The Department of Clinical Child Psychology at the University of Kansas
The Department of Clinical Child Psychology at the University of Kansas is home to the Clinical Child Psychology Program (CCPP) leading to the doctoral degree in Clinical Child Psychology. Our CCPP is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of the American Psychological Association as a doctoral program in clinical psychology with a special emphasis on children, adolescents, and families.
Our mission is to develop leaders in the research, dissemination, and practice of psychological clinical science for children, youths, and their families.
Our Clinical Child Psychology Program fulfills the basic and traditional orientations to Clinical Psychology as a practice area in health service psychology with an emphasis in working with children, adolescents, parents, and families.
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The Child and Family Services Clinic
Our KU Child & Family Services Clinic provides affordable, quality mental health care to children, adolescents, and families of Northeast Kansas, including Lawrence, Eudora, Baldwin, Topeka, and the Kansas City Metro area.
KU CFSC is the primary training clinic for graduate students in the Clinical Child Psychology Doctoral program at the University of Kansas.
KU CFSC is the primary training clinic for graduate students in the Clinical Child Psychology Doctoral program at the University of Kansas.
Diversity
The Department of Clinical Child Psychology (DCCP) aspires to a world of harmony, unity, equity, and inclusion that is free from hate and discrimination.
Please follow the link below for our full statement on Diversity.
Please follow the link below for our full statement on Diversity.
Support the DCCP
Our endowment account has been growing thanks to the generous support of our alumni and friends, and children, youth, and families have been reaping the rewards.
A gift of any amount will help us with our mission, and will help us continue our tradition of excellence.
A gift of any amount will help us with our mission, and will help us continue our tradition of excellence.
APA Accreditation
Questions related to the program’s accredited status should be directed to the Commission on Accreditation:
Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation
American Psychological Association
750 1st Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002
Phone: 202-336-5979
E-mail: apaaccred@apa.org
Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation
American Psychological Association
750 1st Street, NE, Washington, DC 20002
Phone: 202-336-5979
E-mail: apaaccred@apa.org
News from Clinical Child Psychology
Department of Clinical Child Psychology Student Receives Honorable Mention
Daniela Moreno-Duron receives 2025 Early Career Award Honorable Mention.
Charlsie Solano Named 2025 District 53 Fellow
The Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology of the American Psychological Association has Chosen Charlsie Solano as a 2025 Fellow
Successful mobile phone intervention for eating disorders on college campuses will expand
The BEST-U program, an 11-week treatment underpinned by guided self-help cognitive behavioral therapy, has shown “most participants were fully recovered from their eating disorder” during a pilot program at the University of Kansas.
Congratulations to Whitney Shepherd on Receiving the Nyre Award!
The Nyre Clinical Child Psychology Student Support Fund was established in 2018 by Dr. Joseph E. Nyre and Kelli L. Nyre in honor of founding director, Dr. Michael C. Roberts to provide financial support for graduate students in the Clinical Child Psychology Program (CCPP) at the University of Kansas.
Applications will be evaluated by a faculty committee chosen by the Director of the Clinical Child Psychology Program. Committee members will evaluate the proposals based on the following charact