Counseling Psychology (Ph.D.) Program Details

 Degree Requirements

    ❱   Required coursework
    ❱   Qualifying or comprehensive examination
    ❱   Internship: A year-long internship at an APA-accredited facility
    ❱   Graduate School writing proficiency requirement
    ❱   Graduate School Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) requirement
    ❱   Dissertation 
    ❱   Final oral examination/Dissertation defense

Research Areas & Interests

Faculty Research Interests

A sampling of research interests

  • Culturally-informed child and family interventions
  • Identification of specific learning disabilities, cognitive assessment in children with chronic health conditions
  • Multicultural competence and cross-cultural applications of cognitive assessment
  • Mental health interventions for children and adolescents
  • Achievement motivation of African American adolescents
  • Impact of community violence on parenting, parenting stress, and early childhood outcomes
  • The role of interpersonal violence and/or community violence on children's outcomes
  • Overrepresentation of minority children in special education
  • Clinical evaluations and implementation of treatment strategies to address childhood psychopathology
  • Classroom contextual factors that contribute to the development of self-efficacy approaches to learning and mathematics achievement in young children
  • Within-group variation in social-emotional and cognitive development among African-American children

Program of Study* 

Fall Year 1 (15 CR)


HUDE 601 Theories of Personality

HUDE 447 Cultural Diversity in Psych Practice

HUDE 201 Human Development (or Alt. Lifespan Dev.)

HUDE 442 Research Seminar in Counseling Psych

HUDE 340 Seminar in Counseling Psych

HUDE 605 Clinical Interviewing/Micro-Counseling

Spring Year 1 (14 CR)


HUDE 446 Prof Ethics & Legal Issues in Psych

HUDE 400 Intermediate Statistics

HUDE 351 Advanced Psychopathology

HUDE 442 Research Seminar in Counseling Psych I

HUDE 344 Practicum

HUDE 516 Cognition & Affective Basis of Behavior

Fall Year 2 (15 CR)


HUDE 500 Advanced Statistics

HUDE 490 Externship in Counseling Psych I

HUDE 455 Issues & Trends in Measurement Theory

HUDE 228 Personality Assessment I

HUDE 600 Psychodynamic Interv & Evidence-based Therapies

HUDE 442 Research Seminar in Counseling Psych II

Spring Year 2 (15 CR)


HUDE 432 Cog II: Culturally Competent Assessment

HUDE 490 Externship in Counseling Psych I

HUDE 428 Personality Assessment II

HUDE 602 Cognitive Behavioral Interv & Evidence-based Therapies

HUDE 502 Multivariate Analysis

HUDE 442 Research Seminar in Counseling Psych II

Fall Year 3 (12 CR)


HUDE 206 History and Systems

HUDE 444 Group Processes

HUDE 601 Evidence-based Systems Interv and Therapies

HUDE 490 Externship in Counseling Psych II

HUDE 442 Research Seminar in Counseling Psych III

Spring Year 3 (13 CR)


HUDE 211 Brain and Behavior

HUDE 490 Externship in Counseling Psych II

HUDE 501 Design & Analysis of Research Projects

HUDE 222 Social Psych of Individual

HUDE 442 Research Seminar in Counseling Psych III

Fall Year 4 (7 CR)


HUDE 490 Externship in Couns Psych III

HUDE 604 Professional Roles

HUDE 440 Vocational Theory

Spring Year 4 (13 CR)


HUDE 271 Psychopharmacology

HUDE 490 Externship in Couns Psych III

HUDE 540 Supervision/Consultation

HUDE 604 Professional Roles

HUDE 450 African/Black Psych

Fall Year 5 (2 CR)


HUDE 509 Dissertation Research

HUDE 520 Internship in Couns Psych

Spring Year 5 (2 CR)


HUDE 509 Dissertation Research

HUDE 520 Internship in Couns Psych

*Courses included in the sample program of study are subject to change. Students should consult with their programs regarding their required program of study.  

Admission to Candidacy 

Students are admitted to formal candidacy by the Graduate School when they have completed the required coursework, passed the qualifying or comprehensive examination, submitted an approved topic for research, and been recommended by the Department. Candidates must also have satisfied the Graduate School writing proficiency requirement and Responsible Conduct of Research (RCR) requirement.

Graduate Funding 

Admitted students may be eligible to compete for Graduate School competitive awards, which provide tuition remission and a stipend during the academic year. Additionally, graduate research or teaching assistantships may be available at the department level. Research assistants and teaching assistants work no more than 20 hours a week under the program's direction, usually in support of faculty research (research assistants) or in support of assigned courses (teaching assistants). Please see the Funding website for more detailed information.