MS in Clinical Psychology

San Jose State University

The Master of Science (MS) degree in Clinical Psychology, offered by the Department of Psychology, is designed to provide the student with both theoretical and practical training in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of a wide variety of individual (adult and children), couples’, and family mental health problems, and to prepare the student to work in private or public service agencies, independent practice, community mental health centers, or hospitals. The program values and emphasizes evidence-based practice of psychotherapy. The required academic course work and supervised fieldwork of 60 semester units meets the course work requirements for the California State Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT) license. An additional 2500-3000 post-degree hours of acceptable supervised experience is required for admission to the state MFT licensing examination.