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Safran Center for Psychological Services
from 2020 NSSR Viewbook
safran center for Psychological Services
The Safran Center for Psychological Services is a nonprofit psychological services training clinic that helps students in the Clinical Psychology program at The New School for Social Research develop the skills and competencies essential for success as clinical psychologists. The center provides tailored foundational training in psychotherapy and psychodiagnostic assessment to clinical doctoral students, who engage in closely supervised practical application of learned skills while offering low-fee psychological services to New School students and the surrounding community.
The Safran Center also partners with the New School Counseling Center to assess the eligibility of New School students for various accommodations. In their second year, Clinical Psychology doctoral students take part in a paid practicum in which they are trained in educational and psychodiagnostic assessment of cognitive functioning, learning and developmental disabilities, attention and executive functioning difficulties, and
psychiatric conditions that may affect academic performance.
The center’s therapy training model includes systematic collection of self-report measures from clients, to be used for routine monitoring and quality assurance. This model meets the new Standards of Accreditation (SoA) of the American Psychological Association (APA), including curriculum, competency evaluation, and supervision requirements. The Safran Center has approval from the Human Research Protection Program (HRPP) to establish a data repository, which can be used for research purposes by Psychology faculty and students at The New School for Social Research.
