Moorestown Resident Receives Board Certification from the American Board of Professional Psychology

PHILADELPHIA, PA (07/24/2012)(readMedia)--  Susan McGroarty, Ph.D., ABPP, assistant professor of psychology has earned the distinction of diplomate status (ABPP) in the field of clinical psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology. The American Board of Professional Psychology is the primary organization for specialty board certification in psychology.

The American Board of Professional Psychology (ABPP) serves the public's need by providing oversight certifying psychologists competent to deliver high quality services in various specialty areas of psychology. Board certification (awarding of a diploma in a specialty) assures the public that specialists designated by the ABPP have successfully completed the educational, training, and experience requirements of the specialty, including an examination designed to assess the competencies required to provide quality services in that specialty.

The American Board of Professional Psychology was incorporated in 1947 with the support of the American Psychological Association. The ABPP is a unitary governing body of separately incorporated specialty examining boards which assures the establishment, implementation, and maintenance of specialty standards and examinations by its member boards.

Dr. McGroarty has taught courses in the School of Undergraduate Studies, the School of Graduate Studies and the doctoral program at the College for the past eight years. A resident of Moorestown, New Jersey, she received her undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in individual child, adolescent and adult (including older adult) and family therapy. Dr. McGroarty is a Fellow of the American Academy of Clinical Psychology, and a member of American Psychological Association, New Jersey Psychological Association, and the Pennsylvania Psychology Association. She is the co-chair of NJPA Diversity Committee (2012-2013), and serves on the APA PSYClink Advisory Council.

About Chestnut Hill College

Chestnut Hill College, a four-year coed Catholic college in the Ignatian tradition, offers a traditional liberal arts undergraduate program as well as accelerated undergraduate degrees, master's and doctoral programs. The College has been rated by US News & World Report as among the best master's universities in the North, as among the best Northeastern colleges by The Princeton Review, and has been classified as selective by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Since its inception, the College has offered a rigorous curriculum that provides students with a broad background in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. The goal of Chestnut Hill College has been to prepare students for life's challenges by helping them to grow intellectually, spiritually, emotionally, and socially.

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