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Courses Taught Survey Courses Abnormal Psychology - PSY 231 (Syllabus) (Tutorials) (Spring 2007) Characteristics, etiology, and treatment of major patterns of maladaptive behavior (anxiety disorders, depression, antisocial behavior, schizophrenia, etc.). Theoretical and empirical evidence for understanding causality and treatment.Methods Courses Psychological Research: Design & Analysis - PSY 310 (Syllabus) (Tutorials) (Spring 2007) Introduction to psychological research. Descriptive, correlational, and experimental methods of research will be examined. Primary focus on data analysis including descriptive statistics and inferential statistics with emphasis on analysis of variance. Mandatory weekly computer lab. Psychological Research: Clinical - PSY 314 (Syllabus) (Tutorials) (Fall 2006) Research methodologies and statistical techniques used in clinical research. Ethical and practical constraints to the empirical study of clinical problems. Students critique empirical articles in Clinical Psychology and Behavioral Medicine in lecture/discussion and develop skills with multivariate statistics. Required participation in research experiences as subjects and investigators.Seminars Seminar in Behavioral Medicine and Health Psychology - PSY 364 (Syllabus) (Spring 2007) This topical seminar reviews issues in Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, two areas where clinical psychologists contribute to the traditional medical professional community. Students discuss readings in the PsychoSocial dimensions of medical care, discussing what is known about personality variables that affect health- such as Type A Behavior and cardiovascular risk- or interventions with medical problems- such as group therapy for patients with metastasized breast cancer. Students will be expected to keep journals of assignments related to their own health care- such as dietary and exercise changes- so that they will develop a firsthand appreciation for how difficult it is to change health behavior. Each student will also become the class expert in a particular illness, and will critically analyze what is known about that disease or trauma from traditional BioMedical molecular levels to PsychoSocial levels, more traditionally the domain of clinical psychology. Seminar in Clinical Neuroscience - PSY 365 (Syllabus) (Fall 2006) Health care professionals increasingly recognize that mental illness occurs within an “ecology.” Problems in mental illness can be understood at a synaptic level, the level of a “personality,” a family, or even a culture. In our contemporary landscape explosive developments in science and health care are increasingly directing empirical investigations and interventions to relatively molecular- traditionally BioMedical- levels of analysis so productively mined by neuroscientists. Clinicians of all stripes should be aware of the burgeoning literature with empirical evidence for neuroscientific substrates of mental illness. At the same time, thoughtful neuroscientists and clinicians are asserting that we should not work toward paradigm shifts so much as try and forge syntheses from different levels of analysis of mental illness. In this seminar we will critically review readings educating neuroscientists about contemporary strategies for defining, classifying, and intervening with mental illness: at the same time we will educate clinically oriented students to neuroscientific evidence for understanding clinical phenomena. A seminar format, this course is intended to forge a group of scholars exploring syntheses of evidence and ideas bridging neuroscience and clinical work.
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