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PSYCLN 601 Assessment and Testing I
Description:
As part one of a two-semester foundations course on diagnostic testing and assessment, this course trains students to administer, score, and interpret tests of cognitive and intellectual functioning. Issues pertaining to test construction and the standards and ethics of psychological testing provide the context for assessment training. In addition, students learn to conduct an assessment interview and are encouraged to articulate for themselves a philosophy of testing. Special attention is given to the issue of cultural bias in standard psychological tests. More Info
Offered in:PSYCLN 602 Assessment and Testing II (Personality Assesment)
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This course, a continuation of PSYCH 601, is part two of the clinical diagnostic testing and assessment sequence. It instructs students on the administration, scoring, and interpretation of objective and projective tests that assess the personality and the social/emotional functioning of children, adolescents, and adults. Emphasis is placed on the integration of cognitive, intellectual, and personality test data in presenting a comprehensive and culturally congruent assessment of individuals. More Info
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PSYCLN 610 Culture and Mental Health
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This course focuses on three issues: 1) the role of culture in the development of psychological health and psychopathology; 2) variations across cultures in defining and understanding mental health and deviant behavior; and 3) the importance of cultural context in constructing ways to prevent and/or ameliorate psychological problems. Emphasis is placed on the social-cultural contexts of United States minority groups and on what such contexts imply for mental health policy and intervention strategies. More Info
Offered in:PSYCLN 611 Developmental Psychopathology I
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The first course in a two-semester sequence focusing on the development of psychopathology across the life span, this course introduces students to the field of childhood psychological disorders, their etiology, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment. It examines biological, normative developmental, familial, and sociocultural factors involved in childhood symptomatology. More Info
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PSYCLN 612 Developmental Psychopathology II
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This course focuses on psychological problems and disorders that typically manifest themselves during adolescence or early or later adulthood. Adult disorders are examined from biological, psychological, and sociocultural perspectives. Students become familiar with the major syndromes classified in DSM-IV. This course is a continuation of PSYCH 611. More Info
Offered in:PSYCLN 613 Lifespan Psychopathology
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This course is an introduction to some of the prevalent theories, empirical research, and diagnostic issues in psychopathology spanning from infancy to late adulthood. More Info
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PSYCLN 614 Forensic Psychology
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This course examines the intersection of criminal law and clinical psychology. Topics include those that are frequently the concern of forensic mental health clinicians, namely recidivism, violence risk assessment, insanity, legal competence, and false memory. These topics are studied from cultural and developmental (childhood, adolescence, adult) perspectives. More Info
Offered in:PSYCLN 620 Intervention Strategies
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An introduction to effective, health-promoting psychotherapeutic interventions designed to address a wide range of clinical and developmental problems. Greatest attention is paid to the theory and practice of individual psychotherapy with adults, although therapeutic interventions with children and adolescents and with families are also introduced. The course adopts an integrative approach to psychotherapy, an approach that combines aspects of interpersonal psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive-behavioral, and family systems perspectives. More Info
Offered in:PSYCLN 628 Trauma: Psychological Response and Recovery
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This course examines the psychological and biological consequences of trauma by integrating theoretical, research, and clinical material from several disciplines. Students become familiar with the prevailing theoretical models in the field; with common features of the aftermath of different forms of trauma; with the neurobiological consequences of trauma; and with the methods of treatment that have evolved from the field's expanding empirical base. Developmental issues are given special consideration with a particular focus on childhood abuse. The course also focuses on historical and current sociocultural issues that comprise the context of trauma and its aftermath, both personal and collective. More Info
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PSYCLN 641 Cognitive and Affective Bases of Behavior: Life Span Development I
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This is part one of a two-semester course sequence. The aim of part one is to provide a broad perspective on a number of themes that are of enduring importance throughout the life cycle and thus merit special attention. The themes have been selected for the significance they hold for the study of normal as well as atypical development. They provide us with a vantage point from which to consider some of the prerequisites for normal development, and they set the stage for a discussion of mental health and of problem prevention, atypical mental development, psychopathology, and remedial intervention. More Info
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PSYCLN 642 Social and Cultural Bases of Behavior: Life Span Development II
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This course, a continuation of PSYCLN 641, introduces students to sociological and anthropological perspectives on human development across the life span. A major focus is on "points of transition" in the human life cycle, with special emphasis on phases of adolescent and adult human development. More Info
Offered in:PSYCLN 660 Physiological Psychology
Description:
This course, designed for students in the Critical and Creative Thinking program, provides an overview of basic concepts in neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, and neurochemistry, with particular emphasis on recent developments in these areas that are of particular relevance to clinical psychology. The course also emphasizes the basic assumptions and limitations of the techniques utilized to investigate brain-behavior relationships. More Info
Offered in:PSYCLN 662 Psychopharmacology
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The aims of this course are threefold: 1) to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms of action of psychoactive drugs, 2) to understand the facts and theories underlying the use of drugs in the treatment of neurobehavioral ("mental") and neurological disorders, and 3) to understand the processes of addiction and the properties of drugs of use/abuse. The course focuses first on the fundamental aspects of neurochemical activity in the brains of normal individuals, then on each of the major neurotransmitters, related neurological diseases and/or "mental" disorders, and the major drugs that act on each particular neurotransmitter system. The student should gain 1) an understanding of why pharmacological approaches to therapy are used, how they work, and relevant side effects, and 2) an understanding of the pharmacodynamics of substances of abuse. For the clinician, this understanding should permit informed management of future clients who are dependent on the use of psychoactive compounds. More Info
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PSYCLN 670 Advanced Statistics
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This course instructs students in advanced statistical topics and provides training in the use of the corresponding computer methods. The course emphasizes the statistical methods of most general interest and importance to social scientists: multiple regression analysis and analysis of variance. More Info
Offered in:PSYCLN 675 Research Methods and Ethics in Clinical Psychology
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The goal of this course is to provide you with the expertise necessary (a) to evaluate the adequacy of published research and to draw your own conclusions from existing empirical findings, (b) to generate logical, novel hypotheses based on theories, observations, and prior empirical results about psychopathology and psychotherapy, (c) to create valid experimental and descriptive studies and use other designs and methodologies to test those hypotheses, and (d) to learn to consider and apply ethical principles to clinical research. Attention will also be paid to non-hypothesis-driven empirical methods although the qualitative methods course will be necessary in order to develop expertise in this area. More Info
Offered in:PSYCLN 680 History and Systems
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This course explores the theoretical and methodological problems of contemporary psychology from a historical perspective. It provides a broad overview of psychology's development as an independent discipline, and of the development of the various sub-specialties in the field. By examining intellectual antecedents and underlying assumptions, the course seeks to evaluate the significance of new movements and methods. More Info
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PSYCLN 697 Special Topics
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This advanced course offers intensive study of a selected topic in Psychology Clinical. Course content varies according to the topic and will be announced prior to registration. More Info
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PSYCLN 698 Master's Research
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Students are given individual supervision in research by a member of the psychology department faculty or faculty in related fields and attend a master's research seminar. Each student is helped to design and carry out an original master's thesis using an appropriate methodology. Both courses must be taken, for a total of six credits. The six credits are awarded to the student when the thesis is approved. More Info
Offered in:PSYCLN 699 Master's Research Seminar
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Students are given individual supervision in research by a member of the psychology department faculty or faculty in related fields and attend a master's research seminar. Each student is helped to design and carry out an original master's thesis using an appropriate methodology. Both courses must be taken, for a total of six credits. The six credits are awarded to the student when the thesis is approved. More Info
Offered in:PSYCLN 701 Neuropsychological Assessment
Description:
This course emphasized the neuropsychological assessment of adult brain dysfunction. It presents neuropsychological models of memory, attention,language, perception, and emotion, in relation to various adult brain disorders. Student learn to apply clinical neuropsychological tests and procedures for both descriptive and diagnostic purposes. They complete various learning modules that emphasize neuropsychology across the life span, beginning with developmental neuropsychology and culminating in geriatric neuropsychology. More Info
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PSYCLN 710 Child Assessment
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This course provides an overview of psychological assessment of children and adolescents, combining didactic training in various approaches to social development and psychological assessment with practical hands-on training in several instruments routinely employed in traditional child psychological assessment batteries. Tests to be covered span the domains of cognitive functioning, language, academic achievement, neuropsychological functions, adaptive behavior, and social-emotional/personality functioning. They include both structured and semi-structured methods. Participants become familiar with the procedures for administering, scoring, and interpreting such instruments as the Mullen Scales of Early Learning, the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT), and the Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales. More Info
Offered in:PSYCLN 720 Family Systems and Family Therapy
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The course builds on the introduction to family therapy provided by PSYCH 620. It focuses on the historical and conceptual background of family therapy; the major theoretical models and key concepts guiding practitioners in the field; current research findings regarding the effectiveness of family interventions; contemporary critiques of family theory and therapy; and assessments of the appropriateness of various family therapy models for low income, ethnic minority, and immigrant families. Through videotapes and clinical case material, students are exposed to the work of some of the major family therapists practicing today. More Info
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PSYCLN 721 Child Therapy
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Child Therapy provides an introduction to theoretical perspectives, empirically tested interventions, and therapy technique that are relevant for children. Students will gain general skills for working with children and parents in clinical settings and learn specific techniques for psychosocial interventions with children who are experiencing difficulties across multiple domains of functioning. Empirically supported treatment programs for children and families will be examined. Approaches for tailoring treatment goals and methods to fit the specific lifestyle needs of families will be discussed. It is hoped that students will begin to develop specific skills necessary for the individual and team-oriented practice of child clinical psychology. More Info
Offered in:PSYCLN 722 Developmental perspectives on infant-parent mental health
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The course focuses on issues and theories of infants and young childrens mental health. It will interweave theory and practice. Students will come to understand critical domains of infant mental health, including normative and pathological manifestations of infant social and behavioral problems, dysregulation, sensory and motor processes, cognition as well as adult issues, such as attachment history, trauma and personality disorders and the role of culture as the affect young childrens mental health. Students will become familiar with current theories and associated treatments for early mental health problems including psychodynamic, cognitive, mentalizing, relational, sensory integration, and mindfulness. The course will include evaluation of clinical case material and treatment techniques. Common early forms of mental health problems, such as anxiety disorders, attachment and relationship problems, autism spectrum disorder, post partum affective disorders, adoption, problems, of arousal and trauma of children and caretakers will be presented. Student will be introduced to the diagnostic techniques for infants and children. More Info
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PSYCLN 726 Cognitive Behavioral Theory and Therapy
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This course will enhance students' theoretical, empirical, and practical understanding of cognitive, behavioral, and cognitive/behavioral approaches to psychological and behavioral change. Approximately half the class will be devoted to obtaining sufficient familiarity with theories and research in this area to be able to appraise current research critically and, most importantly, to be able to develop a well-thought-out, individualized treatment plan for a range of presenting problems. The other half of the class will be devoted to obtaining practical skills in a range of cognitive/behavioral strategies (e.g., progressive muscle relaxation, systematic desensitization, cognitive restructuring, direct therapeutic exposure). More Info
Offered in:PSYCLN 770 Causal Modeling
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This course is designed for students who have had a previous course covering analysis of variance and multiple regression. It will equip students with the skills and analytic background to use a variety of multivariate statistical techniques, including discriminant function analysis, factor analysis, logistic regression and multivariate analysis of variance. In addition, a substantial portion of the course will be devoted to covering structural equation modeling, a procedure used increasingly in the social science today. Extensive computer training is included. More Info
Offered in:PSYCLN 775 Qualitative Methods in Clinical Psychology
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This course introduces students to qualitative methods used in psychological research. Students will be exposed to the philosophies and foundations of qualitative methodology and the ways in which qualitative and quantitative methods are similar, different, and complementary to each other and to quantitative methods. The course will survey the various qualitative methodologies used in the field of psychology, addressing issues of question formation, data collection, validity, data analysis, and interpretation. Students will participate in a qualitative research project that will help them develop skills in collection, managing, analyzing, and interpreting qualitative data. More Info
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PSYCLN 785 Practicum and Ethics I
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This course will provide students with intensive clinical training through a practicum placement at the University Health Service's Counseling Center. To support this training, students will participate in weekly individual and group supervision, a didactic weekly seminar, and a monthly peer support group. Over the course of the semester, students are expected to learn how to: conduct assessments, provide therapeutic intervention, conceptualize cases, apply a multicultural framework to clinical interaction, effectively use supervision, comply with the administrative requirements of the Counseling Center, and learn, understand, and abide by the ethical principles guiding the practice of psychology. More Info
Offered in:PSYCLN 786 Practicum and Ethics II
Description:
This course will provide students with intensive clinical training through a practicum placement at the University Health Services Counseling Center. To support this training, students will participate in weekly individual, group, and peer supervision, a didactic weekly seminar, and a monthly peer support group. Over the course of the semester, students are expected to learn how to: conduct assessments, provide therapeutic interventions, conceptualize cases, apply a multicultural framework to clinical interactions, effectively use supervision, comply with the administrative requirement of the Counseling Center, and learn, understand, and abide by the ethical principles guiding the practice of psychology. More Info
Offered in:PSYCLN 787 Practicum III
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This course will provide students with intensive clinical training through a practicum placement at the University Health Services Counseling Center. To support this training, students will participate in weekly individual, group, and peer supervision, a didactic weekly seminar, and a monthly peer support group. Over the course of the semester, students are expected to learn how to: conduct assessments, provide therapeutic interventions, conceptualize cases, apply a multicultural framework to clinical interactions, effectively use supervision, comply with the administrative requirement of the Counseling Center, and learn, understand, and abide by the ethical principles guiding the practice of psychology. More Info
Offered in:PSYCLN 788 Practicum IV
Description:
This course will provide students with intensive clinical training through a practicum placement at the University Health Services Counseling Center. To support this training, students will participate in weekly individual, group, and peer supervision, a didactic weekly seminar, and a monthly peer support group. Over the course of the semester, students are expected to learn how to: conduct assessments, provide therapeutic interventions, conceptualize cases, apply a multicultural framework to clinical interactions, effectively use supervision, comply with the administrative requirement of the Counseling Center, and learn, understand, and abide by the ethical principles guiding the practice of psychology. More Info
Offered in:PSYCLN 891 Teaching Seminar
Description:
This seminar is required of all fourth-year students who are teaching undergraduate psychology courses. The seminar provides didactic presentations combined with class discussion and supervision on a variety of topics, including pedagogy, techniques for effective teaching, teaching diversity in psychology, writing and delivering lectures, and conceptualizing exams. More Info
Offered in:PSYCLN 895 Independent Study
Description:
This course involves the comprehensive study of a particular topic in clinical psychology under the direction of a faculty member. An independent study course can fulfill one elective requirement. A detailed proposal must be submitted to the faculty member prior to registration. More Info
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PSYCLN 896 Independent Study
Description:
This course involves the comprehensive study of a particular topic in clinical psychology under the direction of a faculty member. An independent study course can fulfill one elective requirement. A detailed proposal must be submitted to the faculty member prior to registration. More Info
Offered in:PSYCLN 897 Special Topics in Clinical Psychology
Description:
This advanced course offers intensive study of selected topics in clinical psychology. A special topics course can be used to fulfill one area elective requirement (see "Degree Requirements"). Course content varies according to the topic and is announced before registration each time the course is offered. More Info
Offered in:PSYCLN 898 Internship in Clinical Psychology
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Doctoral candidates in clinical psychology are required to complete this one-year full-time predoctoral internship in a setting approved by the American Psychological Association. During the internship, students have a variety of clinical experiences, including assessments and therapeutic interventions. They are closely supervised by mental health professionals, some of whom must be licensed clinical psychologists. A letter from the on-site internship director documenting satisfactory completion must be in the student's file at the University before the degree can be granted. More Info
Offered in:PSYCLN 899 Dissertation Research
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Research, conducted under supervision of the doctoral committee, leading to the presentation of a doctoral dissertation. More Info
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