Graduate Degree Aims, Competencies, and Element

The PhD Program has adopted a series of three aims, nine competencies, and related elements designed to implement its philosophy and meet the overall program aims. The competencies of the doctoral program are met through academic and training activities that include courses, practicum and internship placements, and supervised research experiences. 多个数据来源用于评估与这些能力相关的结果. These competencies specify attitudes, knowledge, and skills that students are expected to achieve by the time they graduate from the doctoral program, as well as the perceptions, feelings, and professional achievements alumni are expected to report as they pursue their profession. The elements are the expected specific outcomes for each of the respective competencies.

Aim 1: 教育学生进行应用研究，并扎根于, and contribute to, the knowledge base of psychology.

Aim 2: To prepare students to be effective professional psychologists skilled at evaluating theoretical and scientific knowledge, psychological functioning, and providing efficacious interventions with diverse clients across a range of settings. We define diversity in keeping with Principle E of the 2010 amended version of the 2002 “Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct” as reflecting individual, role, and cultural differences, including those based on age, gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, language, socioeconomic status, and other differences.

Aim 3: To prepare ethical and responsible professional psychologists who are able to work collaboratively with other professionals and take on multiple roles in varied settings, 培养终身学习和提高生产力的态度和技能.

Competency 1: Research

1a: Demonstrate the substantially independent ability to formulate research or other scholarly activities that are of sufficient quality and rigor to contribute to the scientific, psychological or professional knowledge base.

1b: Conduct research or other scholarly activities.

1c: Critically evaluate and disseminate research or other scholarly activities via professional presentations and publications at the local, regional, and national level.

Competency 2: Ethical and Legal Standards

2a: Be knowledgeable of and act in accordance with the current version of APA Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct.

2b:了解并遵守相关法律, regulations, rules, 以及管理组织内健康服务心理学的政策, state, regional, and federal levels.

2c: Be knowledgeable of and act in accordance with relevant professional standards and guidelines.

在所有专业活动中以道德的方式行事.

Competency 3: Individual and Cultural Diversity

3a: An understanding of how their own personal/cultural history may affect how they understand and interact with people different from themselves.

3b: Knowledge of the current theoretical and empirical knowledge base as it relates to addressing diversity, including research, training, supervision/consultation, and service.

3c: Ability to integrate awareness and knowledge of individual and cultural differences in the conduct of professional roles (e.g., research, services, and other professional activities).

Competency 4: Professional Values and Attitudes

4a:行为方式要反映心理学的价值观和态度, including integrity, deportment, professional identity, accountability, lifelong learning, and concern for the welfare of others.

4b: Engage in self-reflection; engage in activities to maintain and improve performance, well-being and professional effectiveness.

4c: Actively seek and demonstrate openness and responsiveness to feedback and supervision.

4d: Respond professionally in increasingly complex situations with an increasingly greater degree of independence as you progress through levels of training.

Competency 5: Communication and Interpersonal Skills

5a:与各种各样的人建立并保持有效的关系, including colleagues, communities, organizations, supervisors, and those receiving professional services.

5b: Produce and comprehend oral, nonverbal, and written communications; demonstrate a grasp of professional language and concepts.

5c: Demonstrate effective interpersonal skills and the ability to manage difficult communication well.

Competency 6: Assessment

6a: Select and apply assessment methods that draw from empirical literature; collect relevant data using multiple sources and methods.

6b:解释评估结果，为案例概念化提供信息, classification, and recommendations.

6c: Communicate, orally and in written documentation, the findings and implications of an assessment in an accurate and effective manner sensitive to a diverse range of clients and audiences.

Competency 7: Intervention

7a: Establish and maintain effective relationships with the recipients of psychological services.

7b: Develop evidence-based intervention plans specific to the service delivery goals.

7c:根据当前的科学文献实施干预措施.

7d:将相关研究文献应用于关键决策.

7e: Evaluate intervention effectiveness and adapt intervention goals and methods consistent with ongoing evaluation.

7f: Evaluate intervention effectiveness.

Competency 8: Supervision

8a:展示监督模式和实践的知识.

8b: Demonstrate the ability to integrate supervisor feedback into professional practice.

能力9:咨询、跨专业的跨学科技能

9a: Demonstrate knowledge and respect for the roles and perspectives of other professions.

展示咨询模式和实践的知识.

In addition to specific aims, competencies, and elements, 该项目还旨在指导所有学生掌握特定领域的知识, 这是组成临床心理学领域的基本内容领域. Consistent with APA Accreditation standards, the program considers it critically important to train and evaluate student effectiveness in the following areas:

Domain-Specific Knowledge

Category 1: History and Systems of Psychology and Basic Content Areas in Scientific Psychology

1a: History and systems of psychology

1b: Affective aspects of behavior

1c: Biological aspects of behavior

1d: Cognitive aspects of behavior

1e: Developmental aspects of behavior

1f: Social aspects of behavior

Category 2: Research and Quantitative Methods and Advanced Integrative Knowledge in Scientific Psychology

2a:对基础学科特定内容问题的高级综合知识

2b: Research methods

2c: Quantitative methods

2d: Psychometrics

Professional Clinical Training Opportunities

This program is infused with social justice concerns and educates students to conduct a broad range of psychological research and to become broadly trained practitioners. It provides training for clinical psychologists in all aspects of conducting psychological research such that they are capable of being productive scholars who contribute to the body of psychological literature. 

The program is designed to address all five levels of the biopsychosocial model of human functioning: biological, psychological, familial, community, and sociocultural. We encourage psychology major students to develop a personal integration of cognitive-behavioral, family systems, multicultural, and contemporary psychodynamic approaches. 因为在旧金山湾区csp开设了广泛的临床课程, students are able to develop in-depth expertise in one or more of these orientations by selecting sections of required courses, elective courses, clinical practica (field placements), 以及强调治疗中特定理论导向的导师.

Students begin their professional clinical training in their second year in community mental health centers, clinics, inpatient mental health facilities, medical settings, specialized service centers, rehabilitation programs, residential or day programs, forensic/correctional facilities, and educational programs. In their third year, and often fourth year, 学生继续临床培训或临床研究实习. Students typically receive a minimum of 1,600 hours of clinical training prior to internship.

The San Francisco Bay Area offers an enormous range of training opportunities in service of individuals representing diverse populations. 学生们在许多不同的机构进行了实地实习, including: Veterans Affairs, Kaiser Permanente, and community mental health clinics.

与师范学院和福特汉姆大学的合作协议

CSPP has special collaborative agreements with Teachers College of Columbia University and Fordham University-Lincoln Center Campus for graduates of the master’s program to allow them to obtain pre-approved credit for previous work upon being accepted into the San Francisco program.