Facilities
The combined clinical and academic resources of both universities are available to students in the program. SDSU offers graduate students the use of microcomputers for data entry, analysis, and word processing and access to SUN micro system computers through many terminal labs in the College of Sciences. UCSD has a variety of on-campus computer facilities and the additional convenience of wireless modems located off campus. Technical assistance and computer-use funds are available to graduate students for their research.
SDSU Doctoral Training Facility
The SDSU Psychology Clinic at the Doctoral Training Facility is a community mental health facility operated by the Department of Psychology at San Diego State University. The clinic serves as the primary training facility for all second year graduate students in the Joint Doctoral Program and provides training in clinical assessment and therapy. The students placed in the clinic offer supervised psychological services to the San Diego community.
The SDSU Psychology Clinic currently offers a wide range of supervisors and training opportunities for second-year students. All students have two supervisors throughout the course of their placement to provide them a variety of experiences and perspectives.
Adults, adolescents, and children receive individual, group, couples, and/or family therapy in the clinic as appropriate to their needs. Services for all types of psychological disorders are available in the clinic including help for individuals who are trying to cope with trauma, phobias, panic attacks, and other anxiety-related problems; both individual and group therapy are available for people experiencing feelings of depression and related emotional difficulties.
The clinic also provides individual and family therapy for children and adolescents having emotional or behavioral problems at home or at school, and couples therapy for adults having relationship problems. Psychological assessment is available for school-age children, teenagers, and adults.
More advanced students have the option of working with supervisors who have developed specialty clinics/programs.
UCSD Doctoral Training Facilities
Veterans Administration San Diego Healthcare System. Clinical training opportunities with a wide variety of client populations and disorders are available at the VA Medical Center in La Jolla and at the out-patient facility in Mission Valley. Programs include the neuropsychological assessment service, the behavioral medicine program (including chronic pain and sleep disorders), the alcohol and drug abuse treatment programs, the inpatient psychiatric service, the geropsychiatry program, the outpatient day treatment program, and marital and family therapy. Outpatient ambulatory mental health care and behavioral management are conducted in a large, separate facility midway between the two campuses. Ongoing research projects, and clinical training opportunities exist in each of these programs, and students are encouraged to participate.
UCSD Outpatient Psychiatric Services. The UCSD Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic is the largest source of outpatient psychiatric care in central San Diego County, averaging 16,000 county-sponsored client visits a year and 10,500 visits per year through its Psychology Associates. Students are trained to evaluate and treat a client population with a wide range of psychiatric disorders. Training also is available in UCSD's Neuropsychological Associates laboratory, which provides neuropsychological assessment to the campus and community. Research is an integral part of the outpatient center program, and students are encouraged to contribute. Current research projects include multidisciplinary, longitudinal studies of the affective disorders, three categories of schizophrenic disorders ("first break," chronic, and late onset), and bereavement.
