Variant of CIP 2000 - NGS University-level Historical Groupings

2 - Social Sciences, Psychology and Law

26 - Psychology and Cognitive and Behavioural Sciences

42. - Psychology

This series comprises instructional programs that focus on the scientific study of the behaviour of individuals, independently or collectively, and the physical and environmental bases of mental, emotional, and neurological activity.

42.06 - Counselling Psychology

This subseries comprises instructional program class 42.0601.

42.0601 - Counselling Psychology

This instructional program class comprises any program that prepares individuals for the independent professional practice of psychological counselling, involving the provision of therapeutic services to individuals and groups experiencing psychological problems and exhibiting distress symptoms. These programs include courses in counselling theory, therapeutic intervention strategies, patient/counsellor relationships, testing and assessment methods and procedures, group therapy, marital and family therapy, child and adolescent therapy, supervised counselling practice, ethical standards, and applicable regulations.

• Example Program Names:

  • Counselling psychology
  • Psychological counselling

• Exclusion

  • Guidance counselling(13.1101)
  • Pastoral counselling(39.0701)
  • Developmental psychology(42.0701)
  • Family counselling(51.1505)
  • Clinical pastoral counselling(51.1506)
  • Psychoanalysis(51.1507)
  • Psychiatry-residency(60.0255)