Goals and Objectives

The clinical PhD program offered at the Fresno campus is designed to train students to be competent in nine broad areas:

• Foundational Science of Psychology (Social and Developmental Psychology, History and Systems, Biological Science, and Cognitive and Affective Bases of Behavior) so as to link the core sciences with contemporary research and practice in psychology.
• Research and Evaluation in order to conduct independent research and write grants.
• Relationship Skills that enable them to make establish interpersonal relationships, maintain appropriate boundaries, and engage in ethical and professional behavior.
• Diversity Competence that involves developing awareness of their own culture and the cultures of to thers as mediators of one's world view.
• Assessment Skills (diagnosis, interviewing, testing and report writing) enabling them to engage in an ongoing process of evaluating their practice, research and teaching.
• Intervention Skills that enable students to plan, implement and evaluate their work witchin a cultural framework.
• Professional Development so as to be able to engage in self-evaluation and engage in life-long learning.
• Supervision that enables them to provide goom clinical and professional feedback to others and,
• Teaching so as to be able to convey their clinical and research knowledge to others through a variety of teaching modalities.