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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
variable credit Independent Study provides the student an opportunity to study an area of interest in health psychology not included in the regular curriculum. (An independent study cannot substitute for or be used to repeat a course offered in the prescribed curriculum.) It is the responsibility of the student to enlist a qualified resource person to guide the independent study. The counseling and health psychology department chair must approve both the topic and the resource person. Prerequisite: Permission of department chair
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2.00 Credits
2 credits This is an advanced interviewing course designed to help students further develop their therapeutic skills at motivating clients for treatment and increasing treatment compliance. Students practice motivational interviewing in class. Prerequisites: Admission to graduate program or permission of chair
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course addresses multicultural, ethnic, economic, gender, and sexual issues in the development, use and evaluation of clinical health psychology interventions with populations that are diverse. Emphasis is on cultural appreciation, respect, and communication to counseling clients and their families. Prerequisite: Admission to graduate studies
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2.00 Credits
2 credits This course studies the entire spectrum of disordered eating, including anorexia, bulimia, and restricted eating. Course emphasis is on the psychological, social, and behavioral patterns of restrictive eating and the counseling issues, techniques and interventions that interrupt these and lead toward individual and family health and healing. This course includes a counseling lab. Prerequisites: PS5205 (AOM) or PS5210 (NTR) or PS7203 (ND) or PS5301, PS5110, PS5115 (MSN/CHP)
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course examines the general principles of assessment, the evaluation of intellectual and cognitive functions, basic psychometrics, report writing using intellectual/cognitive tests, and the role of intellectual/cognitive tests in an assessment battery. Particular attention is given to the Wechsler intelligence tests and WIAT achievement test. A weekly lab provides an opportunity to practice and develop testing skills. Prerequisite: PS5202
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course examines the general principles of objective personality assessment, diagnostic interviewing, the MMPI-2 and MMPI-A, and the Millon. A weekly lab provides an opportunity to practice and develop testing skills. Prerequisite: Admission to the MSNCHP
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2.00 Credits
2 credits This course examines the role of sexuality in human functioning, contemporary cultural/psychosexual development and its impact on psychological health, sexual dysfunction and treatment, sexual abuse, and sexuality and spirituality. This course is required for midwifery certification. Prerequisite: PS6306 or permission of instructor
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1.00 Credits
3 credits See description above. This course covers introductory counseling skills in light of the principles of naturopathic medicine, including therapeutic counselor qualities; communication and interview skills; the establishment and utilization of the wellness alliance; proficiency in stimulating health and well being; and suicide assessment, treatment and referral. Students create a videotape demonstrating basic counseling skills and principles. (ND only) Prerequisite: PS5103
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2.00 Credits
3 credits See description preceding PS6305. Building on Naturopathic Counseling 1, this course offers more specific focus and skill-building related to those counseling interventions whose effectiveness is supported empirically. Collaborative treatment planning is also addressed as part of an orientation to the clinical counseling shift. Students conduct ongoing counseling in a lab setting with live role models. See PS7315 for Naturopathic Counseling 3. Prerequisite: PS6305
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3.00 Credits
3 credits This course is designed to study nutritional and pharmacological imbalances in mental health disorders and the relationship between nutrition, brain biochemistry and mental health. Nutritional and psychotropic interventions and their efficacy for mental health disorders are also examined. Prerequisites: BC5118, BC5132, and PS5202 or permission of instructor
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