Overview

1. Individualized guidance and small group education

Our individualized guidance on writing theses and individual supervision (SV) are known to be substantial. Five full-time faculty members who are qualified clinical psychologists provide guidance to Master’s Program students divided into small groups.

2. Broad range of practical training

As part of on-campus practical training, students will provide counseling and psychological testing at OMU’s affiliated clinical psychology center for clients of different ages with different issues. (All graduate students will be allowed to handle many cases and will gain a wide range of clinical experience by the time they finish their graduate study.) As for off-campus practical training, students will take continued training at medical, welfare, and educational training facilities. For example, students will serve as day care and group work assistants at a psychiatric hospital, be present at a pediatric clinic and conduct play therapy, be present at a general hospital’s psychiatry department and conduct psychological testing, serve as mother-and-child group staff members at a family and child consultation office, support the life of children at a children’s home, provide educational counseling at a prefectural high school, and serve as assistants in a specially designated guidance classroom.

Our faculty members provide students with weekly individualized SV concerning both on-campus and off-campus practical training, striving to further enrich the training activities.

3. Psychotherapy using imagery

All our full-time supervisors conduct clinical activities primarily using the depth psychological approach. Therefore, our clinical practice and education focuses on images and fantasies that are products of the unconscious. Emphasis is placed on having clients talk about the dreams they have had, work on creative activities such as doing sandplay or drawing, and listen to stories while visualizing them in their minds.

4. Career path after finishing graduate study

Almost 100% of our students pass the examinations for clinical psychologists and certified public psychologists after finishing their graduate study. Examples of the jobs they took include psychologists in psychiatric hospitals and psychosomatic medicine departments, psychologists in pediatrics and orthopedics departments, psychologists in children’s homes and local governments, psychological counselors at NPO employment support facilities, psychologists engaged in mental health in companies, psychological counselors at educational centers of local governments, school counselors at elementary, junior high, and high schools, psychological counselors at university student counseling offices, and faculty members of graduate schools that train clinical psychologists.

5. Examples of the titles of master’s theses

“A Clinical Psychological Study on Becoming a Comedian,” “A Clinical Psychological Study on the Experience of Being Opened up Naturally,” “A Story of Changes in the Parent-child Relationship throughout the Period of Rebelliousness,” “A Clinical Psychological Study on Living Close to a Stuffed Animal,” “Aspects of the Experience That Wavers the Awareness That You Are You and Not Someone Else,” “A Clinical Psychological Study on Living As a Mother,” “A Clinical Psychological Study on Otherworldly Experiences in Adolescence—a Modern Otherworld Seen Through the Anime Coil—a Circle of Children,” “A Clinical Psychological Study on the Influence of Students Chronically Absent from School,” “A Clinical Psychological Study on Changes in the Relationship with a Child through the Experience of Reading Picture Books to the Child,” “A Clinical Psychological Study on the Lives of Chronic Hives Patients They Talk about through Their Symptoms”