EXAMPLE SYLLABUS
EDPY 6443 – Advanced Counseling Child/Adolescent
Fall 2004
Office hours – 1 pm to 3 pm Mondays, 3rd floor Collins
Accommodations:
Students who have disabilities should contact me to discuss accommodations necessary
to ensure full participation in class activities.
Texts:
Pennington – The Development of Psychopathology: Nature and Nurture
Cummings, Davies, & Cambell – Development of Psycho-pathology and the Family
Process
Packets – To be distributed in class.
Course Objective:
Equal attention will be given to study infant, toddler and adolescent psychology. Board
conceptual views of the field of child psychology will be examined, including:
Attachment, Object Relations, Behavioral, Cognitive-Behavioral, Systems and NarrativeConstructionist theories. Children’s assessment instruments will be covered in the course.
Also specific skill and technique training will be provided. Students will also be provided
with practical applied training in individual, family and group therapy with children.
Attendance:
One letter grade will be deducted for any student who misses all or most of 3 or more
class meetings without good reasons. I reserve the right to adjust final grades based on a
student’s class participation.
Grading:
Note taking and Folder
15%
For each class period a different individual will be responsible for taking notes, leaving
others to freely participate in class discussion. The note taker is required to type and
distribute the notes the following week. At the end of the semester, students are to
submit their child psychology folder to the professor for a grade. The folder should
contain notes from every class as well as any handouts provided by students and the
professor.
Class Presentation
15%
In groups of two or three, students are to present on a relevant topic. (Topics will be
recommended in class.) The presentation should last about 30 minutes allowing for 10
minutes of discussion. Handouts must be included.
Analysis Paper
25%
Students are to write a five to seven page analysis paper about the movie AI from a
Psychoanalytic, Analytic, or Object Relations/Psycho-Dynamic perspective. Works by
Freud, Jung, Klien, Bowlby, Mahler, Kernberg, Fairbairne and Cashdan may be helpful
in writing your paper.
Research Paper
45%
You may have the opportunity to work with an adolescent group. Up to four persons can
participate as counselors with these groups, according to the size of the groups. The
second option is to work with a child in the clinic. Other options may be discussed if
necessary. Your paper is to have five or six pages of research literature related to the
issues you are dealing with in the counseling situation along with six to ten pages that
include method, results and discussion sections.
Class Topics and Assignments
8/24 Introduction to Class
8/31 a) Review of Developmental Models
b) The first three year of Life
9/7 Object Relations and Theory of Development
Fairy Tales
9/14 Attachment Theory
Fairy Tales
9/21 Assessment and Diagnosis of Children
Turn in AI anal
9/28 Play Therapies
Turn in AI analysis
10/5 Filial Play therapy Training
10/12 Group and Family Therapy Training
10/19 Unconscious Motivation
Indian Boarding School paper
Presentations
10/26 Extrinsic Motivation
Indian Boarding School paper
11/2 Integrated Causal Factors Model of Behavioral or Emotional Problems
11/9 Integrated Causal Factors Model of Behavioral or Emotional Problems
11/16 Externalizing types of disorders (Diagnosis and Treatment)
Presentations
11/23 Externalizing types of disorders (Diagnosis and Treatment)
Presentations
Research Paper due
11/30 Internalizing types of disorders (Diagnosis and Treatment)
Presentations
12/7 Internalizing types of disorders (Diagnosis and Treatment)
Presentations