Programs Offered:

Applied Behavior Analysis Psy.D. and M.A.

Applied Behavior Analysis is the treatment of choice for helping children with autism and other developmental disabilities. Our Applied Behavior Analysis Psy.D. and Clinical Psychology M.A. ABA Specialization Programs offer career opportunities in public and private schools, institutional and residential facilities, pediatric clinics and hospitals, and more. View our Applied Behavior Analysis program descriptions.

Business Psychology Doctoral Program Psy.D.

Graduates of our Business Psychology Doctoral Program gain skills to work in a variety of areas including consulting, human resources, organizational development, management, and individual coaching. View our Business Psychology Psy.D. graduate program description.

Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program Psy.D.

The Clinical Psychology Psy.D. doctoral degree is our oldest and most selective program. It emphasizes hands-on training and a commitment to underserved populations, diversity, and multicultural awareness. Alumni of our Clinical Psychology graduate program pursue careers in clinics, hospitals, counseling centers, academic institutions, and more. View the entire Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program Psy.D. description.

School Psychology Program Ed.S.

Our School Psychology graduate program offers students the opportunity to become part of an increasingly desired profession. Alumni of our School Psychology graduate program work with students, teachers, administrators, and parents to overcome difficulties in learning and/or personal development issues. View the entire School Psychology Ed.S. graduate program description.

Clinical Psychology M.A. – Counseling

Our Clinical Psychology M.A. program with a specialization in Counseling focuses on the emotional, intellectual, and psychological conditions that affect many people from young children to the elderly. Alumni of our Counseling Psychology graduate program work in hospitals, clinics, family counseling centers, substance abuse programs, mental health centers, schools, institutional and residential facilities, and more. In addition to our downtown campus, we now offer a blended cohort program at the University Center of Lake County. View the entire Clinical Psychology M.A. Counseling program description.

Forensic Psychology Program M.A.

Our Forensic Psychology M.A. is the only psychology graduate program of this kind in the Midwest.  It focuses on the application of psychology to law and the legal system. Alumni of our Forensic Psychology graduate program pursue careers in a variety of law and legal environments including probation services, court service units, protective services, jails and prisons, violence risk assessment, law enforcement, and more. View the entire Forensic Psychology Program M.A. description.

I/O Psychology Program M.A.

Our graduate program in Industrial & Organizational Psychology focuses on the application of professional psychology in the workplace. Graduates of our Industrial & Organizational Psychology Program work with organizations and individuals to increase performance, effectively solve problems, and develop professionally in a global and multicultural business world. View the entire Industrial Organizational - I/O Psychology Program M.A. description.

Certificates

Our certificates offer professionals the opportunity to advance their education and psychological understanding at the graduate level. Available psychology graduate program certificates include Applied Forensic Psychology, BCBA Respecialization, Consumer Psychology, Latino Mental Health, Leadership in Healthcare Professionals, Organizational Effectiveness, and Workplace Diversity. Learn more about our Certificates.

Leader Accelerator

Our Leader Accelerator Program gives you or your employees the skills they need to refine decision-making, organize teams and groups to maximize efficiency and solve productivity problems, reach your personal potential, and advance the success of your organization. Learn more about Leader Accelerator.

Men, Boys, and Mental Health Community Conference
Date: 5/31/2009 12:45 PM to 5:30 PM <img src="http://ego.thechicagoschool.edu/s/843/images/editor/Events/cohen_event_icon.gif">The 2009 conference is open to the public and is expected to draw more than 300 attendees, including medical and health care professionals, community leaders, affected family members, and others.<br>

TCS Announces New Ph.D. in International Psychology
Date: 3/30/2009 Recognizing a need for more trained professionals to understand and work with global challenges such as socio-cultural contexts, conflict, poverty, and natural disasters, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology is chartering the nation’s first Ph.D. in International Psychology.

Dr. Yael Danieli Brings Trauma Expertise to New International Ph.D. Program
Date: 3/30/2009 Positioning The Chicago School as a leader in the emergent discipline of international psychology is a tall order—one that demands the expertise and guidance of a giant in the field.

TCS Chicago Opens Career Week with Stanford University’s Dr. John Krumboltz
Date: 3/25/2009 "Luck Is No Accident: Making the Most of Happenstance in Your Life andCareer” was the title of a lively two-hour discussion delivered byStanford University Professor John Krumboltz before a capacity audienceat the Chicago Campus.

L.A. Students and Faculty Take Crisis Intervention Training on the Road
Date: 3/25/2009 Working with the City Attorney’s Office, Dr. Debra Warner and her Los Angeles Campus Forensic Psychology students have begun a series of weekly trainings about mental illness targeted to prosecution and defense attorneys.

TCS Joins Renaissance 2010 Movement with Garfield Park Preparatory Academy
Date: 3/13/2009 In one of its most high-profile partnerships to date, The Chicago School has teamed up with the Chicago Public Schools on an ambitious project to improve educational opportunities for children on the city’s west side and offer TCS students unique practicum and internship experiences.

NRC Institute at TCS Announces 8th Annual Mental Health Conference
Date: 3/8/2009 to 5/31/2009 The Naomi Ruth Cohen Institute at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology is proud to announce the Eighth Annual Community Mental Health Conference.

TCS-LA Supports Local Community and by Offering Free CIT Training, April 11
Date: 2/17/2009 The Chicago School at Los Angeles is hosting a free Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) on April 11, which will be targeted to professionals in government, social services, and community-based institutions. <br>

Dean Nealon-Woods Named to 2009 CA Issues & Trends Program
Date: 2/12/2009 Leadership California has selected Dr. Michele Nealon-Woods, dean of TCS-Southern California, as a member of the Class of 2009 for its 2009 California Issues & Trends Program (CIT).<br>

Mideast Trip Offers Insight into the Psychological Toll of Ongoing Conflict
Date: 2/11/2009 It was “the wall”—the barrier that separates Israel and the West Bank—that made the biggest impact on Forensic Psychology student Yasmeen Musa during her December visit to the Middle East. <br>

Book of the Year Programs Connect Community to Hmong Culture
Date: 2/10/2009 Now that Anne Fadiman’s <em>The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down</em>, The Chicago School’s current Book of the Year, has become a popular read among students, faculty and staff, a number of programs are underway to further connect TCS to the book’s profiled people, the Hmong.<br>

Student Health and Wellness Team Announces New Self-Development Programming
Date: 2/10/2009 Do you want to learn to sing? Help someone else learn to read? Practice yoga or meditation?&nbsp; Take better care of yourself? Improve your financial health? Get involved with professional organizations?

TCS Makes President's Community Service Honor Roll for Second Year
Date: 2/10/2009 <strong></strong>For the second straight year, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology has been named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts to the community.

TCS Alum Named CGI Counseling Center Director
Date: 2/9/2009 Dr. Melodie Schaefer, a Chicago School-educated clinical psychologist with three decades of experience in mental health and in the California professional psychology arena, has been named director of the California Graduate Institute (CGI) Counseling Centers.

1979–2009: Looking Back at 30 Years of TCS History
Date: 2/9/2009 It was the year of Three Mile Island, the American hostages in Tehran, the Steel City winning the Super Bowl and World Series, and Margaret Thatcher becoming Great Britain’s first female prime minister.

Sri Lanka Project a Transformative Experience for TCS Students and Faculty
Date: 2/8/2009 Over the past four years, TCS Adjunct Professor Mike McNulty has spent more than 300 hours by air and another 125 hours on the ground trekking back and forth to Sri Lanka, a small island nation still wrestling with the effects of the catastrophic tsunami that struck southern Asia in 2004, not to mention an ongoing civil war. When he returned for his eighth visit this past December to continue his work directing the Sri Lanka Project, with him were four Chicago School students and two fellow faculty members.

Chicago School Board Elects Two New Trustees
Date: 2/4/2009 <strong></strong>The governing body of The Chicago School of Professional Psychology elected two new trustees during its winter meeting held on January 30, 2009.

Chicago Community Turns Out for Forensic Center Dedication
Date: 1/30/2009 The Chicago School of Professional Psychology is poised to further connect its psychology services to the legal sector and community agencies that interface with the court system thanks to its new Forensic Center, which was formally dedicated at a Merchandise Mart event on January 30.

Dr. Horowitz Discusses Psychology and the Economy at Niagara Foundation
Date: 1/27/2009 On January 27, Chicago School President Michael Horowitz spoke on the timely issue of psychology and the economy as part of the Niagara Foundation’s <a href="http://www.niagarafoundation.org/niagara/luncheon.php" target="_blank">monthly speaker series</a>.

Chicago Campus Welcomes Five Fudan University Students
Date: 1/27/2009 Five psychology students Shanghai, China, visited the Chicago Campus in January, the latest in a series of exchange programs with Fudan University.

TCS China Office Connects East to West
Date: 1/26/2009 Like his native China, Yanjun Weng likes to think big. It’s a characteristic that makes him right at home at The Chicago School.

TCS-LA Taps Dr. Albert Edwards as Lead Faculty for West Coast I/O Program
Date: 1/17/2009 The Chicago School’s Los Angeles Campus welcomes a new lead faculty for its Industrial and Organizational Psychology (I/O) program.<br>

First Petra Reim Scholarship Awarded
Date: 12/11/2008 A Clinical Psychology doctoral student with a passion for social justice issues has become the first recipient of a scholarship fund established earlier this year to memorialize the life of Petra Reim, a Clinical Psy.D. student who died unexpectedly in February 2008.

Mart Phase II Project Nears Completion, Slated to Open in January
Date: 12/9/2008 The moving van is once again parked at The Chicago School’s 325 N.Wells Street building, this time to transport one academic department and three centers across the street to 30,270 usable square feet of newspace in the Merchandise Mart.

ISPA Plants Roots at The Chicago School
Date: 12/9/2008 The Chicago School took another step toward greater internationalization this semester as the Chicago Campus opened its doors to the International School Psychology Association’s (ISPA) central office.

Playwright and Director Luis Valdez Discusses “The Power of Zero”
Date: 11/21/2008 “The future belongs to those who can imagine it.” With this sentence celebrated playwright, theater director, and filmmaker Luis Valdez concluded his provocative talk titled “The Power of Zero,” the second event in The Chicago School’s ongoing “Starting from Scratch: The Psychology of Beginning” lecture series. <br>

Students and Faculty Attend National Latino Psychological Association Event
Date: 11/18/2008 A collection of eight Chicago School faculty and students traveled to Costa Mesa, Calif., in November to attend the biannual National Latino Psychological Association (NLPA) conference. The theme for the November 14–17 forum was “La Cultura Cura: Healing Traditions and Models of Care with Latina/o Families & Communities.”

The Chicago School Unites with CGI, Expands Number of Southern Cal Campuses
Date: 11/14/2008 The Chicago School of Professional Psychology (TCS) formally announced today a merger with the California Graduate Institute (CGI). As a result of the affiliation, The Chicago School’s physical presence in Southern California surges from one campus, in downtown Los Angeles, to three with the addition of CGI’s locations in Westwood and Irvine, Calif.

Naomi Ruth Cohen Charitable Foundation Finds New Home at TCS
Date: 11/11/2008 <strong></strong><strong>CHICAGO</strong> – After years of working together to help families touched by the stigma of mental illness, Lawrence and Marilyn Cohen of Evanston, Ill., and Chicago School President Michael Horowitz announce the creation of the Naomi Ruth Cohen Institute for Mental Health Education at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology.

Students Recognized at IPA Convention
Date: 11/8/2008 Students working with Community Partnerships won two awards for superior poster presentations at the Illinois Psychological Association Convention on November 7 in Skokie, Ill.

Broken Wings Network Founder Karren Kraemer Visits Campus
Date: 11/3/2008 More than 125 students, faculty, and staff attended a Nov. 3 conversation with Karren Kraemer, founder of The Broken Wings Network, and advocate for the prevention of domestic violence and homicide.<br>

TCS Campus Safety Committee Welcomes Community Input
Date: 10/28/2008 To ensure that campus safety and security continues to receive the heightened attention that it deserves, earlier this fall The Chicago School Cabinet chartered a Campus Safety Committee with representatives from Chicago and Los Angeles. <br>

From Boulder to Vail to Chicago: A New Model of Psychology Education
Date: 10/27/2008 <meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"> <meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"> <meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"><link rel="File-List"> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> <span style="font-family: Arial;">A collection of Chicago School community members are engaging this academic year in a “Constitutional Convention” scale project to define and articulate The Chicago School Model of Education for years to come. </span> <p><span style="font-family: Arial;">Called “From Boulder to Vail to Chicago,” the initiative carries the ambitious goal of advancing the progression of psychology education from origins of research to practice to a blend of both with an emphasis on community engagement. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial;">“A Chicago School education has evolved,” said TCS President Michael Horowitz in his address to the Board of Trustees on Oct. 10. “The Vail Practitioner Model no longer precisely describes what we do. It’s so much more. We need to look within over the next year and articulate, definitively, what our values of education, innovation, service, and community mean, both inside and outside the classroom.” The model project was one of The Chicago School’s Institutional Goals for 2008–2009, as set by Dr. Horowitz and the Board of Trustees. </span></p>

El Arte de Sentirse Bien, "The Art of Feeling Well,” Draws Latino Community
Date: 10/27/2008 El Arte de Sentirse Bien, "the Art of Feeling Well,” was the theme of the second annual Mental Health Issues in the Latino Community conference hosted by the Naomi Ruth Cohen Charitable Foundation and co-sponsored by The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. <br>

TCS Hosts Inaugural Meeting of CAAIR
Date: 10/27/2008 The Chicago School’s Office of Institutional Research hosted the inaugural meeting of the Chicago Area Association for Institutional Research (CAAIR) on October 24. Established this year, CAAIR serves as a working group/idea exchange/professional development opportunity for individuals working in institutional research.

Chicago School of Professional Psychology Board Elects Seven New Trustees
Date: 10/10/2008 The governing body of The Chicago School of Professional Psychology elected seven new trustees, including one alumnus, during its fall meeting held on October 10, 2008. Now with 25 members, the school’s Board of Trustees provides governance and counsel to the nation’s leading professional psychology school.

More than 45 Training Sites Attend OPT Appreciation Event
Date: 10/8/2008 In an effort to acknowledge the many training sites who work with Chicago School students every year, the Office of Placement and Training (OPT) opened its doors October 8 for an appreciation event. <br>

The Chicago School’s INSIGHT Magazine Wins Ozzie Award
Date: 10/3/2008 <font face="Arial"><em><a href="http://www.thechicagoschool.edu/content.cfm/insight_magazine">INSIGHT</a></em>, the magazine for alumni and friends of The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, has been recognized by the magazine industry as the best new magazine published by a nonprofit organization in 2008.</font>

TCS Breaks Record with Incoming Fall Class
Date: 9/19/2008 Chicago School enrollment at its Chicago, L.A., and Online campuses approached the 2,000 mark this fall as the <a href="http://www.thechicagoschool.edu/content.cfm/los_angeles_campus">Los Angeles Campus</a> welcomed its first cohort of students, online enrollment surged, and Chicago on-ground programs saw steady increases.

Community Engagement Work Earns Chicago School Membership with the Illinois
Date: 8/29/2008 Thanks to his commitment to community service and civic engagement, The Chicago School of Professional Psychology has been invited to join the Illinois Campus Compact (ILCC) as the organization’s first graduate school member. <br>