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The
curriculum for the Psy.D. Program consists of an integrated, organized sequence
of study. As will be clear below, students will be required to complete three
years of full-time study in courses in addition to an internship. All three
years of coursework must be completed at the Radford University main campus.
Descriptions of the Psy.D. courses can be found in the College of Graduate and Professional Studies Graduate Catalog (go to page 170).
Interested students need to be aware that one of the courses in the Spring of Year 1 (Psychometrics) has a prerequisite of Radford’s PSYC 611 (Methodology and Program Evaluation in Psychology) or its equivalent (you can go to http://www.radford.edu/~jaspelme/611/Spring-2007/Psych_611_spring_2007.htm to review the syllabus for Spring 2007 to see whether your background seems equivalent, but the final determination of whether your research course was sufficient will be in the hands of the Psychometrics instructor). Further, the Multivariate statistics course that is taken in the Fall of Year 2 requires substantive background in basic statistics (the equivalent of Radford’s PSYC 610 [Analysis of Behavioral Data]) or else you will have difficulty with the course (you can go to http://www.radford.edu/~tpierce/psyc_610.htm to review the syllabus for Fall 2007 to see whether your background seems equivalent). There are some additional courses that it would be helpful for students to have in their Master’s program because, if the courses appear to be substantially equivalent to courses we require, a student may be able to waive the courses in the Psy.D. Program, allowing the person to take an elective instead of our required course. The instructor of the course the student would like to waive will make the determination regarding the equivalence to the required course and may require the student to take a proficiency exam. If students are able to waive Psy.D. courses because of previous coursework, they still need to complete at least 81 hours of coursework (including the entire practicum sequence; this does not include dissertation hours) at Radford. Finally, it is important to note that dissertation credits may begin earlier in the program than Year 3 but, once started, they must be taken every term until the dissertation is completed and approved by the student’s dissertation committee and the Graduate College.
A proposed weekly schedule can be viewed by clicking here.
The American Psychological Association will only accredit programs that prepare students who achieve competence in a number of different areas. The most common way of demonstrating that these areas are covered is by including coursework on the topics. This approach also meets Virginia licensure requirements and the requirements for Designated Program status by the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards/National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology. Because the program itself must meet APA accreditation and state licensure and Designated Program requirements, we must include coursework (or other ways of helping students achieve competence) in all the following areas. Some students may be able to waive a required course if the prior course is substantially equivalent to the Psy.D. course but the course designed to help students meet the competence or licensure requirement must still be a part of the Psy.D. curriculum. The table below lists the APA accreditation competence areas and Virginia state licensure and Designated Program requirements and shows how the courses in the curriculum helps students meet these requirements. The table also includes unique aspects of the Model Training Program in Counseling Psychology and shows how the curriculum fits within what is expected of Counseling Psychology programs. Unfortunately, the groups do not necessarily define areas in the same way (e.g., individual differences and human development do not have the same courses across organizations), so it may appear that there are inconsistencies in the table but that is a function of the way each group defines the categories.
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As we discuss in both the Accreditation page and the first section of the FAQs page, the Radford University Psy.D. Program is not yet accredited by the American Psychological Association. If you have questions about the accreditation process for doctoral programs in psychology, you can contact the APA via the following means:
750 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002-4242
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