Explores the psychological factors involved in health and illness. Topics include stress, disease and personality, patient compliance, health transactions, medical decision-making, and training of health professionals. Topics include methodology, employee selection, testing validation procedures, performance appraisal, training, legal issues, and selected human factors topics. Topics include juvenile justice, civil commitment, the duty to warn, rights of victims and the accused, competency to stand trial, the insanity defense, use of confessions, eyewitness reliability, and use of expert witnesses. Carried out in cooperation with Omaha-area agencies that can provide adequate professional supervision of students.
Experiences vary depending upon the characteristics of the student and the agency.
In addition to placement time, there is a required discussion session on campus. The flexibility of this course will permit exploration of current topics. Areas of study include love, dating and courtship, mate selection, marital evolution, work roles, finances, and parenting. Conditions studied include attachment disorder, autistic disorder, conduct disorder, schizophrenia, eat- ing disorders, and dissociative identity disorder. Instr. consent and Sr. stdg.