PhD in Clinical Social Work
ICSW’s full-time three-year PhD program in clinical social work offers both onsite and offsite learning, allowing you to get your PhD in clinical social work on your own time. Designed for working clinicians, our graduate school PhD in clinical social work focuses on three things:
Practice Settings
With students having previous experience working in the field of clinical social work, it is important for students to use their own cases as the basis for their three-year graduate school experience.
Classroom Discussions
With small class settings and a tight-knit cohort, students discuss with one another their personal experiences working in social work. Through this environment, students, as well as faculty, learn from one another.
Dissertation
After completing the required coursework for the online or offline PhD in a clinical social work program, doctoral students are required to write a dissertation on a topic of their choosing, usually focusing on work they have previously engaged in.
THREE YEAR FULL TIME PROGRAM
Year 1 - Fall
RM 601: Traditions of Inquiry in the Social Sciences I
CP I: Clinical Practicum I
CL 601: Case Conference I
CF 621: Developmental Theory I
CF 611: Psychodynamic Psychology I
Year 1 - Spring
RM 602: Traditions of Inquiry in the Social Sciences II
CL 602: Case Conference II
CF 622: Developmental Theory II
CF 612: Psychodynamic Psychology II
Year 1 - Summer
CL 721: Beyond the Fifty Minute Hour
CL 612: Perspectives on Trauma and Neuropsychology
CL 611: Clinical Process and Technique I: The Therapeutic Situation
Year 2 - Fall
RM 701: Research Methods I
CP II: Clinical Practicum II
CP III: Clinical Practicum III
CL 711: Clinical Process and Technique II: The Therapeutic Attitude
CL 701: Case Conference III
CF 711: Psychodynamic Psychology III: Freud
Year 2 - Spring
RM 702: Research Methods II
CL 702: Case Conference IV
CF Psychodynamic Psychology V: Self Psychology
CF 712: Psychodynamic Psychology IV: Object Relations
Year 2 - Summer
RM 801: Research Methods III
CL 712: Perspectives on Attachment, Loss and Grief
CF 821: Psychodynamic Perspectives on Difference I: Race, Racialization, and Social Class
Year 3 - Fall
CP IV: Clinical Practicum IV
CP V: Clinical Practicum V
CL 811: Clinical Process and Technique III: The Therapist’s Subjectivity
CF 822: Psychodynamic Perspectives on Difference II: Gender and Sexuality
CF 812: Psychodynamic Psychology VI: Relational Theory
Year 3 - Spring
CL 813: Clinical Process and Technique IV: The Clinical Unconscious
CL 801: Case Conference V
CF 911: Psychodynamic Psychology VII: Capstone Theory
RM 901: Dissertation Seminar I
Year 3 - Summer
RM 902: Dissertation Seminar II
CL 802: Case Conference VI
CF 721: Psychoanalytic Social Theory