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University-level tuition: The Ruppin Academic Center is a subsidized institution that charges university-level tuition.
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Comprehensive studies: The comprehensive, eclectic curriculum enriches alumni’s knowledge in a wide range of contexts. The program focuses on developing awareness and sensitivity to the impact of culture, socioeconomic status, age, and group affiliation. In the clinical sphere, students acquire skill using diagnostic tools from different schools, including MMPI, Rorschach, TCI and more. In addition, students take an integrative course in psycho-diagnostics that integrates theoretical approaches and diagnostic practices.
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Close guidance: The students in the program receive close guidance and supervision in both clinical and research aspects. The program’s faculty includes senior clinical psychologists who are experts in their fields and perform research along with clinical work. With their guidance, the students can complete a final paper at a high level and also enjoy significant clinical supervision.
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Final paper: The final papers in the program are of very high quality; the proof of this is that many of them are published in leading international journals and presented at academic and professional conferences in Israel and abroad.
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Departmental seminar: Every week there is a departmental seminar in which the students and faculty meet clinicians and researchers who are leaders in their respective fields. In the seminar, which exposes students to the integration of clinical work and research, the students are introduced to the latest developments in the fields of research and therapy.
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Cooperation with the program in clinical geropsychology: Demographic changes and extended life expectancy pose challenges to society, as well as medicine in general and mental healthcare in particular, that make clinical geropsychology increasingly important. The master’s degree program in clinical psychology cooperates with the master’s degree program in clinical geropsychology at the Ruppin Academic Center in a variety of ways. One of them is the option of completing a final project in the field of clinical geropsychology, with the guidance of clinical psychologists who are experts on the elderly.
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Administrative supervision: The supportive administrative supervision complements the supervision of the academic staff and is of critical importance. It helps students complete their hearing requirements on time and submit their final paper on time (usually within two years). Meeting the deadlines is very important to graduates of the program since this enables them to register early for clinical psychology internships. A high percent of graduates of the program are accepted to internships.
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Scholarships and prizes: Graduates of the program win scholarships and prizes such as scholarships for academic excellence, research scholarships, and prizes for excellence in research for research that is presented at professional conferences.
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Sophisticated infrastructure: An array of research labs are at the disposal of students and researchers in the department:
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The personality and psychopathology research lab researches behavioral genetics of personality and the relationship between personality and mental and physical health.
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The suicide and mental pain lab is used to research risk factors in suicide and suicidal behavior and its prevention.
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The judgement and decision-making lab deals with thinking processes, judgement, choice, and decision-making in uncertain conditions.
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The language cognition lab studies cognitive processes involved in the interaction between language and thinking, language comprehension, language production, reading processes, and text processing.
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The behavioral health lab looks at topics in the field of behavioral forecasting and intervention such as the use of a telephone while driving, the use of the internet for health purposes, and more.
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The neurofeedback research lab conducts research related to understanding and treating dissociative situations among victims of sexual assault as well as treating and preventing obesity among healthy populations.
