ABCT’s journal, The Behavior Therapist, has published many articles with valuable advice and guidance for students and professionals at all stages. Below is a selection of articles that may be especially useful to undergraduate students.
The below articles can be accessed directly on the ABCT website at the following link: https://www.abct.org/journals/the-behavior-therapist-journal/. Click the “Access” button under any year to access the “Search the Library” function. You can then search for the below articles by author to locate and download the relevant issue of The Behavior Therapist.
Graduate School in Psychology: General
Actively Assessing Fit When Applying to Ph.D. Programs in Clinical/Counseling Psychology: The Applicant’s Perspective, Reynolds, Sargeant, Rooney, Tashiro & Lejuez
The Graduate School Experience: Academic and professional opportunities and Challenges Within Psychology Doctoral Programs , Canna, Blanchard, Friedenberg & Block
Student Forum: Special Series
- The Graduate School Experience: Academic and Professional Opportunities and Challenges Within Psychology Doctoral Programs
- Planning: The Key to Success in Graduate School
- Pop Tarts are Not a Food Group and Right Clicking is Not Exercise: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Transition to Graduate School
- The Dissertation
- The Predoctoral Clinical Internship: Applying, Interviewing, and Making the Most of the Year
- The Graduate School Experience: One Faculty Member’s Experience
Career Paths
Introduction to the Forensics Issue, Tafrate & White
Clinical Psychology at Liberal Arts Colleges (see p. 135) Stroud, Sheets, Shih, Schofield & Friedman-Wheeler
Professional Development
The Academic Job Market: Advice from the Front Lines (see p. 39), Wells, Schofield, Clerkin & Sheets
Professional Challenges Facing African American Psychologists: The Presence and Impact of Racial Microaggressions, Delapp & Williams
Psychologists’ and Trainees’ Perceptions of the Future of Clinical Psychology Prinstein, Fox, Guan, Arthur & Gur
Students: Ten Benefits Offered to You from ABCT (see p. 106), Pasillas, Klinkebiel & Sherman
Tips on Writing National Research Service Award Predoctoral Fellowship Proposals from Real NRSA Reviewers (see p. 160), Siegle, Johnson, Everhart & Newton
Women in ABCT: Where did we come from? Where are we now? And where do we go from here? Sockol, McGinn & Newman
Graduate Programs: Specific Programs
Clinical Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Hynan
The Clinical Psychology Training Program at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, Hansen, Nelson, DiLillo & Hope
Florida State University at Panama City: Master’s Program in Psychology With a Specialty in Applied Behavior Analysis (see p. 70), Murphy
Master’s Programs in Behavior Therapy (see p. 123), Evans, Timmins, Ward, Carr, Evans, Henriques, Miltenberger, Rokke, Williams, Kohn & Dagenbach
Psychological Clinical Science Accreditation System: FAQs & Facts (see p. 11), McFall