Catalog 2012-2013 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Clinical Psychology: PsyD, Sacramento
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The Sacramento Clinical PsyD Program is a practitioner-scholar program accredited, on probation, by the Commission on Accreditation of the American Psychological Association (750 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20002-4242; Phone: 202-336-5979; Email: apaaccred@apa.org; Web: www.apa.org/ed/accreditation).
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Program Outcomes
The Clinical PsyD program offered in Sacramento 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) links the core sciences with contemporary thought, research and practice in psychology;
- Intervention Skills enable students to plan, implement, and evaluate their work within a cultural framework;
- Professional Practice proficiency prepares students to effectively and ethically intervene in a variety of settings, using a variety of techniques and modalities.
- Relationship Skills enable students to make interpersonal connections, maintain professional boundaries as appropriate to the multicultural context in which they are operating, and engage in ethical and professional behavior;
- Diversity Competence involves developing awareness of students’ own culture and the cultures of others as mediators of one’s world view;
- Assessment Skills (diagnosis, interviewing, testing, and report writing) enable students to engage in an ongoing process of evaluating their practice, research and teaching;
- Professional Development engages students in self-evaluation and life-long learning;
- Supervision enables students to provide good clinical and professional feedback to others; and
- Research and Evaluation prepares students to critically evaluate the research literature in service of clinical goals and to conduct applied research and program evaluation.
Training Model: A Practitioner-Scholar Program
The Sacramento Clinical PsyD Program emphasizes clinical skills and the application of research knowledge.
The clinical program is ecosystemically oriented; it trains students to consider the role of diverse systems in creating and/or remedying individual and social problems. While students receive an exceptional grounding in traditional clinical assessment and intervention, they also are taught to consider the potential value of advocacy, consultation, or public policy work in helping both individuals and entire groups of clients with similar problems. The Sacramento PsyD faculty is committed to offering a broad array of elective courses reflecting theory, assessment, and intervention across a variety of systems, especially across cultural systems. The importance of the cultural system is emphasized throughout students’ academic and clinical training.
During the program students are evaluated on progressive developmental stages of their training. The evaluation begins prior to admission and includes evaluation of a student’s readiness for practicum training, readiness for internship and readiness for practice.
After a decade of being accredited as a single program, the Fresno/Sacramento Clinical PsyD program submitted to the Commission on Accreditation of the American Psychological Association a plan to separately accredit the two sites. The proposal was accepted and; Fresno and Sacramento have begun the process of separating the program. Students entering in AY12-13 will therefore enter either the Fresno or the Sacramento Clinical PsyD program. Field Training
The PsyD program emphasizes the integration of academic coursework with clinical practice. In order to integrate appropriate skills with material learned in the classroom, students typically participate in a professional training placement experience beginning in the first year. The professional training placement experiences completed prior to the full-time predoctoral internship are known as practicum experiences. Students are required to train in different settings each year, gaining experience with different populations in order to ensure a broad base of training.
Students typically are placed in a 10-15 hour/week practicum in the second semester of their first year. Second- and third-year clinical PsyD students spend 20 hours per week in a practicum and participate in weekly professional development meetings on campus.
Assignments to the practica are accomplished with guidance from the Office of Professional Training. Each practicum agency is screened prior to being presented to the student as a placement. The student and his or her Professional Training Liaison make the final placement decisions jointly. Each site is evaluated annually by the students and the OPT staff.
Fourth year students are responsible for obtaining an appropriate 1-year, full-time internship and are strongly encouraged to seek an APA-accredited internship although APPIC, or CAPIC internships are permissible (approximately 2080 hours). The Office of professional training assists in the internship placement process. For many students, in the fourth year the internship stipend covers the costs of tuition and living expenses. Research Training
One of the unique aspects of the PsyD program is the class format in which the dissertation is completed. During their second and third years in the program, students complete their dissertation while taking the PsyD Dissertation Proposal and PsyD Dissertation course series. This intensive structure has proven extremely successful in facilitating students completing the program on time. Specialized Admissions Requirements: Credit for Previous Graduate Work
Students applying to the Sacramento clinical PsyD program may be eligible to receive credit for previous graduate work. All applicants must meet the graduate level requirements for preparation in psychology. While an applicant may not have completed the graduate level requirements at the time of application to CSPP, these requirements must be satisfied before the admitted student can enroll.
Any single course can only be used to fulfill one course requirement.
- The Sacramento Clinical PsyD Program allows a maximum of 30 units of graduate level transfer credit into the program. These credits must be completed with a grade of a B or better and must be from an accredited institution.
- Transfer credits reduce the total number of units a student must complete in order to obtain the degree. Therefore, it is sometimes possible for a student to reduce a four-year program to three years. Students should consult with their academic advisor immediately if they believe they can reduce their time to completion, as specific course sequences are necessary for this to occur.
- Graduate level transfer credits meeting our requirements are allowed even if the master’s degree has not been awarded. Approval of the course syllabus and the instructor CV are required for every course. It is the student’s responsibility to obtain this documentation.
- Regardless of the number of transfer units allowed, a student must complete any and all requirements remaining in both the core and emphasis areas for which transfer credit was not allowed.
- Listed below are courses that are NOT eligible for transfer credit. Please note that transfer units are credit units and do not require replacement.
- PSY 6507 Basic Foundations of Clinical Practice: I (3 units)*
- PSY 6508 Basic Foundations of Clinical Practice: II (3 units)*
- PSY 7911 PsyD Proposal Development I (3 units)
- PSY 7912 PsyD Proposal Development II (3 units)
- PSY 8913 PsyD Dissertation I (3 units)
- PSY 8914 PsyD Dissertation II (3 units)
- PSY XXXX Any required ethics course
- PSY XXXX Any clinical practicum**
- PSY XXXX Any assessment course***
- PSY XXXX Any required intervention course
- Any course over seven years old
* To apply for a waiver of Basic Foundations of Clinical Practice, students should submit 1) syllabi of graduate level coursework in psychopathology/diagnosis, basic counseling skills, and theories of psychotherapy and 2) a brief videotaped role play or actual therapy session so the student’s basic counseling skills can be assessed. This material should be submitted to the Program Director no later than mid-August. The materials will be submitted to the instructor of Basic Foundations of Clinical Practice for review and for a decision. The student must sign up for the course during registration, and if the waiver is granted the course may be dropped. If the course is not approved for waiver, the student remains in the course. A decision will be made prior to the Add/Drop deadline. If the course is waived, the units must be replaced with elective units. If sufficient elective units have been transferred into the program, an additional course may not have to be completed. Because this is a year-long class, students will receive a waiver for the entire year, if granted, rather than just one semester.
** In order to waive this requirement, the OPT Liaison reviews the information submitted by the student as to the nature and content of the practicum, the number of hours, and the site of the experience. The OPT Liaison will make a decision in conjunction with the Program Director and the student will be notified as to whether or not the practicum may be waived. This decision must be made as soon as possible, preferably by the Add/Drop deadline. If the practicum is waived, the units must be replaced and the hours of the waived practicum will be added to the next required practicum. Under certain circumstances practicum hours may be accepted for transfer.
*** In order to waive this requirement, the student must contact the Program Director for referral to a faculty member designated to determine waiver requirements. Curriculum and Degree Requirements
The PsyD Program requires a minimum of 90 academic units and 30 internship units. Requirements for advancement to candidacy include
- successful completion of 60 units of graduate study and demonstration of the following key competencies through the successful completion of the associated courses: assessment [Intellectual Assessment, Personality Assessment I & II]; diagnosis, psychological theory, and intervention [Basic Foundations of Clinical Practice I & II and 1 of the required psychotherapy courses]; law and ethics [Introduction to Ethical Practice & Law].Students must demonstrate competency in foundational sciences through successful completion of at least 2 of the 5 Foundational Science Examinations, and research competency through 6
- successful defense of the dissertation proposal at the Preliminary Oral Examination;
- integrated clinical competency by successful completion of the Clinical Competency Progress Review (CPPR) The Foundational Science exams are offered at the end of each semester (during finals week) and are intended to be taken at the end of the term in which the student completes the related course. The CPPR is offered once each semester and is intended to be taken after the student has completed his or her 2nd year of study. Students may take the exams as many times as necessary during the eight years allowable for the completion of the doctoral degree. Students may not apply for internship until they have met all requirements for advancement to candidacy.
Note(s):
*PSY6501 & PSY6505 require weekly participation in both 3-hour instruction and 1-hour lab (scheduled separately).
**First year students participate in a reciprocal learning experience with a third year student, who has been assigned by the Supervision Seminar instructor. The first year student meets with the faculty instructors of the Supervision Seminar class during the fall semester to accomplish the match of first and third year students. During the second semester, the matched supervisor-supervisee meet weekly to examine clinical material as an adjunct to the supervision provided by the first year student’s field placement agency. Fourth Year
*** Students may request an exception to participate in a 2-year, half-time internship (PSY9561-PSY9566) in place of a 1-year, full-time internship. Note(s):
Several courses are offered through distributed learning formats. Students may complete up to 2 foundational science courses, 1 ethics course, and 2 other required courses, as well as up to 11 units of electives, in an online/distributed learning format. Required assessment and intervention courses must be taken in person. The CSPP section of Online Coursework describes the equipment and software needed for full participation in these courses. Clinical PsyD Program Faculty: Sacramento
Core faculty for the Sacramento PsyD program are listed below:
Matthew Baity, PhD, Associate Professor
Beth Limberg, PhD, Associate Professor and Program Director
Carl Mack, PhD, Associate Professor
Suni Petersen, PhD, Associate Professor
John Preston, PhD, ABPP, Lecturer and Professor Emeritus
Sheetal Shah, PhD, Assistant Professor
Ronald W. Teague, PhD, ABPP, Professor
For a detailed description of program faculty background and research interests, please see the alphabetical listing of Faculty for the California School of Professional Psychology.
APA Education and Training Outcomes
The CSPP Sacramento Clinical Psychology PsyD program is accredited, on probation, by the Commission on Accreditation of the American Psychological Association (APA) and publishes the following outcome data as required by APA:
- Time to Completion
- Program Costs
- Internship Placement Rates
- Attrition
- Licensure
Please visit the “About CSPP Programs” section of our website (www.alliant.edu/cspp) to view these data.
Questions related to the program’s accredited status should be directed to the Commission on Accreditation:
Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation
American Psychological Association
750 1st Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002
Phone: (202)336-5979
Email: apaaccred@apa.org
Web: www.apa.org/ed/accreditation
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