Have you checked out the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology? While not exactly focused on Positive Psych, per se, it's an accredited distance program that has many of the types of classes you seem to be looking for. I'm in the Master's program there. Good luck wherever you end up!

Hello Linda,

Yes, the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology does have an emphasis on Positive Psychology, more accurately, Transpersonal psychology. At this time the global Ph.D. program does not have APA accreditation. There is a challenge here. APA accreditation requires that certain courses are taken or required by its students. That means that many of the less traditional, meaning courses based in positive, transpersonal/humanistic psychology fall outside of the APA guidelines. I'm currently a PhD Clinical student at ITP, the trade off has been that I do get the positive psychology aspect in the course work. Since having APA stamped on my license is not a concern for me, I have enjoyed my stay here.

For you...hmmmm... --- you can try Pacific Graduate School of Psychology in Redwood City, CA. They have a distance learning program for the Ph.D. and PsyD in clinical psychology. I'm not sure if both are APA accredited, but I do know that the residential programs are APA approved. Here is their website. I have heard good things about PGSP.

www.pgsp.edu/program_dis...ing_home.php


Good luck,
Spirit

I would also ask you what you intend to do with this Ph.D. Make sure your place of learning is properly accredited for that purpose.