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Child Clinical ResearchChild Clinical Overview | Research | Course Work | Clinical Training | Accreditation | Statistics About Our Students and ApplicantsResearch training is a major thrust of our graduate work. Students are actively engaged in research throughout the program. At the time of admissions, students are paired with a mentor. We encourage you to examine the faculty's interests in planning for this. All first-year students become involved in a research apprenticeship with either a clinical faculty member or a faculty member in another area. The specific nature of this apprenticeship varies depending on the skills and interests of the student. Typically, however, it involves independent reading and participation in an ongoing research project. In addition, depending on the goals and desires of the student, the apprenticeship can involve learning and conducting sophisticated statistical computer analyses, interviewing research participants, designing and implementing various coding systems, and co-authoring research publications. By the end of the first year, students are expected to complete a research proposal. In the second year, students do a Master's thesis which usually grows out of their research apprenticeship. In subsequent years, students are involved in their dissertation work as well as independent projects with one or more faculty members. Faculty's interests are described near the end of these materials. The clinical faculty are engaged in many projects of clinical relevance such as ADHD, behavioral/molecular genetics, child psychotherapy and clinical trials, cultural issues in treatment, culture and the functions of music, depression, developmental psychopathology, evidence-based treatments, exposure to violence and trauma, learning disabilities, marital and family distress, neuropsychology, peer and family relationships, poverty, prevention, PTSD, stress and coping. Our faculty are very productive and are quite successful in obtaining research grants. These grants often provide a source of financial support for students as well as a valuable research experience. Our students are also productive. Not only are collaborative authorships common, but students initiate and publish their own work. In our survey for our 2006 accreditation visit, we found that while they were at DU, 100% of our recent graduates and 100% of advanced students fourth year and above have given a presentation at a conference or currently have one submitted (M's = 8.36 for graduates and 7.9 for advanced students). Similarly, while at DU, 88% of our recent graduates and 94% of our advanced students published or submitted a paper to a professional journal or book (M's = 3.88 for graduates and 4.18 for advanced students). Finally, 88% of our recent graduates and 75% of advanced students submitted grants while at DU; 80% of recent graduates and 53% have our current students obtained grants. We believe that you will find these numbers are quite high compared to most clinical programs. Child Clinical Overview | Research | Course Work | Clinical Training | Accreditation | Statistics About Our Students and Applicants |
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