Introduction
The Doctor of Philosophy in clinical psychology is a full-time program consisting of 120 credits. The doctoral program in clinical psychology prepares students who have a primary career goal of community and clinical practice. This may be combined with an academic or research career.
Required courses include
foundations of psychology such as:
- Biological and social bases of behavior
- Developmental psychology
- History and systems of psychology
- Didactic and experiential training in:
- Assessment
- Intervention
- Diversity
- Relationship skills
- Professional ethics
- Supervision, consultation, and management
- Research methods and statistics
Extensive clinical field experience accompanies the academic core where students are placed in externships and in our Psychological Services Center accompanied by intensive supervision and case conferences. Completion of a dissertation and a one-year full-time internship is required for the degree. The clinical psychology program has been APA-accredited continuously since 1957. Students who complete the program are eligible to apply for a New York State psychology license.
Adelphi’s clinical psychology doctoral program uses the Vail model for its philosophy of training. The Vail model proposed that a clinical psychology program must adhere to the following general principles: the clinical psychologist should have a core of knowledge and training common to all psychologists; the program should be of at least four years’ duration, combining academic and clinical training, including an internship; preparation should be broadly directed toward both research and professional goals rather than simply technical skills; courses should be developed in sequence and be complementary rather than over lapping; the faculty should be neither over-dominated by the academy nor simply practical; continued contact throughout the training with clinical material is necessary, with the range extending from the normal to the abnormal population; a sense of professional responsibility and professional obligation must be instilled; cooperative work with persons of related disciplines is encouraged and sensitivity to the social implications of the psychologists’ activities is essential; and throughout, research issues are to be emphasized. Thus, the program should hold fast to those principles that suggest that the psychologist will be a professional, trained in a research tradition. These principles guide the core curricula of the doctoral program to be divided into the following major areas of instruction: general psychology, psychodynamics of behavior, diagnostic methods, therapy, research methods, professional ethics, and related disciplines. They also influence the emphases in our other programs.
Admission Requirements
The application deadline for fall admission to the doctoral program is January 15.
Applicants to the doctoral programs are required to have completed undergraduate courses in: general psychology, experimental psychology, statistics, developmental psychology, and abnormal psychology. Applicants are required to submit Graduate Record Examination (GRE) results (including the General Exam and the Psychology Exam). The Miller Analogies Test is not required. The Ph.D. program does not have minimum required scores, although most candidates have GRE scores considerably above 500 and have GPAs well above 3.0. Top applicants for the clinical psychology program are interviewed in a required group interview.
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