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The Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology curriculum offers innovative coursework in Psychology to prepare students for professional practice, including core, clinical, and research courses. The core curriculum provides a foundation for the clinical and research courses, supporting the student’s evolving relationship to clinical engagement. The Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology is designed to meet the educational requirements for the state of California Psychologist license. The Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology also meets the educational requirements for the state of California MFT license (Board of Behavioral Sciences, Senate Bill 33, Section 4980.36, Business and Professions Code), and the state of California Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC), (Senate Bill 788, Section 4999.33, Business and Professions Code), provided that fieldwork is done in accordance with BBS requirements.

The Ph.D. program in cognition and neuroscience offers advanced study and research training for students seeking to become leading scientists and scholars in the field. Research in cognition and neuroscience encompasses all aspects of cognition, including studies of perception, memory, reasoning, decision-making, neuroplasticity, and neuro-engineering.

Transpersonal psychology is transformative psychology of mind and body, and of the individual in felt connection with a diverse, interconnected, and evolving world. The field pays particular attention to mystical, spiritual, and other exceptional human experiences associated with healing and transformation—encounters that disclose a vibrant reality that enfolds our seemingly individual minds. We offer a whole-person approach to transpersonal psychology that includes learning and research structured to meet the needs and goals of working professionals. This approach includes affiliation with a planned research laboratory; a peer-reviewed journal produced in part by student interns; and senior scholars in the field who are available to guide student research. We are committed to diversity and inclusion, embodied tools for scholarship, and systematic approaches to building transpersonal areas of knowledge. Our program is offered as a part-time course of study, where online learning is supplemented by residential intensives.

Nova Southeastern University’s Dual Admission program in Psychology offers four distinct tracks that can prepare you for a rewarding career in clinical or school psychology. Your spot will be saved in either our Ph.D. or Psy.D. program while you earn your bachelor’s, so you can remain laser-focused on your future.

Nova Southeastern University’s Dual Admission program in Psychology offers four distinct tracks that can prepare you for a rewarding career in clinical or school psychology. Your spot will be saved in either our Ph.D. or Psy.D. program while you earn your bachelor’s, so you can remain laser-focused on your future.

Nova Southeastern University’s Dual Admission program in Psychology offers four distinct tracks that can prepare you for a rewarding career in clinical or school psychology. Your spot will be saved in either our Ph.D. or Psy.D. program while you earn your bachelor’s, so you can remain laser-focused on your future.

It is the largest doctorate in Latin America in the psychological area and the first in Mexico to be recognized by the SEP. It has the scientific direction of Drs. Norberto Bleichmar and Celia Leiberman, renowned psychiatrists and psychoanalysts with extensive experience. The coordination of the Doctorate is in charge of Dras. Ana María Wiener, Elena Ortiz, Celia Leiberman and Dr. Norberto Bleichmar. Our teachers have a high level of preparation in the psychoanalytic field and extensive experience in teaching. We promote an atmosphere of work and co-responsibility with those students who are interested in solid scientific and ethical training. We orient our program to clinical work. We seek, mainly, the development of the psychoanalytic thinking of the students. We consider it of great importance that our research lines are approached from different referential schemes, always aiming at their application in psychoanalytic practice.

BSTU educational programs prepare students for religious vocations as ministers, professionals, or laypersons in the categories of ministry, counseling, theology, education, administration, music, fine arts, media communications, or social work. The objective of our Ethereal Doctor of Psychology in Grief Counseling is to further your education in the grief and bereavement field. Attaining this prestigious level of education will no doubt allow you to counsel your patients with confidence but also educate those eager to learn how to counsel as well.

The Counseling Psychology program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) promotes equity, pluralism, and social justice through student training and education, research, and practice.

The Psychology Department offers a Doctor of Psychology degree in Clinical Psychology (PsyD) that places emphasis upon professional applications of psychology based on a solid grounding in the scientific knowledge base of psychology. The program is designed to meet the academic requirements of licensure and to provide the student with the background to immediately assume responsibilities in appropriate professional settings. Graduates of the program have performed well on licensure exams as evidenced by current licensure data.

The Wright Institute's PsyD curriculum is carefully designed to acquire progressively more sophisticated knowledge and clinical capabilities systematically. This developmental approach to learning builds on a solid foundation of research, assessment techniques, and theoretical knowledge.

The primary goal of the COUNSELING, CLINICAL & SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY Department is to prepare graduates for academic and research positions. A secondary goal is to prepare psychological service providers who will, in addition to providing direct service to their clientele, exercise influence on professional psychology through teaching, research, and leadership.

Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program The UNLV Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program, in the scientist-practitioner tradition, prepares students to address psychological concerns through both scholarly research and the application of psychological knowledge and skills in practice. We recognize psychology as an empirical science and expect students to have a broad understanding of existing psychological knowledge and methods. We train students to base their scholarly and professional activity on the scientific foundation of psychology, including an understanding of and attention to human diversity. We train students as generalists who are prepared to conduct ethically appropriate scientific research and clinical interventions with children and adults in an increasingly multicultural society. We provide an integration of didactic study, supervised clinical activity, and mentored scholarly research. This mission is consistent with and complementary to the mission of the Department of Psychology and UNLV. The program is accredited by the American Psychological Association.

The Doctor of Psychology in Counseling Psychology (PsyD) program at Holy Family University is committed to a practitioner-scholar training model. The program is evidence-based and practice-informed, utilizing interventions that reflect the foundational values of the discipline of counseling psychology. Our view of clinical training is consistent with the American Psychological Association’s Standards of Accreditation for Health Services Psychology (HSP) and the guidelines for professional psychology training developed by the National Council for Schools and Programs in Psychology (NCSPP).

The Ph.D. in Psychology at Lehigh University is a research-intensive program in which students and faculty work collaboratively in areas of cognitive, developmental, and social psychology.