Advanced Clinical Practice: Academic Curriculum
The program offers advanced clinical training and education to enhance diagnostic, psychotherapeutic, and consultative skills. The ACP Program involves three years of course work and a clinical practicum. The curriculum consists of eighteen core courses and is organized into two sequences:
- Clinical Practice
- Psychodynamic Theory
The Clinical Practice Sequence
The Clinical Practice Sequence seeks to establish within the student a conceptually rigorous and comprehensive, psychodynamically informed clinical practice framework. Course subjects include six semesters of case-based seminars, three semesters of clinical process and technique, and diversity in clinical practice. Two semesters of adulthood disorders address neurotic, personality, and psychotic disorders as well as current theories of trauma, social disorder, and neurobiology.
The Psychodynamic Theory Sequence
The Psychodynamic Theory Sequence instills in the student an informed, self-aware use of theory in clinical practice, consulting, and teaching. Six semesters of psychodynamic psychology provide solid foundations in classical theory, object relations, self-psychology and contemporary psychoanalytical theories.