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1.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 1.00 Practicum II - Projective Techniques II. Corequisites: PSYC 576. This course is the second in a series of three 1-credit semester practicum experiences at MSU's Psychoeducational Center for School Psychology students. During this course, which is offered in conjunction with PSYC 576 (Projective Techniques II), students function as intern members of Child Study Teams conducting assessments of children, adolescents, and their families. Close supervision is provided by university faculty while these practicum students conduct intakes, assessments, observations, interviews, consultations with teachers and parents as well as writing reports. These assessments will yield a decision regarding the client's eligibility for special education. Students meet with their supervisors after each stage of the process and meet on a regular basis with their teammates from MSU's Learning Disabilities Teacher Consultant Program. Students will be required to interpret and communicate the results of their assessment in a culturally sensitive manner to families and school personnel who are clients at MSU's Psychoeducational Center.
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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Personality. Prerequisites: PSYC 561. The objectives of this course are to provide a comprehensive summary of several major contemporary theories of personality including psychoanalytic, humanistic, behavioristic and cognitive approaches; to present the student with a conceptual framework to compare and evaluate each theory; to investigate relevant research; and to consider practical applications of each theory. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Motivation. This course presents an overview of theory and research on human and animal motivation. Topics covered will be specific motives such as hunger, thirst, sex, aggression, altruism, achievement, and social motivation, as well as motivational aspects of ethology, cognitive dissonance, acquired drives, decision making, cognitive processes in motivation, and emotional arousal and expression. 3 hours lecture.
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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Behavior Modification. Prerequisites: Departmental approval, and an undergraduate course in learning or the equivalent. This course reviews applications of conditioning principles to changing human behavior in clinical, educational, occupational and community settings. Selected topics include operant and classical conditioning, social learning theory, token economies, experimental design, cognitive behavior modification, aversive control, cognitive restructuring, biofeedback, and ethical issues in behavior modification. The course is designed to enable students to construct and implement behavior modification programs. 3 hours lecture.
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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Sensation and Perception. Prerequisites: Departmental approval, and an undergraduate experimental psychology course. The full range of visual processing phenomena, from sensory processing to memory and thinking, is presented in this course. Topics covered include psychophysics. The physiological bases of vision, involvment of cognitive processes in perception, perceptual development, and psychoaesthetics. The course also examines hearing, the skin senses, smell and taste. 3 hours lecture.
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College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Performance Management. This course will address how we motivate and manage individual and group performance in organizations through performance management systems. Students will learn about how performance is managed, methods of collecting performance feedback, using performance management for evalustion and development purposes, and biases and consistency issues in performance appraisals. This course will also cover criterion measurement and development, the use of motivational theory in performance management, sources of performance feedback, and communicating performance feedback. Students will present research on various topics in the field and will be responsible for teaching their classmates about different topics in the area of performance management. Students will be responsible for gaining entrance into an organization and collecting the information necessary to develop a performance management system for that organization. 3 hours lecture.
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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Graduate Seminar in Health Psychology. Prerequisites: A graduate research methods course, and at least one other graduate psychology course, or permission of the department. The theoretical, empirical, and clinical aspects of Health Psychology will be explored and discussed. The relation of Health Psychology with other areas of Psychology and various scientific disciplines will be discussed. The historical development of the field, its research methodologies, theoretical models and exemplary interventions will be described. A specific emphasis will be placed on applications in regards to education, industry and other organizations as they relate to the various masters programs offered by the department of Psychology. 3 hours seminar.
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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Clinical Interviewing. Prerequisites: Departmental approval, and 12 graduate credits in Psychology or related fields. This course integrates the theory and practice of clinical interviewing. The goals of this course are to facilitate the development of the student's listening, diagnostic, and therapeutic interviewing skills. 3 hours lecture.
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3.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 3.00 Therapeutic Interventions in the Schools. Prerequisites: Permission of instructor required. This course is designed to assist students in developing skills in planning and implementing school based psychotherapeutic interventions for children, adolescents and their families. The course will present theory and techniques to intervene effectively with children, adolescents and their families in the context of the overall school and classroom settings. The course will focus on interview techniques, treatment strategies for depression, anxiety, trauma (including abuse, exposure to violence, and bereavement), and anger/aggression. Various theoretical models and their treatments strategies will be discussed, including psychodynamic, cognitive and cognitive-behavioral therapy, family systems therapy, play therapy, and interpersonal therapy. Cultural factors involved in diagnosis and treatment will be addressed throughout the semester. 3 hours lecture.
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1.00 Credits
College: COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Department: PSYCHOLOGY Credits: 1.00 Practicum III - Diagnostic Case Studies. Corequisites: PSYC 610. This course is the final of the three practicum experiences offered at MSU's Psychoeducational Center and is offered in conjunction with PSYC 610, Diagnostic Case Studies. In this experience students are assigned more complex cases and given expanded responsibilities such as case management and parent-teacher consultation. Students are expected to perform more independently with less intensive faculty supervision. Students may also conduct play therapy and serve as consultants to teachers at MSU's Psychoeducational Center Demonstration School.
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