DEGREE PROGRAMS THE TERMINAL MASTER OF ARTS DEGREE The terminal Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology is a two-year non-thesis degree designed to meet the needs of those students who wish to enroll only for a masters degree. The program is constructed to develop graduates who have a broad perspective and sophistication in psychology with sufficient skills to effectively enter the job market on the paraprofessional or sub-doctoral levels. The M.A. program does not prepare the student for licensure as a psychologist nor does completion of the program guarantee later admission to Rosemead's doctoral programs. Since the program is so similar to the first two years of the doctoral programs (and the intermediate M.A.), an M.A. student will lose no academic credit if later accepted for doctoral studies at Rosemead. The terminal Master's must be distinguished from the Master's which is awarded at the end of the second year to students formally enrolled in the doctoral programs. THE DOCTOR OF PSYCHOLOGY DEGREE The Psy. D. degree in Clinical Psychology is designed to train direct-service practitioners in professional psychology. The Psy. D. is a newer professional degree which more adequately reflects scientifically based professional train ing in applied psychology than does the traditional academic-research orienta tion of the Ph.D. While students receive training in basic research methods sufficient to allow effective utilization of available knowledge in professional practice, greater emphasis in the Psy .D. program is placed upon direct clinical experience. Psy.D. graduates will be expected to have an adequate knowledge of psychological theory, assessment, and intervention, to be knowledgeable concerning relevant issues and methodology in research, to have a sensitivity to their intrapsychic functioning and interpersonal effect in clinical work, to have a probing thoughtful stance toward human problems wedded to skills in assessment and therapeutic intervention, to recognize the need and have the skills to assess outcomes in clinical work, and to be alert to the ongoing professional and ethical issues in the psychological field. While Rosemead's Psy.D. program requires a dissertation, topics may be chosen with greater flexibility in clinical-professional areas than is typical for the Ph.D. For students without previous graduate study, the Psy. D. program requires approx imately five years of full-time study, including a clinical internship.
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