Bachelor of Arts [B.A] [Psychology] From Washington College

For students pursuing clinical psychology, we have the hands-on opportunities you?re looking for, whether you?re interested in working with children with special needs, chronically mentally ill patients, geriatric patients or school-based guidance counselors, or whether you?d rather pursue summer programs at major mental health facilities. In all, the department offers 20 regular internship placement sites, many of which are right here in Chestertown. In our animal labs, you can even learn to perform surgeries and administer medications to see the effects on behavior.

The Department provides an array of opportunities for hands-on learning, on campus and off, with faculty collaborators and colleagues. In the laboratory-based ?neuroscience research methods? courses, for instance, students conduct original research projects throughout the semester in specialty topics such as emotions, human cognition, neuropsychology, or hormones and behavior. Students are also encouraged to pursue individualized internship opportunities in research and/or clinical environments. One recent intern studied the memory and language impairment of adult patients with autism at Johns Hopkins Hospital; another was placed with an alumnus at Temple University, studying the thermoregulatory system in rats.