Exciting Changes to our Program
beginning in the Fall of 2011!
We’ve expanded our Applied stream to include courses in Adult Clinical Psychology as well as Child Clinical Psychology. By offering these new courses, it allows our M.A. students to focus their training on adults or children and thereby giving them greater flexibility in their career options.
Beginning in Fall 2011, students in the Applied Stream will take:
PSYC5000 Thesis
PSYC5005 Master’s Applied Practicum
PSYC5106 Applied Multivariate Statistics
PSYC5306 Psychodiagnosis and Assessment in Children OR
PSYC5336 Psychodiagnosis and Assessment in Adults
PSYC 5316 Psychological Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence
PSYC5326 Counselling and Behavioural Interventions for Children and their Families OR
PSYC5346 Child and Systems Focused Psychological Consultations OR
PSYC5327 Counselling and Behavioural Interventions for Adults
PSYC5356 Psychology of Individual Differences
PSYC 5406 Ethical and Professional Issues
One 3-credit Elective in Psychology
New Courses
PSYC 5327: Counselling and Behavioural Interventions for Adults
This course reviews contemporary approaches to treatment planning and counselling intervention based in biopsychosocial systems and evidence-based interventions. An emphasis is placed on multicultural and ecological contexts in planning and conducting multifaceted interventions for change. Major areas studied include mood disorders, anxiety disorders, personality disorders, and addictive disorders including eating disorders.
PSYC 5336: Psychodiagnosis and Assessment in Adults
In this course, the clinical student learns and applies conventional batteries for assessing intelligence, normal personality, and potential psychiatric profiles. The student is expected to become proficient at interpreting face sheets of large numbers of standardized scores for subtests in order to accurately identify the patient’s potential problems and to articulate methods of intervention and treatment.
PSYC 5356: Psychology of Individual Differences
This course examines differences between genders, ethnicity stages of aging, and sexual preferences. Individual and implicit group differences for inferences of intelligence, personality, creativity, leadership, and attitude will be quantified for vocations.