DeBellis Therapy

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Clinical psychologists complete postgraduate training, lasting usually five years, in order to earn a Psy.D. or Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology.. Today, in the U.S., about half of licensed psychologists are trained in the. Practitioner-Scholar Model of Clinical Psychology (PsyD), which focuses on clinical practice (similar to professional degrees for medicine and law). The other half are being trained within a Scientist-Practitioner Model of Clinical Psychology (PhD)—a model that emphasizes both research and clinical practice and is usually housed in universities. Outside of coursework, graduates of both programs generally are required to have had 2 to 3 years of supervised clinical experience (including a one-year clinical internship and one year of postdoctoral work), a certain amount of personal psychotherapy, and the completion of a dissertation (PhD programs usually require original quantitative empirical research, whereas the PsyD equivalent of dissertation research often consists of literature review and qualitative research, theoretical scholarship, program evaluation or development, critical literature analysis, or clinical application and analysis).

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