PSYCHOLOGY 300:
COMPARATIVE
PSYCHOLOGY

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Jeffrey Dillon, MA

Tuition: $375

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An intensive study of the history of psychology, East and West, ancient and modern.  Special emphasis is laid on the changing subject matter and methodology of psychological science.  In-depth analysis, critique and evaluation of different schools of psychology in the West, such as the Behavioristic School, the Pschoanalytic School, the Humanistic School, Transpersonal School, etc.

Required Text:

Ryckman, Richard, M. Theories of Personality.   Wadsworth Publishing, 1999, 7th Edition.  ISBN: 053434898X. (Click on the title to order this text online through WorldU's link with Amazon.com.  Be sure to look for used copies that may be available on the Amazon page for this book.)

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PSYCHOLOGY 301:
CONSCIOUSNESS
PSYCHOLOGY

Course Mentor:

John Griffin, PhD

Tuition: $375

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The premise and focus of Consciousness Psychology - also referred to as Transpersonal Consciousness Psychology and Integral Consciousness Psychology - is an open ended exploration of the way that consciousness creates, pervades, preserves, and transforms all existence. Many mystical wisdom traditions hold that omni-consciousness is the divine substrate that underlies and informs everything, including our own consciousness.

Required Texts:

Subject Overview:   Goswami's Hard Questions, a Fair Use copy of an online article by Dr. Amit Goswami.

Text:   Vaughn, Frances and Walsh, Roger (editors). Paths Beyond Ego: The Transpersonal Vision. New York: J.P. Tarcher, 1993.   (Click on the title to order this text online through WorldU's link with Amazon.com.  Some used copies may be available on the page for this book.

Text:   Scotton, Bruce (ed.) et al. Textbook of Transpersonal Psychiatry and Psychology. New York: Basic Books, 1996. (Click on the title to order this text online through WorldU's link with Amazon.com.  Some used copies may be available on the page for this book.)

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PSYCHOLOGY 302:
GRADUATE STUDIES IN SELFLESS SERVICE

Course Mentor:

John Griffin

Tuition: free for WorldU Degree and Certificate Students

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The focus of the course is on the practice of Selfless Service. The two required texts and other readings will provide a theoretical background indicating how selfless service can and should be performed, its therapeutic temporal and spiritual aspects, and the need to engage it in a transpersonal way. But the heart of the course lies in your engagement with the actual practice of service which is, or will become, transpersonal and selfless in nature. 

Required Texts:

Amin, Vijay and Patel, Kirit (compilers). Yoga of Action.   Bombay: Prashanthi Printers, various editions. (This booklet is available for $3.50 plus shipping from The Sathya Sai Book Center of America, 305 W. First Street, Tustin, CA 92780, USA, Tel: (714) 669-0522)

This small booklet is a compilation of messages on selfless service from Sathya Sai Baba, who teaches a path of loving all and serving all as steps on the path toward infinite oneness.

Rhoads, Robert. Community Service and Higher Learning: Explorations of the Caring Self.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.  (Click on the title to order this text online through WorldU's link with Amazon.com.  Some used copies may be available on the page for this book.)

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PSYCHOLOGY 304:
PARAPSYCHOLOGY

Course Mentor:

John Griffin, PhD

Tuition: $375

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A study and analysis of paranormal phenomena such as Extra-Sensory Perception (ESP), Telepathy, Psychokinesis (PK), and Out-of-Body Experiences (OBE). Case Studies of persons and groups involved with parapsychological phenomena. Parapsychology and spirituality.

Required Texts:

Radin, Dean. The Conscious Universe:The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena. San Francisco: HarperEdge / HarperSanFrancisco, 1997.

(this text is available from www.harpercollins.com/harperedge or www.amazon.com or www.bn.com)

Schmicker, Michael. Best Evidence: An Investigative Reporter's Three Year Quest to Uncover the Best Scientific Evidence for ESP, Psychokinesis, Mental Healing, Ghosts and Poltergeists, Dowsing, Mediums, Near Death Experiences, Reincarnation, and Other Impossible Phenomena That Refuse to Disappear. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, (2 ^nd edition) 2002.

(this text is available online from www.amazon.com or www.bn.com or www.iuniverse.com)

Yogananda, Paramahansa. Autobiography of a Yogi.  A free online public domain copy is available HERE

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Psychology 317:
Orientation to
Counseling

Course Mentor:  
John Griffin, PhD

Tuition: $375

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This course takes a personal approach to introducing students to the field of counseling. Believing that human development is multi-sided, we have chosen texbooks that recognize and include physical, cognitive-behavioral, social, emotional, and spiritual development. Our primary text includes sections on stress management, career choices, responsibilities of counselors, learning counseling skills, theory and practice, and specific foundation areas like group, family, school and community.  

Required Texts:

Peterson, Vincent J., and Nisenholz, Bernard. Orientation to Counseling.   Allyn & Bacon, 1999. ISBN: 0-205-27539-7. Click on the title to order this text online through WorldU's link with Amazon.com.  Some used copies may be available on the page for this book. The text may also be ordered directly from the publisher's website at 800-278-3525.

Doherty, William J. Soul Searching: Why Psychotherapy Must Promote Moral Responsibility.  Basic Books, 1996.  ISBN: 0-465-00945-X (paperback).   (Click on the title to order this text online through WorldU's link with Amazon.com.  Some used copies may be available on the page for this book.) 
 

PSYCHOLOGY 318:
DREAM
CONSCIOUSNESS,
EAST & WEST

Course Mentor:

John Griffin, PhD,

with Fleur Cynta, MA

Tuition: $375

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A study and analysis of dream consciousness, East and West. A transcultural perspective. Jungian dream theory, the unconscious, the archetypes, and the "little" and "big" dreams. Lucid dreaming. The Eastern concept of Tibetan dream yoga, using dream consciousness to further spiritual realization. Contemporary synthesis of various concepts of dreamwork. Dream journaling and interpretation.

Required Texts:

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Bluestone, Sarvananda. The World Dream Book.   Rochester, Vermont:Destiny Books, 2002.  ISBN:0892819022

Wangyal, Tenzin. Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep. Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications,1998. ISBN: 1559391014. In the Indo-Tibetan tradition, the development of lucidity in the dream state is aimed at generating greater awareness for the ultimate purpose of "waking up" to greater awareness and ultimately unconditioned consciousness and liberation.

Moss, Robert. Conscious Dreaming: A Spiritual Path For Everyday Life. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1996.  ISBN:051788710X

PSYCHOLOGY 321:
CONSCIOUS
DYING

Course Mentor:

John Griffin, PhD

Tuition: $375

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A consideration of the Socratic-Platonic injunction to "Practice Dying" within the context of Philosophy as the "Love of Wisdom" and "Wisdom of Love" and living a mindful, examined life incorporating the practice of ethical, caring behavior. An East-West perspective on ethics and human values for truly conscious and insightful living and dying. Philosophical implications of testimonies from Near-Death Experiences.

Required Texts:

Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth and Kessler, David. Life Lessons: Two Experts on Death and Dying Teach Us About the Mysteries of Life and Living. NY: Touchstone Books, 2001. (You can click on the title to order from the WorldU+Amazon link. To save money, be sure to look for used copies on the Amazon page for this book.)

Reyes, Benito F. Conscious Dying. Ojai: World University, 3rd Edition, 1993.
(The above listed book is available at World University in Ojai; please order at the time of registration)

Ring, Kenneth (and co-authors). Lessons from the Light: What We Can Learn from The Near-Death Experience. (You can click on the title to order from the WorldU+Amazon link. To save money, be sure to look for used copies on the Amazon page for this book.)

 
PSYCHOLOGY 327:
PSYCHO-
PATHOLOGY

Course Mentor:
Deborah Ray, MFT

Tuition: $375

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This course will focus on the development of abnormal behavior as viewed from many theoretical schools of psychology. Topics will include the study of family systems, theory as it relates to the development of deviant behavior, symptomatology and current treatment modalities.

Required Texts:

Ryckman, Richard, M. Theories of Personality.   Wadsworth, 1999,  ISBN: 053434898X.  (NOTE: This text is also required for Psy 300 Comparative Psychology, a graduate level foundation course which precedes this course as a prerequisite, so all students enrolled for an M.A. degree in psychology should already have it.  But if you are taking this course on a non-degree basis for continuing education or State of California Board of Behavioral Science requirement fulfillment, click on the title to order the text online through WorldU's link with Amazon.com. Some used copies may be available on the page for this book.)

Seligman, Martin, et al. Abnormal Psychology (4th edition). New York: W.W. Norton, 2002, ISBN 039394459X. (Click on the title to order this text online through WorldU's link with Amazon Books.  Some used copies may be available on the page for this book. This next may also be ordered directly from the publisher at www.wwnorton.com)

PSYCHOLOGY 328:
HUMAN SEXUALITY:
THERAPY AND
DEVELOPMENTAL
PERSPECTIVES

Course Mentor:
Andrea Lackovic, MA

Tuition: $375

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Theoretical and practical issues will be studied in the understanding and treatment of sexual dysfunctions, problems in communication, attitudes, sexual abuse and incest. Homosexuality and male/female sexual development roles and stages will also be studied.

Required Texts:

Leiblum, Sandra and Rosen, Raymond (editors). Principles and Practice of Sex Therapy.   New York: Guilford Publications, 2000. (ISBN: 1572305746) Click on the title to order this text online through WorldU's link with Amazon.com.  Some used copies may be available on the page for this book. The text may also be ordered online from the publisher's website at www.guilford.com.

From the Back Cover
"Continuing in their fine tradition, Leiblum and Rosen give those of us who are learning, providing, or reflecting on the treatment of sexual problems an opportunity to be with the best thinkers in the field. Hope for medication assistance now abounds, yet the authors succeed in conveying the rich psychological and social landscape of human sexual interaction. No one who reads this book will ever again be tempted to reduce sex therapy to a single paradigm." Stephen B. Levine, MD, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH.

PSYCHOLOGY 329:
HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMEMNT

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John Griffin, PhD

Tuition: $375

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Biological, social, emotional and psychological developmental stages in infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adult; hereditary, environmental and cultural influences will be explored as they relate to the evolving family structure, moral development, personality, and social behavior; consideration of dying, death and bereavement issues.

Required Texts:

Sigelman, Carol K., Rider, Elizabeth A. (2003). Life-Span Human Development.  Wadsworth. ISBN: 0534553508. (Click on the title to order this text online through WorldU's link with Amazon.com.  Some used copies may be available on the page for this book.)

 
Psychology 338: Cross-Cultural Mores and Values

Course Mentor:  Carol Rainwater, M.A.

Tuition: $375

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This course will explore the psychology of the subcultures of blacks, chicanos, women, homosexuals, and the disabled; their development, uniqueness and inter-relatedness. Cultural patterns and behaviors are explored and clinical issues related to these patterns are presented.

McGoldrick, Monica, Giordano, J., & Pearce, J. K. (Eds.). (1996). Ethnicity & Family Therapy.  New York: Guilford Press. ISBN: 0898629594.  (Click on the title to order this text online through WorldU's link with Amazon.com.  Some used copies may be available on the page for this book.)

Root, M. P. P. (1996). The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.  ISBN: 0803970595. (Click on the title to order this text online through WorldU's link with Amazon.com.  Some used copies may be available on the page for this book.)

Psychology 339: Professional Ethics and Law

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Andrea Lackovic, MA

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Legal and ethical issues as they relate to the professional practice of marriage, family and child counseling and other counseling specialties, including confidentiality, licensure, client rights, and professional conduct.

Required Textbook:

Corey, Gerald, et al.  Issues and Ethics in the Helping Professions.  6th Edition.   Brooks/Cole (Thomson Learning). ISBN: 053435615X. (Click on the title to order this text online through WorldU's link with Amazon.com.  Some used copies may be available on the page for this book.)

Psychology 341: Psycholgical Testing

Course Mentor:  
Wayne T. James, PsyD

Tuition: $375

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An Introductory course on psychological testing, including familiarization with several actual tests.  Includes some history of psychological assessment and testing. Emphasis will be on the study of the primary psychological tools used by psychologists and therapists or counselors.  The student also will study legal and ethical issues that the therapist should be aware prior to testing the client and upon completing the testing of the client.  The final part of the study program will be the understanding of how to read or write a psychological assessment report of the client.

Required Textbook (please order as soon as you know you are going to take this course, so that you have the book on hand when the Quarter begins):

Groth-Marnat, Gary.  Handbook of Psychological Assessment.   New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 4th edition. 2003.  (Click on the book title to order this text online through WorldU's link with Amazon.com.  Some used copies may be available on the page for this book.)

Psychology 342: Research Methodology in Psycholgical Testing

Course Mentor:  
Wayne T. James, PsyD

Tuition: $375

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A study and analysis of research methodology in clinical and counseling psychology.  Prepares one to design and implement a testable study, and to competently review and utilize the professional literature.  Psychology 342 will cover an understanding of measurement, sampling issues, important strategies in clinical and counseling psychology; study of issues of planning, conducting and interpretation of research material.

Required Textbook (please order as soon as you know you are going to take this course, so that you have the book on hand when the Quarter begins):

Jay, Thomas. UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH IN CLINICAL AND COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY.   New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, 2003.  ISBN:0805836713.  (Click on the title to order this text online through WorldU's link with Amazon.com.  Some used copies may be available on the page for this book.)

Psychology 344A: Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy

Course Mentor:  
Lynnell Holtby, MA

Tuition: $375

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An introductory course exploring the current therapeutic orientations which form the foundation of marriage and family therapy. This includes the approaches of psychoanalysis, behaviorism, humanism, transpersonal psychology and family systems.

Corey, Gerald.   Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy  (sixth edition).  Wadsworth (Brooks/Cole - Thomson Learning), 2001.  (Click on the title to order this text online through WorldU's link with Amazon.com.  Some used copies may be available on the page for this book.)

Corey, Gerald.  Student Manual for Theory and Practice of Counseling and Psychotherapy.   Wadsworth (Brooks/Cole - Thomson Learning), 2001.  (Click on the title to order this text online through WorldU's link with Amazon.com.  Some used copies may be available on the page for this book.)

Psychology 344B: Theory and Practice of Family Therapy

Course Mentor:  
Debroah Ray, MA, MFT

Tuition: $375

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A study and analysis of family therapy based on one of the best known textbooks in the field, Family Therapy, by Irene and Herbert Goldenberg. Family Therapy provides a balanced presentation of the major theoretical underpinnings and clinical practices in the field. By presenting an overview of traditional and evolving viewpoints, perspectives, values, intervention techniques, and goals of family therapy, the Goldenbergs provide current, relevant, practice-oriented content laying the foundation for students to become proficient family therapists. This edition provides students with not only traditional family therapy theoretical frameworks, but also introduces the field's evolving models and areas of practice, including gender, culture, and ethnicity, and alternative family structures such as single-parent families, remarried families, and gay and lesbian families

Required Texts:

Goldenberg, Herbert and Irene. Family Therapy, 6th Ed.  Pacific Grove, CA: Thommson Wadsworth Publishing, 2003. ISBN: 0534556698.  (Click on the title to order this text online through WorldU's link with Amazon.com.  Some used copies may be available on the page for this book.)

Psychology 350: Integral Education

Course Mentor:  
Sarina Chugani Molina, MA

Tuition: $375

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This course will explore the field of Holistic Education, its historical development, principles, and vision. This paradigm greatly differs from the Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm utilized in the current system of education, which primarily focuses on intellectual development. The goal of integral education is to prepare children to become truly Human by nurturing not only their intellectual development, but also their emotional, social, and spiritual development.

Required Texts and On-line Documents:  

Miller, Ron. 1997. What are schools for? Holistic education in American culture. (THIRD EDITION) Brandon, VT: Holistic Education Press.  1997. (Click on the title to order this text online through WorldU's link with Amazon.com.  Some used copies may be available on the page for this book, BUT BE SURE TO GET THE THIRD EDITION!)

Miller, John & Nakagawa, Yoshiharu. Nurturing Our Wholeness. Perspectives on spirituality in education.   CD-ROM EDITION (BOOK ON DISK) Brandon, VT: The Foundation for Educational Renewal. 2005 ISBN: 1885580207. (Click on the title to order this text online through WorldU's link with Amazon.com.  Some used copies may be available on the page for this book.)
 

Psychology 371: Communication Skills in Counseling

Course Mentor:  
Deborah Ray, MA, MFT 

Tuition: $375

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This course will focus on the “how’s” of the Clinical Interview, exploring the Clinical Interview and its components from the perspective of the microskills approach developed over many years by Allen E. Ivey and colleagues.  You will have the opportunity to integrate parts of this approach with your counseling style, if you choose.  You will have the opportunity to reexamine your counseling style, which is always valuable, and to enhance your way of communicating with clients, perfecting the techniques that work, and acquiring new ones.

Required Texts and On-line Documents:  

Allen E. Ivey and Mary Bradford Ivey. Intentional Interviewing and Counseling (5th ed.)   Pacific Grove, CA: Thompson - Brooks/Cole, 2002.   ISBN: 0534519857.  (Click on the title to order this text online through WorldU's link with Amazon.com. Some used copies may be available on the page for this book.  Please be sure to get the Fifth Edition.)

DESCRIPTION:  The new Fifth Edition of this hallmark text enables students of many backgrounds to master basic skills in a step-by-step fashion, thus rapidly empowering them to conduct a full interviews using only listening skills. Following this, students learn confrontation and influencing skills and by the time the text is completed, students will be able to conduct interviews from several theoretical perspectives: person-centered, decisional interviewing, assertiveness training, and brief solution-oriented counseling. Throughout the text, students are encouraged to examine themselves and to start defining their own personal style and theory of interviewing and counseling.

Dennis Rivers.   The Seven Challenges: A Workbook and Reader About Communicating More Cooperatively.  Victoria, British Columbia: Trafford Publishers, 2004.  (Click the title of the book to download this book as a free PDF file.)  The Seven Challenges Workbook explores how the same patterns of cooperative communication help create interpersonal success at home, at work, and in psychotherapy.

Psychology
374A, B & C: Supervised Practicum -- Field Work

Course Mentor:  
Deborah Ray,
MA, MFT

Tuition: $375

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This course will focus on that what, how's and why's of Clinical Supervision.  What is Clinical Supervision.  How to choose an internship. How to use your supervision wisely and much, much more.  You will also explore the various aspects of the counseling profession and consider if this is the path you wish to choose.

This is a three-part, year-long course that includes, Psychology 374A, 374B and 374C.  Each component (A, B, and C) requires 75 hours per quarter of supervised practicum in a counseling agency, and significant writing and reflecting on your experiences. You will be required to keep track of these practicum hours on a special form; which is available through the University by e-mail.

Since some of you will be taking this class in a state other than California, you will need to be aware of the requirements for supervision and supervisors as is mandated by your state board. You must be sure that the individual supervising your practicum and signing off your hours has that authority so that your hours will be valid. When you have completed the course you will submit copies of the intern hours sign off sheet to me via the University, Any questions should be directed to me via my University e-mail address deborahray@worldu.edu ..

Required Text for 374A:

Faiver, Christopher; Eisengart, Sheri; Colonna, Ronald. The Counselor Intern's Handbook.   Wadsworth Publishing, Third Edition, ISBN   053452835X, 2003.   (Click on the title to order this text online through WorldU's link with Amazon.com.  Some used copies may be available on the page for this book, BUT BE SURE TO GET THE THIRD EDITION.)

Required Text for 374B&C: 

Sweitzer, H. Fredrick, and King, Mary A.   The Successful Internship:  Transformation and Empowerment in Experiential Learning.   Belmont, CA:  Brooks/Cole, 2004. ISBN: 0534558798. (Click on the title to order this text online through WorldU's link with Amazon.com.  PLEASE PURCHASE THE SECOND EDITION only. Some used copies may be available on the page for this book, but be sure to get the 2nd Edition.)

Psychology 377: Alcoholism and
Other Chemical
Dependencies

Course Mentor:  
Wayne T. James, PsyD

Tuition: $375

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A comprehensive analysis of the problems and treatments of alcohol and other chemical dependencies.

Required Text:

Johnson, Jerry. Fundamentals of Substance Abuse Practice.  Wadsworth, 2003.  (ISBN: 053462667X)   (Click on the title to order this text online through WorldU's link with Amazon.com.  Some used copies may be available on the page for this book. This text may be obtained more quickly by ordering directly from the publisher at www.wadsworth.com. Please order as soon as you know you are going to take this course, so that you have the book on hand when the Quarter begins.)

Psychology 378: Abusive
Relationships

Course Mentor:  
Deborah Ray, MA, MFT 

Tuition: $375

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This course will focus on how understanding family maltreatment is vital in being competent at dealing with some of the most important real life concerns.  We will study the multifaceted arena of abuse within the family.  Topic to be presented are child abuse: physical sexual, and emotional maltreatment; sexual offenders, domestic violence and elder abuse.  Each topic will be covered from an ecological or systemic perspective.  This means that as you study the components of abuse within the family; you will consider the intricate sums of each part: social, cultural, group and individual, their impacts and effects.

Required Texts and On-line Documents:  

BOOK:  Kemp, Alan. Abuse in the Family, An Introduction.   Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1997. ISBN: 0534341985  Click on the title to order this text online through WorldU's link with Amazon.com.  Some used copies may be available on the page for this book. Please order as soon as you know you are going to take this course, so that you have the book on hand when the Quarter begins.

DOCUMENT:  Wachtel, Andy.  The “State of the Art” in Child Abuse Prevention Report for the Family Violence Prevention Unit, Health Canada. 1999.

DOCUMENT:  Thomas, David, et al., Emerging Practices in the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect.  U. S. Dept. of Health and Human Services. 2003. (Please note: This is a PDF file.)

Psychology 379: Psychopharmacology

Course Mentor:
Andrea Lackovic, MA

Tuition: $375

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The basic principles of psychopharmacology are presented, including the scientific and clinical applications of the psychopharmacological management of mental diseases. The use of psychiatric psychopharmacology in conjunction with psychotherapy is discussed emphasizing referral criteria.

Required Text:

Bezchlibnyk-Butler, Kaylyna, Z.; Jeffries, Joel. Clinical Handbook of Psychotropic Drugs.  Toronto: Hogrefe & Huber Publishers, 2002. (Order directly from publisher by calling (800) 228-3749.)

Required Websites:

www.npi.ucla.edu  Website of the Neuropsychiatric Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles.

nmha position on children and meds 
 Section of the website of the National Mental Health Association containing the NMHA Position Statement on the use of psychotropic medication to treat the mental health needs of children.

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