23 courses with the subject CLPY, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
CLPY 600Professional Seminar I (3 cr.)
This course introduces students to the profession of clinical psychology, including professional roles, identity, values, attitudes and behaviors. Students explore professional associations, credentialing, and career paths. The course provides an introduction into Catholic intellectual thought and principles that are integrated into the curriculum and professional identity. Socialization into the program and profession is reinforced by promoting integrity, lifelong learning, integration of faith and reason, on-going self-reflection, concern for others, openness and responsiveness to feedback, and community building. Foundational microskills needed to establish and maintain helping relationships are introduced and practiced through guided experiential learning exercises.
This course provides an overview of developmental theories and research that cover the entire lifespan - conception to death, including transitions, strengths, and challenges that impact human growth, maturation, and flourishing. The course emphasizes moral and spiritual development models and research, integrated within a Catholic view of the human person.
This course provides an overview of the American Psychological Association ethical code of as well as how to find, read, and interpret federal and state laws, policies, and regulations relevant to health service psychology. Students explore their own personal ethics and virtue formation in relation to the profession of clinical psychology. Students are exposed to diverse ethical challenges and dilemmas as well as corresponding ethical decision-making models for resolution.
In this course, students are introduced to the American Psychological Association’s multicultural guidelines and how to apply the guidelines across various settings, individuals, groups, communities, and professional roles. The course prepares according to the three core competences of multicultural counseling. Students examine the role of clinical psychology in system-level change through promotion of the common good and social justice, including their ability to function as an advocate to address social injustices that impact individuals, groups, and communities on society’s margins.
In this course, students apply the American Psychological Association components of evidence-based practice to clinical practice, namely, best available research, clinical expertise, and patient culture and preferences. Students learn to understand and critically evaluate research and other scholarly works (e.g., primary sources, professional peer-reviewed articles). Students examine issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion in psychological science and implications for clinical practice with diverse individuals, groups, and communities. Particular attention is given to developing evidence-based psychotherapy relationships with respect to human dignity and flourishing.
CLPY 625Psychological Testing and Assessment (3 cr.)
The focus of this course is to prepare students to understand current theory and knowledge of psychometrics, including reliability, validity, and scale development techniques. Students learn to critically evaluate, select, and apply psychological tests and diverse assessment methods based on evidence-based practice guidance and a bio-psycho-social-spiritual framework.
CLPY 630Psychopathology and Positive Psychology (3 cr.)
This course provides an overview of current diagnostic classification systems (e.g., DSM-V-TR, 2022) with a focus on accurate diagnostic decision-making while considering various contexts, strengths, and culture of clients. Students learn to discern the range and dimensions of human functioning, from severe psychopathology to resilience, use of strengths, and meaning in life. Attention is paid to Catholic beliefs of virtue formation within the context of psychological functioning and dimensional model of personality.
CLPY 635Clinical Theories and Interventions Seminar (3 cr.)
This advanced seminar course focuses on evidence-based interventions that integrate relevant psychological theory, research, and cultural factors to a) establish an intervention plan with appropriate treatment goals, b) intervention outcomes, and d) an evaluation plan of treatment process, goals, and outcomes. The course highlights how health service psychology interventions can account for social determinants of health and expansion of intervention roles. Students learn application of and Catholic assumptions and beliefs of human nature within the Catholic Christian Meta Model of the Person.
This course provides an overview of evidence-based theories, strategies, and techniques for group interventions that promote group-level health and well-being outcomes, consistent with health service psychology. The course includes developing treatment plans and evaluation of group intervention outcomes as part of ongoing progress monitoring, with attention to group roles, group dynamics, leadership styles, types of groups, and professional standards for group interventions.
CLPY 645Practice-Oriented Research Methods (3 cr.)
This course provides an overview of qualitative inquiry, single-case designs, quantitatively describing clinical outcomes, statistical description, logic models, and introductory to intermediate-level inferential statistics. Students learn to utilize research methods that support quality improvement of individual treatment outcomes. Particular attention is given to research methods consistent with the psychological study of religion and spirituality.
This course introduces students to biological underpinnings of behavior such as neural, physiological, anatomical, and genetics aspects of behavior. Relevance to health service psychology is highlighted. Biological aspects of behavior are further discussed in relation to Catholic assumptions and beliefs of human nature.
CLPY 655Cognitive and Affective Bases of Behavior (3 cr.)
The focus of this course is on learning, memory, thought processes and decision-making as well as affect, mood, and emotion. The course reviews theories and research in psychological science such as relevant constructs that impact human behavior through distinct and integrative pathways. Relevance to health service psychology is highlighted. Cognitive and affective aspects of behavior are further discussed in relation to Catholic assumptions and beliefs of human nature.
The focus of this course is on historical and current trends in social psychology, including major theories and seminal empirical findings. Specific examination of group processes, attributions, prejudice and attitudes are discussed and critiqued. Relevance to social change, advocacy, and health service psychology is highlighted. Social aspects of behavior are further discussed in relation to Catholic Social Teachings (e.g., the common good, social justice) and Catholic assumptions and beliefs of human nature.
CLPY 665Vocational and Psychology and Career Counseling (3 cr.)
The focus of this course is on the importance of meaningful and dignified work in the lives of individuals, families, and communities. Students learn historical and current vocational theories and research relevant to health service psychology. The course integrates a Catholic understanding of vocation and calling as well as Catholic Social Teaching about the dignity, rights, and respect associated with work.
This course provides an overview of evidence-based theories and interventions for working with couples and families that promote health and well-being outcomes, consistent with health service psychology. The course includes developing treatment plans and evaluation of family, marital, and/or couples therapeutic outcomes as part of ongoing progress monitoring. The course integrates a Catholic understanding of marriage as a vocation and addresses contemporary challenges to families and couples such as sexuality, separation, parenting stress, infertility, and religious/spiritual challenges.
CLPY 675Supervision, Consultation, and Interprofessional Skills (3 cr.)
This course introduces students to professional roles salient to health service psychology. Students demonstrate knowledge of supervision roles, competencies needed to function as a supervisor based on level and practice setting, and personal reflection as a role model and trainer to trainees. The course highlights the importance of functioning within integrative teams and understanding the roles and perspectives of other professionals. Students explore interpersonal and consultation skills for ecclesial settings to address unique problems with integrative collaboration.
This course provides students an opportunity to demonstrate original scholarship by completing a thesis under the guidance and mentoring of a faculty advisor. The thesis reflects the unique curriculum of the program by including the integration of clinical psychology with the Catholic faith and Lasallian mission, identity, and values. Students select a scholarly topic, conduct a systematic literature review, and implement an appropriate conceptual or empirical methodology.
