This model has been in place for fifty years. The Department refers students interested in counseling psychology, guidance, and school psychology to the Department of Educational Psychology in the School of Education. The Clinical Program is accredited by the American Psychological Association and has special facilities for training and research in psychological assessment, therapeutic interventions, community psychology, neuropsychology, child-clinical, psychopathology, and health psychology. The department maintains a Psychological Clinic, which includes a closed circuit TV tape-recording system. The department also has laboratories devoted to research in psychophysiology and biofeedback, neuropsychology, and observational facilities for children, families, and adults.
Students receive training in a wide variety of clinical settings in the Detroit community.
Most students accepted into the Ph.D. program in psychology receive full financial aid. D. degree with a specialization in either Child or Adult Clinical Psychology. WSPP has an eclectic faculty of active, licensed, practicing psychologists, sharing their real-life working experiences with students in all areas of psychology including forensic psychology, neuropsychology, psychotherapy, assessment and research.