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image 1Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies___

Doctoral Program| Plan of Study

The program takes an average of six years to complete. Requirements include:

  • four years of full-time study, including an externship
  • one year full-time internship in clinical psychology
  • second-year research project consisting of a publishable research study performed
  • dissertation
  • oral dissertation defense.
The final outline for the dissertation is usually completed in the third or fourth year with completion of the dissertation in the fifth or sixth year. Written and oral comprehensives are not required.

Year One
Fall Semester Spring Semester
Course# Course Title Course# Course Title
PSI 620 Psychodynamics of Behavior: Freudian Theory PSI 621 Clinical Psychopathology
PSI 625 Psychological Testing I: Advanced Clinical Psychology I PSI 626 Psychological Testing II: Advanced Clinical Psychology II
PSI 628 Assessment of Personality PSI 630 Assessment of Learning Disabilities
PSI 632 Initial Intake Seminar I (1.5 credits) PSI 633 Initial Intake Seminar II (1.5 credits)
PSI 640 Research Conference: Methods and Design (0 credits) PSI 642 Research Work Group I
PSI 644 Statistics I: Statistics Lab PSI 645 Statistics II: Statistics Lab
PSI 647 Research Design
PSI 734 Developmental Psychology


Total Credits: 19.5
Total Credits: 16.5


Year Two
Fall Semester Spring Semester
Course# Course Title Course# Course Title

Externship (Two days a week placement)
Externship (Two days a week placement)
PSI 623 Child Psychopathology PSI 701 Case Conference II (0 credits)
PSI 643 Research Work Group II PSI 713 Diagnostic Practicum II
PSI 700 Case Conference I (0 credits) PSI 722 Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy II: Comparative Theories of Psychoanalysis
PSI 712 Diagnostic Practicum I PSI 742 Research Work Group III
PSI 724 Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy I: Principles PSI 746 Applied Clinical Research
PSI 736 Social Psychology PSI 830 Object Relations Theory

RESEARCH PROJECT DUE THIS SEMESTER *


Total Credits: 15
Total Credits: 15


Year Three
Fall Semester Spring Semester
Course# Course Title Course# Course Title
PSI 743 Research Work Group IV PSI 739 Humanistic and Cognitive Behavioral Approaches to Psychology
PSI 800 Case Conference III (1.5 credits) PSI 801 Case Conference IV (1.5 credits)
PSI 812 Psychotherapy Practicum I PSI 813 Psychotherapy Practicum II
PSI 831 Group Dynamics PSI 817 Research Work Group V
PSI 832 Cognition PSI 835 History and Systems of Psychology
PSI 833 Disorders of Self PSI 850 Ethics

Elective
Elective



Total Credits: 19.5
Total Credits: 19.5


Year Four
Fall Semester Spring Semester
Course# Course Title Course# Course Title
PSI 803 Concentration Case Conference Seminar I (1.5 credits) PSI 804 Concentration Case Conference Seminar II (1.5 credits)
PSI 818 Research Group VI PSI 819 Research Group VII
PSI 824 Physiological Psychology PSI 825 Clinical Neuropsychology
PSI 834 Multicultural Issues I: Sex and Gender PSI 838 Multicultural Issues II: Race, Class, and Ethnicity
PSI 851 Colloquium I (0 credits) PSI 852 Colloquium II (0 credits)

Elective
Elective



Total Credits: 13.5
Total Credits: 13.5


Year Five
Fall Semester Fall Semester
Internship Internship


* The Research Project will typically be an empirical project of publishable quality, but of lesser magnitude than a doctoral dissertation.

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Maryanne Galizia
Administrative Assistant
p - 516.877.4804
e - galizia@adelphi.edu

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This page last modified on June 7, 2007.
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