Concentrations

The Multicultural Psychology Concentration offers students the opportunity to augment their multicultural education at GSAPP by specializing in the provision of psychological services that are sensitive to individuals with differing worldviews. Through supervised training, coursework, applied work, research, and experiential learning, students learn specialized knowledge, skills, and awareness of cultural dimensions that shape worldviews, such as race, ethnicity, age, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, socioeconomic status, nationality, language, and religious/spiritual orientation. 

Procedure for Declaring a Multicultural Psychology Concentration
A form listing the requirements, with check boxes next to each, is to be completed by the student and signed by one of the Multicultural Psychology Concentration Program Faculty Sponsors.  The form is then inserted into the student’s file, and the Faculty Sponsors keep a roster of students who have declared the concentration.  Once a year, students must update this form and submit it to the Faculty Sponsors.

Clinical child and pediatric psychologists conduct scientific research and provide psychological services to infants, toddlers, children, and adolescents, and their families. The research and practices conducted by clinical child and pediatric psychologists focus on understanding, preventing, diagnosing, and treating psychological, cognitive, emotional, social, behavioral, and family problems of children in a variety of settings, including inpatient and outpatient clinics, children's hospitals, schools, mental health centers, and other entities in the community. Of particular importance is a scientific understanding of the basic psychological needs of children and adolescents and how their influential social contexts, such as parents, peers, and teachers, influence socio-emotional adjustment, cognitive development, behavioral adaptation, and health status of children and adolescents. Training also includes inter-professional functioning with a range of mental health and health care professionals, including physicians, psychiatrists, nurses, social workers, dieticians, speech therapy and audiologists, among others. This CCAFP concentration recognizes a critical need for better documentation and further improvements of evidence-based assessments and treatments for the children, adolescents, and families served. Thus, a major emphasis of the formal training and practice will be guided by the most up-to-date empirical research base.

For greater information on the specialty of clinical child and adolescent psychology, and its place in the spectrum of psychological specialties, please go to: http://cospp.org/specialties/clinical-child-psychology

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