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Exciting changes to IPS Master's Program
Arlington, VA, February 8, 2012 - The Institute for the Psychological Sciences' (IPS) Board of Directors unanimously approved significant changes to the Master's program that will make the program even more robust in terms of training and employment opportunities after graduation.
In response to feedback from IPS students, graduates and faculty, the clinical psychology program will be compressed into two years and two summers, including a full-year externship. Currently the externship adds a third year to the program
"This is a very propitious step for our 12-year-old institution. We're committed to making our students' experience here -- and after graduation -- a very positive one," said IPS President Fr. Charles Sikorsky, L.C., J.D., J.C.L.
The revised program will offer broad-based clinical training combined with academic, practical and personal knowledge. The goal is for each student to become competent in diagnosis, treatment planning and psychological intervention with children, adults, couples, and families through the Catholic anthropological lens.
Stephen Hamel, Ph.D., ABPP, Director of the Master's Program in Clinical Psychology, offered, "We believe these new changes to our program will result in even better trained graduates with credentials for possible licensure in a variety of mental health fields."
Over the last few years, IPS has been enhancing this program, making continual improvements to the MS-Plus Practicum Option. These new changes will allow students to pursue their careers in the mental health profession a year earlier.
Because the new program involves adjustments to the curriculum which have not yet occurred, it will not impact students already enrolled in the program.
Click here to see the updated curriculum.