2022-2023 Catalog 
    
    May 21, 2024  
2022-2023 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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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/term.

 
  
  • PSY76053W - Clinical Elective-Practice Seminars: Public Outreach, Media & Advocacy

    (3 units)
    The Public Outreach, Media and Advocacy course is offered as a MCCP elective. Students will learn how to make psychology more accessible to the public through community organizing, working with various types of publication/media outlets and advocating on behalf mental health public policy. Course assignments in the form of applied projects will offer opportunities to make a broader impact from a community psychology perspective beyond helping clients in clinical settings.
  
  • PSY76053X - Clinical Elective-Practice Seminars: Divorce & Remarriage: Systemic Interventions for Healthy Family Transitions

    (3 units)
    Separation, divorce and remarriage are normal and meaningful transitions that families of all types and throughout the world struggle through. This course focuses on the interpersonal, familial and social consequences of separation, divorce and remarriage that families experience. Cultural, racial, ethnic, gender, religious, sexual orientation and other factors are examined. The transitions that children, adolescents, emerging adults, parents, grandparents, and extended family experience are addressed. Students learn systemic theories and interventions to help families maneuver these transitions in the healthiest of ways.
  
  • PSY76053Y - Clinical Elective: Family Violence: Intersectional Outcomes & Inequalities

    (3 units)
    Course Description: The course will focus on exploring the psychological impact of all forms of family and intimate partner aggression, including parent-child relationships, sibling relationships as well as maltreatment in elderly and LGBTQI relationships, and relationships with persons with disabilities. This course will explore recent research as it relates to treatment interventions, and is designed to help students explore their sensitivities as they relate to working with “victims” and perpetrators. Students will learn about intimate family violence and its psycho/social impact. Students will be able to assess for IVP, describe various forms of family and relationship child, teen and elder abuse, and have an understanding of issues IVP and family abuse in under-represented and under-served communities. Students will be able to articulate treatment interventions from various theoretical approaches.
  
  • PSY76054A - Clinical Elective: Clinical Rehabilitation Psychology and Assessment

    (3 units)
    This elective course will familiarize students with common medical conditions typically seen in rehabilitation settings (e.g., TBI, stroke, spinal injuries, etc.) and instruct students on how to provide inpatient and outpatient psychological services to this population. Students will become familiarized also with neuropsychological instruments commonly used in rehabilitation settings, including their administration, scoring, and interpretation, with emphasis on integrating test results with interview, observational, historical, and medical information for the purposes of diagnosis and treatment, as well as determination of adjunct treatments which may be required. 
  
  • PSY76100A - Cultural Seminar: Cultural Psychology of Migration (Gender And LGBT Issues)

    (3 units)
    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.
  
  • PSY76100B - Cultural Seminar: Current Topics & Considerations for Working Successfully

    (3 units)
  
  • PSY76100C - Cultural Seminar: Psychology of Women And Feminist Therapy

    3 units
    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
  
  • PSY76100D - Cultural Seminar: Psychology on Men

    (3 units)
  
  • PSY76100E - Cultural Seminar: Social Justice Informed Clinical Care

    (3 units)
    Social justice counseling is defined by Sue and Sue (2015) as an active therapeutic approach that aims to promote equal access and opportunity. Social justice advocates strive to impact social values, structures, policies, and practices that systematically disadvantage marginalized groups and prevent access to resources. There is growing evidence that minority groups experience chronic and stable minority stress that contributes to mental health disparities, and social justice approaches to clinical care aim to acknowledge this phenomenon and provide skills to empower clients. This course will focus on the impact of systemic oppression on various minority groups (e.g., gender minorities, sexual minorities, racial and ethnic minorities), and how to translate this knowledge to inform culturally competent care. The course will incorporate discussion of peer-reviewed articles, active in-class experiential exercises, and case presentations.
  
  • PSY76100F - Cultural Seminar: LGBTQ Couples and Families

    (3 units)
  
  • PSY76100G - Cultural Seminar: Foundations in LGBTQ Psychology

    (3 units)
    The purpose of this course is to provide students with an overview of mental health concerns and clinical considerations relevant to working with sexual and gender minority clients from diverse cultural backgrounds. These will be explored within the context of diverse worldviews and life experiences. Analysis of social, economic, cultural, racial, and political factors will be integrated with the psychological literature to inform conceptualization of cases, clinical formulations, and affirmative intervention strategies.
  
  • PSY76100H - Cultural Seminar: Liberation Psychology

    (3 units)
    Students will explore a dynamic history of liberation psychology and its impact on the broader field of psychology. This history will serve as a foundation to radically imagine how the role of the counselor can better serve diverse communities and to understand the roles of power and privilege both inside and outside of clinical practice. This course will utilize a counselor-advocate-scholar model with an emphasis on culturally humble, trauma-informed, and harm reduction best practices. Through engagement with local community organizations here in San Diego and beyond, this course will be designed to pique the interests of any future mental health professional who is looking for career opportunities beyond private practice and institutionalized care.
  
  • PSY76150 - 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: PSY85550
  
  • PSY76150A - Neuropsychological Assessment

    (2 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: PSY65120, PSY65120A, PSY75213, PSY61070 and PSY61050
  
  • PSY76250 - 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: PSY66200 and either PSY61050 or Biological Foundations Comprehensive Exam
  
  • PSY76270 - Psychology of Health and Illness

    (3 units)
    This is the benchmark course of the Health Emphasis Area. The major aims of the course are to familiarize graduates with the overarching, contemporary issues related to health and illness, to stimulate a dialogue about these issues, to introduce the evolving roles of the clinical health psychologist in diverse settings, and to explore how these phenomena fit into the graduates’ own research and practice interests.
  
  • PSY76290 - Primary Care Behavioral Medicine

    (2 to 3 units)
  
  • PSY76330 - Health Psychology Intervention: Research and Practice Addressing Health Disparities

    (3 units)
    This course addresses the efficacy of health psychology interventions such as stress management, exercise, weight management, smoking cessation, dietary interventions, medical self-management in the context of health disparities. Students will develop skills in designing and implementing health psychology interventions for underrepresented and marginalized populations.
    Prerequisites: PSY66200
  
  • PSY76340 - Pediatric Psychology

    (2 units)
    Describes the major stresses for children who are hospitalized and ways of reducing those stresses.
    Prerequisites: PSY75800
  
  • PSY76360 - Play Therapy: Interventions

    (2 units)
    An experientially based course in which students learn an array of play techniques.
    Prerequisites: PSY75800, PSY76350
    Fresno PsyD Clinical Psychology: PSY75800

  
  • PSY76403 - Creativity Theory and Practice

    (3 units)
    Explores creativity theories, research and seminar exercises for direct use in group or individual therapy.
  
  • PSY76420 - Psychology of Women’s Health

    (2 units)
    The psychological impact of physiological and reproductive functions are considered in light of current social, political, legal and ethical dilemmas.
  
  • PSY76430 - Transference and Counter Transference

    (3 units)
    An overview of theoretical and technical considerations in understanding the unfolding of transference and counter-transference paradigms in the course of psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy.
  
  • PSY76530 - Group Therapy for Children and Adolescents

    (2 units)
    This course reviews a variety of theories and formats for conducting group psychotherapy with children and adolescents. The ways in which the clients’ developmental level impacts the formation the group, the types of intervention used as well as the group process will be emphasized.
  
  • PSY76550 - Family Approaches to Treatment of Juvenile Delinquency

    (2 units)
    Provides an overview of juvenile delinquency, and its precursors and preventative factors. Course will focus on effective treatment practices for counselor with a focus on utilizing family treatment strategies and techniques
    Prerequisites: PSY67040, PSY67280, PSY67090
  
  • PSY76800 - Diversity and Trauma

    (3 units)
  
  • PSY79060A - PhD Proposal Development

    (0.5 units)
    This PhD 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 an applied dissertation in clinical psychology; 2) to develop the skills to conduct a research literature review; 3) to learn to develop the methodology for conducting a research study, and 4) to understand the principles of conducting ethically responsible research taking into account multicultural and diversity concerns.
  
  • PSY79060B - PhD Proposal Development

    (0.5 units)
    This PhD 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 an applied dissertation in clinical psychology; 2) to develop the skills to conduct a research literature review; 3) to learn to develop the methodology for conducting a research study, and 4) to understand the principles of conducting ethically responsible research taking into account multicultural and diversity concerns.
  
  • PSY79111 - PsyD Proposal Development

    (1 unit)
    This course is designed to facilitate the development, completion, and defense of a PsyD research proposal. The focus is on learning and practicing the research and writing skills necessary to begin the PsyD dissertation process.
    Prerequisites: PSY60510 and PSY60520
  
  • PSY79112 - PsyD Proposal Development

    (2 units)
    This course is designed to facilitate the development, completion, and defense of a PsyD research proposal. The focus is on learning and practicing the research and writing skills necessary to begin the PsyD dissertation process.
  
  • PSY79113 - PsyD Proposal Development

    (3 units)
    This course is designed to facilitate the development, completion, and defense of a PsyD research proposal. The focus is on learning and practicing the research and writing skills necessary to begin the PsyD dissertation process.
  
  • PSY79122 - PsyD Proposal Development

    (2 units)
    This course is designed to facilitate the development, completion, and defense of a PsyD research proposal. The focus is on learning and practicing the research and writing skills necessary to begin the PsyD dissertation process.
  
  • PSY79123 - PsyD Proposal Development

    (3 units)
    This course is designed to facilitate the development, completion, and defense of a PsyD research proposal. The focus is on learning and practicing the research and writing skills necessary to begin the PsyD dissertation process.
  
  • PSY79130 - Psy.D. Proposal Development

    (1 unit)


    Critically evaluating and being able to execute qualitative and quantitative research proficiently are core competencies involved in earning the Psy.D. in clinical psychology. The goals of the Research Seminar are (a) to develop students’ research skills, knowledge and ability to evaluate empirical research, particularly with relevance to their own area of research specialization; (b) provide a support structure to help students progress in developing their dissertation research; (c) provide a forum for students to apply research and statistical concepts learned in other courses to the design of their own and others’ projects; (d) encourage enthusiasm and respect for the research bases of the field; and (e) further students’ development of an area of research specialization.

     

  
  • PSY80050 - PhD Research Seminar (3rd Year)

    (3 units)
    Required research course for third year PhD students. Goal of the year is the formation of a dissertation committee and the completion of the dissertation proposal. See PSY 6016 for further information on research seminars.
    Prerequisites: San Francisco PhD: PSY70130/70140
    Co-requisite: PSY89901 or PSY89902 or PSY89904 or PSY89905 or PSY89935 (San Diego)
  
  • PSY80060 - PhD Research Seminar (3rd Year)

    (3 units)
    Required research course for third year PhD students. Goal of the year is the formation of a dissertation committee and the completion of the dissertation proposal. See PSY 6016 for further information on research seminars.
    Prerequisites: San Francisco PhD: PSY70130/70140
    Co-requisite: PSY89901 or PSY89902 or PSY89904 or PSY89905 or PSY89935 (San Diego)
  
  • PSY80070 - Advanced Research Methodology

    (3 units)
    A variety of advanced topics in research methodology and statistics for PhD students. Designed to focus on specific methods for use in dissertation research. Sample topics include program evaluation, observational research, research interviewing, case study research, multiple linear regression, qualitative methods, test construction and multivariate methods.
  
  • PSY80150 - Clinical Administration and Practice Management

    (2 units)
    Explores the fundamentals of clinical administration and practice management in service delivery and training settings. Leadership skills, accounting, finance, MIS, marketing, quality improvement and human resource functions are addressed.
  
  • PSY81190 - Professional Roles

    (2 units)
    This course facilitates the Clinical PsyD student’s transition to professional psychology. Areas of focus: (1) introduction to various psychological professions, considering process and content while examining attitudes, emotions, and responsibilities; (2) ethical and professional standards in psychology, emphasizing consumer protection and professional growth; and (3) development of professional skills not emphasized in previous classes (e.g., APA internship application, interview preparation, etc).
  
  • PSY81200 - Clinical Supervision and Consultation

    (2 units)
    This course is designed to facilitate the student’s transition from student to Professional Psychologist, with a special focus upon skills associated with ethics and clinical supervision. The course will primarily focus on two areas: 1) ethics and professional issues in psychology and 2) the conceptual framework, research, and skills associated with clinical supervision.
  
  • PSY81230 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Training

    (1 unit)


    This course series is designed to increase knowledge, and skills related to working from a perspective that incorporates diversity, equity, and inclusion. Students will explore concepts including, but not limited to: systemic racism and oppression, intersectionality, invisible and visible identities, implicit bias, and microaggressions. The four modules in this course series (PSY61230 , PSY61241 , PSY71230 , PSY81230 ) are sequential, offering a progressively more experiential and reflective study of the nature of identity in the context of a system of power and privilege. Throughout the courses, particular emphasis will be placed on how to incorporate a social justice orientation into the role of a practicing and professional psychologist.

     

     

     


     
    Prerequisites: PSY61230, PSY61241, PSY71230

  
  • PSY81272 - Clinical Interventions with Diverse Populations

    (2 units)
    This course is designed to support student skills and application of multicultural competency in clinical practice. Students will participate in learning exercises to better understand how diversity is incorporated into assessment, conceptualization, diagnosis, treatment planning, intervention, and advocacy/social justice. This class builds on knowledge gained from previous diversity classes and specifically focuses on building skill and gaining confidence and competency.
    Prerequisites: PSY7127A, PSY7127B
  
  • PSY83110 - Advanced Couples Therapy

    (3 units)
    Focuses on an advanced understanding and evaluation of the major empirically supported forms of couples therapy including Emotionally Focused Therapy, Integrative Behavioral Couples Therapy and the work of John Gottman. Theoretical understanding, practical application and skill development are stressed.
    Prerequisites: PSY73110
  
  • PSY83140 - Advanced Brief Models

    (3 units)
    An advanced theory course examining brief family therapy models in depth, including structural, strategic, solution-focused and narrative. Includes topics such as constructivism and the contributions of the MRI group that are fundamental to some of the models.
    Prerequisites: PSY63120, PSY63220
  
  • PSY83150 - Advanced Intergenerational Therapy

    (3 units)
    Theories of intergenerational family therapy: Framo, Bowen, Nagy, Whitaker and others are discussed in depth in this course. Students will be asked to integrate, evaluate and compare the major interactional theories and their application to couples/families. Videotape demonstrations of the theories are presented.
    Prerequisites: PSY63120, PSY63220
  
  • PSY83160 - Advanced Family Therapy I

    (3 units)
    This advanced family therapy course provides an in-depth focus on foundational family therapy models including examining the conceptual roots and paradigm shifts associated with these models of as well as a focus on their application to diverse populations in today’s world.
    Prerequisites: PSY63120, PSY63220
  
  • PSY83170 - Advanced Family Therapy II

    (3 units)
    This advanced family therapy course provides an in-depth focus on recent, integrative family therapy models including examining the conceptual roots and paradigm shifts associated with these models of as well as a focus on their application to diverse populations in today’s world.
    Prerequisites: PSY63120, PSY63220
  
  • PSY83600 - Advanced Professional Practice

    (1 unit)
    This advanced doctoral course provides an in-depth application of the following areas: To support students in their ongoing clinical practice, learn how to apply theory to practice, and ensure students how to prepare for doctoral exams. Student must be in ongoing clinical practice. This course must be taken consequently four times over the course of 4 semesters for a total of 4 units. Students are not required to enroll in summer semester although they are still expected to be in clinical practice continuously.
  
  • PSY84000 - Third Wave Therapies

    (3 units)
    An overview of third wave therapies, emphasizing Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, and Self-Compassion Interventions. This course will expose students to third wave theories and evidence-based interventions for specific disorders.
    Prerequisites: PSY75013A: Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
  
  • PSY84120 - Social and Personality Psychology

    (3 units)
    Students will learn to analyze, synthesize and critique research literature on individual behavior in group/social settings and the person-environment interaction. Topics include social cognition, the self, attitudes, attitude change, emotion, emotional expression and nonverbal behavior, prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination, aggression, prosocial behavior, positive psychology, interpersonal relationships, social influence, power, group processes, intergroup relations and conflict, cultural psychology, judgment and decision making, personality traits and the five-factor model, approach and avoidance, cognitive self-regulatory models, psychoanalytic perspectives, mindfulness, adult attachment theory, self-actualization and self-determination.
  
  • PSY84530 - Field-Based Practicum III

    (2 units)
    The fall registration requirement for a 9-12 month, 800-hour field practicum for third-year (or modified/third-year equivalent) Clinical PsyD program students in an agency setting approved by the school.
    Please note there is a Time to Track fee associated with this course.
  
  • PSY84540 - Field-Based Practicum III

    (2 units)
    The spring registration requirement for a 9-12 month, 800-hour field practicum for third-year (or modified/third-year equivalent) Clinical PsyD program students in an agency setting approved by the school.
  
  • PSY84650 - Teaching Psychology Via Distance Learning Methods

    (2 units)
    This course explores methods of distance learning devised for virtual educational settings. The course will identify techniques and activities that can be used to enhance the learning environment and enrich student experience.
  
  • PSY84750 - Teaching Practicum and Supervision

    (3 units)
    Teaching Practicum is a pragmatic course, providing students with the opportunity to teach a face to face, distance educated or technology mediated course under close supervision. This is a skills based course designed to prepare professional school students to teach effectively at the undergraduate and graduate level.
  
  • PSY85002A - Clinical Elective: Advanced Gay And Lesbian Issues And Psychotherapy

    (2 units)
  
  • PSY85002Y - Clinical Elective: Advanced Issues in Lesbian Psychology

    (2 units)
  
  • PSY85002Z - Clinical Elective: Dev of Crim Behavior/Corr Culture

    (2 units)
  
  • PSY85003F - Clinical Elective: Advanced Study of Transgender Issues

    (3 units)
  
  • PSY85003J - Clinical Elective: Interventions With Veterans And Military Members

    (3 units)
    This course explores the current research and clinical issues related to working with Veterans and US Military members. It covers topics from the effects of deployments and combat, and the impact of war-related trauma, to military culture and post-military service integration issues.
  
  • PSY85003N - Clinical Elective: Foundations of LGBT Mental Health

    (3 units)
  
  • PSY85003X - Clinical Elective: LGBT Affirmative Psychotherapy

    (3 units)
    This course is an in-depth and focused course of the experiences and lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. This course will focus on the application of current theory, research, and clinical knowledge regarding LGBT issues in psychology to providing affirmative psychotherapy to LGBT people. Areas to be covered include: the social context in which mental health services have been provided to LGBT people, including the impact of heterosexism, discrimination, and violence on the lives of LGBT people; impacts of minority stress on identity development and psychological issues in psychotherapy with LGBT individuals, couples, and families; the history of psychological approaches to sexual orientation and gender identity, including the removal of homosexuality as a psychiatric diagnosis; the development and application of affirmative approaches to psychotherapy with LGBT people; applications of affirmative approaches to psychotherapy that acknowledge and include multicultural factors and issues of diversity.
  
  • PSY85010 - Supplemental Practicum

    (1 unit)
    Additional supervised practicum training beyond expected practicum training to supplement required training.
  
  • PSY85012A - Clinical Elective: Suicidology

    (2 units)
  
  • PSY85012B - Clinical Elective: Victimology

    (2 units)
  
  • PSY85012C - Clinical Elective: Introduction to Correctional Psychology

    (2 units)
  
  • PSY85012D - Clinical Elective: Psychological Assessment in Corrections

    (2 units)
  
  • PSY85012E - Clinical Elective: Evidence-based Interventions for Offenders

    (2 units)
  
  • PSY85012F - Clinical Elective: Development and Criminal Behavior

    (2 units)
  
  • PSY85013I - Clinical Elective: Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy with Adolescents

    (3 units)
  
  • PSY85013J - Clinical Elective: LGBT Couples and Family

    (3 units)
  
  • PSY85013K - Clinical Elective: Advanced Study of Bisexual Issues

    (3 units)
  
  • PSY85013L - Clinical Elective: Advanced Study of Lesbian Issues

    (3 units)
  
  • PSY85013M - Clinical Elective: Advanced Study of Gay Male Issues

    (3 units)
  
  • PSY85013N - Clinical Elective: Attachment Seminar

    (3 units)
    This course is an exploration of current research findings, theoretical models, and applications of Attachment theory and research. It begins with the historical beginnings of the theory, links to psychoanalysis, and describes the progression and expansion of the field into the realm of development, infant observation, understanding of attachment in adulthood, and how attachment relates to psychopathology and treatment. There will be an emphasis on attachment experiences (a) as they influence early development (i.e., the first three years of life), including the nervous system, and (b) as they impact subsequent relationships, emotional regulation/adjustment, and behavior. In addition, attention shall be given to attachment patterns as they are reflected in different kinds of patients.
  
  • PSY85013O - Clinical Elective: Forensic Report Writing/Expert Testimony

    (3 units)
  
  • PSY85013P - Clinical Elective: Advanced Psychological Assessment: FAIs Risk/Adult

    (3 units)
  
  • PSY85013Q - Clinical Elective: Advanced Psychological Assessment: FAIs Juvenile

    (3 units)
  
  • PSY85013R - Clinical Elective: Competency Assessment

    (3 units)
  
  • PSY85013S - Clinical Elective: Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment of Sexual Offenders

    (3 units)
  
  • PSY85013T - Clinical Elective: Working with Offender Populations

    (3 units)
  
  • PSY85013U - Clinical Elective: Evidence-Based Treatments for Trauma 


    This course will provide an overview of evidence-based treatments that are empirically supported as efficacious for treating child and adult trauma and stress-related disorders within a Trauma Informed Care (TIC) model, including cognitive-behavioral therapies such as child trauma-focused therapy, trauma-systems therapy (TST), cognitive processing therapy(CPT), skills training in affective and interpersonal regulation for adults and adolescents (STAIR), prolonged exposure (PE), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for PTSD (P-DBT), virtual reality, traumatic bereavement, and body focused treatments such as meditation and mindfulness. Theoretical underpinnings of stress-related disorders, application of specific therapeutic techniques for trauma treatment, methods of evaluation, theoretical implications, empirical support for mechanisms of change, and ethical and cultural considerations will be covered. Underlying theories, research, assessment, and implications for practice will be examined from cultural, cognitive-behavioral, biopsychosocial, attachment, and sociopolitical perspectives. Seminars will utilize blended learning methods and include didactic presentations, video vignettes, and case study discussion. An emphasis will be placed on the latest empirical research focusing on assessment and evidence-based treatment of trauma and co-morbid diagnoses. This course will utilize the practitioner model by exposing students to clinical application of trauma theory, diagnostic assessment, and treatment through readings, class discussion, case studies, videos, and role-play. Students will be encouraged to challenge traditional conceptualizations of survivors and consider how socio-cultural influences may alter the presentation of psychiatric illnesses and treatment. The psychological and schematic effects of working with traumatized individuals will be evaluated along with popular theoretical conceptions of vicarious trauma.
    Prerequisites: PSY65230, PSY65280 and PSY75040
  
  • PSY85013V - Clinical Elective: LGBTQ Health Disparities

    (3 units)
    This course introduces graduate students to the professional literature about LGBTQ health disparities; helps them understand conceptually the various psychological, sociocultural, and community-specific factors that drive such disparities; and strengthens their case-conceptualization skills using a biopsychosocial model that is LGBTQ affirming (from assessment and diagnostic formulation to treatment planning). The course also helps students understand the relationship between psychological and physiological wellness (i.e., the mind-body connection), and how various sources of stigma, oppression, and other forms of minority stress impact LGBTQ individuals emotionally, behaviorally, and physically. Students learn to consider and apply the minority stress model and theories on micro-aggressions when approaching clinical work with LGBTQ individuals, particularly those presenting with co-morbid mental health and medical concerns. 
  
  • PSY85013Z - Clinical Elective: LGBTQ Kink, BDSM, and Other Sexualities

    (3 units)
    This course provides a knowledge base students can use for culturally competent instruction, research, and clinical intervention. This course examines the unique ways in which LGBTQ people explore, express, and develop alternative sexual identities, which for the purposes of this course we will call leather or kink. We conceptualize kink as covering sexual identities, erotic behaviors, sexual interests and fantasies, relationship identities, relationship orientations, and relationship structures between consenting adults not accepted by the dominant culture. We specifically include BDSM (Bondage/Discipline, Dominance/Submission, Sadism/Masochism), Leather, and Fetish as important parts of the umbrella term of kink. Taken from primarily a developmental and intersectional perspective, the course seeks to illuminate the clinical issues and concerns that arise when serving this marginalized sexual minority group within the context of working with the LGBTQ population.
  
  • PSY85015A - Clinical Elective: Psychodynamic

    (1.5 units)
  
  • PSY85015B - Clinical Case Consultation I: Buddhist Psychotherapy

    (1.5 units)
    This course is a case consultation course and focuses on the development of case conceptualization and treatment skills in terms of three focal competencies: (1) understanding the Buddhist definition of person; (2) problem orientation; and (3) integration of theory and practice.
    Prerequisites: PSY85190
  
  • PSY85015C - Clinical Case Consultation II: Buddhist Psychotherapy

    (1.5 units)
    This course is a case consultation course and focuses on the development of case conceptualization and treatment skills in terms of three focal competencies: (1) understanding the Buddhist definition of nāmarūpa and anattā; (2) problem orientation; and (3) integration of theory and practice.
    Prerequisites: PSY85190; PSY85015B
  
  • PSY85015D - Clinical Elective: Psychodynamic I

    (1.5 units)
    The Psy.D. Clinical Program is designed to build sequentially on knowledge and skills. This is an intermediate graduate level 1.5 unit course designed to further knowledge of Psychodynamic interventions with multicultural populations to enhance early clinical skills of rising G2 students. This intervention course focuses on the use of psychodynamic approaches with late adolescent and adult clients. Students are often daunted by the prospect of creating a psychodynamic formulation. This course will follow the guidelines provided by Cabaniss and colleagues (2013) using DESCRIBING, REVIEWING and LINKING as the three steps to formulate the patients treated as a part of this course. Constructing psychodynamic formulations will assist students in understanding their patients, setting treatment goals, determining fitting therapeutic interventions, conducting treatment and evaluating outcomes. The competencies it focuses on include case conceptualization and treatment planning based on thorough diagnostic understanding of cases, as well as specific intervention techniques.  
  
  • PSY85015E - Clinical Elective: Psychodynamic II

    (1.5 units)
    This is the continuation of an intermediate graduate level 1.5 unit course designed to further knowledge of Psychodynamic interventions with multicultural populations to enhance early clinical skills of G2 students and G3 students. The competencies it focuses build on those of the previous semester by focusing on linking diagnostic and conceptualization skills from the first semester to therapeutic interventions within long-term psychodynamic treatment. This intervention course focuses on the use of psychodynamic approaches with older adolescent and adult clients. Building on the psychodynamic formulations learned and applied during the first semester, students will gain experience setting treatment goals, determining fitting therapeutic interventions, identifying resistances, conducting treatment and evaluating outcomes, all from a psychodynamic frame of reference.   
  
  • PSY85020 - Supplemental Practicum

    (1 unit)
    Recommended field training experience. Students gain further professional experience, and in some cases specialized training.
  
  • PSY85023A - Clinical Elective: Advanced Psychotherapy Techniques

    (3 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.
  
  • PSY85030 - Elective Practicum

    (0 to 3 units)
    In addition to the required practicum experience, students gain further professional experience in this elective course.
  
  • PSY85030I - Elective Practicum

    (1 unit)
  
  • PSY85031 - Elective Practicum

    (1 unit)
    In addition to the required practicum experience, students gain further professional experience in this elective course.
  
  • PSY85032 - Elective Practicum

    (2 units)
  
  • PSY85033 - Elective Practicum

    (3 units)
    In addition to the required practicum experience, students gain further professional experience in this elective course.
  
  • PSY85091 - Supervision Seminar

    (1 unit)
    A year-long seminar examining the theory and techniques used in the supervision of human service personnel. Students develop their own style and techniques based upon specific theoretical viewpoints and apply these skills in the supervision of practicum students.
    Prerequisites: PSY65100
    Fresno PsyD Clinical Psychology: G3 status in program

  
  • PSY85092 - Supervision Seminar

    (2 units)
    A year-long seminar examining the theory and techniques used in the supervision of human service personnel. Students develop their own style and techniques based upon specific theoretical viewpoints and apply these skills in the supervision of practicum students.
    Prerequisites: PSY65100
    Fresno PsyD Clinical Psychology: G3 status in program

  
  • PSY85093 - Supervision Seminar

    (3 units)
    This course covers the principles and theories of clinical supervision. Students will develop their own style and techniques using a competence-based framework and apply these skills in peer supervision. The course also covers legal, ethical, and theoretical concepts necessary for engaging in clinical supervision.
  
  • PSY85102 - Supervision Seminar

    (2 units)
    A year-long seminar examining the theory and techniques used in the supervision of human service personnel. Students develop their own style and techniques based upon specific theoretical viewpoints and apply these skills in the supervision of practicum students.
    Prerequisites: PSY85091
    Fresno PhD Clinical Psychology: PSY65090, PSY65100

  
  • PSY85103 - Supervision Seminar

    (3 units)
    A year-long seminar examining the theory and techniques used in the supervision of human service personnel. Students develop their own style and techniques based upon specific theoretical viewpoints and apply these skills in the supervision of practicum students.
    Prerequisites: Passing grade in PSY8509
    Fresno PhD Clinical Psychology: PSY6509, PSY6510

 

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