Adler School of Professional Psychology Catalog 2008 – 2009

program curricula. This distinctive feature of the Adler programs enables
students to receive an early exposure to the range of problems impacting the
communities in which they and future clients live. Academic training includes
preparation by means of grounding in theories and research on the impact on
broader structural and systemic factors on human well-being and training in
methods designed to impact social policies, address community issues and
solve social problems. Thus, in addition to training students to work with
individual clients in traditional service settings, Adler School provides students
with knowledge and skills that will enable them to expand the practice of
psychology into new settings where they are much needed.
The faculty of the School has adopted the following definition of socially
responsible graduate:
Socially responsible practitioners possess knowledge, skills, and attitudes that
allow them to:
• Understand the role of social context in conditioning physical and
behavioral health,
• Integrate this understanding into their professional practice and civic
engagement, and
• Actively collaborate with others to reform social, political, and other
societal structures and systems that adversely affect well-being.
Organization and Governance
The Adler School of Professional Psychology is a private, independent, notfor-profit
institution of higher education. The School is incorporated in and
operates under the provisions of the State of Illinois General Not-For-Profit
Corporation Act and is declared a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization by the U.S.
Department of the Treasury, and is extra-provincially registered under the laws
of British Columbia as the Adler School of Professional Psychology, and is
tax-exempt.
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