(5) PROFESSIONAL QUALIFYING EXAM All Ph .D. students must successfully complete an examination that evaluates the student's readiness for internship. This exam can be taken any time after three of the comprehensive examinations have been passed and must be completed six months prior to internship. The examining committee may require the student to complete additional coursework, practicum, or other professional growth experiences prior to beginning the internship. See the Professional Qualifying Exam Guidelines in student handbook for further details. ( 6) INTERNSHIP All students are required to complete a one-year, full-time clinical internship prior to graduation. All internships are to be approved in advance by the Professional Training Committee. For further details refer to the Internship Guidelines in student handbook. See informa tion on Internship Fees under Financial Information special fees - graduate.
(7) COMPLETION OF TRAINING THERAPY All students must receive certification of completion of training therapy from the director of clinical training. Aminimum of 50 hours of group therapy plus 50 hours of individual therapy is required. See Training Therapy Guidelines in student handbook for further details. (8) DISSERTATION Adissertation evidencing high attainment in original scholarship must be submitted byall Ph.D. candidates. The dissertation topic and proposal must be approved bythe candidate's advisory committee prior to the beginning of the student's internship. Three weeks prior to expected graduation the candidate must submit to the Rosemead dean of administration the original and four copies of his dissertation signed by his dissertation committee. Detailed information is found in the Student Dissertation Guidelines. (9) FINAL ORAL EXAMINATION The final examination is an oral defense of the dissertation before the doctoral committee and other invited professionals.
SAMPLE PROGRAM: Ph.D. TRACK Fall Interterm
Spring
First Year Personality and Psychopathology I
3 Introduction to Clinical Techniques
_ 2 Psychology of Learning or Cognition and Affect 3
Developmental Psychology
2 Measurement/Assessment II
3 3 2 4
3 3 3 2 1
Advanced Statistics
Research Design Prepracticum
Measurement/Assessment I Theology and Bible I Integration Colloquium
Theology and Bible II
15
15
Second Year Practicum I
3 Social Psychology: Interpersonal Processes"..._J Personality and Psychopathology II
3
Advanced Research Design Theology and Bible III Psychotherapy Lab** Research Apprenticeship
3 4 3 2
3 Nature and Scope or Systems of Integration 3
Practicum II
3 4 2
Theology and Bible IV Research Apprenticeship
Third Year History and Systems Theology and Bible V
3 Dissertation
_3 Neuropsychology* or Psychopharmacology
3 5 2 3
3 5 3 2
3 PSY/PLB Electives Integration Elective
PSY/PLB Electives
Practicum III
Dissertation Practicum IV
Integration Elective
_3
16
16
Fourth Year Seminar in Ethical and Professional Issues 3 Dissertation
_3 PSY/PLB Electives
8 4
Dissertation
3 Dissertation
3 3 6
Integration Elective
Integration Elective PSY/PLB Electives
_3
15
15
Fifth Year Internship
Internship
0
0
Note: *For students with undergraduate coursework in social and physiologi cal psychology Students without undergraduate social psychology will take RPSY 608, Social Psychology, instead of RPSY 702, Social Psychol ogy: Interpersonal Processes. Students without undergraduate physio logical psychology will take RPSY 607, Psychophysiological Processes instead of Neuropsychology or Psychopharmacology. These alternative courses will generally be taken during the spring of the second or third year.
**Second year students elect one of the following psychotherapy lab courses: Psychotherapywith Adolescents or Behavior Modification with Children and Parents.
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