Sherryl Goodman, Ph.D.

Teaching

PSYC 315: Psychology of Family Relations

The goals of this course are for undergraduate students:

1. To gain a comprehensive understanding of selected topics within the psychology of family relationships.
2. To gain experience in critically evaluating the research on psychology of the family.
3. To develop skills in critically thinking about topics within psychology of the family.

The knowledge and skills acquired during this intermediate-level course may most benefit students who plan a career in psychology and require the knowledge presented here as a building block to further study. The course will also be of value to those for whom psychology is a secondary interest and who want to be informed consumers of this topic area within psychological science.

PSYC 750: Clinical Supervision

Supervision of cases involving Cognitive Therapy for depression or anxiety, parent management training for families of children with conduct disorders, and couples therapy (Christensen and Jacobson’s integrative behavioral couples therapy). Offered to advanced graduate students in the Clinical Psychology Program, arranged individually with the student and with the approval of the student’s advisor.

PSYC 547: Intervention II (Families: Processes, Psychopathology, Assessment, and Intervention)

The goals of the course are to develop critical thinking, knowledge, and skills in the following areas of study:

1. Healthy family development and processes, including their cultural variations, and implications for the development of couples’ and family problems and psychopathology in individuals
2. Family processes that are associated with the development or maintenance of psychopathology in children or adolescents; processes within couples that are associated with marital distress.
3. Empirically validated and other evidence based methods of assessment and intervention for families with a child who has psychopathology and for couples with marital distress.

This is a required course for second year students in the Clinical Psychology Program.

PSYC 750: Clinical Supervision

Supervision of cases involving Cognitive Therapy for depression or anxiety, parent management training for families of children with conduct disorders, and couples therapy (Christensen and Jacobson’s integrative behavioral couples therapy). Offered to advanced graduate students in the Clinical Psychology Program, arranged individually with the student and with the approval of the student’s advisor.

Other Courses Offered on an Irregular Basis

PSYC 770: Developmental Psychopathology

The primary goal of this course is for students to begin to answer one primary question: How can knowledge of normal development inform our efforts to elucidate the etiology of disorders, to assess and classify child psychopathology, and to develop effective treatments for childhood disorders?

In this seminar, students consider the relationships between the fields of developmental psychology (the study of normal social, emotional, cognitive development, etc.) and clinical psychology (the studies of psychopathology and behavior change). Developmental psychopathology is a relatively new field and is still emerging. It represents the contributions of principles of normal development to the understanding of the origins and course of individual patterns of adaptation and maladaptation and behavior change.

Students of all aspects of psychology will benefit from this course. Training to become a clinical psychologist will be enhanced by the opportunity to integrate relevant knowledge in cognitive, behavioral, affective, social and biological development, and family relations into issues of clinical concern. Conversely, developmental psychology and neuroscience and animal behavior students will have the opportunity to explore how information on developmental deviances can contribute to understandings of both normal development and psychopathology.

Psych. 770 Developmental Psychology: A Clinical Scientist Perspective

The course is an advanced developmental psychology course with a specific focus on aspects of the field that are essential for an understanding of developmental psychopathology. The course meets essentially two current highly unmet needs: (a) it will provide an upper level, advanced course in developmental psychology, which we expect will appeal to our undergraduates who are planning to attend graduate school and seek advanced training, and (b) it provides a foundation course for our graduate students in Clinical Psychology or Neuroscience and Animal Behavior, who may be interested in models of psychopathology or treatment for disorders for which an understanding of developmental psychology is essential.

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