计划的目标是

该计划有三个目标, 9能力, and related elements designed to implement its philosophy and meet the overall program goals. The competencies are met through various academic and training activities that include courses, 实习, 还有实习机会, 以及有指导的研究经验. 这些能力指定了态度, 知识, and skills that you will be expected to achieve by the time you graduate from the program.

目标1:培养学生成为有效的专业心理学家，能够熟练地评估心理功能，并在各种环境下为不同的客户提供经验支持的干预措施.

目标2培训合格的卫生服务心理学家，为不同的个人和群体提供科学的心理服务.

目标3:为学生提供强大的专业身份作为持牌心理学家和临床技能, 专业行为, 这些态度反映了临床心理学入门级实践中最高的道德和专业标准.

计划能力

所有学生都应该掌握并展示对以下九个专业能力领域的充分理解和能力:

1. 研究
2. 道德和法律标准
3. 个人和文化多样性
4. 专业价值观和态度
5. 沟通及人际交往能力
6. 评估
7. 干预
8. 监督
9. 咨询和跨专业/跨学科技能

这些能力通过包括课程在内的各种学术和培训活动在操作上得到满足, 实习和实习机会, 以及有监督的研究经历. Multiple data sources are used to assess outcomes relative to these competencies. 这些能力指定了知识, 的态度, and skills that students are expected to achieve by the time they graduate from the program.

建立学科知识

All students are expected to possess discipline-specific 知识 in the following four categories:

Students are expected to demonstrate competency in each of the following areas:

1. 心理学的历史和系统
2. 科学心理学的基本内容领域, 包括情感, 生物的认知, 发展, 以及行为的社会方面.
3. 先进的综合科学心理学知识.
4. 研究方法、统计分析和心理测量学.

一个从业者-学者项目

Special features of the 圣地亚哥 program include an emphasis on evidence-based practice, a rich set of opportunities for gaining 研究 and clinical skills in multicultural, 儿童和家庭, 法医, 综合心理学, 以及临床实践与课程作业的结合.

实地培训

在程序中, you’ll receive four years of 实习 and internship experiences, 有超过75个机构提供安置. Most of these facilities are within a 25-mile radius of the campus, but some are as far as 80 miles away for the benefit of students who live in Orange County.

Assignment to placements results from an application process conducted by year level. Entering students are placed at a 实习 agency for ten hours/week during the school year. Practica in the second and third year are chosen by the student from a list of pre-approved sites. The final internship is an APA-accredited full-time internship in the fourth year. All Clinical PsyD students must apply to a minimum of 11 APA internship sites. Students will interview for each position, and the selecting agency makes the final decision.

学生每周至少有10%的时间与他们的现场主管会面. 除了第一年, one of the hours must be individual supervision and the rest can be in individual or group format. Students keep a tally form which is signed each week by the supervisor.

科研训练

PsyD students participate in proposal development and dissertation groups. 这些密集的研讨会结合了实践和小组形式的指导阅读，并为学生准备论文-在高级能力选择领域的应用学术工作, and in line with the requirements of their chosen emphasis area as applicable. 该学生为他们的论文提案进行了辩护, 以及最后的研究项目, 给一个由教员组成的委员会.