Our APA Accredited Counseling Psychology Ph.D. Program is excited to celebrate the numerous accolades, awards, presentations, publications.
The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Degree in Counseling Psychology program, housed within the Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies (HDPES), is an APA-accredited program designed to train professional psychologists in the Scientist-Practitioner model consistent with APA-accreditation guidelines.
The Program embraces the Scientist-Practitioner model and embodies a balanced training experience in the scientific and theoretical foundations of psychology and in applications of practice skills and research. The Program encourages a hypothesis-testing approach toward obtaining and evaluating information and it encourages the examination of empirical literature related to planning and evaluating interventions that focus on prevention or remediation of problems. The Program emphasizes prevention of psychological problems, the teaching of effective coping skills (to prevent problems), and the development of effective problem-resolution skills to remediate negative coping behaviors.
The mission of the Program is to educate and train counseling psychology students using a Scientist-Practitioner philosophy to provide services in research, teaching and/or practice. It encourages students to identify and use prevention and intervention strategies that focus on the optimum strengths of each client. The Program emphasizes theory, research, knowledge, experiences and concerns focused on a broad spectrum of diversity (e.g., race, gender, culture, class, sexual orientation, socio-economic differences, and disability), specifically as related to individuals in urban communities.
