CHILD THERAPY CLUSTER

Child Therapy
This course will address the basic childhood disorders such as attention deficit, conduct disorders, depression, fears and anxieties, problems in social relationships, developmental disorders, eating disorders, enuresis and encopresis, child abuse and neglect, and health related problems. Parent-child/ adolescent conflicts will be discussed. (PSY 602, 3 cr)

Advanced Child Therapy
This course will examine what is involved in the understanding of working with children in therapy. Guidelines on how to help children assume responsibility as well as the necessary therapeutic stance to facilitate children will be discussed. Treatment options will be the focus. (PSY 603, 3 cr)

Child Assessment
This course will provide training in administration, scoring, and interpretation of commonly used assessment instruments to evaluate children from age 2 to 21 years of age. The goal is for each student to become knowledgeable in the following areas: design of test batteries; administration of multiple tests; interpretation of test performance; interpretation of test battery results; and presentation of the reults concisely and at the appropriate level for the “listener”. Assessment instruments will include, but not be limited to, the following: Cognition (WPPSI III, Bayley, Stanford Binet IV, WJ III), Academic (WJIII, WIAT), Motor/Perceptual (VMI, Bender), Social/Emotional (Child Behavior Checklist, BASC, Conners), Projectives (Roberts), Language (Expressive One Word, PPVT III), Interviews. (PSY 600, 3 cr)

Specific Intervention in Child Therapy This course is presented from the perspective of child-centered therapy. Concepts of this approach are reviewed; students discuss and participate in relevant therapeutic experiences such as finger painting, work with clay, collage and other expressive techniques. (PSY 601, 2 cr)