College of Arts and Sciences
Program Information
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Clinical Psychology PhD
Program
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Description of the Clinical Program The Clinical Program is the largest Ph.D. program within the Psychology Department with approximately 50 doctoral students and 8 core faculty members, a Director of the Psychological Consultation Center, and additional part time faculty and practicum supervisors. The program has been fully accredited by the American Psychological Association since 1972. The Clinical Psychology Program at the University of Rhode Island has adopted the Scientist-Practitioner model of training. The Program trains students to function as leaders and innovators in the field of clinical psychology with generalist training in intervention and assessment skills, the core areas of psychology, and methodological skills. In addition students select a focus area chosen from health psychology, multicultural issues, neuropsychology, child/family and applied methodology and complete didactic courses, practica, and research requirements within the focus area. Special emphases within our training program include opportunities to learn community and population-based approaches; the opportunity to take advanced methodology courses; and a focus through both infusion and designated courses on multicultural issues. In addition, specific objectives focus on developing skills in the integration of science, theory and practice. The clinical program utilizes a training model that includes exposure to a variety of psychotherapy orientations. These currently include cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, family systems, interpersonal-process, and feminist approaches. The clinical program also provides training in a variety of therapy modalities including family, couples, group, individual adult, and child psychotherapy.
URI Clinical Graduate Students - Statistics
Attrition: For the 53 students entering in the years 1999-2005, 9 withdrew before completing the doctoral degree. The rate of attrition for this time period is 17% (9/53).
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Accreditation The clinical psychology program has been fully accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA) since 1972. As noted in the APA Accreditation Handbook, the aim of accreditation is to promote program excellence and to provide professional and objective evaluation of programs as a service to the public, prospective students, and the profession. To maintain accreditation, the clinical psychology program submits an annual report summarizing the year’s activities with respect to accreditation criteria. Every five to seven years the program undertakes a more detailed self-study followed by a site visit from an accreditation team. The program underwent a accreditation review during the 2003-2004 academic year, beginning with a self-study submitted to the APA Office of Accreditation on September 1, 2003. The program was fully reaccredited following that self-study and site visit. Students contribute information to the self-study process and are requested to be available to site visitors for discussion and feedback. The program’s annual reports, the accreditation report, and related materials are available for inspection to matriculated students from the Director of Clinical Training.
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