Earn Your PsyD in School-Clinical Child Psychology

Promote Childhood and Adolescent Development

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At Pace University, a PsyD in School-Clinical Child Psychology prepares you to address complex educational and developmental challenges impacting student well-being and success. Through a rigorous curriculum, you'll gain the skills needed to assess and intervene in areas like learning disabilities, school crises, and social conditions affecting mental health. The program also builds your research abilities, enabling you to advance knowledge in the field and communicate findings effectively. Graduates are eligible for New York State certification and can pursue licensure for professional psychology practice.

Rigorous Preparation

Train to provide a range of psychological services such as assessment and evaluation, health promotion, intervention, prevention, and program development and evaluation services—with a special focus on the developmental processes of children and youth.
Develop and implement research methods that are pertinent to the recognition of, distinctions among, and effective preventions and interventions for young individuals facing the many types of risk (e.g., academic, biological, environmental, experiential, psychosocial) that compromise developmental potential.
Learn to analyze efficacy in systems including education and pediatric health care, and inform policy creation in education and mental health care.

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98%

of graduates are employed as psychologists

162,000

Launch your career by connecting with our network of 162,000 alumni

95.8%

of PsyD program graduates are licensed psychologists, and non-licensed graduates are certified school psychologists

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Career Options

Career options for graduates of the PsyD School-Clinical Child Psychology include working as a certified school psychologist and/or licensed psychologist.

Graduates are Employed

Graduates from the PsyD in School-Clinical Child Psychology work in public or private school settings, clinical or psychiatric settings (e.g., mental health agencies, clinics), as well as private practice.

Pace students are able to work with difficult and complex cases.

– Athena Drewes ’92, PsyD; Director of Clinical Training, Astor Services.

About Dyson College of Arts and Sciences

Dyson College at Pace University offers the resources and caliber of faculty that you would expect at a large university, while providing the close personal attention associated with a small college experience.

In small classes taught by caring faculty who are active practitioners in their fields, Dyson offers innovative programs at convenient locations in New York City, Westchester, and online.

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