The Sanville Institute’s state-approved doctoral program in clinical social work is open to all students holding a master’s degree who are licensed or eligible for licensure, have sufficient clinical practice to sustain the program's practicum and who have state-mandated malpractice insurance. The two-year certificate program is open to all qualified mental health professionals who have a master’s degree and are licensed or license-eligible.
"Years after my doctoral education at Sanville Institute (The then California Institute for Clinical Social Work), I continue to look back at my education there as invaluable. Those who have gone directly to other doctoral programs, especially those in psychoanalysis, don't know what they have missed -- the exceptional depth and integration of clinical theory and practice are unique. "
Joan Dasteel, MSW, PhD,
1978 graduate
“The doctoral program at the Institute was instrumental in helping me to transform from a ‘consumer’ of theory and models of practice into someone who could "give back," someone able to and brave enough to think more creatively and to publish and teach.”
Karla Clark, PhD,
1987 Graduate
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