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PSY-632B Internship Qualification

1. Ability to develop a case conceptualization and treatment plan that is consistent with one’s preferred theory and reflects an ability to incorporate diversity considerations and relevant research
2. Able to develop and maintain an effective therapeutic relationship
3. Case conceptualizations, treatment plans, and practice appropriately take into account cultural differences
4. Practice in a manner consistent with legal and ethical standards

PSY-633 Oral Review of Dissertation

PSY-637 Dissertation Research

PSY-638 Dissertation in Progress

PSY-639 Dissertation Completion

PSY-640 Asmt- Anger Assessment

PSY-642 Asmt- Introduction to Child Assessment

PSY-643 Asmt- Forensic Evaluation Report

PSY-644 Asmt- NEPSY

PSY-645 Asmt- Principles of Report Writing

PSY-645A Asmt- Beginning Principles of Psychological Reporting

PSY-646 Asmt- Cultural Sensitivity in Psy Assessment

PSY-647 Asmt- Introduction to Infant Assessment

PSY-648 Asmt- Clinical Pediatric Psychology

PSY-675B Asmt- Introduction to WAIS Interpretation

1. Score and interpret a WAIS protocol
2. Write a test section for cognitive assessment
3. Identify when to use FSIQ and GAI

PSY-676A Asmt- Neuropsychological Screening

PSY-677 Asmt- Introduction to Neuropsychological Assessment

1. Familiar with the major types of assessment measures used in neuropsychological assessment.
2. Familiar with the application of brain-behavior relationships to neuropsychological assessment.
3. Familiar with neuropsychological measures for specific neurological/neurocognitive functions and impairments.

PSY-678 Asmt- Halstead-Reitan Battery

PSY-680 Research Practicum: Clinical Psychology

PSY-681 Asmt- Competency Assessment

PSY-682 Asmt- Advanced Topics in Neuropsychology

PSY-683 Asmt- Advanced Cognitive Assessment

PSY-684 Asmt- Executive Functions

PSY-685 Research Practicum: Media Psychology

PSY-686 Research Practicum: Psychology

5 semester credits

At the completion of research practicum, students will be able to:

1. conceptualize new research ideas based on prior research and relevant theory
2. articulate testable research hypotheses
3. design research that tests their hypotheses
4. prepare IRB protocols and research materials
5. analyze research data and interpret the results
6. present research results at the doctoral level through conference proposals and presentations and/or journal article manuscripts
7. design and conduct research in accordance with legal, ethical and regulatory requirements
8. design and conduct research that considers relevant individual and cultural diversity factors

PSY-689 Asmt- Memory Assessment

PSY-695 Clinical Practicum

PSY-695A Additional Clinical Practicum Hours

PSY-695B Additional Clinical Practicum Hours

PSY-695C Additional Clinical Practicum Hours

PSY-696 Clinical Internship

0.5-24 semester credits

The internship must provide at least 25% of the intern’s time providing a range of psychological assessment and intervention activities conducted directly with recipients of psychological services. Full time and half time interns must spend at least 2 hours per week in didactic activities such as case conferences, seminars, in service training or grand rounds. Internship experience must be either full-time for one year or half-time for two consecutive years and must complete/document a minimum of 1,800 total hours.
Pre-requisites:  

• A Master’s degree in Psychology from Fielding Graduate University  
• A minimum of 19 units of clinical practicum  completed in Fielding’s program
• Successful completion of all required terms of Practicum Case Seminar (PCS)
• Pre Internship Evaluation (PIE), Comprehensive Examination, or Internship Qualification , as appropriate to your program and catalog.
• Completion of PSY-710G  
• Completion of PSY-755  
• Satisfactory progress in the program
• Dissertation proposal approved (step 2 of the dissertation)   including Research Practicum Completion  

PSY-697 Specialized Clinical Training

PSY-699 Residency Hours Completion

PSY-701A Research Methods I

1. Understand the basic epistemological assumptions and tenets that underlie scientific inquiry.
2. Be familiar with a variety of research methods and designs for investigating specific research questions.
3. Understand the implications of internal and external validity in the design and interpretation of research.
4. Be able to apply ethical standards to human research.
5. Be able to read and critically evaluate the concepts, methods and results of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed research studies, and to evaluate whether methods were used appropriately, and whether studies were conducted with sensitivity to identified groups (e.g., race, ethnicity, SES, gender, culture, ability, sexual orientation, and to ethical issues).

PSY-701B Research Methods II: Quantitative

1. Apply basic research design principles and strategies demonstrating understanding of epistemological assumptions of the research methodology.
2. Develop a written scholarly argument with empirical implications.
3. Design and write a research proposal.
4. Discuss at least two approaches to collecting and analyzing quantitative data.
5. Demonstrate sensitivity to cultural and individual differences as reflected in research questions and research design.

PSY-701C Research Methods II: Qualitative

1. Demonstrate how epistemological values and methodological research assumptions apply to qualitative research designs and analytical procedures.
2. Develop a written scholarly argument with empirical implications.
3. Design and write a research proposal.
4. Discuss at least two approaches to collecting, interrogating, interpreting qualitative data.
5. Demonstrate sensitivity to cultural and individual differences as reflected in research questions and research design.

PSY-702 Developmental Bases of Behavior

4 semester credits

1. Critically evaluate classical developmental models and theorists and their limits and current critiques.
2. Explain the complex influences of the interactions between nature and nurture across the life cycle.
3. Compare and contrast development across cultures.
4. Analyze how gender, SES, different values, and worldviews impact development.

PSY-703 History and Systems of Psychology

1. Review a body of knowledge in the history and systems of psychology, and describe the relevance of that history to current psychological theory.
2. Explain how current ideas, trends, and controversies in psychology reflect, and are impacted by the history of the field.
3. Develop an “historical sense,” and a habit of using historical and “primary” sources when researching a topic of current theoretical importance.
4. Summarize the philosophical roots and foundations of psychology, the basic ideas in the philosophy of sciences as they apply to psychological science, and the underlying philosophical and conceptual assumptions of the psychological paradigms (biological, behavioral, cognitive, psychoanalytic, humanistic, systems, etc.) that underlie current perspectives in psychology.
5. Identify assumptions and trends that define various theories in psychology.
6. Demonstrate an openness to the interface between psychology and other disciplines, such as philosophy, biology, anthropology, sociology, theology, and literary studies that have impacted the history and development of the field.
7. Describe the role and place of psychology within history of ideas and culture.
8. Identify the contributions and potential contributions of non-western and indigenous cultures to psychological theory.

PSY-704 Theories of Personality

1. Be able to articulate the core assumptions of major schools of personality: cognitive-behavioral, existential-humanistic, psychoanalytic, and psychometric/descriptive approaches such as trait theories and the five-factor model.
2. Recognize and discuss the similarities and differences across personality theories and consider the benefits and limitations of integrative approaches.
3. Recognize and provide support for the strengths and limitations of a given theory when it comes to addressing the full range of human diversity.
4. Be able to critically report upon and evaluate the empirical support for constructs from specific approaches to personality.

PSY-705 Social Bases of Behavior

1. Describe social construction, including how we construct the concepts of normalcy and pathology, culture, gender, ethnicity, and social class.
2. Analyze the literature on group dynamics and leadership.
3. Identify cultural differences and similarities, including stereotyping, prejudice, oppression, and discrimination.
4. Describe sociopolitical influences that impinge upon the lives of identified groups (e.g., poverty, stereotyping, powerlessness, and marginalization).
5. Summarize the literature on attitudes and attitude change, including cognitive consistency, dissonance, persuasion, and the relationship of attitudes to behavior.
6. Summarize the literature on social cognition, including person perception (know the classic studies on impression formation and attribution theory).
7. Describe the literature on aggression and violence, with a focus on the role of social learning.
8. Summarize the work on social influence (conformity, obedience, bystander psychology, cooperation, altruism, brutality).
9. Describe the literature on interpersonal attraction and relationships.
10. Identify methodological problems in social psychology research, including demand characteristics.

PSY-706 Cognitive and Affective Bases of Behavior

1. Identify and describe aspects of emotion, including emotional brain circuitry, categories of emotion, neural pathways for basic emotion, empathy, rewards and motivation, emotional impairments and disorders, and stress
2. Critically examine theories, models, principles, and research methods used to study emotion
3. Identify and describe aspects of cognition, including sensation and perception, attention, learning, memory, visual-spatial processing, language, decision-making, and executive functioning
4. Critically examine theories, models, principles, and research methods used to study cognition
5. Explain the sources of individual and cultural differences, including psychosocial factors, that influence: (a) cognitive, and (b) emotional processes
6. Synthesize concepts and research on cognition, affect, and emotion (e.g., conceptual processing of emotion, cognitive reappraisal and emotion regulation, memory and affect, language and emotion, attention and emotion, stress and cognition)

PSY-707 Biological Bases of Behavior

1. Identify the major anatomical areas of the brain, their evolutionary significance, and their putative functions, and the structure and function of a neuron.
2. Specify the mechanisms of information processing at the cellular and molecular levels and the mechanisms of learning and memory at the cellular, molecular, and anatomical levels.
3. Describe the influences of heredity and environment on brain development and functioning, pre-and post-partum and through the life span.
4. Describe how the brain regulates bodily and brain functions, and how behaviors arise from the biochemical functions at the molecular level, including the transduction of stimuli into information and the generation of responses to internal and external environments.

PSY-708 Psychopathology

1. Describe the historical evolution of definitions of psychopathology.
2. Define the various nosological systems (including DSM-5).
3. Compare the strengths and weaknesses of current and past nosological systems based on research findings and on major theories of psychopathology.
4. Summarize the prevalence, course, and differential diagnostic and prognostic considerations of the major psychological disorders.
5. Describe how cultural variables, gender, ethno-racial, SES, and age influence the etiology and manifestation of mental illness, including, but not limited to, culture-specific diagnoses.

PSY-709 Legal, Ethical, and Professional Practice

1. Identify the legal and ethical frameworks and guidelines for professional practice (APA Code of Ethics and Federal/State laws).
2. Demonstrate how to access: (a) information about the  laws and regulations concerning the practice of psychology in one’s own jurisdiction, and (b) the resources concerning practice in other jurisdictions.
3. Develop and practice self-awareness, self-care, and the maintenance of self-awareness and self-care.
4. Demonstrate how: (a) in clinical situations, ethical decision-making and problem-solving can proceed in a culturally sensitive manner, and (b) ethical conflicts may be resolved in a culturally sensitive manner.

PSY-710A Clinical Interviewing

1. Conduct initial interviews for assessment purposes.
2. Incorporate a balance of structured clinical interviewing and idiographic interviewing techniques.
3. Conduct interviews to obtain family, socio-emotional, and medical histories.
4. Use interviews to assess client mental status and preliminary DSM diagnoses.
5. Demonstrate active listening skills in order to obtain necessary information for evaluating prospective adult clients.
6. Demonstrate cultural sensitivity in interviewing techniques, alliance building, and diagnosis.

PSY-710B Cognitive Assessment

1. Describe theories of intelligence.
2. Describe bias, cultural issues, ethics, and controversies in intellectual assessment.
3. Competently administer and score the WAIS.
4. Accurately interpret the WAIS IV full scale score, the indexes, and the subtests.

PSY-710C Objective Personality Assessment

3 semester credits

1. Describe the basic assumptions about the nature of personality and the nature of measurement involved in objective psychological assessment of personality and psychopathology.
2. Explain the critique of personality assessment by those who assert the importance of situations and culture in the evaluation or prediction of human functioning.
3. Summarize some of the critiques of traditional personality assessment based on other understandings of personality (i.e., CAPS) and other systems of measurement (i.e., Rasch Modeling)
4. Use this information in the critique of psychological tests and in the interpretation of results from psychological testing using the MMPI-2. (LAB)

PSY-710D1 Projective Personality Assessment: Introduction to the Rorschach Coding

2 semester credits

1. Discuss the foundations of Projective Assessment, its history, and various instruments available in projective assessment.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of the history of the Rorschach, the significance of the comprehensive system, and theoretical foundations and rationale for the Performance Assessment System.
3. Explain the comprehensive system and response-optimized administration.
4. Review the R-PAS coding system and be able to solve typical coding problems.

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PSY-710D2 Projective Personality Assessment: Advanced Coding and Administration

1. Demonstrate proficiency in R-PAS Coding.
2. Administer a valid Rorschach.
3. Interpret and explain basic elements of the test.
4. Discuss empirical support for the elements of the Rorschach.
5. Discuss empirical support for diverse populations.

PSY-710E Projective Assessment: Thematic Apperception Test

1. Explain the development of and theory behind Thematic Apperception techniques.
2. Demonstrate proper administration of the TAT (CAT and SAT).
3. Discuss the basics of at least one of the five standardized scoring systems and describe the advantages and disadvantages of its use and that of other scoring systems.
4. Interpret and apply thematic apperception measures for assessment at a beginning level.
5. Describe theory and research applications of the TAT, including cross-cultural studies.
6. Write up TAT results in a format appropriate for inclusion in an evaluation report.

PSY-710F Cognitive Behavioral Assessment

2 semester credits

Students will be familiarized with a psychological report format that integrates cognitive-behavioral domain specific client self-report measures, and structured interview-based measures of DSM-5 Axis I mental disorders, with objective psychological tests such as the WAIS-IV and the MMPI-2, in order to provide providing clear, behaviorally specific assessments and treatment recommendations. Students will learn how to develop a CBT treatment plan from the case formulation and to present the results of the assessment and the treatment recommendations to the client using an interactive discussion based on Finn’s therapeutic assessment model, which can be applied transtheoretically. Students will learn how to utilize these assessment tools to inform case conceptualizations and treatment plans consistent with their preferred theoretical orientation.
Pre-requisites: PSY-710A , PSY-710B , PSY-715A  
Co-requisites: Required co-requisite unless already completed: PSY-710C  
Delivery Method: Blended
Grading Default: Letter
Note: Elective
Learning Outcome(s):  

1. Review domain specific CBT self-report and structured interview-based measures of anxiety and depression to be able to select appropriate measures for factors maintaining target behaviors and for treatment outcomes.
2. Discuss idiographic case formulation principles and models used by cognitive behavioral therapists.
3. Develop cognitive-behavioral case conceptualizations for specific clinical cases, with adaptations for multicultural diversity.
4. Write psychological reports with format that integrates CBT domain specific client self-reported measures, structured interview-based measures of DSM-5 Axis I mental disorders, and objective psychological tests results such as the WAIS-IV and the MMPI-2, in order to provide clear, behaviorally specific assessments and treatment recommendations.
5. Develop a CBT treatment plan from the case formulation, and then present the results of the assessment and the treatment recommendations to the client using an interactive discussion based on Finn’s therapeutic assessment model.

PSY-710G Integrated Assessment

1. Articulate in writing psychological test findings, including those from cognitive, (Wechsler scales), objective personality (e.g. MMPI-2, MCMI, PAI), and projective (Rorschach, TAT) tests in a manner consistent with beginning internship level.
2. Integrate clinical and test findings in a psychological testing report in a clear and professional manner, one that goes beyond specific findings to a rich and well-supported description of the individual being assessed.
3. Recognize the readers to whom a given psychological report is to be directed and write in a manner commensurate with one’s anticipated readers.
4. Identify: (a) the limitations inherent in any clinical assessment, and (b) situations when further work-up, research, interviews, and referrals are needed.
5. Describe diversity issues that impact: (a) the selection and interpretation of assessment methods, and (b) case conceptualization, diagnosis, and recommendations.

PSY-711A1 Introduction to Psychotherapy: Theory

1. Compare the three major theoretical orientations’ basic concepts and techniques.
2. Evaluate the empirical basis for the major psychotherapy theories.
3. Assess the influence of multicultural perspectives on theory and practice.
4. Determine your preferred theoretical orientation for clinical practice.

PSY-711A2 Introduction to Psychotherapy: Technique

1. Recognize and demonstrate psychotherapy skills related to building a therapeutic alliance in the context of the three phases of treatment: initiation, action, and termination.
2. Illustrate contracting, ethical practice, and record keeping.
3. Describe how cultural influences may impact the therapeutic relationship.
4. Demonstrate an ability to reflect upon one’s emerging role as a health service provider.

PSY-711B Research in Psychotherapy

4 semester credits

1. Demonstrate understanding of the current literature on psychotherapy research, including empirically supported practices and evidence based practice.
2. Demonstrate understanding of the literature on non-specific or common factors (e.g., therapeutic alliance) as they affect interventions across different forms of practice.
3. Evaluate the quality of clinical research and its application to effective interventions.
4. Describe the research on the role of culture and diversity in the practice and outcome of psychotherapy.

PSY-712 Multicultural Psychology

1. Describe how a nation’s history and culture affect individual and interpersonal experience.
2. Assess and critique multicultural approaches in psychology.
3. Describe how cultural variables influence the etiology and manifestations of mental health and illness, including but not limited to knowledge of culture-specific diagnoses.
4. Describe how normative values within a culture interface with individual differences to influence illness and help-seeking behaviors, interactional styles, and worldviews.
5. Describe and assess variables of special relevance to identified groups, such as cultural orientation, acculturative stress, and the effects of discrimination.
6. Identify and critique epistemologies, research concepts, methods, instruments, and results based on their tacit assumptions related to individuals or groups and to propose alternate methods/interpretations.
7. Identify and evaluate how one’s own cultural heritage, gender, class, ethnic/racial identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion, language, and age cohort help shape personal values, assumptions, and biases related to identified groups.

PSY-713 Audience Engagement

1. Understand the definitions of engagement relative to goals. 
2. Define the role of the persona and understand how it contributes internally and externally.
3. Evaluate the psychological factors that contribute to persona development.
4. Apply psychological theory to construct a persona for a specific goal.
5. Create an ad hoc persona and test it using qualitative research methodologies.
6. Translate the persona into the consumer’s story.
7. Develop visual and narrative collateral for stakeholder buy-in.
8. Create a persona-based strategy for a purposed application from marketing, branding, advocacy or product design.

PSY-715A Psychometric Theory

3 semester credits

RCP certificate students who need the course for licensure can request to take the class without having met the pre-requisite.
Delivery Method: Distance/Electronically Mediated
Grading Default: Letter
Learning Outcome(s):  

1. Identify basic principles of measurement and psychometric theory, including classical test theory, generalizability theory, item response theory, and statistical techniques that undergird these contemporary approaches.
2. Describe the concepts of standardization and norming, reliability, and validity.
3. Make selection decisions with assessment instruments based on psychometric data.
4. Identify the concepts and procedures pertaining to test construction, including scaling, item construction, and item analysis
5. Critically consider cultural issues related to psychological assessment with a focus on test development.
6. Identify legal and ethical standards associated with psychological assessment with a focus on test development.

PSY-716A Statistical Methods

1. Apply basic concepts and methods of univariate descriptive statistics to analyze data, including levels of measurement, z-scores, measures of central tendency and dispersion, types of distributions, and independent and dependent variables.
2. Apply basic concepts and methods of bivariate descriptive statistics to analyze data, including linear relationships, regression models, residuals, and measures such as slope, Y intercept, coefficient of determination, Pearson’s r, eta, gamma, and phi.
3. Utilize univariate and bivariate graphing approaches, including bar charts, histograms, stem and leaf diagrams, pie charts, boxplots, scatterplots, and regression lines.
4. Apply basic concepts of statistical inference to analyze data, including sampling distribution, sampling error, standard error, null, and alternative hypotheses, one and two tailed tests, Type I and Type II error, rejection region, alpha level, level of significance, rejection of null hypothesis, central limit theorem, effect sizes, confidence intervals, general logic of inference, relationship of confidence interval to hypothesis test, and meaning of z, t, F, and chi-square distributions.
5. Discuss theory behind null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) and criticisms of, and alternatives to, this approach.
6. Conduct the following statistical tests: chi-square test, one and two sample t-test (both independent and correlated group designs for two sample t-test), confidence intervals for proportions and means, power analysis, one way analysis of variance (one way ANOVA), bivariate regression and correlation analysis.
7. Describe statistical power and the relationship between power, effect size, sample size, and Type I and II error.

PSY-717 Multivariate Statistics

1. Describe the assumptions underlying multivariate statistical techniques and how to test these assumptions.
2. Make adjustments to analyses when assumptions are violated (e.g., transform variables, delete outliers, apply non-parametric, or robust alternatives).
3. Apply the appropriate statistical method to a variety of research questions and designs.
4. Conduct Factorial ANOVA & ANCOVA, Multiple Regression (including hierarchical methods), and MANOVA.
5. Write the results of all the statistical techniques discussed above using APA format and including properly constructed tables.
6. Apply the concepts related to statistical significance, effect sizes, confidence intervals, and contemporary challenges and alternatives to null hypothesis significance testing (NHST) to these multivariate analytic techniques.

PSY-718 Qualitative Data Analysis Software

1. Be familiar with common qualitative software terms.
2. Be able to create categories and categorization of responses.
3. Be able to code open-ended responses in a quick and reliable manner.
4. Be able to place a word/phrase into a category.
5. Be able to identify major themes.
6. Know how to extract and export qualitative data for analysis and graphing.

PSY-719 Quantitative Data Analysis Software

1. Be familiar with common quantitative software terms.
2. Be able to analyze basic and intermediate statistical processes using SPSS.
3. Understand and explain statistical analysis software output.
4. Be able to create data sets for statistical analysis software.
5. Be able to create new variables and manage data.
6. Be able to analyze data using syntax.
7. Be able to explain analysis using student knowledge.
8. Demonstrate command of Results Coach (within SPSS).

PSY-720 Special Topics in Qualitative Research

PSY-721 Special Topics in Quantitative Research

PSY-724A Cognition and Technology

1. Apply cognitive theories to current tech and media environment.
2. Develop understanding of memory as cognitive process as aspects of this process (attention, short and long term memory, encoding, retrieval) present themselves in new and developing media environments
3. Develop understanding of perception as cognitive process (for example, bottom up and top down perception) as these issues present themselves in new and developing media environment.
4. Understand constructive nature of cognition: difference between physical and psychological, social, cultural and virtual realities.

PSY-724D Media and Political Psychology

PSY-725 Special Topics in Cognitive and Affective Bases of Behavior

PSY-726 Special Topics in Biological Bases of Behavior

PSY-727 Psychopharmacology

1. Identify basic constructs of pharmacy, with an emphasis on neural mechanisms
2. Describe the biochemistry implicated
3. Compare the working hypotheses related to various medication regimens currently used to treat the selected mental disorder categories
4. Discuss issues of diversity that would impact pharmacotherapy considerations

PSY-727L Seminar in Psychopharmacology

PSY-728 Neuropsychology

4 semester credits

1. Recall the organization of the higher cortical functions by areas.
2. Describe the bases behind the process approach to clinical neuropsychology as set forth by Edith Kaplan and her colleagues and be able to compare this approach and what could be called the “battery” approach of others. Also be able to outline the strengths and weaknesses of each approach.
3. Describe the current findings in clinical developmental neuropsychology, to include the anatomical development of the brain through adolescence as well as the development of the major areas of cognitive functioning through adolescence.
4. Discuss functional neuropsychological deficits that are associated with environmental, personality, or other factors, and not with brain damage.
5. Explain the importance of ecological validity as applied to neuropsychological assessment, including both generic and individual factors.
6. Describe the influence of cultural and diversity issues on the development of neuropsychological conditions, neuropsychological assessment, and interpretation of results.

PSY-729 Special Topics in Neuropsychology

PSY-730 Neuroanatomy

2 or 4 semester credits

1. Describe the gross anatomy of the brain, major landmarks, basic organization of the primary and secondary motor and sensory association areas, and the primary relationship between cortex and subcortical structures.
2. Identify the key elements of the neurological examination and describe how neurologists interpret results to infer location and type of disease.
3. Identify the structure and relative location of the ventricles and meninges and compare and contrast the primary clinical conditions associated with their pathology including headaches, increased intracranial pressure, herniation syndromes, tumors, and hydrocephalus.
4. Describe the basic anatomy of the spinal cord, motor system, autonomic nervous system, somatosensory pathways, and structure and function of the thalamus, and understand the relationship between these regions and signs and conditions associated with their dysfunction such as hemiparesis, unsteady gait, multiple sclerosis, paresthesias, sensory loss, and pain.
5. Examine the pathways, brainstem nuclei, and methods of assessment of the cranial nerves and list signs and symptoms of their dysfunction including anosmia, eye gaze and pupillary disorders, facial numbness, hearing loss, dizziness, dysarthria, dysphagia, and pseudobulbar affect.
6. Analyze and discuss the vascular supply, cytoarchitecture, and major input and output pathways of the cerebellum and review clinical findings and localization of cerebellar lesions and differential diagnosis of ataxia.
7. Analyze the intrinsic connections and input and output pathways of the basal ganglia and describe their basic functions and signs of dysfunction, especially as related to the movement disorders (e.g. Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease).
8. List and define the major limbic system structures and their interconnections, especially the hippocampus and amygdala, and discuss how lesions of these regions affect memory, emotion, and olfaction.

PSY-731 Health Psychology

1. Discuss the complex interplay between one’s health and a variety of biological, psychological, and social factors.
2. Describe how psychological research methods, theories, and principles can be applied to enhance biomedical approaches to for promoting health and treating illness.
3. Examine how behavioral and cognitive methods can help one cope with stress and promote health behavior.
4. Identify the experiences of patients in health care settings, factors that affect adherence to medical regimes, and sources of problems in patient/practitioner relationships.
5. Identify how psychological methods and principles can be applied to help patients manage and cope with chronic illness.
6. Explain how psychological and medical methods for relieving pain differ and are often combined to enhance treatment effectiveness.
7. Discuss diversity factors in relation to health and illness and the importance of research examining the role of diversity in health outcomes.
8. Identify ethical implications for the practice of health psychology.

PSY-731A Diversity Issues in Health Psychology

1. Define major concepts and identify key characteristics of theories of minority health and health disparities in various racial/ethnic, gender, income, and sexual orientation groups.
2. Describe theoretical positions used to understand/explain health disparities.
3. Analyze how individual and institutional differences can influence the applicability and generalizability of research and action on minority health and health disparities.
4. Identify strategies and interventions for the elimination of health disparities.

PSY-731B Health Behavior Change

1. Identify major health behavior theories used to measure, record, and observe individual based health behaviors.
2. Identify the psychosocial factors (i.e. social, cultural, and individual) that contribute to the health of individuals based on current empirical research.
3. Apply assessment strategies targeting the psychosocial, cultural, and individual factors utilized in the development of health behavior change for individual clients/patient.
4. Examine a health behavior change intervention targeting physical activity and mood, and anxiety based largely on cognitive and learning theories.
5. Examine behavioral and cognitive techniques targeting physical activity utilized in practice settings.

PSY-731C Health Psychology Focus on Intervention with Chronic Medical Conditions

1. Describe psychological factors related to chronic medical conditions encountered by health psychologists.
2. Identify cognitive behavioral interventions relevant for health psychologists treating patients with chronic medical conditions.
3. Examine empirically supported alternative methods of delivery for cognitive behavioral therapy interventions to optimize participation for chronically ill patients.

PSY-731D Pharmacology in Integrated Health Settings

1. Explain how pharmacy works and what effects pharmacy has on bodies
2. Describe the operation of the major systems of the body
3. Identify the pathologies associated with the major systems of the body and their treatment

PSY-731E Applied Psychophysiology & Biofeedback

1. Describe the basic principles of psychophysiological self-regulation and mind-body interaction.
2. Describe basic biofeedback systems and instrumentation.
3. Describe treatment applications supported by research.
4. Model biofeedback methods and adjunctive techniques such as cognitive and behavioral interventions.
5. Examine historical perspectives, basic concepts, clinical efficacy research, ethical and legal considerations, and definitions of applied psychophysiology and biofeedback.

PSY-731F Pediatric Health Psychology

1. Identify the developmental, professional, and ethical issues related to the practice of Pediatric Health Psychology.
2. Describe the research basis for the field of Pediatric Health Psychology.
3. Describe common health conditions and interventions for working with those conditions encountered by Pediatric Health Psychologists.
4. Describe issues of culture and diversity encountered in Pediatric Health settings.

PSY-732 Special Topics in Health Psychology

PSY-733 Language

1. Be familiar with basic concepts and controversies in the area of language development.
2. Understand the process of language development in the early school age years (5 to 12). 
3. Be familiar with different forms of language and reading deficits and the importance of these distinctions for remediation.

PSY-734 Neurological Disorders

4 semester credits

1. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of the organization of higher cortical functions as applied to specific neurological/neuropsychiatric disorders.
2. Describe neurological and neuropsychiatric symptoms that are typical of specific neurological disorders.
3. Critically analyze the strengths and weaknesses of a flexible versus fixed battery approach to the neuropsychological assessment of various neurological disorders.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of disease-specific neuropsychological/cognitive test profiles pertaining to specific neurological disorders.
5. Discuss intervention recommended for specific neurological disorders.
6. Explain multicultural factors that may adversely impact diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of neurological disorders.

PSY-735 Special Topics in Developmental Psychology

PSY-736 Special Topics in Social Psychology

PSY-737 Special Topics in Personality Theories

PSY-738 Special Topics in Psychopathology

PSY-739 Special Topics in Psychological Assessment

PSY-740 Special Topics Multicultural Psychology

PSY-741 Special Topics in Legal and Ethical Practice

PSY-742 Special Topics in Social Justice and Diversity

PSY-743 Brand Psychology and Transmedia Storytelling

1. Demonstrate an understanding of how social media norms have changed consumer psychology and how that influences persuasive communications and media design and use.   
2. Understand the psychology of story and how stories engage metaphors, archetypes and mental models to construct brand meaning.
3. Describe the structural and psychological differences between transmedia and cross media or multi-media.
4. Evaluate the role of transmedia storytelling and the impact on user experience in marketing and messaging campaigns.
5. Examine and compare the benefits and limitations of different media assets and platforms in delivering a story based strategy taking into consideration the psychology of immersion, presence, engagement and efficacy while maintaining developmental and cultural appropriateness and sensitivity.
6. Demonstrate how to use psychological theory to inform.

PSY-744 Introduction to Integrated Primary Care

1. Identify the basic knowledge needed for psychologists to work in integrated primary care including basic vocabulary and the context of the primary care setting.
2. Describe the value in terms of outcomes that psychologists bring to the primary care setting through their work.
3. Describe assessment procedures used in behavioral health consultation in an integrated health setting.
4. Discuss clinical interventions and behavioral considerations for working with patients in primary care setting with an understanding.
5. Explain how patient factors affect practice in an integrated setting including cultural factors.
6. Discuss ethical considerations for working in an integrated care setting.

PSY-745 Consultation and Supervision

2 semester credits

1. Summarize the major: (a) supervision models, (b) approaches to consultation, and (c) approaches to essential elements of interprofessional practice.
2. Describe the developmental processes involved in the supervision relationship.
3. Critically examine research on the supervisee relationship and the supervisory triad.
4. Critically examine research on consultation in regard to the relationship, processes, and outcome.
5. Review national and state ethical and legal requirements pertaining to: (a) supervision, and (b) consultation.
6. Identify: (a) cultural issues related to the supervisory-supervisee relationship, (b) cultural issues related to the consultant-client relationship, and (c) cultural issues and ethics related to working collaboratively with other professions.

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PSY-746 Psychoanalytic Theory/Therapy

1. Discuss the development and main features of these psychoanalytic theories. A: Classical; B: Object Relations; C: Attachment Theory; and D: Relational Theories.
2. Discuss the significance of each major psychoanalytic theory and how each theory has contributed to our contemporary understanding of personality and/or therapy.
3. Employ in discussion and apply to clinical material the major terms in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

PSY-747 Cognitive-Behavioral Theory/Therapy

1. Describe the history of behavioral, cognitive, and cognitive behavioral therapies.
2. Explain the principles of classical, operant, and vicarious learning and how they can be used to effect change.
3. Discuss the roles of Social Learning Theory and Social Cognitive Theory in the paradigm shift from a purely behavioral view of personal change to a cognitive mediational view.
4. Explain the reciprocal processes involved in personal change and the role of self-efficacy on those processes.
5. Compare different cognitive behavioral therapies and how they apply cognitive, behavioral, and environmental interventions contextually for different psychological disorders.
6. Apply CBT in a culturally competent manner.​

PSY-748 Humanistic and Existential Theory/Therapy

4 semester credits

This course comprehends humanistic/existential psychology as an approach to psychological theory, research, and psychotherapy that focuses upon lived experience in the context of the individual’s relatedness to self and others, and their cultural, social, and natural environments.

Humanistic/Existential psychologists typically take a profound interest in the experience of clients, therapists, subjects, and investigators. They promote an “open economy” of experience and ideas, respect the autonomy and value of individuals, communities and cultures, honor and value history and tradition without being blindly obedient to them, place the individual’s experience and the therapeutic relationship (as opposed to diagnosis, theory and classification) at the focus of clinical interactions, and take particular interest in the fundamental conditions of human existence, including mortality, freedom, desire, will, isolation, alienation, relatedness, meaning, and creativity. Humanistic/existential psychology is concerned with the positive and joyous, as well as the pathological and tragic aspects of human life. 
Pre-requisites: PSY-711A1  
Delivery Method: Distance/Electronically Mediated
Grading Default: Letter Only
Note: Elective
Learning Outcome(s):  

1. Explain a broad spectrum of humanistic, existential-phenomenological, post-modern and systemic theories and principles.
2. Describe the relevance of these principles to the therapeutic alliance, relationship, and technique. 
3. Discuss the relationship between humanistic and existential psychology and other psychological and psychotherapeutic approaches.

PSY-749 Marriage and Family Therapy

4 semester credits

1. Relate the historical context of contemporary theories of family therapy.
2. Describe the current status of marriage and the challenges facing contemporary couples.
3. Examine the importance and contributions of systems thinking in family and couples therapy.
4. Discuss several different theoretical approaches to family therapy and be able to apply them to clinical cases.
5. Identify the role of ethnicity, culture, and gender in understanding and treating couples and families
6. Demonstrate understanding of the research supporting the efficacy of at least one approach to couples therapy.

PSY-750 Group Psychotherapy

4 semester credits

While the focus will primarily be on interpersonally-focused therapy groups, we will also consider when and how to use different types of groups, including task groups, psycho-educational groups and support groups. Finally, we will review the ethical and legal principles unique to group work, with an awareness of the ethical responsibility to demonstrate sensitivity to group member diversity with regard to race, ethnicity, gender, spirituality, sexual orientation, and disabilities.

All students will be expected to participate in an experiential group (to be negotiated with the professor), the experience of which will be a focus of one of the required papers.
Pre-requisites: PSY-711A1  
Delivery Method: Distance/Electronically Mediated
Grading Default: Letter
Note: Elective
Learning Outcome(s):  

1. Identify the eleven therapeutic factors which are intrinsic to the group therapy process.
2. Identify the typical stages of group development and basic group theory principles.
3. Explain how to modify a prototypic group to the needs of a particular setting, issue, or purpose.
4. Describe the ethical and professional issues relevant to group therapy.
5. Describe and apply the basic techniques/strategies that are useful in leading groups and that differentiate group from individual counseling.
6. Discuss how to work with diverse populations in group settings.
7. Describe contemporary research on group therapy.

PSY-751 Special Topics in Psychotherapy