EdPs 620
Child Development and Learning in Cultural Context
(3 semester hours)
The nature of motor, cognitive,
emotional, social, and moral development from birth
through adolescence, with implications for classroom
teaching; integration of theory and research findings
from the fields of developmental and educational psychology.
Exploration of multicultural contexts for growth,
development, and learning.
Psy 600
Introduction to School Psychology
(3 semester hours).
Understanding the development
of the roles and functions of school psychologists
within the context of general history and systems
of psychology; awareness of the basic issues of the
profession, as well as the major contributors to the
field; introduction to the primary organizations,
literature sources, and resources of the field; overview
of APA publication guidelines. Psy 600 should be taken
during the first term of study.
Psy 601
Biological Foundations of Learning
and Development (3 semester hours)
This course will provide an overview
of brain/behavior relationships. How biological processes
effect behavior will be examined from the bio-psychosocial
perspective. The structure and function of the nervous
system will be introduced and methods utilized in
bio-psychological research. Selected topics pertaining
to assessment and psychopharmacology will be infused
throughout the lectures. Pragmatic activities will
enhance the student’s knowledge of testing instruments
such as the NEPSY Developmental Neuropsychological
Assessment, Memory and Processing Assessments. Current
topical information on disorders such as Depression,
Attention Deficit, Obsessive Compulsive, Tourette’s
Syndrome, Autism, Schizophrenia and Alzeheimer’s
Disease. Dyslexia and Syndromes will be reviewed with
case materials.
PSY 611
Essentials of Measurement and Evaluation (3 semester
hours)
Introduction to principles, concepts
and operations that are necessary for an understanding
of individual and group assessment, and of empirical
research methodology; derivation of standard scores
and other attributes of normative test construction;
correlation; reliability; validity; presentation of
data in tables and graphs: descriptive statistics
and their computation; fundamentals of inferential
statistics, including comparison of mean differences
by t-tests, simple analysis of variance; chi-square;
individual differences and their measurement; reading
and interpreting research reports. This course must
be completed before students can take Psy 622, Psy
624, or Psy 625.
Psy 622
Cognitive Assessment and Intervention: Infancy and
Early Childhood (3 semester hours)
The course will survey issues
closely pertinent to the contemporary evaluation of
infants and young children, including ethical guidelines,
laws pertaining to children with and without disabilities,
federal mandates regarding the assessment process,
standardized administration and scoring techniques,
clear report writing and effective sharing of results,
linking assessment to recommendations for intervention,
and the impact that other constructs (e.g., personality,
adaptive skills, language abilities, motor skills,
and family/cultural background) have on final results.
Note:
EdpS
611 is a prerequisite for this course.
Psy 623
Issues and Procedures in Identifying and Intervening
with Exceptional Children (3 semester hours)
The focus of this course is to
develop an understanding of the diagnostic criteria
and prevailing best practices in assessment, intervention
and service provision for children with special needs.
The course instruction will concentrate on the development
of the students’ knowledge base of childhood
disorders and their diagnostic criteria. Students
will develop an understanding of differential diagnosis
and work with both the educational classification
system, and psychological diagnostic system.
The school psychologist’s role
as educational and mental health professional in the
school system will be discussed. The school psychologist’s
role as consultant to administrators, teachers and
parents will also be reviewed. The overall model represented
will focus on ecological/contextual contributions
to development of interventions for children with
special needs, in both special and general education
settings.
Psy 624
Cognitive Assessment and Intervention: Elementary
and Secondary Level Students (3 semester hours)
Overview
of primary issues and approaches to standardized and
non-standardized assessment of cognitive functioning
of elementary and secondary level students, with mastery
of selected major standardized and dynamic assessment
procedures. EdpS 610 is a prerequisite for this course.
Note:
EdpS 611 is a prerequisite for this course.
Psy 625
Academic Functioning: Educational Interventions (3
semester hours)
Since most school psychologists
work in schools, understanding teaching and learning
is critical. Besides testing and counseling, school
psychologists are expected to serve on pre-referral
intervention teams and to consult with teachers. This
course provides tools to perform those functions.
This course provides a basic understanding of how
people learn.
Students will understand prominent theories about
learning as social and cognitive process. Students
will recognize how learning problems typically arise
and will get tools and strategies to prevent and/or
remediate such problems. Some assessment is taught,
and is dynamic in nature and is used directly in intervention
planning.
Psy 626
Assessment of Social-Emotional Functioning and Treatment
of Children with Social-Emotional Disorders (3 semester
hours)
Major approaches to assessment
and intervention of emotional functioning and social
interactions of preschool and school age children.
Assessment approaches will include school-relevant
projective techniques and behavioral observation and
analysis; special focus on prosocial and antisocial
behavior assessment and management, child abuse, suicide,
and crisis intervention will be included.
Psy 627
Assessment of Social-Emotional Functioning and Treatment
of Children with Social-Emotional Disorders II
See Psy 626.
Psy 630
Individual and Group Counseling (3 semester hours)
This course covers counseling
with children and adolescents in both individual and
group formats. Students will work on general counseling
skills (ie, active listening, empathy, open-ended
questioning) as well as skills more specific to common
issues children face (ie, aggression, depression,
ADHD). Students will learn advantages and disadvantages
of individual vs. group counseling and how/when to
employ the different methods. Students will also learn
how to do parent trainings both individually and in
groups.
Psy 631
Counseling Families of Exceptional Children (3 semester
hours)
The focus of this course is to
develop an understanding of the role and dynamics
of a family in the management of exceptional children.
It will also explore the family as a mediator of the
culture and as a context within which the child develops.
The course will address the interactions of families
with children with handicapping conditions such as
medical conditions and learning problems. A focus
will be on the impact of the child with special needs
on parents and siblings. Students will develop skills
in assessing the family’s interactions with
the referred child, and evaluation of the family’s
needs. Students will become familiar with the impact
and relevance of the socio/economic and cultural context
for families with special needs children. Assignments
will emphasize the development of collaborative relationships
among the helping systems.
Psy 632
Multicultural Counseling. (3 semester hours)
This course is designed to provide
an overview of the different perspectives of multiculturalism
in North American society, theories and models of
identity development, as they pertain to ecological
and societal forces influencing the provision of counseling
services to culturally diverse students and other
clients in educational and community settings. The
purpose of this course is to provide students with
skills to increase their effectiveness in serving
underrepresented and minority populations.
Psy 633
Educational Assessment (3 semester hours)
This
course emphasizes approaches to assessing educational
achievement skills and academic competencies. Students
learn to administer and score evaluative tests as
well as to write reports and state effective recommendations
and intervention strategies. Special focus is on the
assessment of literacy and mathematics skills.
Note: Psy611
is a prerequisite for this course.
Psy 640
Legal and Ethical Issues in School Psychology and
Counseling (3 semester hours)
Overview of the major legislative
decisions that have influenced the practices of school
psychologists, review of the federal and state laws
regulating the practice of school psychology, and
introduction to the principles of professional ethical
conduct as outlined by the National Association of
School Psychologists and the American Psychological
Association. This course will include arrangements
for the required two hours of education relating to
the detection and reporting of child abuse, as well
as regulations affecting early childhood educational
practices.
Psy 660
Consultation I: Introduction to Consultation Practices and Application
to
Classroom Teaching (3 credits)
This course focuses on models of provision of consultative services
to
educational settings; developing collaborative consultation relationships
with teachers; steps and stages in the consultation process; and mastery of
The Instructional Environment System.
Psy700
Psychoeducational Clinic I: Best
Practices in Crisis Intervention (3 semester hours)
This
course covers the theoretical foundations and current
research on the impact of trauma and disasters on
children and adolescents. It focuses on best practices
for short-term and crisis intervention to support
a return to normalcy and resilience in youth. A major
focus is on identification, intervention, and treatment
of children who exhibit signs of distress or who are
at-risk for future mental health problems. Group work
is explored as a means to therapeutically intervene
with youngsters who exhibit signs of traumatic stress.
Psy701: Psychoeducational
Clinic II: Integrating Evaluation and Report-Writing
Skills (3 credits)
This
course continues to train students in psycho-educational
and social-emotional assessment. Students are equipped
to integrate their knowledge in these areas of assessment
and begin to write varied and detailed reports regarding
assessment data, classification outcomes, and recommended
remediation strategies with diverse populations of
disabled students.
Note:
Psy611, Psy624, and Psy633 are
prerequisites for this course.
Psy 750/751
Internship and Seminar (3 semester hours each)
A 600-hour internship experience
under the supervision of an approved, site-based certified
school psychologist; experiences are varied and include
both direct and indirect services for students, teachers,
and families with diverse needs, as well as opportunities
to give and receive staff development. Students meet
monthly as a group with the Graduate School internship
supervisor, and the Graduate School supervisor visits
the program site once per semester. Students are required
to find their own internship placement. |
