The MA in Counseling program prepares students to pursue licensure as a Marriage and Family Therapist, Professional Clinical Counselor, or both, depending upon their area of emphasis and their home state. The program is designed for professionals to retool their career paths or for recent graduates to expand their career options.
The intellectual, social and interpersonal skills that students develop while studying psychology are useful and marketable in a wide variety of professional fields. Psychology majors are prepared for virtually any role where knowledge of individual differences, personality, and social dynamics are needed. Today, such jobs are found throughout corporate and entrepreneurial businesses as well as in education, health and mental health care, and in the nonprofit sector.
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Among the unique features of the PGSP-Stanford Psy.D. Consortium is the context in which students are trained. In addition to its research and teaching facilities, the Stanford University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is the home of the largest clinic at the Stanford University Medical Center. Over 40,000 patient visits per year are completed at the Department of Psychiatry.
Students are introduced to practica in their first year, and are required to successfully complete three full years of practicum in a community setting in their 2nd, 3rd and 4th years. During the practicum sequence, students are introduced to supervision, consultation, and clinical organizational management (See courses for more information).
The PGSP-Stanford Psy.D. Consortium requires all students to complete a minimum two-thousand (2,000) hour supervised professional internship. These hours fulfill the pre-doctoral internship required by the State of California and other states (subject to individual state licensing boards), among other requirements for eligibility to sit for the licensing examination. This portion of the curriculum is intended to ensure that every student receives practical experience germane to his/her development as a professional clinical psychologist.
1. I am interested in applying to both Palo Alto University’s Pacific Graduate School of Psychology PhD Clinical Psychology program and the PGSP-Stanford PsyD Consortium. Do I need to submit two different Statements of Purpose?
The Consortium faculty includes a number of distinguished faculty from both Pacific Graduate School of Psychology (PGSP) at Palo Alto University, Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, offering a wide range of research interests and clinical specializations. Most are engaged in both clinical practice and research, and thus provide the knowledge, enthusiasm, and insights of those actively working in the field of psychology.