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Yuanyuan Jiang is an Assistant Professor in the School of Counselling, Psychotherapy, and Spirituality at Saint Paul University, and an Adjunct Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta. She directs the ABC Lab, with research to improve assessments and interventions for children with inattentiveness and/or hyperactivity/impulsivity. For more information on her program of research, visit ABC Lab: https://www.ustpaul.ca/en/abclab
This course helps the students to develop skills for the critical evaluation of empirical research in the human sciences and the application of these skills in graduate research projects and theses. Qualitative and quantitative methods of gathering and validating scientific evidence in observation, case, evaluation, correlational and experimental studies. The formation of problems, structured questions, causal and non-causal hypotheses; operational definitions; dependent, extraneous and randomized variables; the selection of samples. Research ethics will be examined.
Students are oriented to relevant professional organizations; the need for liability insurance, codes of ethics, professional standards and certification is examined. The course reviews major contemporary issues that surround the practice of pastoral counselling (e.g., confidentiality and its limits, record keeping, informed consent, the legal concerns impacting pastoral counselling) and research. The student is introduced to the processes of ethical reasoning and ethical decision-making. The need for continued training and supervised practice leading to certification will be discussed. Considerable attention is given to the role of informed judgment and peer consultation in resolving ethical dilemmas.
Theoretical study of individual counselling and individual psychotherapy; application of various psychotherapeutic situations, role plays, viewing of audiovisual recordings of experts in the field; effective use of self in counselling and psychotherapy; sessions of individual counselling and psychotherapy with clients, including clinical supervision with psychologists or registered psychotherapists, at the Counselling and Psychotherapy Centre of Saint Paul University. Topics to include professional ethics and record keeping, psychological and spiritual coping strategies, psychodynamic of clients, theories of attachment, sexual abuse, transactional analysis, drugs and addictions, conditions of post-traumatic stress. Graded P/F.
Prerequisite: IPA6137.
Clinical Psychology Predoctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco
Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, University of British Columbia
M.A., Clinical Psychology, University of British Columbia
Hon. B.Sc. Psychology Research Specialist, University of Toronto
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