Courses

• GRS PS 773: Clinical Psychological Assessment of Children and Families
  Clinical applications of and theoretical and empirical bases for structured diagnostic and play interviews, standardized cognitive and personality tests, and projective methods. Administration and clinical interpretation of representative measures (e.g.WISC-R, Rorschach and Family genograms).
• GRS PS 774: Clinical Psychological Assessment of Adults Practicum
  Note: Must co-register for GRS PS 772. This course is the applied practicum course for Clinical Psychological Assessment of Adults (PS 772). It is designed to provide a comprehensive, applied experience in psychological assessment report writing and the administration, scoring, cognitive/intellectual and personality functioning.
• GRS PS 790: Family Theory and Research
  Basic and applied issues in family studies. Psychological theory and research are reviewed; problems in studying the family historically and cross-culturally are considered. Applied psychological issues include gender roles, identity and intimacy, and family interaction.
• GRS PS 791: Psychology of Social Oppression
  Primary focus on academic research and theoretical models as applied to people of color. The psychologist in minority settings, program development, cross-cultural research issues; alternative models of traditional psychological theories.
• GRS PS 822: Visual Perception
  Theory and data relating to contemporary problems in visual perception.
• GRS PS 824: Cognitive Psychology
  This class provides an in-depth introduction to major contemporary issues related to cognitive psychology and human information processing, including acquisition of information from stimuli, feature integration, and top-down effects on perception and recognition.
• GRS PS 825: Early Social Cognition
  This seminar focuses on how infants and young children understand the social world. Topics include recent research on social evaluation (moral babies); theory of mind; actions, intentions, and goals; and social categories. Implications for traditional theories of social development.
• GRS PS 828: Seminar in Psycholinguistics
  Psycholinguistics use techniques of experimental psychology to construct and test theories of the mental processes mediating adult language comprehension and production. Seminar includes reading current papers on biological bases, crosslinguistic research, and processing the word, sentence, and discourse levels of language.
• GRS PS 829: Principles of Neuropsychology
  Central nervous system processes underlying memory, language, cognition, emotion, sensory functioning, and motor function in normal and pathological conditions. Theory, experimental findings, and reference to clinical cases.
• GRS PS 840: Developmental Behavioral Genetics
  This course provides an overview of human behavioral genetic theory, methods, and research as they relate to behavioral development and other psychological issues. Current research examining genetic and environmental contributions to individual differences in behavior will be discussed and critically evaluated.
• GRS PS 843: Life Span Development
  Examines human development throughout the life span and focuses on numerous domains of physical, cognitive, and psychosocial development in order to gain a better understanding of the multifaceted constructs and transitions between developmental stages that characterize human development.
• GRS PS 844: Theories of Development
  Comparative examination of theories of psychological development and their usefulness in interpreting behavioral phenomena. Major consideration to theories of Freud, Piaget, and Werner.
• GRS PS 847: Atypical Development
  Focus on the nature of developmental disabilities (e.g. mental retardation, autism, sensory, motor, and communication disorders, learning disabilities), on how studying atypicality can broaden our understanding of normal development, and on how developmental theory can guide study of disorders.
• GRS PS 860: Child Therapy
  Child therapy cases and processes are explored from a multitheoretical perspective including systems, analytic, and cognitive-behavioral theories. Empirical research on therapies for specific disorders (e.g., conduct disorders, eating disorders, etc.) are also discussed.
• GRS PS 874: Seminar: Psychotherapy
  Basic clinical concepts of psychotherapy and their application in the treatment of personality and behavior disorders. Case materials from the students' and instructor's therapeutic work used to illustrate special problems.
• GRS PS 875: Advanced Psychopathology
  This seminar presents an introductory overview to specific clinical disorders and syndromes. Neurobiological, psychoanalytic, behavioral, and social perspectives are emphasized. It is recommended that students have some preparation in physiological psychology.
• GRS PS 879: The Scientist Practitioner
  To acquaint first year doctoral students in clinical psychology with the role of the scientist-practitioner as a guiding philosophical underpinning to the practice of clinical psychology. A focus will be on the crucial role of the scientist-practitioner in our emerging behavioral healthcare system.
• GRS PS 880: Empirically Supported Treatments of Psychological Disorders
  The goal of this seminar is to become familiar with the efficacy and effectiveness of some of the most important state-of-the-art treatments for various psychological problems. Each participant is expected to present a paper discussing the theory, efficacy, and clinical utility of the selected psychosocial interventions.
• GRS PS 882: Empirically Supported Child and Family Treatments
  Explores the status of individual- and family-based psychological treatments for childhood psychopathology that are empirically supported (i.e., whose efficacy has received at least preliminary scientific support). Rationale and controversies are discussed, and specific treatment models are illustrated through case examples.
• GRS PS 901: Directed Study in Psychology
  Doctoral candidates are encouraged to undertake special projects.

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