Adler School of Professional Psychology
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Adler School of Professional Psychology is a non-profit institution of higher education and independent graduate school
Graduate school
A graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate degree...

 of psychology
Psychology
Psychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...

 located in Chicago, Illinois and Vancouver, British Columbia. Founded in 1952 as The Adler Institute, the school offers a doctorate in clinical psychology (Psy.D.) and several masters degree programs. Master's programs offered include marriage/family therapy, counseling psychology, organizational development, art therapy, rehabilitation, gerontology, school counseling and the nation's only Master's program in police psychology specifically for police officers. The Adler School is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and the American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association
The American Psychological Association is the largest scientific and professional organization of psychologists in the United States. It is the world's largest association of psychologists with around 154,000 members including scientists, educators, clinicians, consultants and students. The APA...

, having been granted (October, 2008) 7 years of re-accreditation by the American Psychological Association, an accreditation status reserved only for exemplary doctoral programs in school, counseling and clinical psychology.

In addition to its main campus in downtown Chicago, which is located at 17 N Dearborn, The Adler School also maintains a campus in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The Adler School is the oldest independent professional school of psychology in North America and is a full member of NCSPP, the National Council of Schools and Programs of Professional Psychology. The Adler School strives to attract applicants to its graduate programs who are interested in the interface between psychology and social justice, rather than those who are merely interested in the private practice of counseling and clinical psychology. The current enrollment of the school is approximately 800 students.

Students matriculated in all of the school's curricula receive training in Alfred Adler
Alfred Adler
Alfred Adler was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. In collaboration with Sigmund Freud and a small group of Freud's colleagues, Adler was among the co-founders of the psychoanalytic movement as a core member of the Vienna...

's Individual Psychology, the theory of personality and psychotherapy founded by Adler, an early 20th century psychoanalyst who broke from Freud's inner circle to emphasize social rather than sexual aspects of the human psyche. In addition to training in Adler's Individual Psychology, students are broadly trained across multiple competency areas, including research methods, statistics, lifespan development, community mental health, biological bases of behavior, psychopharmacology, psychopathology, psychological assessment, multicultural diversity, advocacy, public policy, social change, clinical supervision, and traditional models of counseling and psychotherapy including cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic and family systems interventions.

Students enrolled in all curricula (except Police Psychology) complete a 6-month community service practicum (CSP) during the first year of matriculation, during which each graduate student becomes attached to a community-based project within a social service agency or health-care institution. For example, CSP projects often involve the graduate student in public policy, grant writing, community advocacy, psychoeducation, coalition building, curriculum development and other professional activities of relevance to the field of counseling and professional psychology. The purpose of the CSP is to provide the student with an opportunity to do community-based, professional work that counselors and psychologists are often called to do in their careers.

Subsequent to the CSP, graduate students at Adler complete intensive clinical practicum placements. Master's students complete a one year clinical practicum. Doctoral students complete 3 years of clinical practicum, write a traditional dissertation, and complete a one-year, 2000-hour clinical residency.

Housed on campus is the Dreikurs Psychological Services Center (PSC), a community mental health center that provides clinical services to residents of Chicago and the surrounding suburbs on a sliding-scale fee schedule. The PSC is also a clinical practicum site for many of Adler's graduate students and also provides an APA-accredited, pre-doctoral internship for doctoral students in their final year of study.

Adler's Institute on Social Exclusion (ISE) was created in 2005 to integrate the concept of "social exclusion" into U.S. public policy discourse and to serve as a key institutional vehicle in the pursuit of The Adler School's vision to promote social justice. The overarching aim of the Institute is to pursue social justice by working to integrate the social exclusion framework, with its structural orientation, into American public deliberations about social disadvantage. Its intent is to facilitate a shift in national beliefs about and policy responses to the root causes of social disadvantage beyond the heavy emphasis on "personal responsibility" towards more progressive, structural orientation.

The current president of The Adler School of Professional Psychology is Dr. Raymond Crossman, Ph.D., one of America's few openly gay college/university presidents. The Interim Vice President of Academic Affairs is Dr. Wendy Paszkiewicz. The Director of the Institute on Social Exclusion is Dr. Lynn Toddman.

See also

  • Classical Adlerian psychology
    Classical Adlerian psychology
    Classical Adlerian psychology is a values-based, fully integrated theory of personality, model of psychopathology, philosophy of living, strategy for preventative education, and technique of psychotherapy...

  • North American Society of Adlerian Psychology
    North american society of adlerian psychology
    The North American Society of Adlerian Psychology is the primary organization in the United States for the promotion of the psychological and philosophical theories of Alfred Adler, known as individual psychology...

  • Alfred Adler
    Alfred Adler
    Alfred Adler was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. In collaboration with Sigmund Freud and a small group of Freud's colleagues, Adler was among the co-founders of the psychoanalytic movement as a core member of the Vienna...

  • Rudolf Dreikurs
    Rudolf Dreikurs
    Rudolf Dreikurs was an American psychiatrist and educator who developed psychologist Alfred Adler's system of individual psychology into a pragmatic method for understanding the purposes of reprehensible behaviour in children and for stimulating cooperative behaviour without punishment or...


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