Dates/Quizzes

Topics

Reading & Assignments

8/20, 8/25, & 8/27 (Q1)

No class, 9/1 (Labor Day)

Introduction to clinical and counseling psychology

Careers in psychology and in the helping professions

Similarities and differences

Boulder model

1. Lloyd, Master's and doctoral: http://www.psychwww.com/careers/masters.htm

2. Himelein, A student's guide:

http://www.lemoyne.edu/OTRP/otrpresources/helping.html

3. Stricker, The scientist-practitioner (RR#1)

4. Plante, Mirror me: http://www.apa.org/divisions/div12/tcp_journals/TCP_5601.pdf

9/3, 9/8,

9/10 (Q2),

9/15, &

9/17 (Q3)

Psychodynamic therapies

Classical psychoanalysis

Self psychology and object-relations psychotherapies

5. Freud, First and second lectures: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Freud/Origin/origin1.htm and http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Freud/Origin/origin2.htm

6. Lindner, Solitaire (RR #2)

7. Kahn, The meeting of psychoanalysis (RR #3)

8. Waldinger & Gunderson, Ann (RR #4)

9/22, 9/24 (Q4), 9/29, 10/1 (Q5), & 10/6

No class, 10/8 (Fall Break)

Humanistic therapies

Client-centered therapy

Existential therapy

Gestalt therapy

Helping Profession Paper due, 9/29

9. Rogers, Significant aspects:

http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Rogers/therapy.htm
10. Akeret, Naomi (RR #5)

11. Yalom, Prologue & If rape were legal (RR #6)

12. Rowan, Gestalt therapy: http://ahpweb.org/rowan_bibliography/chapter7.html

13. Akeret, Mary (RR #7)

10/13 & 10/15

Catch up and review

Mid-term Exam, 10/15

10/20,

10/22 (Q6), 10/27, &

10/29 (Q7)

Behavioral and cognitive-behavioral therapies

14. Trull & Phares, Cognitive-behavioral (RR #8)

15. Riggs & Foa, Case study (RR #9)

16. Ellis, A 23-year old woman (RR #10)

11/3, 11/5 (Q8), & 11/10

Psychotherapy effectiveness

Research on psychotherapy

General factors

17. Seligman, Effectiveness of psychotherapy:

http://www.apa.org/journals/seligman.html

18. Persons & Silberschatz, Are results useful? (RR #11)

19. Miller, Hubble, & Duncan, Bells & whistles:

http://www.talkingcure.com/No%20More%20Bells%20or%20Whistles.doc

11/12 (Q9),

11/17, &

11/19 (Q10)

Professional and ethical issues

Cross-cultural counseling

Ethics

20. Atkinson, Ethnic minorities (RR #12)

21. Atkinson & Hackett, Diversity imperatives (RR #13)
22. Pope, Dual relationships:
http://kspope.com/dual/dual.php
23. Tavris, Mind games: http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i25/25b00701.htm

11/24, 12/1, & 12/3

No class, 11/26
(Thanksgiving)

Current practice issues, e.g., prescription privileges, managed care, disabilities, multicultural practices

Projects due: Case Study Paper due 12/1, Presentations due 11/24, 12/1, or 12/3

12/8

Final Exam, 12/8, 8:30-10:30 a.m.