The Clinical Psychology Program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst offers a concentration in child, adolescent, and family clinical psychology (CAF).  The CAF concentration trains graduate students for professional work as academic clinical psychologists.  Academic clinical psychologists most often contribute to the field through their work as university faculty in departments of psychology, as medical school faculty in departments of psychiatry, or within government or private social policy agencies.  To this end, the CAF concentration provides training in clinical research, assessment and program evaluation, and intervention with children, adolescents and families. 

Students who undertake the CAF concentration fulfill the requirements for the CAF concentration in addition to the requirements for the general Clinical Psychology Program, which emphasizes clinical research, assessment, and intervention with adults.  As a result, students who graduate from the UMASS clinical psychology program with a CAF concentration are trained in clinical research, assessment, and intervention with children, adolescents, families, and adults. 

There are five core clinical faculty in the CAF program, David Arnold, Harold Grotevant, Lisa Harvey, Maureen Perry-Jenkins, and Sally Powers.  Additional faculty from the clinical, developmental, and neuropsychology areas of the psychology department contribute substantively to the CAF program through offering related courses and supervising and collaborating in research activities. Core classroom courses in the CAF concentration include human development, developmental psychopathology, advanced assessment, child and adolescent treatment, and family theory and research.  Clinical practica in child, adolescent, and family therapy are conducted within the psychology department’s Psychological Services Center and at community hospitals, mental health centers, and schools.  The CAF faculty maintain a strong relationship with The Center For Research On Families.