PSYC 620 Intervention and Behavior Support

The purpose of this course is to provide practical application of various behavioral interventions, therapeutic techniques, and best practices in psychology that reduce symptoms of psychological disorders. This course addresses psychology’s principles of developing a scientific understanding of behavior and mental processes which is a foundational premise of the Masters in Psychology program. It is important for the student to take this course to understand how to appropriately apply empirically supported treatment methods for psychological disorders to ensure that they are following best practice models.

Course Requirements Checklist

After reading the Course Syllabus and Student Expectations, the student will complete the related checklist found in the Course Overview.

Textbook readings and lecture presentations

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Discussions (4)

Discussions are collaborative learning experiences. Therefore, the student is required to provide a thread in response to the provided prompt for each discussion. Each thread must include 300–500 words and demonstrate course-related knowledge. In addition to the thread, the student is required to reply to 2 other classmates’ threads. Each reply must include at least 200 words. (CLO: A, B, C, D)

The student will provide a thoughful discussion of interventions used with a biopsychosocialspiritual model. The student will choose one disorder from textbook and apply a spiritual intervention and discuss in a short paper with 2 pages of content. (CLO: A, B, C, D, E)

The student will create a Narrated PowerPoint presentation that will demonstrate comprehension and clinical intervention skills based on the disorders learned in this course. The presentation should include a title slide, at least 15 slides of “body” along with a slide(s) for references. Citations and references in current APA format are required alone with 2 empirically based research articles that are no more than 5-7 years old. (CLO: A-E)

The student will write a paper in current APA format discussing his or her personal perspective on using the Yada Factor model (found in the Personal Perspective Paper Resources) to integrate as a spiritual intervention as well as learning interventions on different disorders learned in this course. The paper will be 2-3 pages not including and with adherence to current APA formatting guidelines. (CLO: A, D)

Quizzes (4)

Each quiz will cover the Learn material for the week in which it is assigned. Each quiz will be open-book/open-notes, contain 50 multiple-choice and true/false questions, and have a 2-hour time limit. (CLO: A, E )