获得美国心理学会认可的学生和美国学校心理学家协会认可的博士学位。该计划得益于我们国家认可的严格的学习过程以及在经济上充满活力和人口统计学差异的内陆帝国中心地带的理想地理位置。我们训练学生为科学家和从业者，他们为该领域积累的知识做出贡献，并解决影响K-12学生学习，行为和认知的问题。该计划促进了一种生态行为理论模型，该模型强调了基于证据的实践的技能开发，这些实践是从应用行为分析，认知行为以及社会学习理论和研究中得出的。毕业生具有按需学习的技能，这些技能主要为公共K-12教育部门的从业人员或大专院校的教师创造
UC Riverside's School of Education School Psychology program is the only American Psychological Association-accredited doctoral program in Southern California. Students in our APA-accredited and National Association of School Psychologists-approved program benefit from our nationally recognized rigorous course of study and desirable location in the heart of the economically vibrant and demographically diverse Inland Empire region of Southern California.<br><br>We train students as scientist-practitioners who contribute to the body of accumulated knowledge in the field as well as address problems affecting K-12 pupils’ learning, behavior, and cognition. The School Psychology program promotes an eco-behavioral theoretical model emphasizing skill development using evidence-based practice derived from applied behavior analytic, cognitive-behavioral, and social learning theory and research.