MS Psychology

Program Learning Objectives

• Develop the intrapersonal and interpersonal knowledge and skills required for ethical, efficacious, and culturally responsive clinical practice.

• Demonstrate written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills conducive to empathic, respectful, and collaborative working relationships with diverse individuals, children, couples, families, and professionals.

• Demonstrate legal, ethical, and documentation knowledge of marriage and family therapy practice and how to apply these standards to diverse populations and contexts, such as public agencies, schools, and private practice.

• Conduct evidence-based, culturally responsive core and advanced counseling and psychotherapy skills with diverse individuals, children, couples, and families.

• Conduct evidence-based, culturally responsive assessment and diagnostic procedures with diverse individuals, children, couples, and families.

• Conduct evidenced-based, culturally responsive treatment planning, progress notation, and discharge planning with diverse individuals, children, couples, and families.

• Demonstrate ability to access and utilize research as critical consumers to implement best practices strategies with diverse clients and issues.

Required Courses
PSY 504	Psychopharmacology	4
PSY 520	Marriage & Family Therapy: Professional Identity, Theory and Practice	4
PSY 535	Child and Adolescent Psychopathology	4
PSY 555	Counseling & Communication	4
PSY 556	Multicultural Counseling and Psychology	4
PSY 560	Individual Therapy: Theory and Application	4
PSY 564	Ethics and the Law: MF Therapy	4
PSY 565	Diagnosis and Treatment: Psychopathology	4
PSY 566	Group Therapy: Theory and Application	4
PSY 569	Counseling Clinic Practicum (3) (3)	6
PSY 571	Advanced Family Therapy: Theory and Application	4
PSY 572	Child and Adolescent Therapy: Theory and Application	4
PSY 574	Psychological Assessment	4
PSY 575	Gender and Couple Therapy	4
PSY 576	Traineeship: Marital and Family Therapy (4) (4) (4) (4)	16
PSY 577	Community Mental Health: Issues and Practices	4
PSY 585	Research Methods for Counseling Psychology	4
PSY 588	Assessment and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders	4
Select from the following:		4
PSY 599	Thesis 1
OR
Written comprehensive exam and one of the following:
PSY 568	Advanced Psychotherapies
or an approved 400-level PSY course
Total units		90

1	Must register for thesis credit each quarter of advisement.