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Psychological Services for Youth Clinic (PSYC)

Advancing the Science & Practice of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

To contact us:

Phone: 225/578-1494

Fax: 225/578-4125

E-mail: psyc.lsu@gmail.com

Clinical Program Applicants

Clinical training at LSU emphasizes a scientist-practitioner approach,  including evidence-based treatment and assessment.  Doctoral students complete a thorough and extensive academic curriculum with general core courses in psychology (e.g., Biological Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Statistics, etc.) as well as general clinical core courses (Developmental Disabilities & Child Psychopathology, Psychological Assessment, Child Behavior Therapy, etc.), practicum, and upper level clinical courses.  In addition, doctoral students participate in and design cutting-edge clinical science research projects.  Clinical training opportunities are impressive as well.  Our program utilizes a “mentorship” model for practicum and research.  You will work with your supervising professor for all but one year of your training—essentially receiving very specialized training and supervision in your area of interest.  Breadth of training and practicum experiences occurs through an “off-year” in which students conduct practicum activities with another member of the clinical faculty.

Audubon Hall (Psychology)

Working with Dr. Davis to obtain a Ph.D.

Tom Davis, Ph.D.           

 

Associate Professor, Clinical Area

Founder, Psychological Services for Youth Clinic (PSYC)

Founder, Laboratory for Anxiety, Phobia, & Internalizing

Disorder Studies (LAPIS)

Department of Psychology

Louisiana State University

Academics & Overview

Dear Potential Applicant,

Thank you for considering the clinical psychology doctoral training program at LSU and my lab in particular.  We offer exceptional training in behavioral and cognitive-behavioral approaches to clinical psychology.  Our program utilizes a scientist-practitioner approach to training.  We strongly emphasize research in addition to learning how to provide evidence-based clinical services.  As a result, the training experiences offered truly seek to embody our clinic/lab slogan of “Advancing the Science and Practice of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology.”

My research primarily focuses on two topics: anxiety disorders in children/adolescents and specific phobias across the lifespan.  As a result, the strongest applicants wishing to work with me will have experience researching anxiety in addition to strong GPAs and GRE scores and excellent references.  Most successful applicants will likely plan on future careers in research after earning their degrees.

Please peruse the clinic and lab websites to get a better idea of the experiences our program and my clinic/lab provide.  A brief overall description continues below.

Sincerely,

Clinical Training

Research Training

Dr. Tom Davis

LAPIS research opportunities are numerous and student publications are encouraged

Dr. Davis providing supervision

More Information

In pursuit of their degrees, clinical doctoral students will complete a thesis, general exam, and dissertation.  While students are expected to work on ongoing laboratory research, Dr. Davis encourages his students to pursue their own ideas for their theses and dissertations so they can develop their own representative resume of anxiety research. 

In addition to these research and academic milestones, doctoral students will work in Dr. Davis’ research lab, the Laboratory for Anxiety, Phobia, and Internalizing Disorder Studies (LAPIS).  LAPIS is the research arm of Dr. Davis’ services while PSYC (below) is the clinical service and training arm.  Graduate students entering Dr. Davis’ lab have the opportunity to work on ongoing state-of-the-science anxiety research studies (click here for our ongoing research) as well as design their own projects or work with Dr. Davis’ existing data sets.  Clinical students working with Dr. Davis frequently present their work at national/international conferences and have ample opportunities for co-authorship on publications. 

Students working with Dr. Davis gain most of their clinical experience and training by participating in the child and adolescent services provided by the Psychological Services for Youth Clinic (PSYC) in the Psychological Services Center on campus.  Cases routinely include the assessment and treatment of anxiety and depressive disorders, as well as other difficulties (e.g., parent-child relational problems, ADHD, and learning disabilities). Students become involved with cases both through the Child & Adolescent Practicum and through ongoing assessment and treatment research projects.  Services are provided to children, adolescents, young adults, and families.  Graduate clinicians are co-supervised by Dr. Matson and  Dr. Davis.

Graduate students with Dr. Davis's lab receive additional individual and group direction, supervision, and instruction by regularly participating in weekly individual supervision/research meetings, lab meetings, practicum meetings, journal club, and monthly clinical area research meetings.

-For more information on lab publications and presentations, click here.

-For more information on our research projects, click here.

-For more detailed information on the clinical psychology program at LSU, including how to submit an application, click here.