School Psychology

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Course Name

Prerequisite

Course Description

EdPS/PSY 620

Child Development and Learning in Cultural Context (Masters)

Prerequisites: None

Focuses on the nature of physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and moral development from birth through adolescence, with implications for learning and teaching; major perspectives on the study of child development, including Vygotsky’s socio-cultural theory of child development and learning; periods of child development from birth through adolescence, seen in cultural context, with implications for learning and teaching; integration of theory and research findings from the fields of developmental and educational psychology; and multicultural contexts for growth, development, and learning with diverse student populations.

PSY 604

Statistics for School Psychologists

The purpose of this course is to review basic statistical techniques and theory for school psychology
research and practice. Topics include z‐scores, linear transformations, sample probability,
hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, power and effect size, and chi‐square.

PSY 623

Childhood & Adolescent Psychopathology (Masters)

Focuses on the diagnostic criteria and prevailing best practices in assessment, intervention and service provision for children with special needs. Instruction concentrates on development of students’ knowledge base of childhood disorders and their diagnostic criteria. Students develop an understanding of differential diagnosis and work with both the educational classification system and psychological diagnostic system. The school psychologist’s role as educational and mental health professional in the school system and as consultant to administrators, teachers and parents is discussed. The overall model represented focuses on ecological/contextual contributions to development of interventions for children with special needs, in both special and general education settings.