Program aims

1. Demonstrate multicultural competence and a commitment to respecting and integrating individual differences into clinical practice
2. Become educated consumers of the scientifically established knowledge base of psychology in order to work effectively in health service psychology
3. Acquire the clinical skills necessary to become competent and effective as an entry level generalist in health service psychology
4. Understand models of supervision and provide peer supervision to trainees in the field
5. Obtain an understanding of the role of consultation and demonstrate interprofessional skills in health service psychology
6. Develop a professional identity that understands the role of self-care and adhering to the ethical standards outline by APA

These aims are accomplished by focusing on profession-wide competencies and discipline-specific knowledge.

Program competencies

1. Students will demonstrate an independent ability to formulate scholarly activities that contribute to the professional knowledge base
2. Students are expected to respond professionally in increasingly complex situations with a greater degree of independence across levels of training
3. Effectiveness in health service psychology requires that students develop the ability to conduct all professional activities with sensitivity to human diversity, including the ability to deliver high quality services to an increasingly diverse population
4. Students are expected to act and respond professionally as they develop and acquire a greater degree of independence in the practice areas of the field of health service psychology
5. Students will demonstrate the requisite communication and interpersonal skills and respond professionally in increasingly complex situations
6. Students will demonstrate competence in conducting evidence-based assessment consistent with the scope of health service psychology
7. Students will demonstrate competence in the delivery of evidence-based interventions consistent with the scope of health service psychology
8. Students will acquire foundational knowledge of supervision and its role
9. Students will demonstrate intentional collaboration with other individuals or groups to address a problem, seek or share knowledge, or promote effectiveness in professional activities

Discipline-specific knowledge

1. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the history of psychology, including the origins and development of major ideas in the discipline of psychology
2. Students will demonstrate knowledge in affective aspects of behavior
3. Students will demonstrate knowledge in biological aspects of behavior
4. Students will demonstrate knowledge in cognitive aspects of behavior
5. Students will demonstrate knowledge in developmental aspects of behavior
6. Students will demonstrate knowledge in social aspects of behavior
7. Students will demonstrate advanced integrative knowledge in scientific psychology that entails integration of multiple basic discipline-specific content areas identified in #2-6
8. Students will demonstrate knowledge of research methods
9. Students will demonstrate knowledge of statistical analysis