Department of Psychology

Dr. Jaime Henning, Interim Chair
Dr. Michael McClellan, Director of Clinical Training
Dr. Robert Mitchell, Coordinator, General Psychology with Experimental Concentration
Dr. MyraBeth Bundy, Coordinator, General Psychology with Applied Behavior Analysis Concentration
Dr. Jerry Palmer, Coordinator, I/O Psychology

www.psychology.eku.edu
(859) 622-1105

General Information

The Department of Psychology offers the Master of Science degree in Clinical Psychology, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, and General Psychology (with a Concentration in either Experimental Psychology or Applied Behavior Analysis), and the Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D) degree in Clinical Psychology. Clinical psychology students may apply for the Autism Spectrum Disorder Certificate, offered in cooperation with the Department of Occupational Therapy and Special Education. Requirements for this certificate can be found below. Students holding a Master’s Degree may apply for the Applied Behavior Analysis Certificate.

Courses

Psychology

PSY 702. Behavioral Applications II. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: PSY 701. This course builds on principles of behavior analysis in creating behavior change across a range of populations, behaviors, and settings. The focus is on fundamental elements of behavior change.

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PSY 703. Practicum in Psychology. (1-3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Practicum experience in which students will utilize their knowledge of psychological theory and methodology in an applied setting. Students will not receive credit for both PSY 503 and PSY 703. May be retaken to a maximum of 6 hours.

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PSY 710. Publishing Emperical Research. (3 Credits)

(3) A. Prerequisite: Department approval. Students must submit proposals to instructor prior to enrollment. This course will focus on analyzing, writing and submitting results of a psychological study or experiment to a professional journal.

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PSY 713. Mind & Brain. (3 Credits)

(3) A. Prerequisite: PSY 853(C) or departmental approval. A bridging discipline between cognitive science and biopsychology examining neural bases of consciousness, mental processes and complex behavior. Major topics include prefrontal cortex functioning, neural networks, decision making, working memory, emotional control, and frontal disconnections.

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PSY 766. Forensic Psychology. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Review the roles of clinical psychologists in the legal system, focusing on principles of forensic mental health assessment, procedures of civil and criminal forensic psychological assessment, expert testimony, and forensic report writing.

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PSY 777. The Autism Spectrum. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Assessment, diagnosis, and intervention in autism spectrum disorders across the lifespan. Conduct autism spectrum assessment and design interventions.

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PSY 779. History & Systems of Psycholog. (3 Credits)

A. A survey of the history of psychology and its various schools of thought and approaches to the study of behavior and mental processes.

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PSY 790. Tests & Measurements. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: PSY 200 or departmental approval. Study of measurement principles with application in psychology, business, industry, and government. Interpretation, use, and evaluation of measurement and job analysis methods. Reliability, validity, utility, ethical/legal concerns are examined.

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PSY 797. Advanced Topics in Psy:_______. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: PSY 200 or departmental approval. Selected topics for advanced study. Variable topics across semester in terms of student interest and available faculty. May be retaken provided the subject matter differs each time.

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PSY 802. Multicultural Psychology. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: Admission to the Psy. D. program. Designed to promote self-awareness of cultural values and biases, and increasing knowledge about how race, culture, gener, secual orientation, and social class impact the professional relationship.

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PSY 803. Rural Mental Health. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: Admission to the Psy. D. program. This course is designed to provide an overview of rural mental health with an emphasis on adressing both geographic, economic, and cultural barriers to mental health care in rural communities.

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PSY 804. Introduction to I-O Psychology. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Introduction to psychology theories and procedures applied to work. Topics include personnel psychology, organizational psychology, and ethical and legal concerns related to the practice of I-O Psychology.

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PSY 805. Quantitative Research Methods. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Principles and techniques of scientific observation, control, and analysis in psychology. Evaluation of reserach designs and their implementation in professional settings.

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PSY 806. Applied Research Methods. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: Departmental Approval. Application of research methods, data analysis techniques, and reporting pertaining to the field of Industrial-Organizational psychology.

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PSY 807. Work Analysis. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Psychological principles and techniques involved in job analysis, competency modeling, and job evaluation.

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PSY 808. Selection. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: Departmental Approval. Psychological theory, research, and practice pertaining to the personnel selection of human resources in the workplace.

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PSY 809. Performance Management. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Psychological theory, research, and practice pertaining to the performance appraisal and performance management of human resources in the workplace.

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PSY 810. Consulting and Business Skills. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: Departmental Approval. Developing consulting skills including proposal development, project management, process improvement, contracting, conflict resolution, and networking.

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PSY 811. Professional Development. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: Departmental Approval. Developing personal effectiveness including skills in writing, communication, facilitating, leading, and career development.

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PSY 812. Practicum in I-O Psychology. (3 Credits)

A. Practicum in I-O Psychology. Supervised practice in applied settings. Participation with an approved agency varies with the student's experience. Graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory.

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PSY 813. Ethics and Prof Conduct Appl B. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: Departmental Approval. Foundational ethics for behavior analysts practicing across applied and research areas.

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PSY 814. Basic Behavior Analysis. (3 Credits)

(3) A. Prerequisite: Departmental approval. Develop competence in understanding how principles of behavior are discovered and described in the context of basic research, including developing a research question and corresponding review of literature.

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PSY 815. Applied Research in ABA. (3 Credits)

(3) A. Prerequisite: Departmental approval. Define a behavior analytic research problem or question, design a method to assess or address this problem, conduct project, and produce a formal report on the resulting investigation.

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PSY 816. Philosophical Underpinning ABA. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: Departmental Approval. Philosophical foundations of behavioral science as applied in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis. This course covers BCBA level content requirements in the Foundational area of Philosophical Underpinnings of Behavior Analysis as required by the Behavior Analysis Certification Board.

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PSY 817. Intro Foundations in Beh Analy. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: Departmental Approval. Foundation, concepts, and principles of behavioral science applied to the field of behavior analysis.

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PSY 818. Psychology of Addictions. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: admission to the Psy.D. program. This course is designed to provide an overview of the assessment, diagnosis, theory, and treatment of substance-related and addictive disorders.

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PSY 820. Statistics & Research Design I. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Principles and techniques of scientific observation, control, and analysis specifically oriented to research in psychology. Evaluation of research designs and their implementation in professional settings. Emphasis on univariate statistical analyses. Credit will not be awarded to students who have credit for PSY 820S.

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PSY 820S. Statistics & Research Design I. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Principles and techniques of scientific observation, control, and analysis specifically oriented to research in psychology in the context of service learning. Evaluation of research designs and their implementation in professional settings. Emphasis on univariate statistical analyses. Credit will not be awarded to students who have credit for PSY 820.

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PSY 822. Crisis Management. (1 Credit)

Prerequisite: Departmental Approval. Theoretical and practical knowledge in crisis prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery from the systemic level to the individual level. Includes assessment and treatment associated with suicidality.

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PSY 824. Intellectual Assessment. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Techniques, principles and problems in the administration, scoring, interpretation, and reporting of individual tests of intelligence for children and adults.

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PSY 825. Personality Assessment. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Techniques, principles and problems of evaluating personality via interviews, objective and projective testing. Emphasis on integration of results.

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PSY 826. Professional Concerns I. (1-3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Consideration of ethical and related problems of psychologists.

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PSY 827. Topics in Assessment. (1 Credit)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Administering, scoring, and interpreting instruments in the area of vocational interest, adolescent personality, adaptive behavior, and individual academic assessment. Emphasis is on application in school and clinical settings.

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PSY 833. Beh Research and Measurement. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: Departmental Approval. Review of principles and practices underlying behavioral measurement and single subject research designs.

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PSY 837. Advanced Social Psychology. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Graduate level survey of topics in social psychology including social influence, persuasion, social cognition, self-justification, aggression, culture, and prejudice.

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PSY 838. Practicum in Clinical Psy. (1-4 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: PSY 826 or departmental approval. Supervised Practice in applied settings. Participation varies with student's course work and experience. Class meetings are arranged. May retake to maximum of nine credit hours.

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PSY 841. Psychopathology. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Etiology and description of various aspects of psychopathology and ineffective behavior. Credit will not be awarded to students who have credit for COU 855.

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PSY 842. Interventions: School & Home. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: Departmental approval. Academic and behavioral interventions for school-age children will be reviewed. Emphasis is on identifying, selecting, and implementing research-based interventions for specific behaviors.

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PSY 843. Practicum. (1-4 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Supervised practice in applied settings. Selective participation with an assigned agency varies with the student¿s program with level of preparation in course work, and with previous supervised field experience. Class meetings as arranged. May be retaken to a maximum of eleven credit hours. Graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory.

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PSY 845. Clinical Issues and the Deaf. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Survey of clinical issues involved in providing mental health services to the deaf and hard-of-hearing. Topics will include the prevalence and nature of psychological problems among the deaf and hard-of-hearing, ethical and professional concerns, the interface between mental health and other services, and psychological assessment and therapy issues and strategies.

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PSY 846. Behavioral Research Methods. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Theory and methods of contemporary practice of behavioral assessment and single subject research design. Supervised practice in clinical applications of assessment methods. Review of relevant learning theory and behavioral principles.

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PSY 848. Intro to School Psychology. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Theory observation, and supervised practice in the role of school psychologist. Includes systems analysis, the consultation process, and interprofessional relationships. Intervention skills appropriate for dealing with those problems.

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PSY 849. Advanced Developmental PSY. (3 Credits)

(3) A. Prerequisite: Departmental approval. The development of individual difference in traits and behavior examined from the perspective of personality and developmental psychology. Selected coverage of both foundational and current theoretical and empirical literatures. Credit will not be awarded for both PSY 849 and PSY 847.

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PSY 850. Psychotherapy & Behav Change I. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: PSY 841 or departmental approval. A didatic and experiential introduction to the theories and techniques acilitative of personal growth and behavior change.

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PSY 853. Biological Bases of Behavior. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. A survey of the principles, research and methodology of psychophysiology, including consideration of the autonomic correlates of emotion and arousal, biofeedback, psychosomatic diseases, and psychophysiological correlates of psychopathology.

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PSY 855. Addressing Problem Behaviors. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: Departmental Approval. Review of principles, practices, and methods used to decrease problem behaviors as well as general intervention and behavior change procedures.

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PSY 857S. Child & Family Interventions. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Conceptualization and intervention for childhood psychological disorders are reviewed and experienced through service learning pedagogy. Emphasis is on individual and group interventions. Credit will not be awarded for both PSY 857 and 857W.

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PSY 859. Cog/Affect Bases of Behavior. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: departmental approval. Broad survey of findings regarding cognitive and affective influences on behavior, including learning and conditioning, memory, and cognitive and affective processes. Credit will not be awarded to students who have credit for PSY 840.

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PSY 860. Psychotherapy & Beha Change II. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: PSY 850 or departmental approval. The in-depth study of techniques selected from those presented in PSY 850. Emphasis will be placed on developing proficiency in such skills and techniques.

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PSY 862. Statistic & Research Design II. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: PSY 820 or equivalent with department approval. Principles and techniques of scientific observation, control, and analysis, specifically oriented to multivariate research in psychology. Evaluation of research designs and their implementation in professional settings.

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PSY 863. Understanding Suicide. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: Admission in doctoral program or departmental approval. This seminar course will examine the topic of suicide in depth. Theoretical and empirical perspectives from public health, sociology, psychology, and genetics/neuroscience will be considered. Philosophical and ethical issues related to suicide will be explored, as will a special emphasis on clinical practice with suicidal patients.

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PSY 864. Child Psychopathology. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: PSY 848 or departmental approval. Course will focus on the theory, etiology, and context associated with psychopathology in school-aged children and adolescents.

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PSY 865. Psychological Consultation. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Exploration of the theoretical and empirical underpinnings of psychological consultation process, and supervised practice in the provision of indirect psychological services.

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PSY 866. Adv Topics Applied Beha Analys. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: Departmental Approval. Introduction to advanced ethics and review of applied behavior analysis assessment, intervention, and ethics concepts and procedures within a case study format.

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PSY 868. Prog Eval in Soc Behav Sci II. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: PSY 820 or 862 or equivalent with departmental approval. Survey and application of program evaluation theory, designs, implementations and problems. Emphasis on preparing students to design and implement program evaluations of social, educational and organizational programs.

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PSY 869. Psychology of Trauma. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: departmental approval. Explores the psychological impact of various types of trauma. Introduces key elements of trauma research and practice, including assessment, diagnosis, theoretical models, and intervention.

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PSY 871. Group and Family Therapy. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Theory and techniques of group and family therapy. Emphasis will be placed on developing and applying intervention skills.

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PSY 872. Selection & Perf Appraisal. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: PSY 790 or departmental approval. Psychological theory, research, and practice pertaining to the selection and appraisal of human resources in the workplace.

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PSY 873. Organizational Psychology. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Examination of research, theory, and applications in organizational psychology. Topics include commitment, involvement, satisfaction, power, conflict, motivation, leadership, quality of work life, group/team processes, and organizational structure.

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PSY 874. Organization Change and Dev. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Analysis of psychological theory, research and practice pertaining to organization change and development including the change process, culture, interventions, evaluation, consulting, and legal/ethical concerns.

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PSY 875. Training and Development. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Graduate level survey of psychological theory, research, and practice utilized in the training and development of human resources in the workplace.

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PSY 880. Work Environment. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Seminar examining the ways in which workers are influenced by the physical environment. Topics will include lighting, noise, temperature, aesthetics, privacy, crowding, territoriality, human factors, and ergonomics.

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PSY 881. Advanced Children's Assessment. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Theory and research regarding psychological and psychoeducational problems of childhood and adolescence in the context of diagnostic criteria, including training in the use of adaptive behavior scales and measures for screening academic achievement.

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PSY 887. Independent Work in Psychology. (1-3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: approval of independent study proposal by faculty supervisor and department chair prior to enrollment. Student is responsible for conceptualization and investigation of research problem and drawing formal conclusions. May be retaken to a maximum of six hours provided a different problem is studied each time.

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PSY 888. Master's Research Project. (3 Credits)

Empirical investigation of a selected toopic in psychology, including submission of a report to the department.

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PSY 895. Building New Behaviors. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: Departmental Approval. Review of principles, practices, and methods used to increase desired behavior.

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PSY 896. Internship in School PSY. (3-6 Credits)

(3-6) A. Prerequisite: Departmental approval. Intensive supervised experience in approved educational setting. May be retaken to a maximum of twelve hours. Graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. A minimum of 1200 hours of work is required for the total twelve hours credit awarded.

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PSY 897. Special Topics in Psychology. (3 Credits)

A. Selected topics for advanced graduate study. Topics will vary. May be retaken to a total of six hours, provided the subject matter differs each time

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PSY 898. Thesis Research. (1-6 Credits)

(1-6) A. Prerequisite: Departmental approval. Experimental investigation of a selected topic, including preparation of a formal report. May be retaken to a maximum of twelve hours. Graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. A minimum of 1200 hours of work is required for the total twelve hours credit awarded.

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PSY 899A. Internship in Clinical Psych. (4 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: departmental approval. Intensive supervised experience in an approved clinical setting. May be retaken to a maximum of twelve hours. Graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory.

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PSY 938. Doctoral Prac in Clinical Psyc. (1-4 Credits)

(1-4) Prerequisite: PSY 838. Supervised experience in applied settings. Participation varies with student’s course work and experience. Class meetings as arranged. May be retaken to a maximum of 21 credit hours.

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PSY 950. Clinical Supervision & Consult. (3 Credits)

Prerequisite: departmental approval. Advanced seminar covering theories, issues, methods, and techniques in the supervision of psychotherapy and assessment. Consultation issues and models will also be examined.

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PSY 990. Doctoral Specialty Project. (3 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: Departmental approval. Investigation of clinical best practices for a selected disorder. Requires a written report and oral presentation. May be retaken for a maximum of 12 hours. Graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory.

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PSY 999. Doctoral Intern in Clinic Psyc. (6 Credits)

A. Prerequisite: Departmental approval. Intensive supervised experience in an approved external clinical setting. May be retaken to a maximum of 12 credit hours. Graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory.

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Academic Catalog

Department of Psychology