Graduate Catalog

PSY 768 Home/ School/ Community Collaboration, Family and Exceptionalities

This course combines three knowledge areas relevant to providing psychological services to children: family, exceptionality, and schools. It provides a study of family development and family systems to analyze how these influence children's cognitive, motivational and academic performance, and social and behavioral characteristics. This course will also discuss the impact of having an exceptional child on family, parents, siblings; diversity; and it will explore frameworks of the provision of comprehensive psychological services to children in schools and the development of more effective relationships between home, school and community.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

PSY 723 and 732

Corequisite

PSY 766 and 765

Distribution

Graduate