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Research and Teaching FacilitiesPsychology Clinic Psychology ClinicThe UWM Psychology Clinic has two functions. The Clinic was originally developed to serve as a training facility for our graduate students in the clinical program. Psychology faculty and staff supervise all assessments and psychotherapy. All graduate students in Clinical Psychology receive their first three years of supervised experience in the Psychology Clinic. More advanced graduate students see clients in the clinic, as well. The UWM graduate Ph.D. program in Clinical Psychology is fully accredited by the American Psychological Association. More recently, the Clinic now functions as both a training and a research clinic. Current research involves the development of both assessment and treatment protocols that can be empirically tested, as well as routine evaluation of all therapy sessions using the Outcome Questionnaire and a measure of subjective well-being. To better accomplish the dual training and research mission of the Clinic specialty clinics are being developed for specific populations, e.g., "The Child and Family Clinic." In addition to the above, the Clinic houses a fully functioning "Learning Disability Clinic" under the direction of Dr. David Osmon. The LD Clinic makes learning disability assessments available to the UWM student body as well, as the Milwaukee community. Although the LD Clinic was not set up to provide training, it does have an active research component. The Psychology Clinic is located on the first floor of Pearse Hall. It has its own entrance to insure privacy for its clients. In addition to a reception area, the Clinic has two interview rooms in which to conduct therapy, two assessment rooms, a group room, and two seminar rooms. All these rooms have adjoining observation rooms. There are also two offices in the Clinic; one serves as the office for the Clinic Coordinator. The other is a workroom for graduate students working in the Clinic. The Clinic provides students with a number of valuable resources to assist them in their clinical training. These include reference books; training audio- and videotapes; camcorders, monitors and VCRs; computers with assessment scoring programs and access to the Internet; computerized record keeping; and a number of psychological and neuropsychological assessment instruments. The Clinic is open five days and one evening a week, 52 weeks a year. It draws it clients from the university community, both employees and student body as well as their families, and from the Milwaukee community. Individuals with both Axis I and Axis II diagnoses are accepted as clients. Clinic fees for assessment and therapy are based on a sliding scale. Electronics ShopThe Psychology Shop is staffed by a full-time Electronics Technician and includes separate electronics and woodworking areas. The shop is used for the construction and repair of the specialized equipment needed for the department's research and instructional programs, as well as for the maintenance of department's numerous computers and related devices. These services are used extensively by faculty and graduate students. An important role played by the technician is as a consultant about a range of technical matters, including equipment design, software development, web programming, and virtually anything pertaining to computers and other electronic equipment. Research LaboratoriesThe faculty in psychology recognize that a major component of their work is the generation of new knowledge through scholarly research. Research in psychology covers a broad range of specific questions and levels of analysis. The department provides laboratory resources to facilitate faculty and student research. These resources include specialized areas for working with children and their parents, controlled environmental areas for human subjects research, computer support through multiple platforms for data collection and analysis, and federally certified facilities for the care and use of laboratory animals. More information about the research being conducted in psychology can be found of the department's Research Areas page. Teaching LaboratoriesAs indicated in the sections on the undergraduate and graduate programs, the department places special emphasis on the use of research to answer questions in psychology, applied as well as basic. Much of this instruction takes place within the laboratories of individual faculty members. The department also offers a series of laboratory courses in which students work in groups on laboratory projects as well as attend lectures. These courses are offered in a wide variety of areas, and include instruction in:
The Undergraduate Bulletin contains a complete listing. All of these advanced laboratory courses have as a prerequisite a lower level laboratory course in in Research Methods (820-325). The laboratory program is taught in well-equipped teaching laboratories with much of the work employing computer control of experiments. Most of the courses also use specialized equipment, whose exact characteristics depend on the particular subject matter. This equipment includes physiological recording devices, microscopes, operant chambers for work with rats, and audio and video equipment, as well as software specially designed for studying reaction time, attentional processes, and stimulus control of human behavior. |
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