Clinical Psychology, Fall 2003 - Courses - Antioch University New England

Clinical Psychology Courses
Fall 2003

PY 898
Advanced Practicum
Restricted to Year IV students.

An optional Practicum for fourth-year students wishing to have extensive further clinical training for more than 12 hours per week.

Section A: Lorraine Mangione
Credits: 3

PYC 716
Advanced Seminar: Advanced Projective Testing
(formerly PY 889K, Professional Practice Seminar)
Competency Area: Assessment
Restricted to Year IV students.

This course is meant for those students familiar with basic Rorschach who wish to gain more skill in using projective tests. Emphasis will be placed on the Exner Rorschach, with some attention also to the TAT and to coordinating data from projective tests with other data (such as from the Wechsler tests). Areas covered will include advanced scoring issues, interpretation of actual clinical protocols, and learning to present test data in useful language. The use of the Rorschach to address real world concerns, such as treatment planning, trauma, and forensic questions will also be addressed.

Section A: Diana Sholtz
Time: Mondays, 9:00 - 11:30 am
Maximum: 8
Credits: 3

PY 820A
Advanced Seminar: Brief Psychotherapy
Competency Area: Intervention
Restricted to Year III and Year IV students.
Priority to Year IV students.

Pragmatic and humanitarian rationales for brief treatment are provided by reviews of psychotherapy utilization, outcome, and process research as well as consideration of its relationship to national health care. Approaches derived from a variety of theoretical orientations are surveyed. The elements common to these are identified and presented as a transtheoretical approach to therapy which can be used from all orientations. Cases are used to illustrate strategy and techniques.

Section A: James Fauth
Time: Mondays, 4:30 - 7:00 pm
Maximum: 12
Credits: 3

PY 740B
Advanced Seminar:
Clinical Child Psychology - Psychopathology and Assessment
Competency Area: Assessment
Restricted to Year III and Year IV students.
Priority to Year IV students.

This course examines psychopathology from infancy through early adolescence. The paradigm of developmental psychopathology, or articulating the role of time and change in childhood disturbances, is an important focus of the class. Using this frame, the following areas are examined: clinical assessment of psychosocial problems in childhood; diagnostic systems for conceptualizing childhood psychopathology; and understanding disturbances of childhood through the lenses of intrapsychic, interpersonal, and the historical context. While students doing child and family therapy are encouraged to consider this class, those without a child or adolescent in their caseload may participate.

Section A: William Halikias
Time: Mondays, 4:30 - 7:00 pm
Maximum: 12
Credits: 3

PYB 710
Advanced Seminar: Clinical Psychopharmacology
Competency Area: Biological Bases of Behavior
Restricted to Year III and Year IV students.
Priority to Year IV students.
Prerequisite: PY 710 Biological Foundations of Clinical Psychology

This course provides an introduction to clinical psychopharmacology, one of the most direct clinical applications of biological perspective to psychology. A brief review of the biological basis of psychopharmacology and a discussion of the principals of psychopharmacological treatment precedes the class’s consideration of issues of ethics, compliance, and the psychologist’s role in the practice of psychopharmacology. Specific topics to be covered include the psychopharmacological treatment of psychotic disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and psychoactive substance disorders, in the treatment of children, adolescents, adult women and men, and elders; types of drug treatments for these disorders; methods of assessment and evaluation of treatment; treatment strategies; and discussion of the interface with psychological treatments. Knowledge of the DSM-IV diagnostic nomenclature is necessary.

Section A: Douglas Hoffman
Time: Mondays, 4:30 - 7:00 pm
Maximum: 12
Credits: 3

PYC 712
Advanced Seminar: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Practice
(formerly PY 889I, Professional Practice Seminar)
Competency Area: Intervention
Restricted to Year IV students.

This applied seminar explores the diversity of experiences and professional opportunities available for the psychoanalytic practitioner. Clinical, personal, social, and organizational events will be discussed from a comparative framework that reflects the ferment and vitality of current theories and practices within psychoanalysis. The emphasis will be on the conceptualization and communication of psychoanalytically informed knowledge and process in a wide variety of practice situations (e.g., evaluation, administration and management, leadership development, supervision, consultation, education, research, and treatment). The goal is to develop and enhance the necessary skills for becoming an effective “local clinical psychoanalyst.”

Section A: Ted Ellenhorn
Time: Mondays, 9:00 - 11:30 am
Maximum: 8
Credits: 3

PYC 714
Advanced Seminar: Empirically Supported Treatments
(formerly PY 889D, Professional Practice Seminar)
Competency Area: Intervention
Restricted to Year IV students.

This seminar focuses on examining the multiple perspectives relative to empirically supported treatments. Issues of concern will range from selection of methodology to the more general questions of how psychotherapy research can be effectively integrated into clinical practice.

Section A: James Graves
Time: Mondays, 9:00 - 11:30 am
Maximum: 8
Credits: 3

PYI 704
Advanced Seminar: Integrative Psychotherapy
Competency Area: Intervention
Restricted to Year III and Year IV students.
Priority to Year IV students.

This is a skills-based seminar where students learn to combine different theoretical orientations and therapy techniques to provide maximally effective help. While based on theoretical and research literature, the focus is on the development of therapy integration skills. Integrative techniques will be drawn from the cognitive-behavioral, psychodynamic, psychophysiological, and spiritual conceptualizations of emotional recovery. Clinical areas to be covered include depression, anxiety, trauma, eating disorders, and borderline personality disorder.

Section A: Margaret Goodwin
Time: Mondays, 4:30 - 7:00 pm
Maximum: 12
Credits: 3

PY 737A
Advanced Seminar: Object Relations Theory
Competency Area: Intervention
Restricted to Years III and IV students.
Priority to Year IV students.

This seminar provides an overview of the theoretical foundation and critical concepts of object relations theory. It is designed to give the student a significant grasp of personality dynamics, development, and psychopathology within an object relations framework and is intended to offer students the opportunity to bring dimension and understanding to their clinical work as they explore, in depth, the application of Object Relations theory to clinical practice.

Section A: Colborn Smith
Time: Mondays, 4:30 - 7:00 pm
Maximum: 12
Credits: 3

PY 884A
Case Conference I
PY 893
Practicum
Required of and Restricted to Year III students.
Competency Area: Relationship & Intervention

During this year students will have an intensive small group clinical consultation experience with faculty. Emphasis is on case presentations, including video and audiotapes, with a goal of examining students’ clinical work.

Section A: Barbara Belcher-Timme
Section B: Kathi Borden
Section C: James Fauth
Section D: Michael Foot
Section E: Lorraine Mangione
Section F: Martha B. Straus
(Section assignments will be made by the department)
Time: Mondays: 9:00 - 11:30 am
Maximum: 5 per section
Credits: 3 and 3

PY 886A
Case Conference III
(formerly Advanced Case Conference)
Competency Area: Relationship & Intervention
Restricted to Year IV students.

This course offers students a further intensive small group clinical experience for fourth-year students. Emphasis is on case presentations, including audio and/or videotapes, with a goal of examining studentsÕ clinical work. This course may be taken in place of an Advanced Seminar.

Section A: George Tremblay
Time: Mondays, 9:00 - 11:30 am
Maximum: 6
Credits: 3

PY 720
Cognitive Aspects of Behavior
Competency Area: Intervention
Required of and Restricted to Year II students.

This course examines current cognitive, social cognitive, and cognitive constructivist/constructionist theories both with regard to their particular implications and as metatheories. Topics in cognitive psychology include history of the cognitive position; social cognition; cognitive science and its application to the clinical enterprise; the mainstream cognitive positions; constructivism and constructionism; development; memory; emotion; dynamic psychology and cognition; cognitive self processes, cognitive interpersonal processes; and constructionist views of diversity.

Section A: Roger Peterson
Time: Mondays, 4:30 - 7:00 pm
Maximum: 30
Credits: 3

PY 812A
Consultation: Theory and Practice I
(fromerly Theory and Practice of Mental Health Consultation I)
Competency Area: Consultation & Education
Required of and Restricted to Year III students.

This weekend course examines the role of psychologists as consultants in mental health settings in the community. A variety of consulting experience is explored including case consultation, participation in interdisciplinary teams, and the psychologist as expert in dealing with diverse individuals, groups, and organizations. The course examines issues of contracting, data gathering, diagnosis, intervention, evaluation, and follow-up. Implications of the consultant’s role in education, training, and organizational development are addressed. Participants have the opportunity to apply consultation skills in experiential exercises and also examine the possible consultancy aspect of their practicum role.

Section A: Ted Ellenhorn
Time: Saturday & Sunday, September 13 & 14
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Maximum: 27
Credits: 1

PY 789
Dialogue & Difference:
Beyond Polarization, Marginalization & Identity Politics
Competency Area: Diversity & Multiculturalism

This course presents an approach to addressing issues of sociocultural diversity and social concerns of justice and professional responsibility. While informed by feminist, multicultural and post-colonial theories, this course moves away from an identity-specific approach and instead applies an interpretive (hermeneutic) and procedural framework to the enhancement of mutual understandings across seemingly noncommensurate social conflicts.

Section A: Susan Hawes
Time: Saturday & Sunday, October 18 & 19
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Maximum: 20
Credits: 1

PYR 875
Doctoral Research Seminar I
(formerly PY 875, Doctoral Research Seminar I, 3 credits)
Competency Area: Research & Inquiry
Required of and Restricted to Year III students.

The aim of this two-year long sequence is to facilitate students’ development and completion of a doctoral dissertation. During this first semester the emphasis is on helping each student to select a topic that touches upon a theme or area of genuine interest or concern, and to design a realistic dissertation proposal using appropriate methodology. The instructor for each section will also serve as the Chair of the Dissertation Committee for members of the section.

Section A: Kathi Borden
Section B: Ted Ellenhorn
Section C: James Fauth
Section D: Susan Hawes
Section E: Vic Pantesco
Section F: Roger Peterson
Section G: Gargi Roysircar
Section H: Colborn Smith
Section I: George Tremblay
(Section assignments will be made by the department)
Time: Mondays, 1:00 - 3:30 pm (5 weeks)
Maximum: 5 per section
Credits: 1

PYR 877
Doctoral Research Seminar III
Competency Area: Research & Inquiry
Required of and Restricted to Year IV students.

This course represents a continuation and intensification of the dissertation process begun in the third year with Doctoral Research Seminars I and II.

PY 721A
Ericksonian Hypnotherapy
Competency Area: Intervention

Incorporation of Ericksonian-style hypnosis in the process of psychotherapy is featured throughout the weekend of instruction, demonstration, and practice. Special emphasis will be placed on utilization of ego-states, resources in effecting trauma depotentiation and reframing. Please note: All readings must be done prior to the workshop. Pick up books from the bookstore and other reading materials from the department.

Section A: Peter Baldwin
Time: Saturday & Sunday, November 22 & 23
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Maximum: 20
Credits: 1

PY 859B
Fundamental Clinical Skills I
Competency Area: Relationship
Required of and Restricted to Year I students.

This course addresses the processes and skills required to establish and maintain a helping relationship. It emphasizes basic skills of listening and attending, focusing and probing, confrontation, and working with difficult clinical issues. It involves practice in interviewing and observing in various clinical issues.

Sections A & B: David Arbeitman
Time: Section A: Saturday & Sunday, September 20 & 21
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Time: Section B: Saturday & Sunday, October 18 & 19
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Maximum: 15 per section
Credits: 1

PY 896 (Year IV students)
PY 897 (Year V+ students)
Internship
Restricted to Clinical Psychology students.

Prior to graduation, each student must successfully complete an approved internship of 2,000 hours within 24 calendar months, which meets the guidelines published by the Association of Psychology and Postdoctoral Internship Centers (APPIC) as well as the Council for the National Register of Health Service Providers in Psychology. Internship may be pursued in several formats: half time during the fourth and fifth years; full time during the fifth year, etc. Year IV students should register for PY 896, Internship and Year V+ students should register for PY 897, Internship.

Section A: Colborn Smith
Credits: uncredited

PY 799
Management
Competency Area: Management & Supervision
Required of and Restricted to Year IV students.

This course is a brief conceptual introduction to issues of work organizations and management. Students are exposed to various models of how organizations function, management, leadership, change, change agents, action research, work teams, and productivity. Part of the learning involves envisioning improved structures and relationships within the many workplace settings of psychologists.

Section A: Lorraine Mangione
Time: Mondays, 1:00 - 3:30 pm (5 weeks)
Maximum: 30
Credits: 1

PY 815C
Methods of Psychological Assessment I
Competency Area: Assessment
Required of and Restricted to Year I students.

This year-long sequence provides an introduction to the psychological assessment of individuals with a major focus on the role of psychological tests in personality assessment, but with attention also paid to psychoeducational and neuropsychological assessment. Students develop beginning competence in the administration, scoring, and interpretation of a standard battery of psychodiagnostic techniques (WAIS-R/WISC-III/WPPSI-R, Bender Gestalt test, MMPI-I and II).

Section A: James Graves
Section B: Chet Lesniak
(Section assignments will be made by the department)
Time: Mondays, 4:30 - 7:00 pm
Maximum: 15 per section
Credits: 3

PY 880B
Professional Seminar I:
Roles of Psychologists and Ethical Issues
Competency Area: Relationship & Intervention
Required of and Restricted to Year I students.

The year-long Professional Seminar in the first year has an important joining and “socialization” function for students, facilitating becoming a graduate student at Antioch New England. During this year there is a particular focus, and assigned readings, on roles of psychologists and ethical and legal issues in the practice of clinical psychology.

Section A: David Arbeitman
Section B: Michael Foot
Section C: William Halikias
Section D: Diana Sholtz
(Section assignments will be made by the department)
Time: Mondays, 1:00 - 3:30 pm
Maximum: 8 per section
Credits: 3

PY 882B
Professional Seminar III: Case Conceptualization and Demonstrations
PY 892
Practicum
Competency Area: Relationship & Intervention
Required of and Restricted to Year II students.

The year-long Professional Seminar continues to provide the setting for pursuing a number of related objectives, serving as a forum for examination of the students’ professional work and training. During this second year there is an emphasis on case conceptualization and on writing up case formulations. Students have readings on several different theoretical models and applications. There is a focus on student presentations and discussions.

Section A: Barbara Belcher-Timme
Section B: Margaret Goodwin
Section C: James Graves
Section D: David Junno
(Section assignments will be made by the department)
Time: Mondays, 1:00 - 3:30 pm
Maximum: 8 per section
Credits: 3 and 3

PY 731
Psychopathology and Behavioral Disorders
Competency Area: Intervention
Required of and Restricted to Year I students.

This course emphasizes an integrated biopsychosociocultural model in understanding the etiology of psychopathology. After critiquing the assumptions and biases inherent in DSM-IV, it focuses on the diagnostic criteria for the most prevalent psychiatric disorders of adulthood and childhood, including: thought, mood, anxiety, substance abuse, memory, dissociative, eating, adjustment, personality, and sexual disorders. Through the use of clinical vignettes, students will further develop their capacity for making reliable differential diagnoses. In order to encompass a diversity of viewpoints, psychopathology is presented from biological, cognitive-behavioral, feminist, and psychodynamic perspectives.

Section A: David Arbeitman
Time: Mondays, 9:00 - 11:30 am
Maximum: 28
Credits: 3

PYC 700
Psychotherapeutic Intervention I:
Individual and Family
Competency Area: Intervention
Required of and Restricted to Year I students.

This is the first part of a year-long course in psychotherapeutic intervention in both theory and practice with individual adults, families, and children. The goal is to develop a flexible, integrated style of conducting treatment, focusing on brief to mid-range durations. Emphasis is on psychodynamic, cognitive, and systemic thinking, and selected clinical practice and process issues are considered across a variety of psychological disorders. Issues such as the therapist’s role, factors in change, gender effects, and treatment duration and flexibility are evaluated. Methods include readings, discussions, student and instructor presentations, sharing of relevant personal and professional experience, and skill practice.

Section A: Diana Sholtz
Section B: Martha B. Straus
(Section assignments will be made by the department)
Time: Tuesdays, 9:00 - 11:30 am
Maximum: 15 per section
Credits: 3

PY 871
Research Methods and Statistics I
Competency Area: Research & Evaluation
Required of and Restricted to Year II students.

The Research Methods sequence surveys both qualitative and quantitative research strategies in psychology. Topics include philosophy of science, critical thinking, ethical and diversity considerations in research, basic descriptive and inferential (primarily univariate) statistics, evaluating psychosocial interventions, and the use of computers for data management and analysis. The goal of the course is to help students develop the interest and skills to undertake systematic inquiry in applied or theoretical domains. Completion of an introductory research course at the undergraduate level is assumed, though not required.

Section A: Susan Hawes
Time: Mondays, 9:00 - 11:30 am
Maximum: 27
Credits: 3

PY 894C
Special Proficiency Practicum
Restricted to Year IV students.

This is a practicum for fourth-year students wishing to have further clinical training experience with a specific focus for less than 12 hours per week.

Section A: Lorraine Mangione
Credits: 1

PY 867
Supervised Experience in the Teaching of Clinical Psychology
Competency Area: Consultation and Education
Restricted to Year II, III and IV students.
Priority to Year III and IV students.

This course involves supervised teaching within the program. Students conduct background research, prepare material to teach, present the material, supervise small group activities, and grade course assignments, all under the supervision of the primary faculty person.

Sections A & B: David Arbeitman
Time: Section A: Saturday & Sunday, September 20 & 21
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Time: Section B: Saturday & Sunday, October 18 & 19
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Maximum: 5 per section
Credits: 1

PY 890
SIS: Supervised Independent Study

The SIS is for students who wish to have a directed learning experience focused on a specific project or area of interest.

Applied Experience SIS Topics:
Often students in Year III and Year IV, who wish to have a directed learning experience of a practical nature focused on a specific project, elect an SIS in an Applied Experience in Clinical Psychology. These Applied Experience SIS are organized according to the NCSPP competency areas and are designed to more clearly reflect applied experience for transcript, licensure, and internship application information.

Please be certain to include the title and competency areas on the SIS contract - the course numbers will be assigned by the Registrar’s Office.

PYE 890A
SIS: Applied Experience in Relationship Skills
PYE 890B
SIS: Applied Experience in Assessment
PYE 890C
SIS: Applied Experience in Intervention
PYE 890D
SIS: Applied Experience in Research & Evaluation
PYE 890E
SIS: Applied Experience in Consultation & Education
PYE 890F
SIS: Applied Experience in Management & Supervision

Advanced Supervised Study Topics:
The SIS list of Advanced Supervised Study is for Year III and Year IV students who wish to have a directed learning experience in the core knowledge bases of psychology. These Advanced Supervised Study SIS are organized according to the NCSPP educational model requirements and are designed to more clearly reflect advanced study for transcript, licensure, and internship application information.

Please be certain to include the title and competency areas on the SIS contract - the course numbers will be assigned by the Registrar’s Office.

PYB 890
SIS: Biological Bases of Behavior
PY 890A
Cognitive-Affective Bases of Behavior
PY 890
SIS-Cultural Bases of Behavior
PY 890R
Dysfunctional Behavior and Psychopathology
PY 890M
Historical & Philosophical Context of Psychology
PY 890
Life-span Development
PY 890
Professional Ethics & Standards
PY 890
Psychological Measurement
PYS 890
Social Bases of Behavior
PY 890
Theories of Individual & Systems Functioning/Change

If you are planning an independent study, please register for a SIS on your registration form. However, an SIS contract must be submitted to the Registrar’s Office by December 1, 2003, in order for it to appear on your schedule or transcript. Please specify on the contract if the SIS will be used to fulfill a competency area or serve as a required course substitute, or as an elective. Contracts received after the December 1 deadline will be returned to you for registration in a subsequent semester (additional costs may apply). Credits will not appear on your schedule until the SIS contract(s) has been submitted to the Registrar’s Office, thus affecting your enrollment status and perhaps your financial aid eligibility.

PYS 723
Supervision
Competency Area: Management and Supervision
Required of and Restricted to Year III students.

This course is designed to give students an introduction to supervision that is both didactic and experiential. The course begins with an overview of supervision, including such topics as the purpose and goals of supervision, theoretical models of supervision, roles in supervision, the development of the supervisor and the supervisee, the context of supervision, the evaluative process, the supervisory relationship, issues of diversity in supervision, ethics and supervisory practice, and research on supervision. After exploration and discussion of these areas, students have an opportunity to observe faculty and field supervisors demonstrate supervision in the classroom, as well as practice the role of supervisor in small groups with their peers.

Section A: Lorraine Mangione
Time: Mondays, 1:00 - 3:30 pm (10 weeks)
Maximum: 27
Credits: 2

PY 870
Tests and Measurements in Psychology
Competency Area: Assessment
Required of and Restricted to Year I students.

This course is an introductory survey of tests and measurements whose purpose is twofold. First, it provides the academic background for clinically oriented coursework in psychological testing. The psychometrics of tests and controversies around testing are discussed. Students learn to evaluate tests critically, and to select and implement an assessment battery. These topics make up approximately two-thirds of the course. Second, measurement knowledge provides a basis for students to apply themselves to a beginning level of understanding and application of the MMPI-2. Work on the MMPI-2 comprises the remaining one-third of the course.

Section A: Gargi Roysircar
Time: Tuesdays, 1:00 - 3:30 pm
Maximum: 28
Credits: 3

PY 863
Writing Workshop
Competency Area: Elective
Prerequisite: Students must submit a writing sample.

This course focuses on developing technical writing skills appropriate for doctoral level psychologists. The content emphasizes APA writing standards for professional reports, papers, dissertations, and general publications. One component of the course will involve hands-on writing exercises. Readings will focus on mastering APA writing style. This course can be repeated for credit.

Section A: Greg Blair
Time: Saturday & Sunday,
November 8 & 9, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Maximum: 8
Credits: 1

Clinical Psychology CoursesFall 2003

Clinical Psychology Courses
Fall 2003