Doctoral Degrees in Psychology in Silicon Valley USA

The Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology Program at Palo Alto University is deeply committed to educating well-rounded clinical psychologists who are capable and competent as both researchers and clinicians. Students are taught to be science-minded while appreciating the larger role of psychology in alleviating suffering in the world. This balance includes learning to value evidence-based clinical models while maintaining the responsibilities psychologists have to their community, society, and profession. An outstanding faculty of clinicians and researchers provide rigorous classroom instruction, clinical supervision, and research mentoring to help students find the right balance for them. Goals of the Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology Program To produce students and graduates who are critically reflective and informed consumers and producers of psychological knowledge and associated clinical sciences To produce clinicians with the requisite clinical knowledge, skills, and attitudes to successfully practice as entry PhD-level clinical psychologists in a variety of clinical settings and with a variety of clinical problems To produce researchers with the requisite scientific knowledge, skills, and attitudes to both consume and generate research To produce culturally competent clinical psychologists To produce clinical psychologists whose conduct exemplifies the excellence in professionalism and ethics Emphasis Areas The Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology program provides broad and general preparation through the integration of scholarship, professional experience, and research in accordance with our practitioner-scientist training model. In addition, the Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology program offers optional Areas of Emphasis for students to gain additional knowledge and experience within a more focused field of clinical psychology. -

Our program combines experiential learning with a serious academic inquiry and our graduates become transpersonal scholars, transpersonally-oriented therapists and healers, transformative educators, and change agents in various social and organizational contexts. -