinical psychology.

• Objective 1.1: Knowledge of the scientific, theoretical, and methodological bases which support the practice of clinical psychology.
• Objective 1.2: Critical understanding of the current issues and emerging trends within the defining areas of clinical psychology.

2. Research
The primary goal within the research domain of the Psychology Program is the development of scholarly skills and attitudes sufficient to enable our graduates to access and participate in the scholarly culture of the discipline. This includes the ability to participate as producers, critics, and consumers/utilizers of knowledge. It also includes the development and strengthening of an orientation toward finding, critically evaluating, and appropriately utilizing evidence in asking and answering questions.

• Objective 2.1: Ability to understand and utilize the principal methodological tools of psychological research, including sophistication with regard to the ethical and philosophical aspects of these modes of inquiry.
• Objective 2.2: Ability to design, carry out, and communicate independent scholarly research, which makes an original contribution to the discipline of psychology.

3. Clinical Training
The primary goal of the training domain of the Psychology Program is to ensure that students develop psychological intervention knowledge and skills and psychological assessment knowledge and skills that are informed by theory and research, and are able to apply this knowledge and these skills ethically and responsibly to clinical problems within a multicultural society.

• Objective 3.1: Develop and apply a theoretical framework to make appropriate clinical interventions and psychological assessments.
• Objective 3.2: Develop ability to utilize clinical research as a basis for making appropriate clinical interventions.

4. Integration
An overarching goal of the Psychology Program is the successful integration of theory, research, and practice.

• Objective 4.1: Development of an integrated perspective, whereby scholarship informs practice and practice informs scholarship.
• Objective 4.2: Development of generic doctoral level scholarship skills that transcend the content of any particular Knowledge Area.
• Objective 4.3: Development of a professional identity as a psychologist, socialized into the scholar-practitioner model of the field.
• Objective 4.4: Knowledge and practice of ethical principles in academic, clinical, and research activities.
• Objective 4.5: Development of multicultural competency.
  
  

Last Updated: 8/14/07