Biola University 2012-2013 Catalog psychology role that comes after all coursework is complete. All of our students who complete the eligibility requirements obtain an internship. In the past 7 years we have placed 107 Psy.D. students and 56 Ph.D. students in internships. Of these, 97% were placed in an internship of their choice in the first year they applied, the other 3% chose to wait another year for the internship they wanted. The Ph.D. interns obtained APA-accredited internship at a slightly higher rate (88%) than did the Psy.D. interns (77%) because of the differences in their career goals and aspirations. In most of the internships (93%), the students received funding from the internship agency. A very few students (1%) obtained internships arranged on a 2-year, half- time schedule. Some of the internship agencies are in the Southern California area, but many of them are in other reputable institutions across the country (see Practicum and Internship Agencies listing). The internship experience greatly enriches the professional development of the Rosemead students and prepares them for the next step in their careers. Additional Educational Opportunities Training & Research Facilities Rosemead maintains an outpatient psychological service and training center on the Biola campus. The clinic offers a wide range of psychological services to adults and children. It also provides on-campus training opportunities for students. The clinic is equipped with video-taping facilities for case observation. Students also receive supervised clinical experiences in a variety of practicum placements in the Greater Los Angeles Area. These agencies present students with opportunities to work with clinical professionals in a variety of therapeutic orientations serving a broad range of diverse populations. The agencies that regularly train Rosemead students—surrounding school districts; community mental health centers; child, adolescent and adult treatment centers; outpatient clinics; and private and public psychiatric hospitals—ensure that Rosemead students will gain a breadth of clinical experience in professional settings working with diverse populations. Students receive both supervision at their training sites and additional clinical consultation on campus with Rosemead faculty. The on-campus supervision ensures an integration of classroom training and field experience. Recent and current practicum agencies are listed later in this catalog. Biola has a commitment to academic computing which provides substantial computing resources for Rosemead students and faculty. The School of Business and Library’s Instructional Labs often serve as an open lab for Library research, email, and word processing. There are also a number of smaller departmental labs on campus dedicated to students of their respective majors. Further, Biola believes the wireless network should extend connectivity to those areas where a wired network port is not available. Biola has multiple wireless access points installed around campus. Most campus common areas have been equipped with wireless access.
Academic & Clinical Consultants As a professional school located in a large metropolitan area, Rosemead utilizes the services of a number of persons from the larger professional community in its academic and clinical programs. Whether as part-time faculty or as consultants, this roster is multidisciplinary and enables Rosemead to enrich its training programs. Academic and clinical consultants do not serve as advisors to Rosemead students or chairpersons of dissertation committees but they do participate in other academic or consultation activities. The following professional persons are either currently or recently involved in some aspect of Rosemead’s academic or clinical programs: Christal Daehnert , Ph.D. Rosemead School of Psychology: Clinical Supervision Malcolm B. Dick , Ph.D. University of South Carolina: Cognitive Psychology University of California Irvine Alzheimer Disease Center William L. Edkins , Psy.D. Rosemead Graduate School of Professional Psychology: Private Practice Marie Hoffman , Ph.D. Brookhaven Institute for Psychoanalysis and Christian Theology: Private Practice David Martin , Ph.D. Harbor UCLA Medical Center Psychology Division and HIV Mental Health Externship, Director of Training Avedis Panajian , Ph.D. United States International University ABPP: Early Object Relationships, Individual Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Jody A.Ward , Ph.D. Rosemead School of Psychology Drug & Alcohol Abuse; Private Practice J.WilliamWorden , Ph.D., ABPP Boston University Rosemead School of Psychology Faculty Emeritus Grief and Trauma; Private Practice Distinctives Rosemead’s major educational distinctives are its strong professional training orientation and its goal of relating the data and concepts of psychology to those of Christian theology. Since both psychology and theology address the human condition, Rosemead’s faculty believes there is a great deal to be gained by an interdisciplinary study of the nature of persons. Consequently, all students take a series of theology courses and integration seminars designed to study the relationship of psychological and theological conceptions of human functioning. This series of courses lengthens Rosemead’s doctoral program by approximately one year beyond most four-year clinical programs. While recognizing that the disciplines of psychology and theology have some very different data and methodologies, their overlapping content, goals and
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