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Course Descriptions

The following is a listing of courses and abridged descriptions of all Alliant International University courses available at the time of publication. Please note that the academic programs are under continuous review and evaluation. Therefore, courses may vary somewhat from those described on the following pages.

Note: Classes not found in the program description may not be taught on the campus where the student is attending. Check online course schedules for a list of classes available at each site in a given semester.
 
  

  • PSY7002 - Program Development

    (2 units)
    This course provides an introduction and overview of the theory and methods of program development and evaluation, with an emphasis on Social, Mental and Public Health programs.
  

  • PSY7003 - PsyD Research Proposal Design

    (3 units)
    Year-long seminar to assist PsyD students in development of researchable questions, critical literature review and preparation of clinical dissertation proposals. Students are encouraged to select sections of the seminar based on compatibility of their research interests with the expertise of the faculty teaching the seminar. Sample research proposal design class topics include: multicultural/ international research; case study approaches; health psychology; gender studies; migration and clinical interventions. Credit for the course requires completion of the dissertation proposal orals and additional semesters of PSY7005/PSY7006 must be taken if the student has not finished proposal orals at the end of PSY 7003 and PSY 7004. 
     
    Prerequisites: PSY6011 and PSY6012
  

  • PSY7004 - PsyD Research Proposal Design

    (3 units)
    Year-long seminar to assist PsyD students in development of researchable questions, critical literature review and preparation of clinical dissertation proposals. Students are encouraged to select sections of the seminar based on compatibility of their research interests with the expertise of the faculty teaching the seminar. Sample research proposal design class topics include: multicultural/ international research; case study approaches; health psychology; gender studies; migration and clinical interventions. Credit for the course requires completion of the dissertation proposal orals and additional semesters of PSY7005/PSY7006 must be taken if the student has not finished proposal orals at the end of PSY 7003 and PSY 7004. 
     
    Prerequisites: PSY6011, PSY6012 and PSY7003
  

  • PSY7010 - Foundations of Measurement

    (2 units)
    This course covers concepts involved in designing and evaluating measurement devices in clinical psychology. Course content addresses classical and contemporary approaches to concepts of reliability and validity, including multi-trait-multi-method approaches to validation.

    Prerequisites: PSY6021, PSY6022
  

  • PSY7013 - PhD Research Seminar I (2nd Year)

    (3 units)
    Required research course for second year PhD students. Goal of the year is to complete the First Research Project.
    Prerequisites: PSY6021, PSY6022, PSY6026, PSY6016
    See PSY 6016 for further information on research seminars.
  

  • PSY7014 - PhD Research Seminar II (2nd Year)

    (3 units)
    Required research course for second year PhD students. Goal of the year is to complete the First Research Project.
    Prerequisites: PSY6021/6022, PSY6026, PSY6016
    See PSY 6016 for further information on research seminars.
  

  • PSY7031 - Qualitative Methods

    (2 units)
    This course explores the major techniques involved in qualitative research design.  The course outlines the role of qualitative research in mental health and clinical psychology; and demonstrates how qualitative methods can be used to explore a wide range of clinically relevant phenomena.
  

  • PSY7032 - Ethnography

    (2 units)
  

  • PSY7033 - Phenomenology

    (2 units)
    This course explores the major technique involved in phenomenology.  The course outlines the role of phenomenological research in mental health and clinical psychology; and demonstrates how phenomenological methods can be used to explore a wide range of clinically relevant phenomena.
  

  • PSY7034 - Advanced Methods: Grounded Theory Interpretive Methods

    (2 units)
  

  • PSY7035 - Evidence Based Methods: Meta-Analysis

    (2 units)
    Advanced methods course on Meta-Analysis – including issues and design of evidence-based treatment research and to create the methodology, results, tables, and discussion sections for a scholarly article related to a meta-analysis research project.
    Prerequisites: PSY6051, PSY6052
  

  • PSY7036 - Advanced Multivariate Statistics

    (2 units)
    The course presents multivariate research methods as relevant to the study of mental health issues.  The course provides more advanced knowledge regarding statistical methods and is part of the sequence of research methods courses.
  

  • PSY7037 - Structural Equation Modeling

    (2 units)
    This is a practical course in theory testing. Designs and statistical procedures using structural equation modeling (SEM) will be presented in lectures and each student will design and complete five mini studies. Competency of the scientific procedure will be accomplished by the student creating hypotheses, gathering possible refuting data, analyzing the data, and interpreting the results in terms of the hypothesis and finally posing alternative hypothesis.
  

  • PSY7038 - Advanced Methods: Logistic Regression

    (2 units)
    Advanced methods course on logistic regression - including the basic principles of logistic regression, interpretation of literature, and final research project using logistic regression with SPSS.  Final project includes writing up results in a formal paper. This course is part of the sequence of research methods courses.
    Prerequisites: PSY6051, PSY6052
  

  • PSY7045 - Dissertation Proposal Development

    (1.5 units)
    This course is designed to provide students with the methodological tools as well as the knowledge and skills required to develop a research based dissertation proposal. There are four primary goals.  1) to learn to formulate a relevant research question appropriate for a dissertation in clinical psychology; 2) to learn to develop the methodology for conducting a research study, and 3) to understand the principles of conducting ethically responsible research taking into account multicultural and diversity concerns.
  

  • PSY7106 - Biological Foundations of Clinical Practice

    (3 to 4 units)
    This course focuses on topics in the neurosciences that have direct clinical and forensic implications and applications. The course is divided into four main sections: neuropsychology (anatomy and physiology of the brain and autonomic nervous system, neuro-maturation, commonly encountered neurologic disorders that present with psychiatric symptoms), neurobiology of psychiatric disorders (with a focus on anxiety, depression and psychological trauma, psychosomatic medicine; also addressed are treatment implications derived from this body of research), the neuroscience perspectives on psychotherapy and medical disorders that present with psychiatric symptomatology.
  

  • PSY7112 - History and Systems of Psychology

    (2 to 3 units)
    The history and development of psychology to the present. Principles of the classical “schools” of Structuralism, Functionalism, Behaviorism, Gestalt Psychology and psychoanalysis are presented and compared, with emphasis on their relevance and contributions to contemporary psychology. Includes a discussion of the history of professional psychology including the development of applied specialties including clinical and industrial-organizational psychology.
    (MFT students only: 3 units)
  

  • PSY7115 - Psychopharmacology

    (2 units)
    This course introduces graduates to the principles of psychopharmacology as applied in a clinical setting and will help graduates understand the mechanisms of action of the various classes of psychotropic medication used in the treatment and/or management of clinical disorders.
  

  • PSY7123 - Cultural Diversity Training

    (1 unit)
    Students participate in monthly learning exercises (or “modules”) designed to increase both knowledge and awareness. The course requires exploration of intersecting identities and individual diversity for those who define themselves as part of singular or multiple cultural groups (e.g., an older adult heterosexual woman of Chinese American heritage; a transgender Latino who defines himself as a gay male). The modules offer varying perspectives about cultural identity, normative expectations of cultural engagement (from dominant and minority identified groups), visible and invisible identities, privilege and cultural oppression. Students will develop better self-awareness of the multiple lenses that differentially value aspects of themselves and others, while increasing knowledge about how culture is individually experienced and defined.
    Prerequisites: Passing grades in PSY6123 and PSY6124
  

  • PSY7127A - Diversity Competency Training

    (0.5 units)
    Students participate in a full day experiential component that explores the 11 dimensions of diversity (age, ability/disability, race, ethnicity, culture, gender, religion, sexual orientation, SES, language, and nationality).  The goal is learning that they see through lenses that involve differentially valuing aspects of themselves and others.
  

  • PSY7127B - Diversity Competency Training

    (0.5 units)
    Students participate in a full day experiential component that explores the 11 dimensions of diversity (age, ability/disability, race, ethnicity, culture, gender, religion, sexual orientation, SES, language, and nationality).  The goal is learning that they see through lenses that involve differentially valuing aspects of themselves and others.
  

  • PSY7156 - Psychopharmacology

    (1 to 3 units)
    General principles of psychopharmacology, an overview of neurochemistry and a rational framework for the use of psychoactive drugs, concentrating principally on behavior correlates. The use of psychopharmacological agents in psychotherapy and their phenomenology; substance abuse symptoms and consequences; the relationship between the psychologist and the physician in medication management.
  

  • PSY7250 - Counseling in an Organizational Setting

    (3 units)
    Application of counseling techniques to situations which arise in organizational settings. Emphasis is on problem situations, dual career families, management transfer, occupation stress, physical health, occupational development, career guidance, and the use of various tests for diagnosis and placement. Taxonomies of work dysfunctions and mental health disorders.
    Prerequisites: ORG6435 or ORG6005; enrollment in Consulting Psychology Specialization or clinical, counseling, or MFT graduate program.
  

  • PSY7263 - Death, Loss and Grief

    (3 units)
    Examination of loss and grief as a fundamental human dynamic affecting all of experience. Particular attention to death and its personal and societal implications for clinical practice. Includes strategies and intervention techniques for persons who are dying as well as for families and individuals impacted by loss.
  

  • PSY7265 - Aging: Psychological and Religious Development in Adults

    (3 units)
    Examination of the psychological and religious theories and applications to adult development. Particular attention to the aging years and the various stages from retirement to death. Review of the strategies and intervention techniques in light of common physical, mental, spiritual and financial problems confronted by aging.
  

  • PSY7290 - Clinical Interventions: Family/Child A

    (2 units)
    This course teaches the basic foundations of intervention from a systems perspective. Students will learn to view people as integral parts of the contexts/systems in which they live and interact. This course emphasizes multicultural and diversity perspectives focusing on a broad definition of family and provides examples across cultures, ethnicities, religions, gender and sexual orientation.
  

  • PSY7291 - Clinical Interventions: Family/Child B

    (2 units)
    This course teaches the basic foundations of intervention from a systems perspective. Students will learn to view people as integral parts of the contexts/systems in which they live and interact. This course emphasizes multicultural and diversity perspectives focusing on a broad definition of family and provides examples across cultures, ethnicities, religions, gender and sexual orientation.
    Prerequisites: PSY 7290
  

  • PSY7292 - Clinical Interventions: Child/Adolescent A

    (2 units)
    This course focuses on the development of the knowledge and practical skills necessary to implement psychotherapeutic interventions with children and adolescents. The three core dimensions of the course involve: 1) understanding developmental theory and using a developmentally-grounded perspective to conceptualize children and adolescents, 2) understanding how the integration of various theoretical orientations can inform the conceptualization of children and adolescents, and 3) forming a working knowledge base of evidence-based interventions for children and adolescents that can be appropriately selected and implemented with children and adolescents.
  

  • PSY7293 - Clinical Interventions: Child/Adolescent B

    (2 units)
    This course focuses on the development of the knowledge and practical skills necessary to implement psychotherapeutic interventions with children and adolescents. The three core dimensions of the course involve: 1) understanding developmental theory and using a developmentally-grounded perspective to conceptualize children and adolescents, 2) understanding how the integration of various theoretical orientations can inform the conceptualization of children and adolescents, and 3) forming a working knowledge base of evidence-based interventions for children and adolescents that can be appropriately selected and implemented with children and adolescents.
    Prerequisites: PSY 7292
  

  • PSY7294 - Clinical Interventions: Adults A

    (2 units)
    This course presents an overview of evidence-based practice of psychotherapy for adults. Students learn current trends and issues in psychological intervention research, emphasizing integrating evidence-supported common factors correlated with positive outcome in psychological intervention with clinical expertise in the context of client characteristics, culture, values and preferences.
  

  • PSY7295 - Clinical Interventions: Adults B

    (2 units)
    This course presents an overview of evidence-based practice of psychotherapy for adults. Students learn current trends and issues in psychological intervention research, emphasizing integrating evidence-supported common factors correlated with positive outcome in psychological intervention with clinical expertise in the context of client characteristics, culture, values and preferences.
    Prerequisites: PSY 7294
  

  • PSY7302 - MFT Research Methods

    (3 units)
    Examines tools used in the processes of organized inquiry in the field of MFT. The basic concepts and processes of research methodology, data analysis and evaluation of MFT research is covered along with a significant review of MFT research. Focus is on qualitative and quantitative research and methodologies.
  

  • PSY7305 - MFT Residency I

    (1 unit)
    Translates knowledge base gained in theory courses into skill set. It has online and in-person compositions. Students submit video recordings of general therapeutic skill role plays online. During the in-person residency, students will practice presentation skills, specific CFT model/theory-informed interventions, and group therapy skills. Students will participate in small and large group exercises, observe each other’s practice, provide and receive feedbacks from faculty and fellow students.
    Prerequisites: PSY6312A; PSY6312B; PSY6322A; PSY6322B; PSY6310; PSY6326A; PSY6326B; PSY6360
  

  • PSY7311 - Couples Therapy

    (3 units)
    Exploration of the sociology and intervention theories of marital and related interventions for dealing with a variety of couples, marital and divorce issues, e.g. dual-career, multicultural/multinational, domestic violence, alcoholic, remarriage. Course includes assessment and intervention of spouse and partner abuse. Instruction through lecture, discussions, role playing and videotapes.
  

  • PSY7311A - Couples Therapy

    (1.5 units)
    Exploration of the sociology and intervention theories of marital and related interventions for dealing with a variety of couples, marital and divorce issues, e.g. dual-career, multicultural/multinational, domestic violence, alcoholic, remarriage. Course includes assessment and intervention of spouse and partner abuse. Instruction through lecture, discussions, role playing and videotapes.
  

  • PSY7311B - Couples Therapy

    (1.5 units)
    Exploration of the sociology and intervention theories of marital and related interventions for dealing with a variety of couples, marital and divorce issues, e.g. dual-career, multicultural/multinational, domestic violence, alcoholic, remarriage. Course includes assessment and intervention of spouse and partner abuse. Instruction through lecture, discussions, role playing and videotapes.
  

  • PSY7312 - Sex Therapy in Marriage and Family Therapy

    (2 units)
    This course is designed to give the student a basic introduction and understanding of sex therapy assessment, theory and intervention. Basic sexual dysfunctions and difficulties are covered along with major behavioral and systemic treatment approaches.
  

  • PSY7314 - MFT Assessment

    (3 units)
    A survey of the major assessment techniques in MFT clinical practice. Includes intellectual, personality and couple and family assessment techniques. Emphasis is on administering and interpreting major assessment instruments used by family therapists for identification of mental health problems in individuals, couples and families.
    Please note there is a mandatory lab assessment fee for this course.
  

  • PSY7330 - Chemical Dependency and the Family

    (3 units)
    Examines definitions of chemical dependency relative to the family. Discussion of etiology, medical aspects, evaluation of the family and treatment approaches, legal aspects, special populations, community resources and referral processes. Education and prevention relative to the family.
  

  • PSY7360 - MFT Practicum

    (3 units)
    Observation and supervision of marital and family therapy in an approved clinic or public agency and a course involving case presentations, live and videotape supervision of therapy experiences. The practicum program requires 500 hours of direct client contact, 200 of which must be with couples or families; students receive 100 hours of individual and group supervision, at least 50 hours of which are based on direct observation, videotape or audiotape. Students must be enrolled in a practicum course until all hour requirements are complete. Course must be taken a minimum of 3 times continuously for a minimum total of 9 units.
    Prerequisites: PSY6310, PSY6311, PSY6312, PSY6313, PSY6322, PSY6323, PSY6326, PSY6360. Approval of CFT Clinical Training Coordinator.
  

  • PSY7369 - Practicum Extension

    (0 units)
    Observation and supervision of marital and family therapy in an approved clinic or public agency and a course involving case presentations, live and videotape supervision of therapy experiences. The practicum program requires 500 hours of direct client contact, 200 of which must be with couples or families; students receive 100 hours of individual and group supervision, at least 50 hours of which are based on direct observation, videotape or audiotape. Students must be enrolled in a practicum course until all hour requirements are complete.
    Prerequisites: PSY 7360 (3 semesters at 3 units each, 9 units total). Approval of CFT Clinical Training Coordinator.
  

  • PSY7417 - Adult and Career Development

    (3 units)
    Reviews theories and empirical research relevant to the psychology of adult and career development. Topics include: theories and research findings on adult phases of development, major career theories, theories and research on aging, impact of adult changes on work motivation, abilities, interests and personality; interaction of work and non-work issues for adults over the course of the adult life cycle. Implications of these theories and research for the practice of I/O Psychology, Organizational Psychology, and Consulting Psychology are discussed.
  

  • PSY7429 - Individual and Executive Coaching

    (3 units)
    Review of the literature concerning individual interventions relevant for work and consulting applications including coaching, work dysfunction and differentiating normal and psychopathological issues. Students learn and practice assessment and intervention techniques relevant for coaching and other individual-level consulting interventions.
    Prerequisites: ORG6435 and PSY7435 or permission of instructor.
  

  • PSY7430 - Individual and Executive Coaching Lab

    (1 unit)
    This Lab must be taken in conjunction with PSY7429 for those students in the Consulting Psychology specialization. Strongly recommended for others taking the course.
  

  • PSY7435 - Individual and Leadership Assessment

    (3 units)
    Review of individual assessment techniques for vocational and business applications including learning to use measurement tools relevant for assessing occupational interests, abilities (including intelligence) and work-related personality constructs. Completion of at least three comprehensive individual assessments is required as part of the “lab” portion of the course.
    Prerequisites: ORG6016, ORG7020
    Please note there is a mandatory lab assessment fee for this course.
  

  • PSY7436 - Individual and Leadership Assessment Lab

    (1 unit)
    This Lab must be taken in conjunction with PSY 7435 for those students in the Consulting Psychology specialization. Strongly recommended for others taking the course.
    Please note there is a mandatory lab assessment fee for this course.
  

  • PSY7437 - Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues in Organizational Psychology

    (3 units)
    Reviews various types of professional practice including academic settings, private practice, internal and external consulting and addresses legal and ethical issues in these practices. Discusses emerging opportunities for Industrial and Organizational Psychologists, and issues concerning students’ professional self-identity, self-reflection, career plans, and new roles and opportunities that may arise as a result of their educational program.
    Prerequisites: Passing Comprehensive Exam (SFE); enrollment in at least one of the dissertation courses or internship courses
  

  • PSY7501 - Theory and Practice of Psychotherapy Individual (CBT)

    (3 units)

    A framework for understanding the patient’s communications-verbal and nonverbal- symptoms and behavioral manifestations with an emphasis on the therapist’s interventions. Special consideration will be given to the specific problems introduced into therapy by different sexual and ethnic contexts. May be repeated for elective credit, provided a different therapeutic orientation is taken.

    (Topics vary)

    1. Psychodynamic (Prerequisite: PSY6524)
    2. Cognitive (Prerequisite: PSY6525)
    3. Existential (Prerequisite: PSY6526)

    Prerequisites: PSY6520
  

  • PSY7502 - Sociocultural Diversity

    (3 units)
    The course initiates a process for students to learn to work with a culture different than their own and with a culture identified as an ethnic/racial minority in the United States. It covers: identity development, acculturation, class, prejudice and discrimination, demographics and epidemiology and verbal and non- verbal communication in the context of culture and values. Examples of courses offered in this area are: African American Psychology; Asian American Psychology; and Latino American Psychology. 
    Prerequisites: PSY6121 and PSY6122
  

  • PSY7503 - Family Psychotherapy

    (3 units)
    Focuses on the family as a system, including communication, alliances and boundaries. Understanding the protective function of symptoms and the family’s resistance to change. Designing treatment strategies from several differing theoretical viewpoints.
    Prerequisites: PSY6520 and PSY6540
  

  • PSY7504 - Theory and Technique of Clinical Practice

    (3 units)
    In-depth study of psychotherapy within a specific theoretical framework. Sections offered include psychodynamic, cognitive/behavioral, family systems, and child treatment.
    Prerequisites: San Francisco PhD: PSY 6518
    San Francisco PsyD: No prerequisite required.
  

  • PSY7505 - Clinical and Ethical Issues

    (2 to 3 units)
    Taken concurrently with Field Practicum I by second year clinical PhD students and with Field Practicum II by clinical PsyD students. This seminar provides a small group format for field placement advising, discussion of agency entry issues and preparation of clinical case materials. Particular emphasis is placed on developing competency in history taking and initial interviewing, case formulation and treatment planning and the understanding of ethical and professional issues in the context of field work. 
    Prerequisites: PhD students: PSY 6528
    PsyD students: PSY6528, PSY6541 and PSY6543
    Co-requisite: PsyD students: PSY7527
  

  • PSY7506 - Clinical and Ethical Issues

    (2 to 3 units)
    Taken concurrently with Field Practicum I by second year clinical PhD students and with Field Practicum II by clinical PsyD students. This seminar provides a small group format for field placement advising, discussion of agency entry issues and preparation of clinical case materials. Particular emphasis is placed on developing competency in history taking and initial interviewing, case formulation and treatment planning and the understanding of ethical and professional issues in the context of field work.
    Prerequisites: PhD students: PSY6528
    PsyD students: PSY6528, PSY6541, PSY6542 and PSY7505
    Co-requisite: PSY7528
  

  • PSY7510 - Teaching Methods

    (3 units)
    Teaching Methods is a skills based course designed to prepare professional school students to teach effectively at the undergraduate and graduate level. Students will learn about the theories and methods for effective educational instruction and review research about learning outcomes. The skills taught in the course include, course design and development, instructional methods, assessment methods, faculty-student relationship issues, ethics in teaching and the effective delivery of course materials. Multicultural issues are integrated into course readings, content and assignments.
  

  • PSY7514 - Advanced Assessment Elective

    (3 units)
    (Topics vary)

    1. General - Development of skills for integrating multiple assessment instruments to produce a meaningful and thoughtful personality analysis. Focus on the clinical inference process. Emphasis on the selection, interpretation and report writing of comprehensive psychological batteries.
    2. Children - Emphasis on assessment and formulation of treatment recommendations for learning and emotional disorders in children.
    3. Cultural
    4. Psychodynamic
    5. Forensic
    6. Multicultural Couples Therapy - This is an introductory course in exploring and understanding multicultural issues in couples therapy. It is designed to begin to develop skills in conceptualizing couples from an integrative approach in assessment and intervention. This course combines clinical theory and skills development with an appreciation of ethnicity and cultural perspectives. Critical to this course is an emphasis on the clinician’s and the clients’ ethnicity, race, family of origin, values and gender issues that influence the clinical process. The course explores the adaptive challenges in cross-cultural clinical work with couples. It is both didactic and experiential and students participate through (1) group discussion, (2) role playing and (3) reaction papers to the course material and learning process.
    7. Child Assessment - Provides an overview of child assessment techniques including developmental history taking, clinical interviewing, administering and interpreting test results, writing reports and providing feedback. Actual assessment experience is part of the course. Students discuss professional and ethical issues involved with child assessment and how to adapt assessments according to cultural diversity and special needs.
    8. Couple Assessment and Intervention (3, 3 units) - Applications of psychodynamic, systemic, humanistic and communication-interactional concepts to conceptualizing couples and intervening to promote relationship awareness, communication skills, empathy, intimacy collaboration, empowerment, appreciation of differences, conflict reduction, collusion reduction and mutuality of individual and relationship development. Discussion focuses on the contexts of intergenerational legacies, gender, sex roles, ethnicity and sexual orientation. the teaching methods are case analysis, experiential role playing, assignments with volunteer couples and reaction papers.
    9. Cognitive Analysis of Personality and Pathology by the Use of Tests (3, 3 units) - This course is designed as an advanced clinical course for the dynamic understanding of personality and psychopathology through the use of data from psychological assessment tools. The course will require a good basic ability and interest in assessment. Test instruments will be used to understand the cognitive strengths and weaknesses of individuals as well as personality and psychopathology dynamics that will help in treatment planning. The test instruments will include those used in the basic assessment course at CSPP. The student will also be required to learn some neuropsychology tests. This two semester course will help students develop the ability to use tests in their understanding of clients and in developing therapeutic approaches to the intervention process.
    10. Clinical Inference

    Prerequisites: PSY6501, PSY6503 and PSY6523.
    Please note there is a mandatory lab assessment fee for this course.
  

  • PSY7515 - Psychodiagnostic Assessment

    (3 units)
    Introduction to the broad spectrum of psychological assessment procedures, techniques and instruments. The selection, administration, scoring and interpretation of objective and projective testing instruments. Comprehensive, integrative report writing.
    Prerequisites: Clinical program enrollment, PSY6523; PSY6501
    Please note there is a mandatory lab assessment fee for this course.
  

  • PSY7516 - Psychodiagnostic Assessment

    (3 units)
    Introduction to the broad spectrum of psychological assessment procedures, techniques and instruments. The selection, administration, scoring and interpretation of objective and projective testing instruments. Comprehensive, integrative report writing.
    Prerequisites: Clinical program enrollment, PSY6523; PSY6501
    Please note there is a mandatory lab assessment fee for this course.
  

  • PSY7517 - Assessment Lab

    (0.5 units)
    The laboratory section meeting is expected to parallel and augment the didactic content taught. One function of the laboratory section meetings will be to work on developing competency in administering and scoring the psychological tests covered in the course.
  

  • PSY7518 - Assessment Lab

    (0.5 units)
    The laboratory section meeting is expected to parallel and augment the didactic content taught. One function of the laboratory section meetings will be to work on developing competency in administering and scoring the psychological tests covered in the course.
  

  • PSY7520 - Community Psychology

    (3 units)
    This course provides students with an opportunity to visit community mental health agencies in San Francisco Bay Area. Through interacting with US based practitioners and scholars, the students will engage in critical thinking and discussions regarding current issues relevant in their own community in Japan. Special topics addressed in this course include domestic violence, child abuse, and addiction.
    Prerequisites: Enrollment in the Clinical Psychology MA program - Japan
  

  • PSY7521 - Psychological Assessment III: Integration

    (2 to 3 units)
    The focus of this course is on continued learning of personality assessment instruments and techniques and on integration of assessment data.
    Prerequisites: PSY6512 and PSY6512a
    Please note there is a mandatory lab assessment fee for this course.
  

  • PSY7525 - PhD Practicum I

    (2 to 3 units)
    A roughly 20-hour/week field placement for second year clinical PhD program students in an agency setting approved by the school; 38 weeks required per year.
    Prerequisites: San Francisco PhD: PSY6528
    San Diego PhD: PSY6520, PSY6501, PSY6523
    Co-requisite: San Francisco PhD: PSY7505/PSY7506
    San Diego PhD: PSY7551
  

  • PSY7526 - PhD Practicum I

    (2 to 3 units)
    A roughly 20-hour/week field placement for second year clinical PhD program students in an agency setting approved by the school; 38 weeks required per year.
    Prerequisites: San Francisco PhD: PSY6528
    San Diego PhD: PSY7525, PSY6520, PSY6501, PSY6523
    Co-requisite: San Francisco PhD: PSY7505/PSY7506
    San Diego PhD: PSY7551
  

  • PSY7527 - PsyD Practicum II

    (2 units)
    A 16-20 hour/week field placement for second year PsyD program students in an agency setting approved by the school; 38 weeks required per year.
    Prerequisites: PSY6541, PSY6542 and PSY6528
    Co-requisite: PSY7505
  

  • PSY7528 - PsyD Practicum II

    (2 units)
    A 16-20 hour/week field placement for second year PsyD program students in an agency setting approved by the school; 38 weeks required per year. 
    Prerequisites: PSY6541, PSY6542 and PSY6528
    Co-requisite: PSY7506
  

  • PSY7529 - Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches to Interventions

    (3 units)
    Theoretical foundations and practice of cognitive, behavioral and cognitive behavioral interventions with individuals and groups.
  

  • PSY7530 - Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches to Interventions

    (3 units)
    This course is designed to increase competency in the application of theory and research to evidence-­‐based clinical practice; to learn and apply evidence-­‐based protocols to various disorders and symptoms, to develop clinical competencies, such as cognitive case conceptualization, treatment formulation, intervention and assessment of treatment, and to facilitate the clinical skill development needed for the above.
  

  • PSY7531 - Beginning Practicum

    (1 unit)
    In this two-sequence course, taken in conjunction with Advanced Practicum, students will learn about case conceptualization, diagnostic considerations, treatment goal setting, and intervention approaches. Case presentations are conducted in a group setting, where the students will learn how to provide and receive constructive feedback, as well as how to integrate the feedback into the client care.
    Prerequisites: Enrollment in the Clinical Psychology MA program - Japan; Must be taken together with PSY7573 & PSY7574
  

  • PSY7532 - Beginning Practicum

    (1 unit)
    In this two-sequence course, taken in conjunction with Advanced Practicum, students will learn about case conceptualization, diagnostic considerations, treatment goal setting, and intervention approaches. Case presentations are conducted in a group setting, where the students will learn how to provide and receive constructive feedback, as well as how to integrate the feedback into the client care.
    Prerequisites: Enrollment in the Clinical Psychology MA program - Japan; Must be taken together with PSY7573 & PSY7574
  

  • PSY7537 - Psychodynamic Approaches to Intervention

    (3 units)
    An introduction to the theory and practice of psychodynamic clinical intervention. The course addresses concepts, processes and techniques that are common among various contemporary approaches including object relations, ego psychology and self psychology. Time-limited, evidence-based approaches are examined.
  

  • PSY7538 - Psychodynamic Approaches to Interventions

    (3 units)
    The goal of the course is to help students develop knowledge and skills in contemporary psychodynamic psychotherapy. Students will learn to conceptualize patients’ issues using several psychodynamic theories and to develop interventions based upon and consistent with their conceptualizations, adapting concepts and interventions to diverse populations. Students will practice clinical case presentation skills and will practice formulating cases from various psychodynamic perspectives.
  

  • PSY7539 - Family and Couples Psychotherapy

    (3 units)
    This course offers an overview of family and couples psychotherapy. There is an emphasis in this course on what the major theories are and how they can be applied in practice. Theories coverage includes Bowen, Minuchin, the Palo Alto group, Satir, and others. Video presentations, discussion, and role-play exercises are used in this course. Relevant multicultural issues in Japan will also be discussed.
    Prerequisites: Enrollment in the Clinical Psychology MA program - Japan
    Offered alternately in even years, for 1st & 2nd year students.
  

  • PSY7543 - Systems Approaches to Intervention

    (3 units)
    Examination and integration of various family systems approaches to treatment.
  

  • PSY7544 - Systems Approaches to Intervention

    (3 units)
    The purpose of this course is to offer you the opportunity to develop an active understanding of family therapy theory and practice.
  

  • PSY7546 - Cognitive Behavioral Approaches to Interventions

    (2 units)
    Theoretical foundations and practice of cognitive, behavioral and cognitive behavioral interventions with individuals and groups.
    Prerequisites: Fresno PsyD Clinical Psychology: G2 status in program or instructor approval
  

  • PSY7547 - Psychodynamic Approaches to Intervention

    (2 units)
    An introduction to the theory and practice of psychodynamic clinical intervention. The course addresses concepts, processes and techniques that are common among various contemporary approaches including object relations, ego psychology and self psychology. Time-limited, evidence-based approaches are examined.
    Prerequisites: Fresno PsyD Clinical Psychology: G2 status in program or instructor approval
  

  • PSY7548 - Systems Approaches to Interventions

    (2 units)
    Examination and integration of various family systems approaches to treatment.
    Prerequisites: Fresno Clinical PsyD Clinical Psychology: G2 status in program or instructor approval
  

  • PSY7549 - Group Psychotherapy

    (2 units)
    This course emphasizes the use of group approaches in psychotherapy. Review of group formation and intervention, group process and termination in group psychotherapy. A variety of approaches and their applications will be discussed. Learning methods will include both didactic and experiential components. Students’ experiences with groups in the field may be integrated within the context of this course.
    Prerequisites: Fresno PsyD Clinical Psychology: G2 status in program or instructor approval
  

  • PSY7550 - Practicum in Professional Psychology

    (2 units)
    Twelve to twenty hours/week at an agency setting provided by the school (minimum of 800 hours total required). Required each semester of students who are enrolled in the second year of the standard program.
    Prerequisites: PSY6520 and PSY6523; PSY6550 is an additional prerequisite for clinical PsyD students
  

  • PSY7551 - Practicum Consultation/Ethics

    (1 to 1.5 units)
    This course is designed to familiarize students with ethics, the psychology licensing laws and the regulations pertaining to the practice of psychology. In addition, issues of sexual attraction in therapy and treatment issues relating to diversity are addressed. Students will have the opportunity to review and consult about their work at practicum sites.
    Co-requisite: San Diego PhD: PSY7525, PSY7526
  

  • PSY7553 - Field Based Practicum

    (1.5 to 2 units)
    This required professional training experience for all clinical students is taken in the second year by PsyD students and in the third year by PhD students. It involves 15 hours per week of supervised mental health services and training in an agency affiliated with CSPP-Los Angeles’ Clinical Field Training Office. All students receive direct experience in psychotherapeutic interventions during the practicum, although the specific nature and extent of therapy activities varies among settings. The practicum is a prerequisite and provides crucial preparation for the subsequent predoctoral internship.
  

  • PSY7554 - Field Based Practicum

    (1.5 to 2 units)
    This required professional training experience for all clinical students is taken in the second year by PsyD students and in the third year by PhD students. It involves 15 hours per week of supervised mental health services and training in an agency affiliated with CSPP-Los Angeles’ Clinical Field Training Office. All students receive direct experience in psychotherapeutic interventions during the practicum, although the specific nature and extent of therapy activities varies among settings. The practicum is a prerequisite and provides crucial preparation for the subsequent predoctoral internship.
  

  • PSY7556 - Practicum Consultation and Ethics

    (1.5 units)
    This course is designed to familiarize students with ethics, the psychology licensing laws and the regulations pertaining to the practice of psychology. In addition, issues of sexual attraction in therapy and treatment issues relating to diversity are addressed. Students will have the opportunity to review and consult about their work at practicum sites.
    Co-requisite: San Diego PhD: PSY7525, PSY7526
  

  • PSY7557 - Professional Development and Group Approaches - Second Year

    (0.5 units)
    This two-part course is the second year continuation of the first year professional development and group approaches course. Emphasis is placed on the preparation for practicum, the necessary knowledge for beginning clinicians, and fostering professional development as a master’s level clinical psychology practitioner. The students will also build upon group therapy skills through reading, participation in group projects, and discussion. Relevant multicultural issues in Japan will also be discussed.
    Prerequisites: Enrollment in the Clinical Psychology MA program - Japan
  

  • PSY7558 - Professional Development and Group Approaches - Second Year

    (0.5 units)
    This two-part course is the second year continuation of the first year professional development and group approaches course. Emphasis is placed on the preparation for practicum, the necessary knowledge for beginning clinicians, and fostering professional development as a master’s level clinical psychology practitioner. The students will also build upon group therapy skills through reading, participation in group projects, and discussion. Relevant multicultural issues in Japan will also be discussed.
    Prerequisites: Enrollment in the Clinical Psychology MA program - Japan
  

  • PSY7565 - Advanced Ethics and Professional Issues

    (2 units)
    Emphasis on current political and ethical issues through an examination of the development of professional psychology. Special reference to the history of grassroots professional participation at local, state and national levels. Legislative developments affecting psychology discussed with an emphasis on the current status of professional training, licensing and continuing education.
  

  • PSY7566 - Ethical Foundations of Clinical Practice

    (2 units)
    Basic foundations course examining professional issues, HMOs, PPOs, risk management and documentation.
    Prerequisites: Passing grade in PSY6530
    Fresno PhD Clinical Psychology: None
    Fresno PsyD Clinical Psychology: G2 status in program, PSY6530A or instructor approval
  

  • PSY7570 - Preparation for Doctoral Candidacy

    (0 units)
    This one-day required course session is intended to help students prepare for completion of the doctoral dissertation.
  

  • PSY7571 - Second Year Clinical Practicum

    (2 units)
    Prepares students to function as interns in psychological agencies. 15 hours per week advanced practicum.
    Prerequisites: Passing grade in PSY6570
    Fresno PhD Clinical Psychology: None
    Fresno PsyD Clinical Psychology: Passing grade in all prior practicum courses
  

  • PSY7572 - Second Year Clinical Practicum

    (2 units)
    Prepares students to function as interns in psychological agencies. 15 hours per week advanced practicum.
    Prerequisites: Passing grade in PSY7571
    Fresno PhD Clinical Psychology: None
    Fresno PsyD Clinical Psychology: Passing grade in all prior practicum courses
  

  • PSY7573 - Advanced Practicum

    (2 units)
    Students will complete 320 hours of supervised practical field experience in an agency of their community. All students will receive direct and indirect experience in psychotherapeutic interventions. The experience may include activities such as advanced reading, charting, telephone crisis counseling, observation, co-therapy, assessment, report writing, and supervised clinical work with children, adults, families, and groups.
    Prerequisites: Enrollment in the Clinical Psychology MA program - Japan; Completion of PSY6141, 6142, 6557, 6558, 6516, 6115, 6527, 6213, 6214, 6203, 6204, 7557, 7558, 6221, 6005, 7539, 6581, and 6582; Must be taken together with PSY7531 & 7532
  

  • PSY7574 - Advanced Practicum

    (2 units)
    Students will complete 320 hours of supervised practical field experience in an agency of their community. All students will receive direct and indirect experience in psychotherapeutic interventions. The experience may include activities such as advanced reading, charting, telephone crisis counseling, observation, co-therapy, assessment, report writing, and supervised clinical work with children, adults, families, and groups.
    Prerequisites: Enrollment in the Clinical Psychology MA program - Japan; Completion of PSY6141, 6142, 6557, 6558, 6516, 6115, 6527, 6213, 6214, 6203, 6204, 7557, 7558, 6221, 6005, 7539, 6581, and 6582; Must be taken together with PSY7531 & 7532
  

  • PSY7576 - Summer Practicum

    (1 unit)
    Experience in a mental health setting for 15 to 20 hours per week.
    Prerequisites: Fresno PsyD Clinical Psychology: Passing grade in all prior practicum courses
  

  • PSY7580 - Play Therapy

    (2 units)
    Theoretical foundations and practice of play therapy with a wide variety of populations in multiple practice settings.
    Prerequisites: Fresno PsyD Clinical Psychology: G2 status in program or instructor approval
  

  • PSY7602 - Theory and Practice of Psychotherapy: Child

    (3 units)
    Treatment approaches to the small child, the latency-aged child and the adolescent. A consideration of play therapy and other interventions with attention given to the special therapeutic requirements of delinquency, childhood depression and adolescent alienation.
    Prerequisites: PSY6520, PSY6140, PSY6523
  

  • PSY7604 - Group Psychotherapy

    (2 to 3 units)
    This course emphasizes the use of group approaches in psychotherapy. Review of group formation and intervention, group process and termination in group psychotherapy. A variety of approaches and their applications will be discussed. Learning methods will include both didactic and experiential components. Students’ experiences with groups in the field may be integrated within the context of this course.
  

  • PSY7605 - Clinical Elective - Practice Seminars

    (1 to 3 units)
    (Topics vary)

    1. Clinical Interventions with Children  Introduces students to the theory and practice of child and family psychotherapy, focusing on specific interventions with children individually, with parents, in families, and in the contexts in which they interact. The first part of the course focuses on O’Connor’s Ecosystemic Theory in treating children. Specific attention is given to understanding the theory, learning how to evaluate a child, formulating a treatment plan and intervening with children who live and function within the contexts of family, peers, schools, cultures and many other systems. In the second part of the course, students learn and practice interventions that are research and theoretically based and designed for treatment of a variety of psychological disorders and problems that occur with children. Interventions target all areas in which the child lives, especially parental and family influences. It is assumed that the students have a sound knowledge of development and life span issues, though the course revisits these issues briefly.
    2. Advanced Child Assessment  Provides students with knowledge and skills in assessing children (emphasis on school-aged children). Students will learn principles of assessment techniques–primarily from a hypothesis-testing approach-and will learn to integrate information from various sources to form a comprehensive picture of the child. Students will develop the ability to assess children within a framework that is both developmentally- and culturally-sensitive.
    3. Integrated Approach to Sex, Intimacy and Relationships 1 and 2 (IFC Emphasis)  Students in this year long, advanced IFC elective will be taught an integrated therapy approach to sex, intimacy and relationship problems. The goal of this elective is to teach students how to do multigenerational, differentiation based therapy with heterosexual and homosexual couples from diverse ethnic, cultural and religious backgrounds. You will also learn about what the research says about the effectiveness of couple and sex therapy. Lectures along with class discussions, role-plays, and video clips will be used. You will learn tools and strategies for effective differentiation based therapy.
    4. Program Development and Evaluation  This course provides the student with an overview of the principles of prevention and intervention research design. The primary goal of the course is to help students learn the fundamentals of problem identification, program design, development and evaluation. This course can also help to “jump start” Doctoral project and Dissertation preparation.
    5. Loss, Grief and Bereavement (CH emphasis)
    6. Media Consultation and Community Mental Health Advocacy  This course focuses on basic theory and conceptualization used in the practice of community mental health advocacy via media. Students will learn to evaluate mental health related media and will be actively involved relationship building projects targeting various media outlets.  Must be G3 status or greater.
    7. Clinical Psychology Perspectives in China  This cultural immersion course offers an up-close look at Chinese mental health. Highlights in Beijing, Xian and Shanghai include major sights and visiting other mental health professionals to learn how values and history influence mental health.
    8. Pediatric Psychology
  

  • PSY7610 - Cultural Seminar

    (3 units)
    Topics vary:

    1. Current Topics & Considerations for Working Successfully w/Latinos in Clinical Practice: A Multicultural Perspective - This multicultural elective is for doctoral level students interested in cross-cultural clinical work, specifically with the Latino population.
    2. Psychology of Women and Feminist Therapy - This course will focus on theoretical understandings of the psychological development of women and their clinical applications. Traditional theories and contemporary feminist theories of women’s development will be discussed
    3. Cultural Psychology of Migration (Gender and LGBT Issues) - This course will focus on the psychological impact of migration with a particular emphasis on the lives of women immigrants and some reference to LGBT issues in migration. The course analyzes the impact of intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, class and sexual orientation on women’s experience of migration.
    4. Psychology of Men - This course will seek to introduce students to contemporary concepts of gender and masculinity.  In addition, students will learn about male gender theory and applying concepts of masculinity to major theoretical schools of thought.
  

  • PSY7615 - Neuropsychological Assessment

    (3 units)
    The application of neuropsychological assessment techniques to clinical case materials. Seminar analysis and discussion of actual case data supplied by instructor and students. Clinical, educational, rehabilitative and forensic applications of neuropsychological assessment findings.
    Prerequisites: PSY8555
  

  • PSY7625 - Intro to Clinical Medicine I

    (3 units)
    This course is designed to develop knowledge of clinical medicine and the disease paradigm in order to interact with professional competence among clinical colleagues. Student will be able to comprehend and describe the physiology of organ systems, the pathophysiology and clinical presentation of common disease states, as well as to outline diagnostic work-up, and present a limited differential diagnosis for common clinical presentations. Students will have a proficient use of medical terminology and will be familiar with chart documentation and communication with colleagues.
    Prerequisites: PSY6620
 

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