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Clinical Psychology
The Clinical Psychology training area focuses on scientific approaches to the understanding of psychological disorders and the influence of psychological factors on health, and has been ranked a Top 10 program by U.S. News and World Report. Active research areas include: health psychology; personality disorders and assessment; anxiety disorders; depression; child abuse and neglect; eating disorders and body image; psychophysiology and substance abuse; marital and family dysfunction.
The PhD Program: The Clinical Psychology training program, fully approved by the American Psychological Association, strongly emphasizes a scientific approach to the study of psychological (clinical) phenomena. It is designed for students who primarily are interested in developing scholarly understanding of clinical phenomena and acquiring research skills necessary to the systematic investigation of such phenomena. Recognizing that students must become familiar with clinical material and competent in the application of clinical skills, the department closely integrates practicum experience in the Carl E. Seashore Psychology Clinic with course work and supervised research experience. Students in the clinical program may develop special competence in areas such as clinical health psychology, aggression, personality assessment and personality disorders, psychophysiology, anxiety disorders, the affective disorders, behavioral and cognitive therapies and child psychopathology. Faculty members and students collaborate actively with colleagues from many departments at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics including otolaryngology, psychiatry, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, neurology, and urology, and from several departments at the Veterans' Affairs Medical Center. Partly as a consequence of such collaboration, there are several topics in health psychology in which clinical faculty members are prepared to offer research supervision and clinical training opportunities. Within the department, joint training programs combining a clinical specialty with work in other training areas have been established and are available to students with strong interests in two specialty areas.
Advanced students have opportunities to gain additional practicum experience through placement in clinical facilities maintained by local, state, federal, and university agencies. Students in the clinical program who wish to have the designation "clinical psychology" on their official transcript must satisfactorily complete a one-year internship at an approved agency before receiving the doctoral degree. The internship ordinarily comes after completion of all course work and of most, if not all, of the dissertation project.
For information about the accreditation of our clinical psychology program please contact:
Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation
American Psychological Association
750 First Street, NE
Washington DC, 20002-4242
202-336-5500
Prospective Graduate Students
If you are thinking about applying to our Ph.D. program in Clinical Psychology and want to learn more about the program and the affiliated faculty, please feel free to contact our training area coordinator, Lee Anna Clark, at:
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Faculty
| Alan Christensen |
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Clinical health psychology, adjustment to chronic illness and medical regimen adherence |
| John Knutson |
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Child abuse; development of aggressive behavior, psychological aspects of deafness and cochlear implantation |
| Erika Lawrence |
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Longitudinal assessment of the developmental course of conflict behavior, physical aggression, and marital dysfunction in intimate relationships
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| Susan Lutgendorf |
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Interactions between psychology and the immune system, clinical health psychology |
| Kristian Markon |
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Personality, psychopathology, and genetics; statistical modeling of observational data, including model formulation, estimation, and inference; meta-analysis
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| Michael O'Hara |
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Postpartum depression; cognitive-behavioral treatment of depression, women's health |
| David Watson |
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Mood, temperament, and anxiety; personality assessment |
Faculty Joint Appointments
| Erling Anderson |
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Anesthesiology
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Adjunct Faculty
| Richard Roberts |
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V.A. Medical Center--Psychology |
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