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- 50x40px This article does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. The Adler School of Professional PsychologyEstablished 1952Type Private nondenominational coeducationalEndowment $4.6 millionPresident Dr. Raymond Crossman, Ph. DAcademic staff 100Students 715Location Chicago, IllinoisCampus UrbanAthletics NoneMascot NoneWebsite www. adler. edu Adler School of Professional Psychology is a non-profit institution of higher education and independent graduate school of psychology located in Chicago, Illinois and Vancouver, British Columbia. Founded in 1952 as The Adler Institute, the school offers a doctorate in clinical psychology 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, 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'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. He appointed the fifth president of school in 2003 and since then has realized a new vision, new academic program and significant growth
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