These courses are intended as guidelines. Speak to your guidance counsellor to see what courses are offered at your school.
Students applying to the Doctoral Program in Counselling Psychology must have:
obtained a four-year baccalaureate degree in psychology or education,
obtained a Master's degree in Counselling Psychology (preference will be given to applicants who have successfully completed a Master’s thesis),
successful completion of at least one half-year graduate course, or a two-semester (or two one-semester) senior undergraduate course in:
• Biological bases of behaviour (e.g., physiological psychology, comparative psychology, neuropsychology, psychopharmacology)
• Cognitive-affective bases of behaviour (e.g., learning, sensation, perception, cognition, thinking, motivation, emotion)
• Social bases of behaviour (e.g., social psychology; cultural, ethnic, and group processes; sex roles; organizational and systems theory)
• Individual behaviour (e.g., personality theory, human development, individual differences, abnormal psychology)
successful completion of at least one half-year graduate course in:
• scientific and professional ethics and standards
• research methods
• systems of counselling
• statistics
acquired graduate training in:
• psychological assessment
• test construction and psychological measurement
• group counselling
• individual counselling
• cross-cultural counselling
