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  Nov 21, 2024
 
2019-2020 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook with Spring II Addendum 
    
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2019-2020 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook with Spring II Addendum [Archived Catalog]

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PY 462X - Basic Intervention: Psychodynamic


This course develops competencies in intervention conceptualizations and techniques derived from psychodynamic traditions. It includes an overview of historical perspectives and empirical research on concepts psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy such as drive, ego, object, attachment, and self. Emphasis will be placed about equally on developing competency in evidence-based interventions from a psychodynamic tradition such as Interpersonal Psychotherapy and Supportive-Expressive Psychotherapy  and conceptual understanding of psychopathology and change from a psychodynamic perspective with special emphasis on the psychotherapeutic situation and the relationship between client and therapist. The relationship between theory and evidence-based psychodynamic practices in health service psychology will be explored throughout the course. (3 credits)




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