PSY 9500 - Advanced Clinical Elective

1. Interventions with Adolescents Focus is on the systemic influences and context in which adolescents live and thrive, while attending to the individual changes and experiences occurring within the adolescent. Students learn how to evaluate adolescents and their families for treatment, how to decide on the most appropriate interventions and how to implement these interventions within the context of physical, emotional, social, cognitive, family, peer and school systems across these three stages: early, middle and late adolescence. This is an interactive and experiential course. Students are expected to participate in roleplays, practice interventions, provide supportive feedback to their classmates and be willing to explore, disclose and integrate their own experiences as an adolescent into what they learn in this course.
2. Training and Supervision in Couple, Sex, and Family Therapy Highly experiential advanced course is designed to provide intensive, hands on training in couple and sex therapy. Students will have the opportunity to be in the role of therapist, supervisor, team consultant and family member. They will work with diverse couples with a variety of presenting problems. Students will be trained through videotape supervision as well as live supervision throughout the session. Students will learn to become competent therapists and they will also be taught the skills of live and videotape supervision. This advanced seminar will help you to sharpen the accuracy of your clinical lens and help you to maintain a well differentiated clinical stance. Important goals of this class are to: aid you in validating yourself, assist you in holding on to yourself and soothing your anxiety when working with difficult cases. Encourage students to look more closely themselves in their own families of origin.