Our program covers a broad range of content areas, and is therefore organized into 10 concentrations to facilitate cohesiveness in the curriculum. These informal groupings of coursework within a shared content area enable students to concentrate on a specific area of interest, should they wish to do so. These focus areas offer a curated list of suggested courses within specific content areas. Some concentrations center on faculty research areas, and others are centered on sub-domains of clinical psychology. Some concentrations operate as active social organizations that program events and host invited speakers. Each has a different focus and culture.
This area of focus prepares students for in-depth understanding of children, families, and developmental processes. This concentration has two fundamental areas of emphasis: a) child development and b) the family in context. This concentration orients students to the challenges of working with children and their families. Dr. Susan Bodnar is the head of this concentration.
CCPX 4126: Mother-Child Matrix: Developmental & Clinical Implications
CCPX 5034: Child Psychopathology
CCPX 5040: Development & Psychopathology: Atypical Contexts & Populations
HUDK 4021: Developmental psychology: Infancy
HUDK 4022: Developmental psychology: Childhood
HUDK 4023: Developmental psychology: Adolescence
HUDK 5121: Children’s Social and Emotional Development in Context
HUDK 6036: Child & Family Policy I
HBSK 5031: Family as a Context for Child Development
ITSF 5005: Interdisciplinary Study of the Family
ITSF 4034: Dynamics of Family Interaction
In this concentration, students will 1) gain the skills to apply technology towards modernizing various fields within psychology, and 2) learn about a wide array of psychology fields to identify where need for modernization is most pressing. Dr. George Nitzburg is the head of this concentration.
CCPX 4020: Geriatric Mental Health
CCPX 4023: Technology, Psychology, and Psychotherapy
CCPX 4040: Introduction to Psychological Testing & Assessment
CCPX 4050: Introduction to Health Psychology
CCPX 4150: Introduction to Forensic Psychology
CCPX 5010: Introduction to Global Mental Health
CCPX 5533: Research Methods: Clinical Psychology
MSTU 4031: Object-oriented theory and programming I
MSTU 5031: Object-oriented theory and programming II
This area of focus was envisioned to prepare students to improve services for underserved populations within their specialized contexts. This concentration enables students to seek out work settings that serve the growing numbers of patients facing barriers to mental health treatment due to aging, gender/sexuality, illness/disabilities, incarceration, addiction, poverty, globalization, etc. Dr. Dinelia Rosa is the head of this concentration.
CCPX 4020: Geriatric Mental Health
CCPX 4050: Introduction to Health Psychology
CCPX 4040: Introduction to Psychological Testing & Assessment
CCPX 4125: Women & Mental Health
CCPX 4150: Introduction to Forensic Psychology
CCPX 4230: Fieldwork and Applied Psychology
This concentration prepares students for employment at the MA level in forensic mental health positions and for doctoral-level education in the areas of clinical and forensic psychology. Coursework from several related concentrations is joined with specialized courses both in child and adult forensic psychology. David Mantell is the head of this concentration.
CCPX 4150: Introduction to Forensic Psychology
CCPX 4170: Child and Adolescent Forensic Assessment
CCPX 5160: Forensic Psychology of Child Protection
CPPX 5075: Psychology, Law, and Sexualized Violence
ITSF 4034: Dynamics of Family Interaction
CCPX 5533: Research Methods in Clinical Psychology
CCPX 4040: Introduction to Psychological Testing
CCPX 4060: The Psychology of Loss and Trauma
CCPX 4126: Mother-Child Matrix
HUDM 4120: Methods of Empirical Research
This concentration provides coursework in two closely associated fields: global mental health and trauma. Courses offer exposure to: longitudinal and prospective studies of individuals’ reactions to adversity and their cross-sectional context; risk and protective factors for various forms of resilient outcomes; basic research in cognitive and emotional processes that inform adjustment; assessment of local idioms of distress, mental health needs, and attitudes towards illness and treatment in regions around the world; development and psychometrics of new and validation of existing symptom and functioning scales; definition and development of metrics of individual and community-level resilience; and issues related to policy development and inter-sector collaboration. Drs. Lena Verdeli and George Bonanno are the heads of this concentration.
CCPX 4037: Introduction to Cognitive Behavior Therapy
CCPX 4060: Psychology of Loss and Trauma
CCPX 4075: Psychology at the UN
CCPX 5010: Introduction to Global Mental Health
CCPX 5011: Psychotherapy Around the Globe
CCPX 5020: Cognition, Emotion, Culture & Health
CCPX 5533: Research Methods in Clinical Psychology
ORL 5524: Instrument Design and Validation - Seminar
This area of focus provides students with an understanding of the brain and how it relates to behavior and psychology. Courses will orient students toward neuropsychological research and assessment, as well as add an important dimension to more therapeutic contexts. Dr. Richard Waxman is the head of this concentration.
CCPX 4199: Neuropsychology
CCPX 4199: Issues of Cognitive Neuroscience of Schizophrenia
CCPX 5035: Psychopharmacology
BBSN 4000: Cognitive Neuroscience
BBSN 4001: Foundations of Neuroscience I
BBSN 4002: Foundations of Neuroscience II
BBSN 5000: EEG Methods
BBSN 5044: Current Issues in Neuroscience and Education
BBSN 5080: Affective Neuroscience
BBSN 5122: Psycho-Neuroimmunology and Education
BBSN 5199: Human Functional Neuroanatomy
This area of focus prepares students to deepen their understanding of various psychotherapeutic perspectives. Students will sample theories of contemporary and classical therapeutic orientations so they may one-day train to become psychotherapists. This concentration is for those who wish to one day focus on direct patient contact and psychotherapeutic treatment. Dr. Barry Farber is the head of this concentration.
CCPX 4035: Personality & Behavior Change
CCPX 4037: Introduction to Cognitive Behavior Therapy
CCPX 4038: Comparative Psychotherapies
CCPX 4063: Analytic Psychology: Jung to Present
CCPX 4120: Psychotherapy through Fiction and Film
CCPX 4542: Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalytic Thought
CCPX 5033: The Evolution of Freud’s Psychological Theories
This area of focus prepares students for in-depth understanding of quantitative procedures in psychological research. Courses will focus on the methods of research design and statistical inference/mathematical modeling. This concentration helps students to work as highly competent researchers.
CCPX 5533: Research Methods in Clinical Psychology
HUDM 4050: Introduction to Measurement
HUDM 4120: Basic concepts in statistics
HUDM 4122: Probability and Statistical Inference
HUDM 5026: Intro to Data Analysis in R
HUDM 5122: Applied Regression Analysis
HUDM 5123: Linear Models and Experimental Design
HUDM 5124: Multidimensional Scaling and Clustering
HUDM 5126: Linear Models and Regression Analysis
HUDM 6026: Statistical Treatment of Mass Data
HUDM 6122: Multivariate Analysis I
ITSF 4092: Qualitative Research/Evaluation Intl Ed.
IND 5199: Participatory Methods: Theory and Practice
This area of focus prepares students to envision and implement the next wave of theories and practices to improve well being of persons with a focus on sexuality and gender. Students will sample and apply women, gender, and sexuality theories to better understand the psychological and social lives of understudied groups such as women, LGBTQ+, and Transgender persons. This concentration is also relevant to the study of the human development of gender differences and roles (“masculinities/femininities”), sex and intimacy, reproductive and maternal mental health, and violence against women (VAW), among others. Dr. Aurélie Athan is the head of this concentration.
CCPX 4036: The Psychology of Human Sexuality & Intimacy
CCPX 4125: Women and Mental Health
CCPX 4126: Mother-Child Matrix: Developmental & Clinical Implications
CCPX 4132: Perinatal Mental Health
CCPX 5075: Psychology, Law, & Sexualized Violence
CCPJ 4000: Multicultural Psychopathology
CCPJ 4180: LGBT(Q) Issues
A&H 4065: Media & Gender
C&T 4032: Gender, Difference & Curriculum
HBSS 4122: Women's Health
HBSS 4133: Human Sexuality Education
This area of focus prepares students for in-depth understanding of the role of spirituality and contemplative practices (e.g. meditation) as contributors to mental health and well-being. This concentration fosters competency in exploring the essential spiritual principles and practices of human experience within the context of illness and healing. Dr. Lisa Miller is the head of this concentration.
CCPX 4029: Archetypal Symbolism
CCPX 4044: Positive Psychology
CCPX 4055: Spirit Mind-Body Medicine
CCPX 4063: Analytic Psychology: Jung to Present
CCPX 5045: Psychotherapy, Religious Diversity, and Spirituality
CCPX 5510: Research Apprenticeship (Dr. Miller’s Lab)
Note: The Spirituality Mind Body Institute offers various Special Topics courses (CCPX 4199) that may fulfill the concentration requirements. The classes and topics covered vary by semester.