Clinical Work
Our curriculum has been devised to provide extensive training of clinical skills in both assessment and treatment domains. In this effort, we couple didactic (lecture and seminar) coursework with practica extending throughout each of the first three years of the program, and we extend the practica and other skill training experiences into the fourth and fifth years. Our training philosophy requires that assessment skills be well-developed before beginning work in treatment, thereby ensuring that students have a secure capacity to conceptualize client problems and an understanding of diverse disorders before therapeutic interventions are planned and delivered. Thus, the first two years of the program emphasize assessment skills, with treatment training started in year three and followed up in the fourth and fifth year.
Our students do their clinical training in our Centre for Mental Health Research. The Centre operates throughout the year, other than shutting down for two weeks at Christmas and at the end of July and beginning of August, providing assessment and therapy to clients in the community.
