Facilities
The combined
clinical and academic resources of both universities
are available to students in the program.
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.
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.
