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Program Overview
The Montclair State University School Psychology Certification Program, housed in the Department of Psychology, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, is a three year, sixty semester hour program leading to an institutional recommendation for certification as a School Psychologist in the state of New Jersey.
In the program, students are prepared for the ethical provision of professional psychological services to children and families in school settings and are exposed to a variety of psychological perspectives and frameworks, including cognitive, behavioral and psychodynamic.
The specific knowledge base imparted in the program consists of :
 | psychological and educational foundations |
| current basic and applied research findings |
| knowledge and respect for diverse cultures and individual differences |
| clinical intervention and problem-solving skills, including preventive interventions |
| principles of ethical professional practice |
|
skills in working collaboratively with school personnel and families and skill in working as a member of an interdisciplinary or transdiciplinary team |
| skills in statistics and research methodologies and test construction |
| facility in utilizing resources |
| professional school psychological practice |
| an understanding of the legal and regulatory context in which school psychological services are provided |
| understanding of the environmental contexts that impact on children and youth (including family roles, school culture, and community systems) and skill in working effectively with those systems. |
Program Admissions & Requirements
This program has been cancelled effective May 2006.
Course Selection (all courses are three credits unless otherwise noted in parentheses)
I. Educational Foundations: 12 credits
One multicultural course from the following:
COUN 595 Multicultural Counseling
PSYC 551 Mental Health Issues of Hispanics
SOCI 574 Sociology of Ethnic Relationships
One curriculum/reading course from the following:
CURR 523 Education in the Inner City
CURR 538 Discipline and Group Management in the Classroom
CURR 546 Education of Gifted and Talented
CURR 599 Curricular and Social Dynamics of Schooling
CURR 551 Problem Solving and Critical Inquiry in Curriculum Development
READ 500 The Nature of Reading
READ 507 Understanding Reading Comprehension
READ 508 Critical Thinking and Literacy
And
PSYC 668 Consultation Methods in Psychoeducational Settings
And
SPED 582 Basic Instructional Techniques for Students with Learning
Problems
OR
SPED 587 Advanced Instructional Techniques for Students with Learning
Problems
II. Education of the Handicapped (Select two courses):
6 credits
SPED 579 Special Education for Students with Disabilities
PSYC 564 Psychological Aspects of Disabling Conditions
PSYC 565 Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
III. Testing and Clinical
Techniques: 36 credits
PSYC 510 Research Methods in Psychology
PSYC 550 Quantitative and Statistical Methods
PSYC 574 Individual Intelligence Testing
PSYC 575 Projective Techniques I
PSYC 577 Practicum I - Projective Techniques I
PSYC 576 Projective Techniques II
PSYC 578 Psychological Tests and Measurements
PSYC 579 Practicum II - Projective Techniques I
PSYC 594 Therapeutic Interventions in the Schools
PSYC 609 Practicum III - Diagnostic Case Studies
PSYC 610 Diagnostic Case Studies
PSYC 661 Practicum in School Psychology
PSYC 662 School Psychology Externship
IV. Personality and Behavioral Development: 12
credits
PSYC 561 Developmental Psychology
PSYC 563 Theories of Learning
PSYC 582 Behavior Modification
PSYC 667 Abnormal Psychology
V. Biological Bases
of Behavior (Select one course): 3 credits
PSYC 573 Behavioral Neuroscience
SPED 595 Medical and Physical Bases of Disabilities
Minimum: 63 semester hours
APPLICATION DEADLINES:
FALL: FEBRUARY 1ST
SPRING: NO SPRING ADMISSION
School Psychology Links:
| School Psychology International Journal |
| UC Berkeley List of Graduate Programs in School Psychology |
| School Psychology Resources On-Line |
| National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) |