CLINICAL CURRICULUM:
The following is a summary of the curriculum currently required by the Clinical Training Committee. Date of formal adoption is indicated in parentheses if it is later than 1988.
I. General Core
The following Departmental core courses must be taken. These will satisfy both the Departmental core requirements and APA requirements for bases of behavior.
a. PSB 5056 - Biological Psychology
b. DEP 5165 - Developmental Psychology
c. SOP 5053 - Social Psychology and PPE 5055 - Personality Theory
or
(new course) Personality and Social Psychology
d. EXP 5406 - Conditioning and Learning
or
EXP 5508 - Cognition and Perception
II. Research Methodology
a. CLP 5375 - Concepts and Methods of Clinical Psychology
b. PSY 6919 - Design and Analysis in Psychology or EDF 5401 - General Linear Model, or an equivalent course subject to approval of one's committee (Fall, 2002)
c. One additional graduate statistics course of the student's choice, subject to approval of one's committee.
III. Determinants of Abnormal Behavior
a. CLP 6169 - Adult Psychopathology+
b. CLP 5475 - Child Psychopathology and Intervention*
+ Students must enroll in the section taught by psychology department faculty.
*Also listed under section V. below.
IV. Assessment
a. PSY 5325 - Assessment: Theory and techniques in construction, use, and evaluation of psychological assessment procedures, academic and intelligence testing, objective approaches in the assessment of personality. (revised Summer, 2003)
b. CLP 5624 - Ethics and Fundamentals of Professional Practice+ (Fall, 1998; revised Summer 2003)
+ Also listed under VI and VIII below.
V. Behavior Change
a. CLP 5196 - Techniques of Behavior Change
b. CLP 5475 - Child Psychopathology and Intervention*
*Also listed under Section III. above.
VI. Background
a. CLP 5624 - Ethics and Fundamentals of Professional Practice+ (Fall, 1998; revised Summer 2003)
b. PSY 5605 - History and Systems (changed to an independent readings course beginning Fall, 2006)*
+ Also listed under VI and VIII below.
VII. Proseminar
PSY 6920r - Current Issues in Clinical Psychology (DCT Proseminar)*
*This is a one credit course to be taken every fall and spring semester by all clinical students in residence. It can be audited if taking it will put one's schedule over 9 hours, but attendance is still mandatory.
VIII. Supervised Clinical Preparation and Experience
a. CLP 5624 - Ethics and Fundamentals of Professional Practice*: This course is taught to all first year students during their first summer in residence. Its primary goals are to prepare trainees for their first clinical practicum placement by examining and reviewing standards of ethical practice and by providing a systematic foundation in skills important for communication, interviewing, assessment, report writing, assessing dangerousness, differential diagnosis, and treatment delivery. It also will provide an orientation to the FSU Psychology Clinic. (Fall, 1998; revised Summer 2003
b. CLP 5941/42 - Clinical Practicum: A minimum of 550 hours of supervised practicum experience must be completed in the Department's Psychology Clinic. Students are required to enroll in practicum at the Psychology Clinic for a minimum of twelve consecutive months. This is normally begun in the second year in the program. Prerequisites for this course are: CLP 6944, CLP 6169, CLP 5325.
c. PSY 6948 - Psychological Internship: Completion of a 2,000 hour APA-approved internship.+
*Also listed under VI and VIII below.
+It is up to the Student's Committee to determine whether the student should sign up for Internship hours.
No student can be cleared to receive the Ph.D. degree in Clinical Psychology until after the internship facility has certified to the Director of Clinical Training that the student has satisfactorily completed the internship.
IX. Elective Courses/Seminars (requirement revised Fall 2009)
Graduate students in clinical psychology are required to take at least two graduate courses beyond those used to fulfill other requirements of the Clinical Program. These electives must be graded (i.e., not pass/fail) content seminars or courses (not practica) in which at least three-quarters of those enrolled for credit are graduate students (for classes that include students from both graduate and undergraduate course numbers, this refers to three-quarters of the total student enrollment across course numbers). These electives are subject to approval by the student's Doctoral Committee. It is preferable that these electives are taken in the Psychology Department. A maximum of one of the two courses may be taken outside of the Psychology Department. However, students must obtain approval of the clinical faculty to allow outside courses to count toward the elective requirement. Students should provide the faculty with syllabi, credentials of the instructor, and provide a rationale for why the course is important for their training.
