Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program

About the Clinical Psychology Program

The Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology at UT Southwestern Medical Center is an American Psychological Association-accredited training program that prepares skilled psychologists to serve as clinicians as well as researchers. The Program includes an exclusively affiliated, and separately APA-accredited, doctoral internship in clinical psychology.

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The Doctoral Program’s basic training philosophy reflects a clinician-researcher model of training that prepares individuals for the practice of clinical psychology, broadly conceived. The combined experience of clinical and research settings reflects the Program’s clinician-researcher philosophy. The Clinical Psychology Program’s model provides research training that equips students pursuing more clinically oriented careers with the skills to critically evaluate scientific material. Students pursuing academic or research careers have a solid clinical foundation to build on.

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“Students are able to work and learn from clinicians who are actively integrating empirically supported research and administering evidence-based treatment throughout their clinical practice. ”

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Sydni Shorter

“The UTSW CLP program is rigorous yet supportive. Faculty in the program want to see you succeed and will push you to meet your goals as long as you demonstrate desire for that excellence yourself.”

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Bree Horrocks

“The superior clinical training, as well as endless research opportunities, provide an ideal environment for academic excellence.”

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Diego Jofre Zarate

“The UTSW Clinical Psychology doctoral program offers unique clinical and research training opportunities. We are exposed to complex clinical and psychosocial situations across all four years of training and regardless of specialty. ”

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Emma Turner

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Accreditation

This Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program and the exclusively affiliated internship are accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA). The APA Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation can be contacted by email or:

APA Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation
750 First Street NE
Washington, DC 20002-4242
Phone: 202-336-5979
TDD/TTY: 202-336-6123
Fax: 202-336-5978
apaaccred@apa.org

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“Because we are located in a university medical center, we provide a wide variety of both clinical and research experiences, with access to diverse psychiatric and medical populations. In addition to the large on-campus faculty, we have an extensive volunteer faculty in the community who provide training and supervision of our graduate students and doctoral interns.”