通过各种学术和培训活动, 包括心理学课程, 实习和实习机会, 以及有监督的研究经历, 该计划努力实现以下目标:

• 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的能力, 为该领域的知识库做出贡献.

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. 临床博士课程要求学生完成3个临床实习和1个全职博士实习.

我们的项目是博士级的, 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门课程,在与成年人一起工作的三年中，我接受了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
• 大学心理咨询中心
• 药物和酒精治疗项目
• 社区精神卫生中心

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控每个地点，以确保培训质量. 当学生进入这些网站, 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可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.

职业培训办公室(临床博士项目，洛杉矶)

shawndeia Drinkard博士

临床训练主任

sdrinkard@xmloungehotel.com

科研训练

在程序中, 设计, implementing and evaluating research are core skills that are taught to make our students thrive in their respective professional communities. 从他们项目的第一年开始, 学生选择自己的研究实习课程顺序的奖学金主题. 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. 在他们第三年的开始, students undergo a year-long course in conducting research in applied settings in which they learn skills necessary for research consultation and program evaluation, 关键技能，使他们能够帮助精神卫生系统服务于不同的文化和专业社区.

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. 这些项目涉及教师在以下领域的专业知识(但不限于):文化多样性, 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. 

论文的开发通常是一个为期两年的项目, 具备独立开展工作的知识和技能, 道德, 毕业后能独立从事心理文化研究.

作为协作工作的结果, 学生和教师在许多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
• 全国多元文化会议暨峰会
• 洛杉矶县心理协会
• 联合国妇女地位委员会会议
• 心理学女性协会
• 全国儿童和青少年心理学会议
• 美国心理法律学会会议
• 西南社会科学协会年会暨暴力问题国际研讨会, 滥用, 和创伤
• 国际创伤压力研究协会，国际防止虐待和忽视儿童协会
• 亚裔美国人心理学会
• 全国儿童虐待和忽视会议, 虐待和忽视儿童问题办公室国际家庭治疗协会
• 美国团体心理治疗协会
• 国际心理学大会
• 全国人际暴力峰会 & 一生中的虐待
• 美国婚姻和家庭治疗协会
• 查德威克中心应对儿童虐待会议波士顿大学多样性挑战
• 支持全国天才大会的情感需求
• 新英格兰天才大会