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.  