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• PSYCH 550L  Advanced Cognitive Psychology

  Description:
  This course gives a survey of the field of cognitive psychology from an information-processing viewpoint. The course considers how people encode, organize, transform, and output information. Emphasis is given to such topics as concept formation, problem-solving, and creative thinking. CRCRTH 651L and PSYCH 550L are the same course.   More Info
  
  Offered in:

  • TBA

• PSYCH 552L  Children and Science

  Description:
  This course explores the ways children think about their natural and social world and how they affect their learning of science. It is particularly concerned with identifying and describing the organized conceptual frameworks children have prior to instruction (which typically are different from the scientists' conceptualizations) and with understanding the general processes by which conceptual frameworks can be changed. One important question concerns the ways in which children are fundamentally different learners and thinkers from adults and the ways in which they are fundamentally similar. CRCRTH 652L and PSYCH 552L are the same course.   More Info
  
  Offered in:

  • 2013 Spring

• PSYCH 727  Emotion-Focused Psychotherapy

  Description:
  This course will introduce emotion-focused psychotherapy theory and skills to students. This empirically validated approach falls under the rubric of Humanistic Psychotherapy. It stems from client-centered and gestalt philosophies and theories of development. The mechanism of change in this approach to therapy lies within the re-structuring of clients' emotional schemes and relational patterns. Close attention is paid to the negotiation of the therapeutic alliance, particularly in relation to self-interruptive or defensive moments when clients back away from important or threatening issues. It teaches specific interventions such as focusing, gestalt chairwork, evocative unfolding, and problematic reaction point exercises. The weekly format of the course will entail one hour of lecture and two hours of supervised exercises and discussion. The course will relate the application of this psychotherapy to both individual adult and couples treatment.   More Info
  
  Offered in:

  • TBA

• PSYCH 790  Professional Standards and Ethics

  Description:
  The primary goal of this course is to insure that students are familiar with the current professional standards and ethical principles of the American Psychological Association. It studies conduct in research and teaching. Because program emphasis is on clinical psychology, the course focuses particularly on the standards and principles which guide the professional behavior of clinical psychologists. Students learn, through a close inspection of each of the ethical principles and the use of case studies, how to analyze and respond to a range of problems and situations.   More Info
  
  Offered in:

  • TBA

• PSYCH 797  Special Topics

  Description:
  This course offers study of selected topics within this subject. Course content and credits vary according to topic and are announced prior to the registration period.   More Info
  
  Offered in:

  • TBA