Child, Family, & School Psychology
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The Child, Family, & School Psychology program, which stresses serving children in the context of their families and communities, teaches students about psychological factors that influence human development and learning. Students can be prepared for licensure as school psychologists through the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) conditionally approved EdS degree program, or for professional careers in a broad range of educational, medical, research, or treatment-oriented service systems serving children from birth through age 21. The program offers a distinctive opportunity to interested students to develop a specialization in early childhood education.
The curriculum emphasizes strategies for supporting and intervening with children and families with diverse needs, as well as policy development, research, and program development and evaluation.
Benefiting Students
The CFSP Program provides students expanded career options in schools and the community. As a student in this program, you will have the opportunity to work in a broad range of educational, medical, research, or treatment-oriented service systems at the local, state and national levels.
You will also acquire a broad base of information about normal and atypical development, learning, and biological and environmental contexts that affect these areas. You'll gain an expertise in a wide array of diagnostic, assessment, prevention, intervention, consultation, evaluation and research methods that reinforce expertise within a concentration area of study.
To speak to someone about the Child, Family, and School Psychology MA, EdS, or PhD, please call or email our Admissions Office at 303-871-2509 or 1-800-835-1607, edinfo@du.edu.