Recognizing a need for more trained professionals to understand and work with global challenges such as socio-cultural contexts, conflict, poverty, and natural disasters, TCS is chartering the nation’s first Ph.D. in International Psychology. The post-master’s doctoral degree is designed for working professionals and will leverage The Chicago School’s 30-year pedigree of psychology training rooted in diversity and multicultural studies.

The program comes at a time when, according to the World Health Organization, 450 million people worldwide suffer from a mental or behavior disorder. Of those, fewer than one in four has access to effective treatments; in some countries, less than 10 percent have access.

Joining Department Chair Robert Clark, Ph.D., as a program architect is Dr. Yael Danieli, a clinical psychologist who co-founded and directs the Group Project for Holocaust Survivors and Their Children in New York. Dr. Danieli, who serves as a distinguished professor of international psychology at The Chicago School, sees the Ph.D. in International Psychology as making a difference in the area of trauma studies and treatment.

“I envision this degree as a way to prepare professionals of all kinds—lawyers, the clergy, nurses, and of course psychologists—to understand and meet the needs of people suffering from massive trauma,” Dr. Danieli said. “I see it as a program that will continue to evolve as we build important relationships and incorporate the most current information.”

Coursework for the Organizations and Systems concentration will be offered online with the Trauma Services concentration requiring a blend of online delivery and a weekend on-campus component. Students will complete their training through dissertation work and two nine-day international field experiences. An optional extended field placement is available for those seeking additional international research, service, or practice experiences.

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Offered through the Online Campus, the new Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership also begins in the fall. The program targets individuals who have career aspirations to be practitioner-scholars as well as leaders in their organizations, or those already in positions of leadership who seek enhanced knowledge and skills. With more of a research emphasis, students will be able to make their mark in the field and contribute to the growing knowledge base of workplace study through dissertation and field work within an organization. Students will complete the entire 60-credit curriculum online and will be required to attend two Chicagobased residencies designed to assist them with the dissertation component of the program.

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Seven years after becoming the Midwest’s first graduate school to offer a master’s degree in Forensic Psychology, TCS is expanding its forensic offerings with a new doctoral program. Classes for the Psy.D. in Clinical Forensic Psychology will begin in September at the school’s Chicago Campus. The Southern California version of the program started this past January at the school’s downtown Los Angeles Campus.

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TCS Southern California has also announced its lineup of degree offerings for its locations in downtown Los Angeles, Westwood, and Irvine. Licensure-eligible and post-master’s Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology programs are available at all three sites while nonlicensure Psy.D. programs that emphasize Marital and Family Therapy (MFT) will be at Westwood and Irvine. On the master’s level, license-eligible MFT programs are also available at each location.