The California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP), was founded by the California Psychological Association in 1969.[1] It is part of Alliant International University.
The school has trained approximately half of the licensed psychologists in California. Today the school offers degree programs in clinical psychology, marriage and family therapy, counseling psychology, and psychopharmacology at campuses in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Fresno, Sacramento, Irvine, abroad in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Mexico City.[2]
CSPP became accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges (WASC) in 1977. By the mid-1980s all of its existing Clinical Psychology programs became accredited by the American Psychological Association and its Marriage and Family Therapy programs are accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education of the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT). Each psychology doctorate degree program (Ph.D. or Psy.D.) on each campus is accredited individually by the American Psychological Association.