Learning at DCP

All classrooms are equipped with online satellite-based internet access, over-head projectors and multi-media projection. Central air conditioning provides necessary comfort to make the environment conductive to attentive learning. The Institute’s high-quality training, research and congenial environment ensures its position as the institute of choice for Pakistan’s high-caliber postmasters’ students. The students of DCP are highly competitive and are working effectively in wide-ranging fields of employment. It is this reason that students of DCP are in high demand in various organizations.

Educational Excellence

The department has a dexterous faculty working to maintain standards in academics, research and clinical practices. Regular class schedule, supervised clinical practice makes a comprehensive training schedule to gain knowledge and skills in the field of Clinical Psychology.

Intensive Clinical Supervision Interns have to endure a rigorous training for clinical internship, including training in conducting psychotherapy, individually supervised therapy sessions and learning standardized patterns of administration, scoring, interpretation of psychological assessment tools and report writing. In addition, they are trained to deal with issues that we face in diagnosis. The major aim is to make interns meet international standards required for working as a Clinical Psychologist. Moreover, there are weekly case conferences in which interns are encouraged to present their cases before the panel of clinical experts in order to receive guidance and exchange ideas amongst themselves.

Multidisciplinary Approach

DCP focuses on a multidisciplinary approach in clinical practice. Interns are trained for conducting psychotherapeutic sessions using different approaches like Psychoanalysis, CBT, REBT, Multimodal Approach, etc. However, depending on the needs of the patient, occupational Therapy, Speech Therapy, and Rehabilitation Services are also available within the premises of department for the convenience of the patients. A Medical Officer is also available in order to examine the progress of the patients who are on medication.
During their extensive internship the interns are also required to assess and diagnose the patients by administering standardized psych neurological, intelligence, achievement, aptitude, objective and projective personality tests.

Psychometric Laboratory

The testing laboratory has a large collection of latest Psychological Tests and Scales for Assessment of: Intelligence; Ability; Aptitude; Personality; Neuropsychological Functioning, and Psycho-Diagnosis. Manuals and test material are used by students for teaching, training, and provision of clinical services at DCP.

Research Lab

Research department facilitates research in multiple disciplines that includes clinical psychology, child and educational psychology, social psychology and in other emerging fields. In its vision to promote research, the institute facilitates its faculty to participate in research projects, and interns to conduct supervised researches. The Institute has been successful in conducting researches of international standards, and funds are raised every year to purchase psychological test material from international sources.

Teaching Hospital

The idea of Shifa International Hospital was conceived in 1987 by a small group of Pakistani doctors and other health care professionals working in the USA. Since then, Shifa has grown to be a public limited company. The Hospital is located on 11.2 acres in Sector H-8/4, Islamabad. It was established to become a center of health care excellence in Pakistan. Shifa International Hospital a state-of-the-art hospital in the heart of Islamabad; the Capital Territory of Pakistan, has over the span of 25 years become one of the best tertiary healthcare facilities within Pakistan. Shifa has been introducing newer ideas which, collectively, have transformed the healthcare culture in the country and raised the bar for everyone in quality service delivery.

Shifa Psychological Services Clinic (SPSC)

Shifa Psychological Services Clinic will be launched soon with an interdisciplinary team of PhD Clinical Psychologist Dr. Zainab Khan, Medical Officer Dr. Fatima Khurram and Clinical Supervisor Ms. Sana Tauqeer. In principle the approval of this clinic has already been secured and further developments are in the pipeline. SPSC will operate under the auspices of Department of Clinical Psychology, STMU. The purpose of SPSC is to provide psychological support to students and scholars at STMU for management of their mental health issues. Additively it provides an environment where students can learn ethical and clinical skills of mental health practitioners under qualified and trained Clinical supervisors.