Several intervention strategies are covered from various theoretical orientations, and based on recent empirical findings. Introduction to a strategy for assessing and formulating clinical and cultural material. Review of moderate and serious psychopathological and diagnostic schemas including DSM, psychodynamic, and other theoretical classifications with a secondary emphasis on treatment implications. Implications for diversity are reviewed. Discussion of basic concepts in understanding alcoholism and drug addiction.
Students learn how to administer, score, interpret, and report on intellectual functioning.
Multicultural assessment practices are reviewed. Educational and clinical applications of individual assessment, diagnostic measures of intelligence, observation and interview techniques, and perception. Review of supplementary measures, best practices, ethical standards and implications for treatment and program planning. There is also a laboratory component to PSYC 700. Open only to Psy.