Anne Bogat, Program Director
(Community/clinical)
(517) 353-0812 phone
bogat@msu.edu e-mail
(517) 432-2476 fax

For application materials contact:
Jan Reid
(517) 353-5258 phone
reidja@msu.edu e-mail
(517) 432-2476 fax

The clinical psychology program has been APA accredited since March 2, 1948. It is designed to educate and train students to be active researchers as well as competent practitioners. Our curriculum reflects the faculty's commitment to research, scholarship, and applied training. The curriculum emphasizes two years of core course work to prepare the student to integrate academic, applied, and research training across the lifespan. The core curriculum includes courses in statistics, research design, developmental psychopathology, psychological assessment, intervention theories and research, and required APA content area courses.

By their second year, students can begin to take courses in one of three specialization areas within clinical psychology: Clinical Neuropsychology (including geropsychology), Child/Family Clinical Psychology, and Clinical/Community psychology. Each specialty track requires three or four additional courses after completion of the core curriculum.

At all year levels, students work closely with their chairperson and guidance committee to develop an individualized program that capitalizes on their past experiences as well as the specific courses and supervised experiences offered by the department.

The Clinical/Community program at Michigan State University is committed to offering a quality educational experience in the context of diversity. The faculty of the Department of Psychology and the Clinical Interest Group is diverse with regard to gender, culture, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Our student body is also diverse along these same lines. Research interests of both students and faculty provide opportunities to explore diversity issues in a scholarly way.