Psychosocial/Clinical Research Practicum III

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This practicum is designed to provide students with a supervised research experience with a faculty member of the Clinical Psychology Program. practicum will be divided in two main components: lecture/didactic activities and practicum/experiential hands-on opportunities. It is expected that the student will spend from six to ten hours per week on practicum related activities including direct research experiences. The primary objective of the research practicum is to strengthen students’ ability to comprehend the different phases and components of psychological research related to health psychology, psychopathology, test development, among other areas. Students will participate in 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.