Counseling & Applied Educational Psychology

Counseling Psychology PhD

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Program Overview

The Counseling Psychology Doctoral Program is designed to prepare masters level students for counseling psychology practice and research in a variety of settings with children, adolescents, families, and adults from culturally diverse backgrounds. The program is designed to meet both Massachusetts state licensure requirements and the accreditation requirements of the American Psychological Association. However, currently the new Counseling Psychology PhD Program is not accredited by APA, although we intend to pursue accreditation when eligible. The program emphasizes:

  • Multicultural competence
  • Problem prevention and health promoting practices
  • An ecological and community-oriented approach
  • Expertise in outcome and counseling research

Our training goals are to produce graduates who demonstrate:

  • Knowledge of the basic areas of psychology
  • Competence in counseling practice
  • Competence in research and scholarly activities
  • A commitment to the profession of psychology

This program subscribes to a practitioner-scientist training model, emphasizing excellent practice, informed by research, and the generation and dissemination of scholarship. The course work, supervised fieldwork, and research are integrated throughout the program.

Take a look at our Model Program, Fall 2012