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Required Courses

Practicum experiences are an integral aspect of most of these courses

 

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.

 
 


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