作为全国首批心理学博士项目之一, the 专业心理学研究生院 has offered a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (PsyD) since 1976. The mission of the PsyD program is to train doctoral-level practitioner/scholars who have foundational interpersonal and scientific skills, 心理评估和干预的功能掌握, 并能将这些知识和技能应用到各种环境中.
We aim to train psychologists who contribute to the common good through their interpersonal awareness and skill. 从GSPP毕业的学生将成为心理学家,在心理学科学方面打下坚实的基础, 道德和专业基础, 具有评估和干预方面的技能,可应用于许多情况和社区.
专业课程
我们提供各种专业领域的培训,包括 军事心理学, 法医心理学, 儿童/青少年心理健康, 心理动力学治疗, 认知行为疗法, and others.
Clinical practice begins in the first quarter of the program at DU's community-based psychological center. Additional fieldwork opportunities are available through our partnerships at 130 different practicum sites.
的宽度
We offer extensive hands-on and experiential opportunities to complement our students' broad base of knowledge along with their analytical and research skills.
职业准备
我们将学生与实习联系起来, 指导和职业发展机会,帮助确保职业成功.
项目概述
The PsyD Program at GSPP is committed to providing broad-based training that provides students the basis for general practice, 有足够的基础进行专业培训. As such, we cover the following broad and general areas of psychological study through our 135-credit program. 课程包括以下领域的必修课和选修课:
The research and data analysis area begins with two statistics courses that review the fundamentals of descriptive and inferential statistics for evaluating clinically relevant questions. The quantitative research design course focuses on how to critique and integrate the empirical psychology literature with critical concern for issues such as design plans, 人工制品和临床工作的适用性. This reviews theory and techniques for assessing both ongoing processes and outcome effectiveness of psychological programs. 第二门方法论课程涉及理解、评估和进行定性研究. 最后,第三种方法提供了项目评估的理论和技术.
评估从理论课程开始,为评估课程奠定基础. 它关注的是有效性, reliability and standardization issues in psychological testing and the statistical properties of commonly used tests as well as clinical inference. This is followed by an assessment sequence providing students the background and skill necessary to administer, score, 将认知和个性测量的结果解释和整合为有洞察力的结果, 有益甚至是治疗效果.
The developmental sequence consists of three courses that consider the phases of human development from infancy through adulthood, 包括人格理论和研究的相关性. 注意文化和性别问题. 嘉宾小组、社区资源、录像带和小型讨论小组都被纳入其中. 儿童观察包括在早期阶段, 最后一门课程要求进行一次人生回顾面试.
Social Bases是一个2 / 4序列. 第一门课程回顾了理解和利用群体动力学的理论和技术. The second focuses on the implications of social psychology/social cognition for the practicing clinician.
Students can take clinical courses that build on the scientific foundations presented in the required courses, and allow students to explore intervention techniques and means of tracking and assessing their effectiveness. These courses are taught from a variety of theoretical perspectives and focus on several different clinical populations and problems.
儿童的评估和治疗
青少年的评估与治疗
夫妻治疗
家庭治疗
行为分析原理一 & II
行为分析案例公式
认知行为疗法
主体间性理论与实践
所有专业研讨会也讨论有效的治疗干预措施.
学习课程
专业聚焦工具
该计划提供广泛的普通教育. Each student also has the opportunity to choose a specialty area to increase depth of theoretical knowledge and skills. 例子包括成人或儿童评估和治疗, 家庭治疗, 法医心理学, 认知行为疗法, 心理动力学治疗, 健康心理学, 或者军事心理学.
临床能力考试
This exam is generally taken in the second year to ensure students demonstrate minimum standards for clinical skill and scholarship. 它由三个部分组成:临床小品, 临床病例概念及临床干预策略.
的博士论文
博士论文要求学生对心理学学术有原创性的贡献. They may choose to do a qualitative or quantitative research project or select another form of scholarship such as developing a case study or treatment protocol.
Pia Khandekar, PsyD是在圣地亚哥执业的有执照的临床心理学家, 和国防部一起在加州工作. She is currently the supervising psychologist and Clinical Program Director for the inpatient unit at Naval Medical Center San Diego. 在过去的四年中,博士. Khandekar制定并实施了一项全面的, interdisciplinary program focusing on crisis prevention planning and evidence-based interventions for depression/anxiety, trauma, substance use, 严重的精神疾病. 她是海军心理学实习项目的核心教员, 监督急诊精神病学和住院精神卫生轮转的实习生. 她还担任精神病学住院医师项目的教师, 促进PGY-1和2认知行为和心理动力心理治疗课程. 她被授予2018年心理学实习项目年度教师奖, 并于2019年8月获得该司令部授予的副临床硕士称号. 她还维持着一个门诊小组, 与海军/海军航空兵和海军特种作战部队的服务人员一起工作.
Dr. Khandekar graduated in 2011 from the 正规赌博十大平台排行’s 专业心理学研究生院, 并在夏普梅萨维斯塔医院完成了实习和博士后培训. Dr. Khandekar began working with active duty personnel when she took a position as a clinician working with military families in Germany at U.S. 陆军驻防斯图加特. 2015年回到美国后,李博士(Dr. 坎德卡尔被北岛海军航空站聘为心理学家, providing therapy to the naval aviation community and consultation to squadrons on human factors and performance.
“我练得越久, the more I am able to appreciate the exceptional caliber of the faculty and supervisors I encountered during my time at GSPP. 在我的职业生涯中,我经常对我作为学生所接受的培训心存感激, 但现在作为主管, 我发现自己几乎每天都在反思自己的监督. I feel a personal responsibility to pay forward the skills and guidance I was so lucky to receive myself. 作为一名实习生,没有什么能代替接触到优秀的东西, and I believe that the faculty and field placements at GSPP are what makes this program so exemplary.”
我们的实习联盟
在职业心理学研究生院, our innovative 实习联盟 is a nationally recognized program and serves as a model for other similar programs around the country.
The program is Accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of the 美国心理学会 (APA). Questions related to the program’s accreditation status should be directed to the Commission on Accreditation: