Clinical Health Psychology Concentration Program Coordinator: Robert Carels (344-B Rawl Building; 252-737-5070; carelsr14@ecu.edu)
Occupational Health Psychology Concentration Program Coordinator: Mark Bowler (111 Rawl Building; 252-328-0013; bowlerm@ecu.edu)
Pediatric School Psychology Program Coordinator: Christy Walcott (214 Rawl Building; 252-328-1378; walcottc@ecu.edu)
The Health Psychology, PhD is a post-baccalaureate program (95-107s.h.); students must choose a concentration in either clinical health (97 s.h.), occupational health psychology (95 s.h.), or pediatric school psychology (107s.h.) at the time of their application to the program. A one-year pre-doctoral internship is required for the clinical health and pediatric school concentrations. A summer internship is required for the occupational health psychology concentration.
Completion of the clinical health or the pediatric school psychology concentrationmeets the current educational requirements for licensure by the North Carolina Psychology Board as a licensed psychologist. Completion of the occupational health psychology concentration meets the standards set forth by Division 14 of the American Psychological Association in the Guidelines for Education and Training at the doctoral level in industrial and organizational psychology.
Students enrolled in the occupational health psychology concentration must complete the requirements for earning a master's degree in psychology with a concentration in industrial and organizational psychology prior to taking 8000-level courses. Continuation in the occupational health psychology concentration is based upon satisfactory course work and effective personal functioning and ethical behavior. Students who consistently show borderline course performance, who are not developing good applied skills in the practice of psychology, who fail to complete course work on a timely basis, or who otherwise perform unprofessionally or unsatisfactorily, may be removed from the program. Students who do not complete the PhD program may be allowed to complete the coursework necessary to earn a master's degree in psychology.
Program requirements include:
1. Professional standards and ethics - 3 s.h.
- PSYC 6404-Ethics and Law in School Psychology OR
- PSYC 6465-Ethics and Professional Practice
2. Foundations of psychology - 23 s.h.
- PSYC 6414-Biological Basis of Behavior
- PSYC 6421-Social Psychology
- PSYC 6428-Cognitive Psychology OR
- PSYC 7427-Advanced Principles of Learning
- PSYC 6407-Cultural Psychology OR
- PSYC 6475-Personality and Individual Differences
- PSYC 6406-Advanced Developmental Psychology
- PSYC 6408-History of Psychological Thought
- PSYC 8001-Colloquium in Health Psychology (repeat once)
- PSYC 8002-Health Psychology
a. Biological bases of behavior - 3 s.h.
b. Social bases of behavior - 3 s.h.
c. Cognitive and affective bases - 3 s.h.
d. Individual differences - 3 s.h.
e. Human development - 3 s.h.
f. History and systems - 3 s.h.
g. Health psychology - 5 s.h.
3. Research methods and practice - 24 s.h.
- PSYC 6430-Statistics and Research Design
- PSYC 7431-Regression and ANOVA
- PSYC 7000-Thesis
- PSYC 9000-Dissertation
a. Statistics and research design - 6 s.h.
b. Thesis and predissertation research - 6 s.h.
c. Dissertation - 12 s.h.
4. Concentrations - 45-57 s.h.
Choose one concentration from the following:
- PSYC 8416-Psychopharmacology
- PSYC 8468-Health Psychology: Psychotherapy Methods and Interventions
- PSYC 8995-Seminar in Health Psychology
- PSYC 6450-Advanced Psychopathology
- PSYC 6466-Psychotherapy Concepts and Techniques
- PSYC 6468-Psychotherapy: Theories, Research, and Practice
- PSYC 6484-Cognitive Assessment
- PSYC 6485-Clinical Assessment
- PSYC 6460-Clinical Psychology Practicum I
- PSYC 6461-Clinical Psychology Practicum II
- PSYC 6462-Advanced Clinical Psychology Practicum I
- PSYC 6463-Advanced Clinical Psychology Practicum II
- PSYC 7995-Advanced Clinical Psychology Practicum III
- PSYC 8460-Health Psychology Practicum (repeat once)
- PSYC 8500-Seminar in Clinical Supervision
- PSYC 8990-Predoctoral Internship (repeat once)
- PSYC 7504-Occupational Health Psychology
- PSYC 7506-Counterproductive Work Behavior
- PSYC 8996-Seminar in Applied Occupational Health Psychology
- PSYC 6437-Psychometrics
- PSYC 6343-Psychology of Organizational Behavior
- PSYC 6420-Issues in Personnel Selection
- PSYC 7433-Multivariate Statistical Analysis
- PSYC 6970-Internship in Industrial and Organizational Psychology
- PSYC 6423-Employee Motivation and Leadership
- PSYC 6521-Special Topics in Industrial and Organizational Psychology
- PSYC 7501-Employee Evaluation and Development
- PSYC 7502-Leadership Assessment
- PSYC 7503-Career Development and Executive Coaching
- PSYC 7505-Structural Equation and Hierarchical Linear Modeling OR
- Any approved electives
- PSYC 6001-Seminar in Psychology
- PSYC 6452-Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
- PSYC 7413-Pediatric Clinical Neuropsychology
- PSYC 8404-Pediatric School Psychology
- PSYC 8994-Seminar in Pediatric School Psychology
- PSYC 6402-School Consultation
- PSYC 6467-Psychotherapeutic Interventions with Children and Families
- PSYC 7442-School Interventions I
- PSYC 6353-Behavioral Assessment and Intervention
- PSYC 6409-School Assessment I
- PSYC 6410-School Assessment II
- PSYC 6462-Advanced Clinical Psychology Practicum I (repeat once)
- PSYC 7950-School Practicum I
- PSYC 7951-School Practicum II
- PSYC 7995-Advanced Clinical Psychology Practicum III
- PSYC 8460-Health Psychology Practicum (repeat once)
- PSYC 7433-Multivariate Statistical Analysis OR
- Any approved elective
- PSYC 8990-Predoctoral Internship (repeat once)
a. Clinical health concentration - 47 s.h.
Core - 9 s.h.
Psychopathology - 3 s.h.
Interventions - 6 s.h.
Assessment - 6 s.h.
Practicum - 16 s.h.
(Selectany combination of practicum courses from the following list.)
Clinical supervision training - 1 s.h.
Internship - 6 s.h.
b. Occupational health psychology concentration - 45 s.h.
Core - 9 s.h.
Methods in human measurement - 3 s.h.
Psychology of organizational behavior - 3 s.h.
Issues in personnel selection - 3 s.h.
Statistics and research design - 3 s.h.
Internship - 3 s.h.
Electives - minimum of 21 s.h.
Select from the following courses:
c. Pediatric school psychology concentration - 57 s.h.
Core - 13 s.h.
Interventions - 9 s.h.
Assessment - 9 s.h.
Practicum - 17 s.h.
Statistics and research design - 3 s.h.
Internship - 6 s.h.
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