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.

42.17 - School Psychology

This subseries comprises instructional program class 42.1701.

42.1701 - School Psychology

This instructional program class comprises any program that prepares individuals to apply clinical and counselling psychology principles to the diagnosis and treatment of student behavioural problems. These programs include courses in child and/or adolescent development; learning theory; testing, observation and other procedures for assessing educational, personality, intelligence and motor skill development; therapeutic intervention strategies for students and families; identification and classification of disabilities and disorders affecting learning; school psychological services planning; supervised counselling practice; ethical standards; and applicable regulations.

• Example Program Names:

  • School psychology

• Exclusion

  • School counselling(13.1101)
  • Psychology teacher(13.1335)
  • Counselling psychology(42.0601)
  • Educational psychology(42.1801)
  • Youth counsellor(44.0702)