School Psychology

Master's and Specialist Degrees


The Winthrop School Psychology Program is primarily designed to prepare practitioners who are competent to provide a full range of school psychological services including consultation, behavioral intervention, psychoeducational assessment, research, program planning/evaluation and counseling. Students are prepared to work with diverse clients from infancy to young adulthood, including those with low-incidence disabilities, and with families, teachers and others in the schools and community.

This program only accepts applications once per year for the fall term.

 

Graduate Program Director: 
Dr. Giancarlo Anselmo
anselmog@winthrop.edu 
803/323-2635


Why Winthrop?

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After Graduation

100 percent employment rate in the field within three months of graduation over the past 10 years (many students had job offers before they graduated).

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                           psychologists

Accreditation

The combined M.S./S.S.P. program is fully approved by the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) and South Carolina Department of Education.

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Quality Program

100 percent of students graduating over the past 20 years have passed the national Praxis examination in school psychology.


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Beyond Graduation

Our graduates go on to careers in a wide variety of school psychology fields.  Here are some directions our students have gone in:

  • Public school districts

  • Charter schools

  • Private schools

  • National Defense Schools

  • Mental health, disability, and independent practice service settings

 


 

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