Doctor of Philosophy in Clinical Psychology

University College Dublin (UCD)

We recognise and welcome the need for the Profession of Clinical Psychology, and training in Clinical Psychology, to be inclusive of diversity. The Doctoral Programme in Clinical Psychology is a 3-year research degree and professional training programme in clinical psychology. The course is fully accredited by the Psychological Society of Ireland.The course runs over three calendar years and includes three interrelated elements:2,000 hours of research over 200-250 days500 hours academic coursework over 100-150 days3,000 hours of supervised clinical practice over 390 daysThe central objective of the course is to train postgraduates to a level which will enable them to work safely, competently and ethically as a basic grade clinical psychologist and to provide a foundation for later specialization through continuing professional development.Postgraduates graduating from the course should be able toprovide assessment and treatment services to a wide range of client groups including children and adults with psychological problems and disabilitiesuse their academic knowledge to solve clinical problems and provide consultancy and teaching services to colleagues and clientsuse their research skills to answer questions, raised within the health services, which require an empirically based answer.