2013–2014 UNIVERSITY CATALOG - Florida Institute of Technology

Year 2
FALL CREDITS
PSY 5000 Clinical Colloquium ............................................................... 0
PSY 5101 Statistical Research Methods 1 .............................................. 3
PSY 5121 Cultural and Social Psychology .............................................. 3
PSY 5595 Practicum or PSY 555x Psychotherapy Models ...................... 3
PSY 6521 Psychodiagnostics* ................................................................. 3
9–12
*May be taken during Fall or Spring Semester of year two.
SPRING
PSY 5000 Clinical Colloquium ............................................................... 0
PSY 5102 Statistical Research Methods 2 .............................................. 3
PSY 5570 Multicultural Psychotherapy .................................................. 3
PSY 5592 Seminar in Professional Standards and Ethical
Principles in Psychology 2 ...................................................... 1
PSY 5595 Practicum ............................................................................... 3
10–13
SUMMER
PSY 5115 History and Systems of Psychology ........................................ 2
PSY 5595 Practicum ............................................................................... 3
PSY 6998 Doctoral Research Project ...................................................... 3
Concentration Elective (PSY) ................................................ 3
11
Year 3
FALL CREDITS
PSY 5000 Clinical Colloquium ............................................................... 0
PSY 5106 Life-span Development .......................................................... 3
PSY 5595 Practicum ............................................................................... 3
PSY 6998 Doctoral Research Project ...................................................... 3
Concentration Elective (PSY) ................................................ 3
12
SPRING
PSY 5000 Clinical Colloquium ............................................................... 0
PSY 5595 Practicum ............................................................................... 3
PSY 6998 Doctoral Research Project ...................................................... 3
Concentration Elective (PSY) ................................................ 3
9
SUMMER
PSY 5595 Practicum ............................................................................... 3
PSY 6562 Administration of Mental Health Services ............................ 2
PSY 6998 Doctoral Research Project ...................................................... 3
Concentration Elective (PSY) ................................................ 3
11
Year 4
FALL CREDITS
PSY 5000 Clinical Colloquium ............................................................... 0
PSY 5511 Clinical Psychopharmacology................................................. 3
PSY 5595 Practicum ............................................................................... 6
PSY 6561 Consultation ........................................................................... 2
11
SPRING
PSY 5000 Clinical Colloquium ............................................................... 0
PSY 5593 Seminar in Professional Standards and Ethical
Principles in Psychology 3 ...................................................... 1
PSY 5595 Practicum ............................................................................... 6
PSY 6560 Supervision in Clinical Training ............................................ 2
9
Year 5
PSY 6595 Internship (2,000 clock hours)
Note: The specific course offerings in a given semester are subject to change.
RESEARCH
Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA): Faculty and graduate students in
the ABA program are actively engaged in a variety of research topics
including the assessment and treatment of problem behaviors, skill
acquisition techniques, and the assessment and improvement of staff
performance.
Organizational Behavior Management (OBM): Faculty and graduate
students in the OBM program are actively engaged in a variety
of research topics including the assessment and improvement
of staff performance, behavior-based safety in organizations, and
pay-for-performance.
Psychology/Forensic Psychology: Faculty and undergraduate students
engage in a wide variety of research. For the forensic psychology program,
faculty research programs cover topics such as plea bargaining,
murder charges and the use of the death penalty in Florida; the
relationships among psychiatric diagnoses, personality variables and
deviant or criminal behavior; criminal case analysis; racial profiling;
and leadership emergence and development. In the B.A and B.S.
psychology programs, faculty research focuses on memory, perception
and cognition in extreme environments; employee emotions and
motivation in the workplace; cross-cultural psychology, in particular
cross-culture competency, socio-psychological processes among East
Asians, and value change; cognitive, behavioral and physiological correlates
of exercise and sport; and neuropsychology research on methods
for detecting mild traumatic brain injury, and the creation of assistive
technology for support of Alzheimer’s caregivers.
Industrial Organizational Psychology (I/O): Faculty and graduate
students in the I/O program are actively engaged in a variety of
research topics, including the use of personality measures in selection,
employment law, the role of feedback processes in organizations,
employee engagement, emotions in the workplace, work motivation
and self regulation, and team processes.
Doctor of Psychology: Faculty and doctoral students in the Psy.D.
program are engaged in a number of research topics including personality
assessment, self-knowledge, gender and multicultural issues,
traumatology, child maltreatment, parent-child interactions, adaptation
to aging, forensic issues and neuropsychological assessment.
Cognition Applied Research Lab (CARL): See “Research” in the
Institution Overview section.
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