Community Partnerships
Annually, Adler School students provide over 650,000 hours of community service. The Adler School partners with more than 700 agencies to advance community health. Adler Community Health Services (ACHS) provides psychological services to underserved populations through its clinical training programs.
ACHS training programs include the Adler Community Mental Health Doctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology as well as psychotherapy and diagnostic assessment externships (practica). The internship is approved by the American Psychological Association (APA) and is a member of the Association of Psychology Post-doctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC).
A distinctive feature of Adler School programs, the Community Service Practicum (CSP) is a requirement for all first-year students at the School. The CSP is unique non-clinical experience, meant to expose future practitioners to concepts of social justice and social change, and to instill in them the ethos and the skill set necessary to engage in socially responsible practice.
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