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.

42.20 - Clinical Child Psychology

This subseries comprises instructional program class 42.2001.

42.2001 - Clinical Child Psychology

This instructional program class comprises any program that prepares individuals for the independent professional practice of clinical child psychology and that focuses on the developmental processes of children and associated disorders. These programs include courses in developmental neuropsychology, child psychopathology, testing of children and adolescents, pediatric psychology, psychosocial variables in child development, clinical skills, family therapy, behavioural assessment and intervention, clinical skills, consultation, professional standards and ethics, and applications to topics such as infancy, childhood, and adolescence.

• Example Program Names:

  • Clinical child psychology

• Exclusion

  • Child development(19.0706)
  • Clinical psychology(42.0201)
  • Child psychology(42.0701)
  • Child and youth care counsellor(44.0702)
  • Child psychiatry-residency(60.0208)