The Advanced Clinical Emphasis Area aims to provide students maximum flexibility and choice in deepening their exposure to diverse populations, theories, interventions and specialty areas to best fit their interests and/or career trajectories.

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Mission

Building on our strong generalist training across the lifespan, the mission of the Advanced Clinical Emphasis Area of the PsyD Program at Spalding is to allow students the opportunity to create their own area of emphasis (such as Pediatric Neuropsychology, Couples and Families, Underrepresented Populations, etc.) or to sample broadly across other areas of emphasis to expand their foundational knowledge. Imagine being able to take introductory or independent courses in Forensic Psychology, Neuropsychology, and Health Psychology. So many options are available to you in the Advanced Clinical Emphasis Area, including developing your dissertation on the topic or population that most interests you.

Practica and Internships

Practicum placements include, but are not limited to, college counseling centers, community mental health centers, private practices, Veteran’s Administration and other hospitals, including psychiatric hospitals, school and residential systems, and specialty clinics. This emphasis area also aims to develop students’ professional identity through strong supervision, mentoring, and modeling of scholar-practitioner values and practices.

Students will be well prepared for a diverse array of possibilities for internship, depending on courses selected. Trained in a collaborative, integrative, multiculturally humble manner, students will have the knowledge, skills and attitudes to be successful as interns, postdoctoral fellows, and private practitioners.

Courses

Select the five courses you most want to take:

• PSY 888 Couples
• PSY 811 Psychopharmacology
• PSY 770 Teaching of Psychology
• PSY 806 Advanced Interventions: Dialectial Behavior Therapy and Other Third Wave Approaches 
• PSY 702 Family therapy

*Note: All other EA1 class can be selected; Other EA2-4 classes with instructor permission or completed pre-requisites

**Additional electives TBD

Program Sheet 
Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology: Advanced Clinical