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The twin goals of the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology (ECPY) are to advance the scientific base of the study of education and counseling and to offer opportunities at all university levels for students to increase their skills in educational and counseling psychology.

ECPY faculty and students conduct research in a wide set of scholarly areas, ranging from measurable elementary school improvement in high-poverty contexts to issues affecting the power of colleges to sustain students to graduation and successful careers. Several ECPY faculty conduct ongoing investigations into methods for improving mental health services to historically under-served and otherwise at-risk populations.

Whether they go on to careers as licensed counselors, school counselors, college student affairs professionals, art therapists, psychometricians, or educational researchers, ECPY students graduate with competitive degrees that make them highly desirable to employers.

Our Degrees and Programs

As a center of teaching, ECPY offers a wide, multifaceted array of programs and services committed to the broad fields of educational and developmental psychology, counseling psychology, college students personnel services, school counseling, school psychology, expressive therapies, and psychometrics and assessment.

ECPY offers various M.Ed. and Ph.D. degrees in Counseling and Personnel Services with concentrations in College Student Personnel, School Counseling, Counseling Psychology, Mental Health Counseling, and Expressive Therapies. The Counseling Psychology doctoral program is accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA). The Expressive Therapies M.Ed. program is accredited with the American Art Therapy Association (AATA). The College Student Personnel Services MEd program meets the standards of the Council for the Advancement of Standards (CAS) in Higher Education.

Our Faculty

ECPY’s award-winning faculty includes nationally and internationally recognized experts in school counseling, counseling psychology, and educational psychology. Faculty serve in editorial capacities or on the editorial boards of the following journals: Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Journal of School Psychology, Early Education and Development, Gifted Child Quarterly, Psychology of Religion and Spirituality, Editorial Advisory Board, Asia Pacific Journal of Counseling and Psychotherapy, Elementary School Journal, Research Synthesis Methods, Psychotherapy, Journal of Classroom Interaction, School Effectiveness and School Improvement, Education, Knowledge and Economy, and many others. .

The department is also home to the Journal of Education for Students Placed At Risk (JESPAR), formerly based at Johns Hopkins University.

Where Our Graduates Are Employed

ECPY’s talented graduate students enjoy a great degree of success in graduating and acquiring professional licensures. Many have gone on to highly visible, successful careers in their chosen fields, including tenure-track faculty appointments, institutional leadership roles, psychologists, and licensed school or community-based counseling positions across the state and nation. For some students, practicum and internship placements in local colleges, universities, and clinical settings have led to full-time positions after graduation.

Whether they go on to careers as licensed counselors, psychologists, school counselors, college student affairs professionals, art therapists, psychometricians, or educational researchers, ECPY students graduate with competitive degrees that make them highly desirable to employers.

APA Accreditation

Inquiries about the accreditation status of our APA-accredited Counseling Psychology Doctoral Program can be obtained from the American Psychological Association's Committee on Accreditation (CoA).