California School of Professional Psychology
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| Type | Private, Graduate |
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| Established | 1969 |
| Chancellor | Lisa Porche Burke, Ph.D (1985–1999) |
| Dean | Teresa Chapa |
| Students | 5,200 |
| Location | Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, Fresno, California, United States |
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Fresno Irvine Los Angeles Mexico City Sacramento San Diego San Francisco Hong Kong Tokyo |
| Nickname | CSPP |
| Affiliations | Alliant International University |
| Website | alliant.edu/cspp |
The California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) was founded in 1969 by the California Psychological Association. It is part of Alliant International University where each campus's Clinical Psychology Psy.D. and Ph.D. program is individually accredited by the American Psychological Association. The school has trained approximately half of the licensed psychologists in California.
The school has degree programs in clinical psychology, marriage and family therapy, clinical counseling, Organizational Psychology and psychopharmacology at campuses in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Fresno, Sacramento, and Irvine, and abroad in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Mexico City. CSPP is one of a handful of APA- accredited schools that also offered a clinical doctoral respecialization in professional psychology.
The California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) was founded in 1969 under the auspices of the California Psychological Association. CSPP was the first free-standing school of professional psychology in the nation, and remains the largest non-profit professional psychology school in the nation.
The goal of CSPP is to train doctoral level psychologists in professional practice models and to assure that its students and faculty are as diverse as the State of California. At the time of its founding, these goals were radical in that most clinical psychologists were trained in research universities, where diversity was not seen in neither students nor faculty, and were being produced in very small numbers. At its founding CSPP, worked out of borrowed or rented space with a volunteer (unpaid) faculty, but had a large number of student applicants who were attracted to the new training model.
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