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Clinical Psychology Centre (CPC)

Psychology Department | Simon Fraser University

Mandate and Activities

Overview

Established in 1986, the Clinical Psychology Centre (CPC) is an outpatient mental health clinic and training centre associated with the Department of Psychology at Simon Fraser University (SFU). The Clinic and the Clinical Psychology Program at SFU first received full accreditation from both the Canadian Psychological Association and the American Psychological Association in March 1988 and has been accredited at each subsequent renewal period.

The CPC’s mandate encompasses three main activities: provision of psychological services to clients in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland, training and education of graduate clinical psychology students, and psychological research.

Psychological Services

The CPC offers a wide range of services in the greater Vancouver region, providing assessment and psychological treatment for individual adults, adolescents, children, couples, and families as well as group therapy. Services are provided by Masters or Doctoral level graduate students in the Clinical Psychology Program.

Clinical Training

The CPC offers high quality training for graduate students in the provision of psychological services. Graduate students serve as clinical interns at the CPC and are supervised by faculty in the Clinical Psychology Program or by community-based clinical associates of the CPC, who are typically Registered Psychologists. CPC clinical staff and associates are guided by and act in accordance with the Code of Conduct of the College of Psychologists of BC and all relevant legislation. In addition to a commitment to clinical training through individual supervision, the CPC sponsors training workshops and conferences on topics of interest to students and the greater mental health community.

Research Activities

In accordance with the scientist-practitioner model of the SFU clinical psychology program, the CPC supports research on various psychological processes. Research proposals are submitted to the CPC by faculty or graduate students and are reviewed by the Directors of the CPC as well as the University Ethics Committee. A client’s decision whether or not to participate actively in a particular research project at the CPC does not affect or disrupt the Clinic’s provision of psychological services to that client. Many clients participate in research as a way of making a valuable contribution to the advancement of knowledge about psychological issues.