Introduction to Clinical Psychology Bridging Science and Practice

Students ask a number of questions when they are thinking of applying to graduate school in clinical psychology. In this chapter, we hope to answer some of those questions and to pose some others that potential applicants need to consider. We know this is an anxiety-provoking process for most students, so we want to demystify it as much as possible! We begin by addressing questions related to deciding whether to apply to graduate school in clinical psychology, and then discuss the logistics of doing so. We dispense with our usual Section Previews and Section Summaries and present instead a “frequently asked questions” format in which headings provide the questions and the paragraphs that follow provide the answers.