Psychosocial/Clinical Research Practicum I

Catalog description

This course is designed to provide students with a supervised research experience with a faculty member of the Clinical Psychology Program. The course will be divided in two main components: Lecture and Practicum. It is expected that the student will spend from four to ten hours per week on practicum activities. The primary objective of the research practicum is to strengthen students’ ability to synthesize different phases and components of psychological research related to health psychology, psychopathology, test development and standardization, among other areas. Students will participate in the different aspects of the research projects assigned including; articulation of research questions, literature review, selection of sampling techniques, formulation of design strategies, development of data gathering instruments and other methods of data collection, data analysis, interpretation of results and research report writing.