The Personality and Clinical Psychology Core Area Group (PCP-CAG) is a thriving constituency within the UTSC Department of Psychology that brings these two subfields together. The PCP-CAG contributes required courses in personality and abnormal psychology for the undergraduate program in mental health studies at UTSC, which focuses undergraduate education in psychology on one of the constituents of the field that attracts the highest student interest. Ninety-two students enrolled in this specialist program in its first year, a number that rose to 132 students the following year. This year, the PCP-CAG is proposing a new tri-campus graduate program in clinical psychology (expected start date: September 2013), to be housed at UTSC in the newly founded Graduate Department of Psychological Clinical Science. It is expected that this new clinical program will alter the landscape of graduate education at UTSC, given the number of applicants seeking admission to clinical programs each year. Admissions statistics for graduate programs in psychology (in both the U.S. and Canada) compiled by the American Psychological Association and published in the 2011 Graduate Study in Psychology handbook provide a snapshot of student demand for these programs. In 2009/2010, clinical psychology graduate programs in Ontario received nearly 1,200 applications (compared to the 900 applications received by all non-clinical programs combined, including behavioral neuroscience, cognition-perception, community, developmental, history and theory, industrial-organizational, personality, quantitative methods, and social psychology). Of these, 9% were granted offers of admission; competition for admission to clinical psychology programs in Toronto was even greater, with a full-course equivalent (or FCE) acceptance rate of only 7.5%.

Core Faculty:

• Michael Bagby
• Marc Fournier
• David Nussbaum
• Anthony Ruocco
• Amanda UliaszeK
• Konstantine Zakzanis