Training highly-skilled professionals with a solid grounding in psychology who are able to flourish in various aspects of society
Guided by the educational principle of “researching the mind and supporting the person,” the Graduate School of Psychology Major of Psychology aims to develop skilled human resources with high ethical standards and a solid grounding in psychology that enables them to play an active role in society. The master's degree program aims to train highly-skilled professionals who can respond to the demands of contemporary society and play an active role in providing various forms of support for society based on their psychological knowledge, and to develop human resources who possess the investigative skills required to aim for a research position. To that aim, the curriculum offers a wide range of courses encompassing both psychology and clinical psychology, and emphasizes practical training and experiments. The master’s degree program is divided into clinical psychology and psychology concentrations. The clinical psychology concentration trains professionals capable of working in a wide range of fields, including as healthcare, social welfare, education, judicial and criminal psychology, and industrial labor. It does so via lecture courses on various psychological treatments such as client-centered therapy, psychoanalysis, cognitive behavioral therapy, family therapy, and group and community approaches to therapy, as well as practical training and clinical guidance at the on-campus Clinical Psychology Center and at off-campus partner institutions. The psychology concentration offers a solid grounding in fields related to cognitive psychology, social, industrial and organizational psychology, criminal psychology, geropsychology, and psychometrics. It aims to develop human resources and researchers who can respond to issues in contemporary society. The doctoral degree program aims to develop researchers in the fields of clinical psychology, psychology, and education and child development, as well as educators capable of training practitioners who provide psychology-based support for individuals and communities. To this aim, the program offers individual research guidance from full-time faculty members in each field and special lecture courses intended to develop researchers with wide-ranging unbiased perspectives and educators who will train highly-skilled professionals.
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Well-rounded training and research at the Clinical Psychology Center (Faculty of Psychology Institute for Psychological Research)
As a facility that offers consultation services to the local community, the Clinical Psychology Center offers consultations to people struggling with a variety of psychological issues. The center’s facilities include a playroom, miniature garden, activity room, and consultation rooms. In addition to providing consultation services for the local community, the center serves as a clinical training facility for graduate students that is used for counseling and supervision. It also houses laboratories and computer rooms for graduate students, providing an environment where they can focus on their research and learning.
High pass rates for licensed or clinical psychologist certification and stable career opportunities
The clinical psychology concentration meets the curriculum requirements for national certification as a licensed psychologist as well as for certification as a clinical psychologist by the Foundation of the Japanese Certification Board for Clinical Psychologists. In addition to a wide selection of lecture courses in psychotherapy and psychiatry, we offer many opportunities to develop the practical skills needed in clinical settings, including training in interviews and psychological assessments, case management and supervision at the on-campus Clinical Psychology Center, and clinical practicums and supervision at off-campus partner institutions. We have a very high pass rate for the Certified Clinical Psychologist Examination and Licensed Psychologist Examination. Our graduates enjoy very stable career prospects, and are employed at general hospitals, psychology clinics, child welfare facilities, educational counseling centers, university student counseling centers, and industrial facilities, and in the civil service. A distinctive feature of the Major of Psychology is that over half of our students enter full-time employment as soon as they graduate.
Pass rate for the Certified Clinical Psychologist Examination
2023 graduates 100% 2022 graduates 90.0% 2021 graduates 90.0% 2020 graduates 90.0% 2019 graduates 93.3% 2018 graduates 100%Pass rate for the Licensed Psychologist Examination
2023 graduates 91.6% 2022 graduates 100% 2021 graduates 100% 2020 graduates 100% 2019 graduates 93.8% 2018 graduates 90.0%Turning experience into theory and then proof
The psychology concentration aims to develop human resources capable of researching the mind and supporting the person via research into the fundamentals of psychology and as advanced practitioners. This program deals with empirical science that emphasizes the generation and verification of hypotheses. Students can learn everything from data collection via experiments, surveys, and interviews to advanced techniques for the analysis of psychological data analysis, as appropriate to their research area of interest, in order to investigate and prove hypotheses to resolve various issues in daily life and society. The expertise they acquire as a result can be applied to predict human behavior and develop new tools. In the 2023 academic year, we introduced an entrance examination system for working adults, allowing us to train human resources aiming to become psychology specialists who can leverage their previous work experience.