Clinical Training
Practicum Training
In the Clinical Psychology Program, four years of practicum training are taught in-house. 听The first-year practicum focuses on humanistic and psychodynamic therapeutic techniques and is housed in the 小蓝视频 Center for Well-Being Programs and Psychological Services 听/student-affairs/counseling/
The second, third, and fourth year practica are taken in varying orders. One is an adult cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) practicum. Another 听听covers advanced behavioral and cognitive therapies, including dialectical behavior therapy, for adults. These are housed in the听James J. Gray Psychotherapy Clinic听in the Department of Psychology. Finally, a practicum in advanced cognitive behavior therapy for children takes place in the Clinical for Youth Anxiety and Related Disorders /cas/childanxiety/
Theoretical and empirical literature is integrated into each practicum experience in the context of readings and discussion. Each year-long practicum meets as a 3 credit/semester course, where students meet as a class for 2 陆 hours per week and receive additional individual and/or dyadic supervision.听Throughout the practica experiences, students are encouraged to attend to multicultural perspectives and the intersection of identities.
Externship Training
Students must complete at least one full-year an clinical externship (approximately 16 hours per week). Students typically do their externships in their third, fourth, and sometimes fifth years. Students are encouraged to choose sites that match their focused research and clinical interests and typically participate in externships that use the Washington Area Externship Consortium. Following is a list of selected sites where students have completed externships in recent years:
- 小蓝视频 Counseling Center
- Arlington County Mental Health Center
- Behavior Therapy Center of Greater Washington
- Catholic University of America Counseling Center
- Children's National Medical Center (Behavioral Sleep Medicine Clinic; Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders; Child and Adolescent Anxiety Clinic; Hyperactivity, Attention, and Learning Problems Clinic; Pediatric Neuropsychology, etc.)
- DC Superior Court Child Guidance Clinic
- Fort Belvoir Community Hospital
- George Mason University Counseling Center
- Georgetown University Counseling Center
- Johns Hopkins Hospital听
- National Cancer Institute at the NIH, Health Psychology and Neurobehavioral Research Group
- St. Elizabeth's Hospital
- US Naval Academy Midshipmen Development Center
- Wake Kendall Group
- Washington, DC, VA Medical Center (Substance Abuse Recovery Program; Primary Care Behavioral Health Clinic; etc.)
Internship Training
Clinical program students are required to serve a one-year internship prior to the completion of the PhD. The internship provides training in a range of psychological assessment and intervention activities conducted directly with recipients of psychological services. The internship must provide at least two hours per week in didactic activities such as case conferences, seminars, in service training, or grand rounds.
The internship experience must be completed in at least one year (full-time) or two years (half-time).
Students are required to serve internships accredited by the American Psychological Association or Canadian Psychological Association. Following is a list of selected sites where students have matched and completed internships in recent years:
- 小蓝视频 Counseling Center
- Baltimore VA Medical Center听
- Bellevue Hospital Center, New York University Langone Medical Center
- Brown University Medical Center
- Catholic University of America Counseling Center
- Duke University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry
- Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial VA听
- Faulk Center for Counseling听
- Hudson River Psychology Internship Program at Rockland Psychiatric Center
- Kennedy Krieger/Hopkins Behavioral Psychology and Neuropsychology
- Nassau University Medical Center
- Nemours/A.I. duPont Hospital for Children
- New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center
- Palo Alto Veterans Affairs Hospital
- University of Chicago Medicine听
- University of Miami Counseling Center
- University of Wisconsin-Madison University Health Services
- VA Salt Lake City Health Care System
- Washington DC VA Medical Center
- Yale University Child Study Center
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