该计划始于少数有远见的人决定利用波士顿学院和生机勃勃的波士顿心理社区的巨大力量，通过他们的临床工作，研究，教学，领导才能和拓展活动，训练有能力倡导社会正义的心理咨询心理学家。他们成功了。如今，我们的APA认证计划通过坚定不移地致力于为科学家和从业者模型提供出色的培训，从而实现了其任务和目标/学习成果。我们的学位候选人可以在各种心理健康环境（包括大学，学校，医院和门诊社区心理健康设施）中获得各种一流的实践机会。他们受到我们国际认可的心理咨询师的密切指导，他们正在运用他们的前沿和有目的的研究来解决社会面临的一
This program began when a handful of visionaries decided to leverage the enormous strengths of Boston College and the vibrant Boston psychological community to train Counseling Psychologists equipped to advocate for social justice through their clinical work, research, teaching, leadership, and outreach. They succeeded.<br><br>We aspire to cultivate the highest level of competence in our students to conduct rigorous and cutting-edge research, to refine their clinical skills based in multiple theoretical orientations, and to ensure that all students have opportunities to advocate for social justice through their research, clinical work, teaching, and outreach. Our aim is to produce the next generation of counseling psychologists who are poised to make critical advances in our field that expand beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries and clinical settings.