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PAST 675 - Obstetrics and Gynecology
This is a six week clerkship with the purpose of providing clinical experience in the evaluation and treatment of women. Experience is gained in the areas of family planning, pre, intra, and postpartum care, as well as routine gynecological care for sexually transmitted diseases, dysmenorrhea, and menopausal health. Students come to understand the effects that sexual activity, childbearing, and menopause have on a woman’s medical, emotional, and social well-being.
Prerequisites & Notes
Successful completion of all ACRs and all fourth year PAST courses.
Credits: 6
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PAST 676 - General Pediatrics
Pediatrics is a six week clerkship which provides the opportunity to assess medical and surgical problems that require both inpatient and ambulatory management of children. Students spend approximately fifty to sixty hours per week in the clinical setting. Time is spent giving students practical clinical experience in the ambulatory setting managing routine childhood illness and health maintenance, and with the medical team in the hospital at the time of delivery assessing the newborn and caring for children with more severe medical problems. Students learn to recognize the influences that family interactions can have on the course of the patient’s development, well-being, and illness.
Prerequisites & Notes
Successful completion of all ACRs and all fourth year PAST courses.
Credits: 6
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PAST 677 - Psychiatry
The purpose of the psychiatry clerkship is to provide the student with clinical experience in the varied presentations of mental illness in inpatient and ambulatory settings. Students have an opportunity to evaluate, identify, and learn management of both acute and non-acute psychiatric patients.
Prerequisites & Notes
Successful completion of all ACRs and all fourth year PAST courses.
Credits: 6
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PAST 680 - Preceptorship
The preceptorship is a six week clinical and non-clinical experience that provides
opportunities in clinical evaluation and treatment of patients, and a more in-depth
understanding of the daily administrative aspect of health care practices. Training
includes assessment of a variety of patient populations and their health care
problems. Students strengthen previously developed skills of data gathering from
historic information, physical assessment, and therapeutic treatment planning.
A broad exposure to the administrative aspects of the practice of medicine is
emphasized.
Prerequisites & Notes
Successful completion of all ACRs and all fourth year PAST courses.
Credits: 6
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PSYC 510 - Introduction to the Wraparound Process
This course explores the current theory and principles of the wraparound approach as defined by the national wraparound initiative. Specifically, the course reviews the definition and history of wraparound, the four phases of wraparound, the ten principles of wraparound, and the roles of the care manager and family partner. Class activities include group discussion, role-play exercises and videotaped examples of care plan team meetings.
Credits: 1
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PSYC 530 - Psychology of Sport Injury
This course is a seminar pertaining to psychological theory, research, and practice in the domain of sport injury. Group discussion, interactive, experiential, and lecture methods are used to foster awareness and knowledge of psychological responses to sport injury and the role of psychological factors in the occurrence, prevention, and rehabilitation of sport injuries.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 545 - Imagery, Hypnosis, and Self-Hypnosis
This course examines the historical development, theories, techniques, and research in the application of imagery and hypnosis. Special emphasis is placed on the role of those techniques as a tool in human helping professions. Topics covered include: the mind/body relationship, healing and pain management, neurolinguistic programming, criminal investigation, sports skill enhancement, and ethical and legal considerations.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 601 - Developmental School Guidance Counseling
This course presents the philosophy, principles, and practices of Developmental School Guidance Counseling, and recent research in the field. Students learn about the roles and functions of counselors at the elementary, middle, and high schools levels. This course focuses on academic guidance including the Curriculum Frameworks, MCAS, standardized testing and test interpretation, and counselors’ roles in special education, college counseling, and post-secondary options.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 603 - Psychological Testing
This course aims to establish an understanding of the problems involved in the measurement of abilities, achievement, attitudes, interests, behavior, and personality. Methods of test construction and the concepts of reliability and validity are considered. Cultural issues related to assessment are explored, and the ability to critically evaluate assessment techniques from a scientist-practitioner perspective is fostered.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 606 - Psychology of Diversity
This course examines the ways in which culture influences behavior and perception, and is concerned with understanding psychological principles as either universal or culture specific. Standard areas of psychology, cognitive development, language acquisition, emotion, abnormal behavior, and social psychology are explored from a cross-cultural perspective.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 610 - Foundations and Methods of Psychological Research
Foundations and Methods of Psychological Research
Credits: 3
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PSYC 611 - Psychology of Humor
Psychology of humor provides a theoretical and practical basis for the role and use of humor in our society. This course explores the positive use of humor in areas of education, health and wellness, creativity, and as social commentary. It also investigates the negative uses of humor in society in areas such as racism, sexism, and ethnicity.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 612 - Psychopharmacology
This course examines the role of psychiatric medication in the treatment of psychiatric disorders. Topics include the neurological basis of mental disorders, pharmokinetics, and specific medications used in the treatment of mood, anxiety, and psychotic disorders. In addition, the role of biological treatment of organic disorders is investigated.
Prerequisites & Notes
PSYC 631 - Psychopathology
Credits: 3
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PSYC 613 - Professional Ethics
This course provides a foundation for the ethical practice of counseling. The focus is
on ethical decision-making through an understanding of legal and ethical standards
of practice for counselors, marriage and family therapists, and psychologists. Issues such as client rights, confidentiality, family law, dual relationships, duty to warn, and ethical consideration of special populations are studied.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 614 - Counseling Diverse Populations
This course examines the complex interplay of values, expectations, and social
and political forces that influence the counselor/client relationship. Students
learn about multicultural counseling competency in mental health agencies, schools,
and other settings. Students improve their ability to counsel members of specific
ethnic groups and gay men and lesbians.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 615 - Child Development and Counseling
This course examines the bio-psychosocial development of children and adolescents. Learning, normal development, and play therapy techniques are covered.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 618 - Qualitative Research in Psychological Research
This course provides a survey of qualitative methods of inquiry applicable to psychology including outcome and program evaluation. Within the framework of this course, the philosophic basis, major paradigms, models of collecting empirical materials, interpretation and evaluation of empirical methods, and presentation of qualitative researched are reviewed.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 620 - Health Psychology
This course is a survey of psychological theory, research, and practice in the health
domain. Didactic, interactive, and experiential methods are used to foster
awareness and knowledge of the critical role of behavioral factors in health.
Opportunities for application of behavioral principles to aspects of personal health are
provided.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 621 - Theories of Personality
This course emphasizes the dynamics of human behavior and the application of these principles in a better understanding of one’s life. A variety of theorists from the major schools of thought (psychoanalytic, behavioral, and existential/humanistic) are covered so that students are able to examine their own assumptions about people.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 622 - Principles of Counseling
The course provides graduate students with opportunities to learn and acquire basic counseling skills that can be used in a variety of settings. Participants survey major approaches to counseling in order to further their knowledge of human behavior and the change process. Particular emphasis is placed on understanding the dynamics underlying various therapeutic techniques and fostering the ability to establish a strong working alliance.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 623 - Crisis Intervention
This course examines crisis intervention techniques used in the treatment of children, adolescents, and adults in hospital and community agency settings. Topics such as suicide and risk assessment, polysubstance abuse, spousal battery, psychotic disorders, anxiety disorders, and post-traumatic stress syndrome, violence, and bereavement are explored in light of current crisis intervention strategies.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 624 - Psychological Statistics
This course provides a foundation in the statistical techniques used in scientific and counseling psychology. Specific topics covered include an overview of basic statistics, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, correlation, regression, psychometrics, and statistical approaches to outcome and program evaluation. Students will receive instruction in the use of SPSS.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 625 - Group Counseling
Group Counseling
Credits: 3
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PSYC 626 - Research Project in Psychology
This course builds on the research foundation established in Research 610, and specifically addresses applied research within the discipline of psychology. Interpretation of research and its impact on professional practice are studied. Students participate in the design, implementation and interpretation of a research project.
Prerequisites & Notes
RSCH 610 - Foundations and Methods of Research
Credits: 3
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PSYC 629 - Final Portfolio and Review
This course is the capstone experience for students who have been engaged in developing a learning outcome based portfolio during their graduate studies in the psychology department. Students should have completed preparatory steps and portfolio development and consultation with their advisor during prior semesters in the graduate program. In this course, students extend the development of their portfolios into a final phase that includes seminar sessions, guided and independent portfolio preparation, and a final portfolio review.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 630 - Adventure Therapy: Facilitating Life Skills through Experiential Learning
Adventure Therapy: Facilitating Life Skills through Experiential Learning, is a course designed to help students gain a practical and theoretical understanding of adventure therapy. This course offers students the opportunity to facilitate the growth of various life skills (i.e., career development, study skills, goal setting, time management, health, values clarification, etc.) through program development and workshops. Students will explore how the use of experiential education, adventure activities, and life skill development can be used as a treatment modality working with groups and individuals in a variety of settings.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 631 - Psychopathology
Employing a biological, psychodynamic, behavioral, humanistic, cognitive, and sociocultural approach, various types of pathology across the lifespan are examined, emphasizing descriptive characteristics, etiology, and treatment. This course focuses on the use of the DSM-IV, interpretation of case histories, and awareness of moral/ethical aspects of labeling or acknowledging psychopathology.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 633 - Introduction to Psychotherapy
This course explores the major psychotherapies, ranging from psychoanalysis through person-centered therapy to neurolinguistic programming, and integrates their techniques into the theory of relative causation.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 635 - Psychology in Organizations
This course examines the organizational processes involved in running a business. Students are introduced to several ways in which to implement organizational communication and the management of the workforce through employee motivation and satisfaction, organizational and leadership development and understanding group behavior. Students will experience actual evaluation of group behavior, teams, and conflict, ethics at work the overall influence a motivated workforce will have on a firm through coursework, readings and actual assessments and workshops.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 638 - Adult Development and Learning
This course introduces students to current information related to adult development and learning. Life stage, life phase, and life event theories are examined, as well as research concerning learning during the adult years. Implications for teaching, counseling, and serving adult students are discussed. A special emphasis is placed on adult transitions and the change process.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 639 - Human Life Span Development
This course explores life span development through the lenses of social, cultural, cognitive, biological, and learning theories and research. The emphasis is on gaining better conceptual understanding of healthy development and better practical understanding of how to help children, adolescents, and adults address the developmental issues they face across the lifespan. There is a particular focus placed on understanding the impact of the family and culture on the individual. Attention will also be devoted to the application of research findings to ongoing developmental problems.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 640 - Counseling the College Bound Student
This course explores the college admissions process, with emphasis on current issues
confronting secondary school counselors, application and admissions criteria for
various types of colleges and college counseling for special student populations.
Students gain an understanding of the resources available to counselors in the
college admissions process including print material, software, web sites and
organizations. Psychological and family issues in college counseling are also explored.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 641 - Psychology of Sexual Behavior
This course studies all forms of human sexual behavior, with emphasis on attitudes and practical concerns, such as interpersonal relationships, emotional involvement, and sexual difficulties, failures, and therapy.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 642 - Talent Acquisition
This course will cover some of the main content needed to become an effective Master’s level practitioner in Industrial Psychology. The content to be covered will include job analysis and evaluation, employment law, employee selection, and employee performance appraisal to list a few. Students will also learn how to apply statistical analyses to a variety of employment issues.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 643 - Career Development and Counseling
This course provides a framework for career development interventions across a variety of professional settings. Theory and research perspectives related to career development over the life span are offered as a basis for individual and group work in career planning, guidance, and employment counseling. Current issues such as college counseling, employment trends, assessment, multiculturalism, and the use of technology in career advisement are addressed.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 645 - Prevention & Group Counseling in Schools
In this course students develop skills in preventing and intervening with violence, substance abuse, mental illness, and child maltreatment. Topics include group guidance and leadership, changing the school climate, consultation, and referrals. Students learn about the relationship of counselors to other professionals in pupil personnel services, the school system, and the community. Students complete a 60-hour pre-practicum in a school.
Prerequisites & Notes
PSYC 601 - Developmental School Guidance Counseling
Credits: 3
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PSYC 646 - Organizational Conflict Management
This course is a classroom simulation that will serve as an experiential opportunity for developing practical skills to prevent and manage everyday workplace (and personal) conflict, and for learning effective tools for resolving disputes. Students will develop conceptual understanding of the psychological and behavioral dynamics of interpersonal, intergroup, and systemic conflict in an organizational context. Students will develop practical skills and acquire effective tools for resolving such conflicts both as a principal party (one who is personally involved in a dispute) and as a third party (one who mediates conflict between others).
Credits: 3
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PSYC 648 - Training and Development in Organizations
This course is designed as a practicum in developing and conducting training programs. Specific topics include training needs assessments, training evaluation, program design, as well as presentations skills. A major focus is to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to create and implement training and development strategies that result in measurable improvement in individual and organizational performance.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 649 - Communication and Motivation in Organizations
This course examines the communications processes and motivational theories and practices in organizations. Specific areas addressed are communication modes and channels, nonverbal communications, listening skills, and individual, group, and organizational communication issues. Theories of motivation and their implementation in the workplace are also addressed.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 650 - Organizational Development and Change
This course examines the process of planned organizational change. Students are introduced to several organizational development techniques, including team building, job enrichment, survey feedback, Quality of Work programs, and the quality-control circle. Class demonstrations and participatory activities help students experience organizational change strategies.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 651 - Student Personnel Administration in Higher Education
This is an introduction to various forms of organizations and functions in student personnel work in higher education. Student development theory is analyzed and its utilization is examined in a variety of settings, including admissions, counseling, financial aid, residence life, and career development.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 652 - Consulting Skills
This course examines management, motivational, and leadership theories and their applications in a variety of settings. Change strategies, organizational development, and the role of the consultant are emphasized.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 654 - Issues and Techniques in Athletic Counseling
This course examines current counseling strategies used with members of sport teams at high school, college, and professional levels. Participants explore current research in three main areas: motivation and skill development, psychosocial development, and career maturity. Class demonstrations, counseling experiences, and field visits are designed to enhance learning.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 655 - Current Issues in Student Personnel
This course provides an in-depth study of current trends, issues, and problems facing the student personnel field today. Students will explore demographic, social, financial, ethical, legal, and professional issues through research, readings in current periodicals, class presentations, and discussion.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 657 - Professional Studies in Athletic Counseling
This course is designed to prepare athletic counseling students for their roles as professionals in the field. Areas of study include professional ethics, record keeping, NCAA guidelines, working as part of an interdisciplinary team, and legal issues.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 659 - Child Assessment
Child Assessment
Credits: 3
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PSYC 660 - Introduction to Marriage and Family Therapy
This course introduces students to the history of marriage and family counseling, major interpretive systems, current theoretical issues, counseling techniques, and practices. While the course focuses on helping students understand these cognitive elements, it also provides for some direct experience with counseling techniques and assessment instruments.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 662 - Marital and Family Interaction
This course examines the family in a life-cycle framework. The interaction patterns of individuals before marriage, in the marital dyad, and as members of a family are presented as valuable constructs for the understanding and treatment of the family unit. A significant component of this course is the student’s analysis of his/her own family of origin from a three-generational perspective.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 664 - Couples Therapy
This course is designed for students who have mastered basic counseling skills and marriage and family theory. Specific dynamics that became important when working with couples are explored. Students are asked to demonstrate the use of counseling techniques in simulated couple counseling situations.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 665 - Family Counseling in Schools
This course is designed to help school counselors assess family systems, establish school/family partnerships, and work together with parents and other school personnel to help children and youth succeed. Students learn how to conduct qualitative research with families on their relationship with schools, and develop their consultation and family counseling skills.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 668 - Forensic Psychology
This course examines the interaction between the fields of psychology and criminal justice. This course is designed to examine the many roles a psychologist might assume within the criminal justice system. This course is designed to cover several topics including eyewitness testimony, courtroom psychology, critical incident counseling, NGRI pleas and a variety of other interdisciplinary topics in order to provide students with a wealth and breadth of information. Therefore, the goal of this course is to gain a better understanding of the interaction between several disciplines that combine to create the field of Forensic Psychology.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 669 - Professional Studies in Marriage and Family Therapy
This course is designed to prepare marriage and family therapy students for their roles as professionals in the field. Areas of study include professional ethics, licensure or certification, professional organizations, legal issues, family law, and independent practice. In addition to these professional issues, attention is given to personal factors in professional development including the interaction of career with family.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 670 - Psychology of the College-Age Adult
Covering ages 17 to 25, this course deals with psychological and social development in this critical period. Principle dimensions and conditions influencing development are examined. Relevant research findings are related to the student’s current circumstances and stage of development.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 672 - Laboratory in Counseling Athletes
This course is designed for athletic counseling students who wish to improve their career development, counseling, and skill building techniques with athletes. Participants have an opportunity to practice strategies to enhance their effectiveness in counseling this unique population.
Prerequisites & Notes
PSYC 654 - Issues and Techniques in Athletic Counseling
Credits: 3
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PSYC 673 - Human Factors in the Workplace
This course is designed as an overview and practicum in the study of organizational ergonomics. The major goal is to provide students with a broad understanding of the worker’s relationship with technology and the design of the workplace environment. The course involves contemporary human factors theory, concepts, principles, and research techniques. A hypermedia laboratory allows students the opportunity to apply ergonomic principles using computer simulations.
Credits: 4
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PSYC 674 - Counseling for Enhanced Performance
This course focuses on the psychological skills, methods, and strategies used by performance enhancement consultants working in business, industry, personnel development, sport, and other domains. Each student has the opportunity to practice performance enhancement interventions in a supervised setting. The course is conducted as a seminar, emphasizing participant interactions and cooperative learning. Major theories covered include the transtheoretical model, the theory of planned behavior, self-efficacy theory, self-determination theory, flow, IZOF theory, catastrophe theory, competence motivation theory, the multi-dimensional model of leadership, goal setting theory, attribution theory, and reversal theory.
Prerequisites & Notes
PSYC 622 - Principles of Counseling
Credits: 3
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PSYC 675 - Clinical Seminar in Diagnosis, Assessment, and Treatment Planning
This course examines mental health counseling within the confines of the medical model. Major topics include clinical assessment and treatment planning, as well as program design and utilization of existing facilities for inpatient, outpatient, partial treatment, and aftercare.
Prerequisites & Notes
PSYC 631 - Psychopathology
Credits: 3
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PSYC 680 - Group Dynamics
This is an examination of and experience in basic group processes. Emphasis is on knowledge of group dynamics, skill building as group leaders, and participation in a group experience. Awareness of self and others at increasingly open and honest levels of communication is encouraged without the intensity of encounter approaches.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 681 - Work Group Dynamics
This course is designed to teach students how to be effective work team members and leaders. Students learn the theoretical and experiential aspects of the dynamics of work groups. By forming intact semester project work teams, students actively assess work group dynamics and behaviors, practice inter- and intra-group communications, manage group conflicts, and develop group facilitation and leadership skills.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 682 - Practicum in School Adjustment Counseling
This field based course gives students an opportunity to become familiar with and practice the daily responsibilities undertaken by school adjustment counselors. In a supervised environment, students are involved in all facets of school adjustment counseling. They work with students, administrators, teachers, parents, external agencies and other constituencies. They engage in individual and group interventions, counseling and actively work with students supporting social, emotional and academic needs. Students are challenged to apply classroom knowledge to the practice of school counseling. A minimum of 900 clock hours is required for those seeking licensure.
Prerequisites & Notes
PSYC 601 - Developmental School Guidance Counseling
PSYC 622 - Principles of Counseling
PSYC 645 - Prevention & Group Counseling in Schools
PSYC 665 - Family Counseling in Schools
Credits: 3-12
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PSYC 685 - Counseling Practicum
This course provides an opportunity for skill-building experience in the application of counseling methods in a closely supervised laboratory situation. Each student is seen individually and in group seminar on a weekly basis for discussion and videotape evaluation of counseling interviews.
Prerequisites & Notes
PSYC 622 - Principles of Counseling
Credits: 3
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PSYC 686 - Fieldwork/Internship and Seminar
Supervised field experience is considered to be an integral part of preparation for professional activity. The specific nature of the fieldwork/ internship experience varies with the submajor and goals of the student and depends upon approval by the respective graduate program director. Students receive regular supervision from competent professionals in the field and attend a weekly fieldwork/internship seminar with the faculty. Each semester hour of credit is based upon fifty clock hours of fieldwork/internship plus a weekly one-and-a-half hour seminar. The minimum number of credits required varies with the submajor.
Credits: 1-16
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PSYC 694 - Management of Compensation and Benefits
This course focuses on managing employee compensation in contemporary organizations. Students examine the current state of compensation decision-making and learn how to apply theoretical and research developments in their decisions. Specific content includes strategic perspectives associated with the design of compensation systems as well as the determinants of individual compensation packages.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 708 - Cognition and Affect
This course provides an overview of cognitive and affective bases of behavior. Students gain an understanding of how humans process information and organize emotional experiences. There is a focus on application of major models and theories to real-world understanding and implications for practice.
Prerequisites & Notes
PsyD students only
Credits: 3
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PSYC 709 - Social Psychology
This course acquaints students with the principles and processes of social psychology. Topics to be covered include, but will not be limited to, attraction, aggression, prejudice, conformity, persuasion, and so forth. Upon completion of this course, students should have a basic understanding of how individuals think about, are influenced by and relate to one another.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 713 - Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Psychology
This course is for doctoral students in counseling psychology and focuses on developing sensitivity to the ethical aspects of their work as future psychologists. Students deepen their knowledge and understanding of professional ethics and standards of psychological practice, teaching and research. Ethical problems, decision making, principle and virtue ethics in an increasingly diverse and complex environment are considered. Students also consider professional issues such as opening a private practice and benchmark standards for the training of psychologists.
Prerequisites & Notes
Admission to PSYD program
Credits: 3
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PSYC 715 - Research Methods
The goal of this course is to provide doctoral students in counseling with the opportunity to refine their understanding of research methods, increase their ability to be informed consumers of research findings, and improve their skills at developing research proposals. Students develop their skills in survey and analysis of research and program evaluation procedures. They learn how to critically review literature, and formulate questions, and they learn about quantitative and qualitative methodology, and data analysis as a foundation for reading research literate and generating research proposals.
Prerequisites & Notes
Admission to the PSYD program
and successful completion of
PSYC 610 - Foundations and Methods of Psychological Research
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PSYC 624 - Psychological Statistics
Credits: 3
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PSYC 716 - History and Systems of Psychology
History and Systems of Psychology
Credits: 3
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PSYC 720 - Doctoral Research Seminar
This course is designed to provide students with direct experience in conducting psychological research. Students participate in further developing and finalizing their dissertation research proposal. Activities include reviewing extant literature, designing research studies, collecting data, analyzing data, preparing research reports, and presenting research findings. Students also receive feedback on their own research ideas and plans for future research projects. Students learn first hand about scientific inquiry in psychology through research under the guidance of faculty members.
Credits: 2
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PSYC 725 - Advanced Group Counseling
This course addresses major concepts, theoretical perspectives, research, professional issues, and skill development related to effective group counseling. The theory, research, and practice of work group work, especially group counseling, is discussed, demonstrated, and practiced. Students learn about the history of group work, principles of group dynamics and group process, and group techniques. Ethical practices and guidelines of multicultural competencies for group counselors are presented. Different types of groups (i.e. psychotherapy, counseling, support, task, guidance), and theme-based groups that are conducted in community settings are discussed. Group skills are practiced throughout the semester employing a small group model. This experience offer significant potential for emotional and intellectual growth, for you are given the opportunity to experience for yourself the power of a group.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 727 - Cognitive Assessment
This course features instruction and supervised practice in the administration and interpretation of the Wechsler scales. The history, purpose, interpretation, strengths, and weaknesses of these scales are reviewed. Each student gives no less than five tests on each of the Wechsler scales (WAIS, WISC-R, WPPIS). A total of twenty satisfactory tests are required. The course format includes lecture, demonstrations, and videotaped testing sessions.
Prerequisites & Notes
PSYC 603 - Psychological Testing
Credits: 3
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PSYC 733 - Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy
This course involves in-depth exploration and examination of major concepts and practices of therapeutic systems employed in counseling practice. Students expand on basic knowledge of major approaches to counseling and build on basic counseling skills introduced in previous courses to move to a higher level of application and mastery.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 736 - Supervision and Consultation
The purpose of this course is to examine techniques and issues involved with the supervision of counselors and in providing consultation services to mental health agencies and other organizations. Models and approaches to supervision and consultation are explored. Issues related to administration and teaching relevant skills are discussed. Students have opportunities to learn and practice supervision, administration, teaching, and consultation skills.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 739 - Advanced Human Life Span Development
This course explores life span development through the lenses of social, cultural, cognitive, biological, and learning theories and research. The emphasis is on gaining better conceptual understanding of healthy development and better practical understanding of how to help children, adolescents, and adults address the developmental issues they face across the lifespan. There is a particular focus placed on understanding the impact of the family and culture on the individual. Attention will also be devoted to the application of research findings to ongoing developmental problems.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 751 - Physiological Psychology
The physiological bases of a variety of behaviors are studied. Scientific experimental analysis concerned with sensory processing, learning, motivation, and the development of the major schools and issues in perception are considered. The biological concomitants of various psychological abnormalities are analyzed.
Credits: 3
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PSYC 753 - Personality Assessment
The purpose of this course is to provide an overview of major personality assessments, including theory and application of these measures. Students develop skills in choosing, administering, scoring, and interpreting both objective and projective measures of personality.
Prerequisites & Notes
PSYC 603 - Psychological Testing
Credits: 3
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PSYC 758 - Neuropsychological Assessment
NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT
Credits: 3
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PSYC 759 - Child Assessment
Child assessment
Credits: 3
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PSYC 785 - Doctoral Practicum I
Students work in applied settings and receive doctoral level supervision, integrating theoretical and empirical work in counseling with real-life experiences. Students provide individual, relational, and/or group counseling to a diverse population; conduct intake assessments; participate in case conferences; provide case management as appropriate; and complete requisite case documentation. Students utilize client feedback measures to inform their counseling and to reflect on their development as ethical, effective counselors.
Prerequisites & Notes
Acceptance into the PSYD program
and successful completion of
PSYC 622 - Principles of Counseling
and
PSYC 685 - Counseling Practicum
Credits: 1-6
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PSYC 786 - Doctoral Practicum II
This is an advanced doctoral practicum experience in which students continue to develop and enhance their counseling skills. In addition to provision of community based individual, group, and/or relational counseling, students may participate in such advanced training opportunities as structured psychological assessment, consultation, and/or supervision.
Prerequisites & Notes
PSYC 785 - Doctoral Practicum I
Credits: 1-6
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PSYC 787 - Pre-Doctoral Internship
The pre-doctoral internship is the culminating field experience of the PsyD in counseling psychology program. It involves a one-year full-time placement at an approved site. Students can clinical experience, develop counseling skills, and begin to establish a professional identity. Students are held to the same expectations as other full-time employees and counseling staff at the internship site. (Course is taken twice for a total of 1.0 credit)
Prerequisites & Notes
Acceptance into the PSYD program
and successful completion of
PSYC 785 - Doctoral Practicum I
and
PSYC 786 - Doctoral Practicum II
Credits: 4.5
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PSYC 788 - Fieldwork
Students discuss advanced theoretical and empirical topics identified by students and faculty members. Students also work in applied settings. Receives supervision via a weekly fieldwork/internship seminar. Each semester hour of credit is based upon 50 clock hours of fieldwork/internship.
Credits: 1-3
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PSYC 789 - Doctoral Practicum III
This is an advanced practicum experience for students who wish to gain either additional counseling experience or specialized training in a particular area of competence. Possible specializations might include neuropsychological assessment, IQ or personality assessment, consultation, program development, etc.
Prerequisites & Notes
PSYC 786 - Doctoral Practicum II
Credits: 1-6
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Rehabilitation and Disability Studies |
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CMDS 656 - Language Acquisition and Development
This course provides an overview of the normal language acquisition and development process throughout the life span, with particular emphasis on birth through school age. The interrelationships among linguistic, neurophysical, cognitive, social, and cultural factors as they affect language acquisition are discussed. The student becomes familiar with various theories of language acquisition, the rule systems of the English language, stages of language development, and techniques for collecting and analyzing a language sample.
Credits: 3
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CMDS 683 - Language Disorders in Children
Topics include etiology, diagnosis, evaluation, cultural differences, and treatment of children with language disorders. Clinical case material is discussed and analyzed. Introduction to diagnostic tools and evaluations/methodology. Basic theoretical constructs pertaining to the treatment of the language-impaired populations from birth through high school.
Credits: 3
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HSRS 577 - Assistive Technology on the Classroom.
Using a case-based approach, students work in small interdisciplinary teams to explore the use of assistive devices and technologies that promote the participation of all
children in school. Class activities include lecture and demonstration, and hands-on experience with hard- and software, adaptive equipment, and a variety of high-and low-tech devices.
Credits: 3
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HSRS 620 - Health Care Statistics
Students learn the general principles of health care and epidemiologic statistics with an emphasis on understanding published quantitative research in health care and medicine. The knowledge needed to interpret descriptive and inferential statistics including group comparisons and regression is included. Students learn when and how statistics are used, how to critically appraise the statistics used in journal articles, and how to interpret basic software generated statistical output.
Credits: 3
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RHDS 501 - Human Development and Psycho-Social Issues in Rehabilitation
This course is designed to assist students to gain an understanding of the world of persons with disabilities. The social, psychological, and cultural aspects of illness, trauma, and various impairments are examined. The nature, meaning, and dynamics of disability are explored in relation to the normal course of human development.
Credits: 3
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RHDS 505 - Rehabilitation Counseling and Services: History, Philosophy, Ethics, and Practice
This course is an introduction to the historical foundation, philosophy, and ethical principles of rehabilitation counseling and services. Emphasis is placed on an understanding of the scope of practice of rehabilitation counselors and the rehabilitation process as it relates to professional ethics and legal issues for people with chronic illnesses or disabilities. Students will become familiar with private/public sector counseling roles and functions through lectures, readings, group discussion, and selected case study exercises.
Credits: 3
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