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May 02, 2024
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IECD-580 Developmental, Individual Differences, Relationships (DIR®): Theory and Technique4 semester credits
This course will provide students with an introduction of the Developmental, Individual Differences, Relationship (DIR) model developed by Dr. Stanley Greenspan and Dr. Serena Weider. Discussions in class will include how early experiences impact development, learning, social emotional relationships, mental health, and families. Historical perspectives will be discussed in describing the model’s development as well as how evidence-based application of the model has been expanded to inform lifespan development, culture, and reflective practice. Course objectives of learning will help inform students with family, educational, community, and geopolitical initiatives, how to foster mutual understanding, a shared sense of humanity and reality, and reflective capacities to support stable, reflective practice from a personal or institutional level (Greenspan & Shanker, 2006). Demonstration of this model will be explored in class to include: 1) functional examples revolving around the progression of human development from the lens of relationships, daily activities, and emotions, and relationships, and 2) working to build and nurture distressed communities to recognize the presence and absence of affective connection/ engagement (Greenspan, Wieder et al 1988). Students will be provided with a collaborative intervention method, sensitive to principles of their adult learning, to derive all 16 Functional Emotional Developmental Capacities (FEDCs) as described in The First Idea by Dr. Greenspan and Shanker (2004). An emphasis on FEDC 1-9 will be studied. Students will apply examples from their everyday lives across all FEDC levels and how these capacities offer support to problem solving in both their personal and professional spaces.
Delivery Method: Online
Grading Default: Letter
Learning Outcome(s): Students successfully completing this course will:
- Understand the history and current practices of DIR®Floortime™.
- Understand the meaning of development within the context of DIR®Floortime™.
- Identify, summarize, and analyze present scientific evidence supporting the DIR® model and Floortime™ intervention.
- Understand the core elements of the “D” Developmental, “I” Individual and “R” Relationship.
- Understand the role of culture within the DIR®Floortime™Model.
- Understand available team structures using varied professional disciplines when using the DIR®Floortime™model in clinical intervention and educational settings.
- Understand the importance of ethical professional behavior and problem solving through clinical case presentations and class discussion/assignments.
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