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PsyD Clinical Psychology
Saybrook University is no longer offering a PsyD program option. We encourage prospective students interested in pursuing a graduate program leading to licensure to consider our PhD Psychology, Clinical Psychology Specialization or MA Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy Specialization.
The information below is for the use of PsyD students currently enrolled in the program.
Saybrook University Statement on the Doctorate of Psychology (PsyD) Program
February 16, 2012
In 2008, we began recruiting our first PsyD cohort for the fall semester. As part of that process we announced our intention to seek accreditation for the program by the American Psychological Association (APA) when we believed we had achieved all of the requirements necessary for a successful application. We subsequently recruited and enrolled three additional PsyD cohorts with the continued intent to seek APA accreditation. We also cited as a distinctive feature of our program an integrative humanistic approach grounding the traditions of humanistic, existential, and transpersonal psychology, in contemporary thought and scientific research.
Based on thorough research and due diligence- conversations with APA leaders and accreditors, with expert APA consultants, and Chairs of PsyD programs at other institutions- it has become increasingly apparent that it would not be possible for our PsyD program as presently conceived and structured to meet the increasingly rigid curricular and pedagogical requirements mandated for APA accreditation. As an institution that values the whole person – mind, body, spirit – and whose entire history and pedagogy is grounded in the humanistic tradition, we firmly believe that we cannot achieve APA accreditation successfully and still meet the humanistic promise of the program we have communicated to our PsyD students. We believe to attempt to do so would severely compromise our integrity as a humanistic institution.
Given that conclusion, we have reluctantly determined that we can no longer continue to offer the PsyD program. We are no longer accepting applications for the PsyD program and will be doing a teach out for our current PsyD students. These students will have the option to complete the program and earn their PsyD degree or transfer into one of Saybrook’s other clinical programs: PhD Psychology, Clinical Psychology Specialization; MA Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy Specialization. The curriculum and pedagogy for both of these programs remains aligned with our principles and values as an institution, and both of these programs prepare students for licensure.
Anyone who needs additional information or has questions should contact Shawn Rubin, PsyD Program Chair at srubin@saybrook.edu, 415.323.5690.
