洛杉矶临床心理学博士

通过各种学术和培训活动, 包括心理学课程, 实习和实习安排, 以及监督研究经验, 该计划力求实现以下目标:

• To prepare students to be effective professional psychologists who are skilled at evaluating psychological functioning and providing empirically supported interventions with diverse clients across a range of settings.
• 培养学生对临床心理学进行评估和研究, 对该领域的知识库有所贡献.

Students’ professional development occurs within the context of both formal coursework and professional clinical training experiences supervised by licensed clinical psychologists in a variety of mental 健康 service settings. The clinical PhD program requires students to complete three clinical practica and a full-time doctoral internship.

我们的项目具有博士级别, field training experts who work closely with students throughout the placement process to assist students in securing placements in the field that allow them a diverse set of clinical training experiences that are aligned with their individual training goals.

实习

学生至少完成2门,在与成年人一起工作的三年时间里进行400小时的实习培训, 孩子们, 夫妻, 以及各种社区环境中的家庭，例如:

• 学术医疗中心
• 退伍军人事务医院
• 精神科住院设施
• 大学咨询中心
• 药物和酒精治疗项目
• 社区精神健康中心

Our staff in the office of professional training have long-standing relationships with over 100 sites within the 洛杉矶 and surrounding metro areas in southern 加州. 我们的现场培训人员仔细审查和监督每个地点，以确保培训质量. 当学生进入这些网站时, they assume a greater degree of clinical responsibility for assessment and intervention each year while being closely supervised at a level appropriate to the students’ training and abilities.

实习

在项目的第四年, all students are required to apply for a full-time APA-accredited internship by participating in phases I and II of the APPIC Match process. Every student receives extensive guidance and mentoring prior to and throughout the application process from the field training staff and their faculty advisors.

所有美国心理学协会认证的实习都是一整年的时间，并提供津贴. 许多学生在实习期间离开洛杉矶地区，去追求专业培训经验. The internship is a culminating experience that integrates the student's academic and clinical experiences and prepares them for their professional role as a licensed clinical psychologist.

专业培训办公室(临床博士课程，洛杉矶)

Shawndeeia Drinkard博士
临床训练主任
sdrinkard@hougenyan.com

科研训练

在洛杉矶的临床心理学博士项目, 设计, implementing and evaluating research are core skills that are taught to make our students thrive in their respective professional communities. 从项目的第一年开始, 学生选择自己的研究实践课程序列的奖学金主题. This practicum allows them to be mentored in a small group of students (usually six to eight) that are assigned to one faculty member based on common content and/or methodological interests.

与他们的教师和学生同事一起工作, 学生学习设计和评估他们自己的研究项目的基本部分, including presenting at a school-wide poster session and sharing their results with various communities through local and national presentations. 在他们第三年开始的时候, students undergo a year-long course in conducting research in applied settings in which they learn skills necessary for research consultation and program evaluation, 使他们能够帮助为不同文化和专业社区服务的精神卫生系统的关键技能.

在第三年, students apply skills they have learned in research methods and design to develop their dissertation with the help of a faculty dissertation chairperson. 这些项目涉及(但不限于)文化多样性等领域的教师专业知识, 健康, 家庭动力学, 兄弟姐妹关系, 儿童虐待, 团体心理治疗, 小儿神经心理学, 性别认同, 妇女问题, 神经发育条件, ecopsychology, 社区心理学, 亲密和性, 文化适应力, 和文化适应. 

论文的撰写通常是一个为期两年的项目, 提供独立运作的知识和技能, 道德, 毕业后能独立从事心理学研究.

这是合作工作的结果, 学生和教师已经在一些专业会议上展示了他们的奖学金, 包括下列专业协会的会议及年会:

• 美国心理学会
• 西方心理学会
• 全国多元文化会议和峰会
• 洛杉矶县心理协会
• 联合国妇女地位委员会会议
• 女性心理学协会
• 全国儿童和青少年心理学会议
• 美国心理学-法律学会会议
• 西南社会科学协会年会暨暴力问题国际会议, 滥用, 和创伤
• 国际防止儿童虐待和忽视协会
• 亚裔美国人心理学会
• 全国儿童虐待和忽视问题会议, 国际家庭治疗协会儿童虐待和忽视办公室
• 美国团体心理治疗协会
• 国际心理学大会
• 人际暴力问题全国峰会 & 一生中的虐待
• 美国婚姻家庭治疗协会
• 查德威克中心应对虐待儿童会议波士顿学院多样性挑战
• 支持全国资优会的情感需求
• 新英格兰天才会议