connection between the theory of personality and the therapeutic approaches that evolve out of that theory. PSYG 802 Psychological Assessment II 3 credits This course will prepare students to conduct cognitive assessments of elementary school children and adolescents using current editions of the following tests: Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children; Wechsler Individual Achievement Test; Wechsler Memory Scale; Children's Memory Scale; Wide Range Assessment of Memory and Learning; Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test; and Beery Developmental Test of Visual足 Motor Integration (VMI). Students will also learn about parent/teacher rating scales and child self-report measures. Students will be introduced to the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale and the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence. Prerequisite: PSYG 800 PSYG 803 Psychological Assessment Ill 3 credits This course will prepare students to administer and interpret projective tests. Emphasis will be placed on learning the scoring and interpretation of the Rorschach Inkblot Technique according to John Exner's Comprehensive System. Prerequisite: PSYG 800 PSYG 804 Historical Foundations of Psychology 3 credits This course provides the student with an historical overview of the history and systems of psychology from ancient to modern times. All major systems of thought will be reviewed. This course also examines the current systems of understanding human function including research into memory, cognition and affect, with which the modern clinician needs to be familiar. Ties are made between historical systems and current systems of understanding. Finally, the course connects all these systems of thought with the psychodynamic and systems orientations that underlie the philosophy of the Department of Professional Psychology at Chestnut Hill College. PSYG 805 Psychometric Theory
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Basic principles of the theory behind psychological measurement standardization, reliability, validity, item analysis, test bias) will be reviewed.
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PSYG 806 Psychodynamic Theory and Therapy 3 credits This course examines the principles of psychoanalytic and psychodynamic thought and therapy from Freud to the present. Classic psychoanalytic approaches through modern object relations, ego-psychology, and self-psychology paradigms will be presented. Emphasis will be placed on applying the principles to the actual practice of psychodynamic psychotherapy: Freud, neo-Freudians, object-relations, ego-psychology and self-psychology, and the implications for the therapeutic relationship. An in-depth critique of how psychodynamic principles coexist in the midst of the modern clinical milieu will be accomplished. PSYG 806L Psychodynamic Theory and Therapy Lab 1 credit One-hour per week lab to be taken in conjunction with PSYG 806. The lab is specifically designed to provide the student with the opportunity for clinical application of the material learned in PSYG 806.
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