Program Description

Robert Levenson, Ph.D. Area Head

Orientation, Goals, and Principles The Clinical Science Program Required Courses Sample Program Clinical Science Program Faculty UCB Clinical Science Program Performance and Outcome Data (2002 -    2009) Teaching Faculty and Clinical Supervisors Clinical Science Program Staff The Psychology Clinic Clinical Science Program Emeriti:     Philip A. Cowan, Ph.D., Carolyn Pape Cowan, Ph.D. and Rhona     Weinstein, Ph.D. Graduate Program Application Special instructions for Clinical Science Program     applicants (.doc)

Only the following professors are considering the mentorship of new Clinical Science Program graduate students in 2010 -  2011: Allison Harvey, Sheri Johnson, Ann M. Kring, Robert W. Levenson.

Professor Stephen Hinshaw may or may not be available to mentor new students in 2010. This is yet to be determined. Please feel free to apply to work with him.

Please Note: Professor Qing Zhou will NOT be available to mentor new Clinical Science Program graduate students in 2010 - 2011.

Emeriti Professors Philip Cowan, Carolyn Cowan and Rhona Weinstein will NOT be available to mentor any new students.

NOTE: Because of the large number of applicants we are not able to answer individual inquires after the application deadline. Please be assured that you will hear from us about the status of your application as soon as decisions have been made.

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The Clinical Science Program at U.C. Berkeley is a member of the Academy of Psychological Clinical Science, which is a coalition of doctoral training programs that share a common goal of producing and applying scientific knowledge to the assessment, understanding, and amelioration of human problems. Membership in the Academy is granted only after a thorough peer review process. Its membership in the Academy indicates that the Clinical Science Program at U.C. Berkeley is committed to excellence in scientific training, and to using clinical science as the foundation for designing, implementing, and evaluating assessment and intervention procedures.

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Clinical Science Program Staff
Johanna Cates	Academic and Clinic Coordinator
Norma Lamoureaux	Program and Clinic Administrator

Faculty

Core CL Faculty

Harvey, Allison	Associate Professor	Adult psychopathology, especially sleep disorders. Cognitive processes of thought (worry/rumination), attention, memory and reasoning; comorbidity; transdiagnostic approaches; cognitive therapy; interactions between cognitive, emotional and biological processes and adult psychopathology.
Hinshaw, Stephen	Chair & Professor	Childhood behavior disorders, developmental psychopathology. Attention deficits and hyperactivity; aggressive behavior, peer relations, family interactions, and neuropsychological risk factors; psychosocial and pharmacological interventions for children with ADHD; process and outcome research in child interventions; assessment, diagnosis, and classification of child disorders; definitions of mental disorder; stigma associated with mental disorder.
Johnson, Sheri L.	Professor	Basic and treatment research on bipolar disorder.  Neurobiological, cognitive, emotional, and social triggers of mania, with a focus on the reward system. Psychosocial parallels in the triggers of bipolar and unipolar depression.  Psychosocial interventions to prevent mania. Serotonin and processes involved in emotion regulation.
Kring, Ann	Professor	Psychopathology: Emotional features of schizophrenia, the linkage between emotion and other cognitive and social deficits in schizophrenia, emotion, social interaction, and social anxiety, emotion, and depression. Emotion: Individual differences in emotional expression, gender and emotion, the relationship between social context, personality, and emotion.
Levenson, Robert	Professor	Emotion. Autonomic nervous system and facial expressive components, cultural influences, empathy, emotional control, emotional changes with aging, dementing disorders, and brain pathology. Marital interaction across the life span: emotional and physiological signs and predictors of marital distress.
Zhou, Qing	Assistant Professor	Developmental psychopathology, with an emphasis on the roles of temperament, emotion-related processing, and family socialization in the development of child and adolescent psychopathology and competence; cultural influences on socio-emotional development.

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Emeriti CL Faculty
 

Cowan, Carolyn	Adjunct Professor Emerita	Research and clinical work with couples making the transition to parenthood and children making the transition to elementary and high school. Focus on couple relationships during adult life transitions, marital distress, parenting issues and supporting fathers' involvement.
Cowan, Philip	Professor Emeritus	Clinical Science; Developmental
Weinstein, Rhona	Professor Emerita	Community psychology (children, schools, and community settings): Classroom/school processes and the development of competence; expectations about ability and self-fulfilling prophecies; social cognition and achievement motivation; school reform and the prevention of school failure; consultation, institutional change, and policy.

Affiliated CL Faculty

Munoz, Ricardo	Affiliated Professor
Organista, Kurt	Affiliated Professor
Snowden, Lonnie	Affiliated Professor