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.

42.26 - Forensic Psychology

This subseries comprises instructional program class 42.2601.

42.2601 - Forensic Psychology

This instructional program class comprises any program that prepares individuals to apply clinical, counselling, school, and neuropsychology skills to the provision of psychological services within the criminal justice and civil legal systems, including consultation, assessment, and interventions. These programs include courses in the epidemiology of mental/behavioural disorders, risk factors for violence and criminality, profiling and patterning, psychological testing, prediction and intervention measurement, forensic assessment, criminal and civil law and procedures, secure environments, forensic treatment and intervention skills, and professional standards and ethics.

• Example Program Names:

  • Criminal psychology
  • Forensic psychology

• Exclusion

  • Social psychology(42.1601)
  • Forensic science(43.0106)
  • Criminal science(43.0111)
  • Criminology(45.0401)
  • Forensic pathology-residency(60.0219)