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3.00 Credits
An in-depth study of the psychology of violent serial criminal offenders. Emphasis on the techniques of criminal profiling and the usefulness of psychological research and findings for criminal investigations, interviewing of suspects, trial strategy, and treatment of offenders, victims, and law enforcement personnel. Course Objectives (1) Discuss disorders of behaviors, including extreme interpersonal violence, pathological gambling, alcohol intoxication, organic brain dysfunction, and sadistic aggression (2) Discuss disorders of thought such as delusions, obsessions and pathological lying, and their role in criminal behavior (3) Discuss borderline and psychotic disorders and their role in criminal behavior
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3.00 Credits
Students will be provided a broad overview of the field of positive psychology, which is concerned primarily with human happiness, well-being, and human strengths. Positive Psychology stands in contrast to general psychology, which compares the individual to the average or norm, and it also stands in contrast to abnormal psychology, which has as its focus those individuals who suffer as a result of maladaptive behavior. In contrast, positive psychology is interested in the factors that make people not just ordinary, but extraordinary. Rather than a study of mental illness or mental normality, positive psychology is the study of human flourishing. Pre-requisite: PSYC 203 Course Objectives (1) Understand the basic foundations of positive psychology, including how the field is defined and the role of emotions and motivation in positive psychology. (2) Describe the common structures of positive emotional states, and express an understanding of key concepts such as subjective well-being, joy, leisure, optimal experience and performance, wellness, health psychology and positive coping. (3) Describe enduring positive human traits, including excellence, aesthetics, creativity, genius, positive mental health and religion/spirituality, and be able to identify evidence for the antecedents and consequences of these traits, as well as interventions for enhanced well-being.
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3.00 Credits
A systematic exploration of transpersonal psychology and its roots, history and evolution, including criticisms and re-sponses to these criticisms. The course will examine transpersonal approaches to the study of altered states of conscious-ness, the development of spiritual awareness, mental health and illness, and psychotherapies. Topics of focus may in-clude near-death experiences, psychedelic experience, meditation, hypnosis, dreams, ecopsychology, embodiment, and/or expressive and creative arts therapies. Course Objectives (1) Define transpersonal psychology and identify its scope and delimitations. (2) Describe the roots, history and evolution of transpersonal psychology. (3) Discuss various research methods employed for the study of transpersonal psychology. (4) Review contemporary research on topics of interest within transpersonal psychology.
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3.00 Credits
Indigenous psychology is the study of human behavior and mental processes as they are understood from within the contextual frame of a particular culture, in contrast to approaches to psychology in which concepts are exported from one culture to another, different cultural context. This course will examine how theories, concepts, and methods of indigenous psychology have been developed, which account for local ecological , historical, philosophical and religious perspectives of the people who are being studied. Course Objectives (1) Define indigenous psychology and identify its scope and deliminations. (2) Outline various approached to indigenous psychology, criticisms of these approaches, and responses to these criticisms. (3) Describe applications of indigenous psychology within the context of particular cultures, and assess if and how these applications have met with success or challenges. (4) Discuss how indigenous psychologies have been used for the purpose of addressing human suffering and dysfunction. (5) Explain how research methods in indigenous psychology are developed by adopting the epistemological framework of the people of particular cultures.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a seminar for psychology and behavioral sciences students to strengthen their multicultural awareness, knowledge, and skills in working with diverse client populations. The course will help students to understand the role of diverse social identities in the development of mental and physical health and well-being. Students will strengthen their understanding of how oppression and discrimination affect individual clients and communities. This course will also cover content related to how culture may affect psychological processes, mental health concerns and help seeking behavior. Pre: PSYC 151 or permission. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Define the concept of diversity from various theoretical and critical perspectives in psychology and the social sciences. (2) Identify various challenges to direct practice within diverse client populations. (3) Identify antecedents, consequences and correlates of diverse human identities on mental health and well-being.
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3.00 Credits
Students will be introduced to a foundational understanding of community psychology and its applications. The course will examine how community factors can influence personal well-being and mental health, and will identify how community psychology, as a preventative, strength-based approach to well-being, uses interventions to improve well-being in communities. Pre-requisite: PSYC201. Course Objectives (1) Identify community factors that influence personal well-being and mental health. (2) Describe the various theoretical perspectives that inform community psychology. (3) Describe basic principles of prevention-focused, strength-based approaches to well-being. (4) Identify and describe interventions to improve well-being in communities.
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3.00 Credits
Students will be introduced to an integration of clinical and community psychology, the study of social factors that influence mental health and the identification of social interventions for the prevention and/or amelioration of mental illness. The course will trace the roots of clinical-community psychology in the field of community mental health, and will introduce students to strength-based strategies for the prevention of and recovery from mental illness. Pre-requisite: PSYC201. Course Objectives (1) Identify social factors that influence mental health and mental illness. (2) Identify community interventions for prevention and ameliorating of mental illness. (3) Identify methods of assessment for clinical-community interventions. (4) Describe various theoretical approaches to clinical-community psychology.
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3.00 Credits
Emphasis is on understanding the use of methodology, experimental controls, data analysis and scientific communication in psychological and sociological research. Pre-requisites: PSYC 151 and PSYC 302. Dual listed as SOC 352. Course Objectives (1) Correctly identify the major themes of qualitative research. Student will correctly recall course terminology and use it appropriately. Assessment: Multiple Choice Exam (2) Prepare, analyze, and interpret qualitative data thus demonstrating knowledge gained of qualitative research. Student will grasp methods of content analysis and interpretation. Assessment: Student will produce an organized, scholarly and substantive pilot project/paper (3) Demonstrate correct use of consent, qualitative interviewing, field work, and ethnographies. Student will produce rigorous and thorough content analysis and demonstrate effective writing/verbal skills. Student will demonstrate correct APA style in-text citation and reference page. Assessment: Consent forms, pilot project, content analysis, group presentation, research paper (4) Conduct rigorous and thorough content analysis of in-class collected data (e.g., interviews/observations) Assessment: MC exam (5) Demonstrate multiple method analysis (triangulation) of data collected. Assessment: practice and pilot project (6) Defend a holistic interpretation of others, and a reflective understanding of oneself, when conducting research in the human sciences. Assessment: Final exam and group presentation
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Designed to familiarize the student with various clinical perspectives on the treatment of the criminal subject. The work of Freud, Jung, Lacan, Samenow and others. Introduces various approaches to the assessment and diagnosis of the criminal subject within a depth-phenomenological perspective. Course Objectives (1) Contrast the perspectives of psychology and law (2) Demonstrate knowledge of basic principles and systems of American jurisprudence as it pertains to forensic psychology (3) Demonstrate understanding of psychological research on relevant legal topics (4) Describe the different types of forensic psychological evaluations and procedures used by psychologists to obtain information that forms the basis of their opinions
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to a variety of models of children's mental health and illness including societal, medical, psychoanalytic and humanistic models. We will explore diagnoses that are common in childhood and adolescence such as attentional and learning difficulties, autistic spectrum disorders, depression, anxiety, and eating disorders. Course Objectives (1) Identify and describe major theories of child and family therapy (2) Discuss and evaluate research of child and family therapy (3) Discuss ethical issues regarding clinical work with children and families (4) Investigate issues pertaining to diversity in child and family therapy
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