Counseling Psychology PhD Curriculum

The program consists of four or five years of full-time study, including a research dissertation and a full-year pre-doctoral internship. Applicants admitted to the program enter with a bachelor’s or master’s degree.

Required Courses in Counseling Psychology
Course#    Course Title         Credits
CAP 6200 Introduction to Counseling 3
CAP 6287 Group Counseling 3
CAP 6399 Clinical Skills 3
CAP 6201 Introduction to Assessment 3
CAP 6350 Introduction to Cognitive Assessment 3
CAP 6352 Personality Assessment 3
CAP 6203 Understanding Culture and Diversity 3
CAP 6240 Family Counseling and Collaboration 3
CAP 6206 Learning Principles 3
CAP 6220 Development Across the Lifespan 3
CAP 6240 Psychopathology: Diagnosis and Treatment Planning 3
CAP 6202 Research, Evaluation and Data Analysis 3
CAP 6125 Introduction to Statistics in Mental Health and Education 3
CAP 6510
& CAP 6511
Internship in Counseling Psychology I & 2 6
If you have taken the above courses as part of your Master program,
you do not need to repeat them.
Professional Core (total 6 credit hours)
CAP 7701 Doctoral Seminar in Counseling Psychology 3
CAP 7732 Legal and Ethical Issues in Community and Educational Settings 3
Basic Core (total 15 credit hours)
CAP 6390 History and Systems of Psychology 3
CAP 6394 Advanced Multicultural Psychology 3
CAP 7750 Biological Bases of Behavior 3
CAP 7755 Cognitive and Affective Bases of Behavior 3
CAP  7756 Social Psychology in an Organizational and Ecological Context 3
Clinical Core (total 29 credit hours)
CAP 6350 Cognitive Assessment 3
CAP 6352 Personality Assessment 3
CAP 7720 Advanced Clinical Interventions 3
CAP 7741 Advanced Fieldwork I 2
CAP 7742 Advanced Fieldwork II 2
CAP 7743 Advanced Fieldwork III 2
CAP 7744 Advanced Fieldwork IV 2
CAP 7753 Doctoral Seminar:  Leadership, Consultation, and Supervision 3
CAP 7758 Doctoral Seminar in Contemporary Theories of Psychotherapy 3
CAP 7760 Doctoral Seminar in Vocational Psychology and Career Counseling 2
CAP 7798 Doctoral Internship I 1
CAP 7799 Doctoral Internship II 1
TBA Doctoral Internship III 1
Research Core (total 9 credit hours)
CAP 7711 Advanced Psychometric Principles 3
CAP 7712 Intermediate Statistical And Data Analysis Techniques 3
CAP 7716 Advanced Research and Data Analysis 3
CAP 9996 Dissertation Continuation 0
Electives (total 3 credit hours; one of the below two courses are required)
CAP 7723 Rorschach 3
CAP 7751 Clinical Neuropsychology3 3
Total Courses Post BA/BS:   42 - 44 ;
Total Credits Post BA/BS:  107 - 111
Total Courses Post MA:  26 – 28;
Total Credits Post MA:  62 - 66

* These are new courses that have not yet been assigned a number
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