Psychology EC's

juillet
Tue, 07 Jun 2016 03:39:37 +0000

If you want to go into clinical psychology there are two types of experience you need: research experience and clinical experience. You need both to be optimally competitive for PhD programs.

Research experience is assisting a professor with their research in their lab. You want at least 2 years of this kind of experience. Clinical experience is the kind you’re talking about here - volunteering at a psychiatric hospital, a regular hospital’s psychiatric ward, with a social worker, a private psychologist, a VA hospital, a rehabilitation clinic, drug rehab, harm reduction center, neurological institute…anything that gets you some experience working with/around people in mental health.