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The Safran Center for Psychological Services is a nonprofit psychological services training clinic that helps ensure that students in the Clinical Psychology program at The New School for Social Research develop the skills and competencies essential for success as clinical psychologists. The Safran Center provides tailored foundational training in psychotherapy and psychodiagnostic assessment to clinical doctoral students through close supervision of practical application of learned skills. It also offers low-fee psychological services to New School students and the surrounding community. In addition, the Safran Center partners with The New School’s Counseling Center to assess the eligibility of New School students for various accommodations.
In their second year, Clinical Psychology doctoral students participate in a paid practicum in which they are trained in educational and psychodiagnostic assessment of cognitive functioning, learning and developmental disabilities, attention and executive functioning difficulties, and psychiatric conditions that may be affecting academic performance. In line with the scientist-practitioner framework, the center’s therapy training model includes a systematic collection of self-report measures from clients for routine monitoring and quality assurance. This model meets the American Psychological Association’s (APA) new Standards of Accreditation (SoA), including curriculum, competency evaluation, and supervision requirements. Because the SoA requires live or recorded supervision of students, each Safran Center session is video-recorded with consent from both the student and the client, allowing close supervision of students’ work and likely improving outcomes for clients. The Safran Center has approval from the Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) to establish a data repository, which can be used for research purposes by Psychology faculty and students at The New School for Social Research.
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