The Department of Applied Psychology offers APA Accredited Doctoral Programs in both Counseling Psychology and School Psychology, Master’s programs in Counseling Psychology and School Psychology as well as a Master’s Program in Applied Behavior Analysis. As global citizens, we are dedicated to access, equity, and inclusion. We are committed to developing future behavioral health professionals who can advance diversity by providing culturally informed care to people across race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, age, ability, and nationality. We support the acquisition of competencies that ready our students to recognize, broach, and interrupt discrimination in its many forms.
Applied Behavior Analysis (MS) |
Applied Psychology (MS) |
PlusOne (MS) |
Counseling Psychology (MS/CAGS) |
Counseling Psychology (PhD) |
School Psychology (MS/CAGS) |
School Psychology (PhD) |
Early Intervention (Certificate) |
Faculty and students come from diverse training, ethnic and cultural backgrounds, providing an enriching learning experience. Our doctoral programs provide excellent educational opportunities for those interested in professional psychology with specialized training for future careers in academic or practice positions as licensed psychologists. We expect our students to become high level science based practitioners contributing with their behavioral health training to promote integrated and interprofessional health policies and practices in a multicultural and global world.
The Department shares Bouvé College of Health Sciences mission of being a center of excellence in professional health education, research, and service. The Department is strongly committed to Bouvé’s emphasis on cross-disciplinary interaction among faculty and students from the different schools and departments, to foster the next generation of interprofessional healthcare leaders of our global community.
Our graduates are well-prepared to become applied psychologists and behavioral health science professionals in a variety of health, educational, governmental, community, organizational, and private settings.
School Psychology professor Amy Briesch is a co-principal investigator on a $4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education, designed to evaluate the effectiveness of academic, behavioral, and social supports at the elementary school level. The five-year study began on July 1, and will include...
By Bill Ibelle, Editorial Director After fleeing the brutal civil war in El Salvador, Karen Alvarez’s parents never imagined that their second daughter would become the first person in the family to go to college, let alone earn a master’s degree from a prestigious American...
Rage rooms have become a global phenomenon. But they won’t solve your anger management issues, according to Northeastern University psychologist Christie Rizzo. Rage rooms—where stressed out people go to relieve tension by smashing furniture, housewares, and electronics with baseball bats, crowbars, and sledgehammers—have become a global phenomenon....
Jessica Hoffman of the Applied Psychology Department contributed an article for the May, 2017 Huffington Post on the National School Lunch Program.
Global Student Success invites you to join our upcoming March webinar. Presenters: Dr. Chieh Li, Dr. Rachel Rodgers, Rachel Ruah, Zhenhu Hou, and Zhenshan Zhong (Department of Applied Psychology) This webinar will discuss teaching international students from cross cultural perspectives. A dialogue will be held among faculty, international...
Dr. Christie Rizzo receives National Institute of Justice (NIJ) grant to develop and test a web-based dating violence prevention program for middle school boys (Begins January 2015).
The Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology Program at Northeastern University is pleased and proud to announce that we were officially accredited by American Psychological Association (APA) in 2014. Our next accreditation site visit will be in 2021.
Dr. Christie Rizzo receives CDC grant to evaluate prevention programming in reducing rates of sexual aggression and dating violence among High School Boys (Begins September 2014).
Congratulations to Jonathan Entis of the Counseling Psychology doctoral program for being awarded the Graduate Dissertation Completion Fellowship for Fall 2014
Congratulations to Monica Torreiro-Casal of the Counseling Psychology doctoral program for being awarded the Graduate Dissertation Completion Fellowship for Spring 2014
Congratulations to Christina Lee on her recent R01 award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health. The goals of the five-year grant “A Randomized Clinical Trial of Culturally Tailored Motivational Interviewing” are to compare the efficacy of Motivational Interviewing...
Congratulations to Elizabeth Markle of the Counseling Psychology doctoral program for being awarded the provost’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship for Spring 2013 Liz received the award based on a two part dissertation entitled Social Sustainability, Social Capital, and Social Support: An Interdisciplinary Review and Conceptualization in...
Congratulations to Kathy Wu for being awarded a one year 10K grant from Policy Research, Inc., Disability Determination Small Grants Program. Kathy received the grant based on the study titled, The “Lived Experiences” of a Chronically Homeless, Urban Population: Systemic Challenges to Achieving their Vocational...
The U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences recently awarded three Northeastern professors a four-year $1.6 million grant to perform a rigorous assessment of how young children play. The goal of the study is the comprehensive analysis and improvement of the Developmental Play Assessment...
A Click Away for Teens Deb Franko, a professor of counseling and applied psychology, has developed a web application called BodiMojo that helps youth improve their body image and live healthier lives.
