Current Courses

Adult Psychopathology

This course is a comprehensive introduction to the history, theories and research associated with some of the more important types of adult psychopathology.

Introduction to Applied Psychology and Design

This course provides an overview of how empirical psychological findings and methods can be applied to the design of interfaces, objects, and environments. Students will review how theories of human perception, cognition and interaction have informed human factors and ergonomics, and how attention t...

Cognitive Neuroscience

?This course provides an overview of the brain mechanisms supporting perceptual and cognitive processes, including vision, object recognition, attention, memory, cognitive control and emotions. Students are also introduced to the structure and function of neural substrates of behavior and motor cont...

Introduction to Substance Abuse Counseling

This course is an introduction to understanding and working clinically with individuals misusing substances and those who are dually-diagnosed. A variety of theoretical and commonly employed practical approaches to counseling and intervention techniques are explored and discussed using case material...

Introduction to Statistics and Research Design

?This course will introduce students to the fundamentals of behavioral research methodology and statistics. The emphasis will be on descriptive statistics, non-experimental and experimental research designs and how to report them in APA format. We will focus on deepening three core areas of competen...

Research Methods

This course provides hands-on experience in designing, running, and reporting psychology experiments. Class time is devoted to discussion on individual research projects at each phase of the work.

Qualitative Methods in Psychology

Psychologists are increasingly recognizing the value of qualitative research, both to inform and enhance quantitative forms of inquiry, and as a meaningful form of inquiry in its own right. As qualitative methods gain a foothold in the field (e.g., establishment of a qualitative inquiry section with...

Assessment of Individual Differences

This course is designed to provide a basic introduction to the field of psychological assessment. The term psychological assessment is used here in a broad sense to include the measurement of human skills or abilities, aptitudes, values, and aspects of psychological functioning such as personality ...

Development & Psychopathology

The goal of this course is to give you an understanding of child development across the lifespan from prenatal stages, to infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, and through adulthood. Key theoretical and methodological issues that have defined the field and links between cognitive ...

Sem:Autobiographical Memory

Memories can serve as the foundation upon which identity is built. This seminar will review work on the formation and characteristics of autobiographical memories and explore how they contribute to identity.

Natural History of the Mind

This seminar explores the emerging field of evolutionary psychology. Concerned with the natural history of higher-order cognitive processes, evolutionary psychology approaches the mind as a toolbox of specialized cognitive systems that evolved to meet recurrent problems in the environments inhabited...

Advanced Topics in Language Development

No child is born an English-speaker or a Mandarin-speaker. Upon birth, children learn the sound patterns, words, and sentence structures of English or of Mandarin, based on evidence from their environments. But what counts as evidence? Can young children learn a language merely from exposure to othe...

Philosophy of Perception

This seminar is a survey of contemporary debates in the philosophy of perception, focused on color vision. We will critically examine recent work on the following questions: ? Does language shape perception? ? Can the qualitative character of perceptual experience be adequately put into words (or, a...

Psychology of Forced Migration

The number of refugees worldwide has been continually rising, approaching 40 million. Many of them are unlikely to return to their home countries in the foreseeable future. Receiving societies /countries are therefore faced with the challenge of promoting the inclusion and integration of refugees. S...

First Year Training Clinic Practicum

?This course is required for 1st year clinical psychology students and involves training at The Safran Center for Psychological Services. During the required 8-hour practicum, first-year clinical students will carry 2 cases at time in individual psychotherapy for 20 sessions per case. Students will...

Internship

Diagnostic Testing 1

The purpose of this class is to provide a comprehensive introduction to psychological assessment for school age children and adolescents. Students successfully completing the course will demonstrate competency in the administration, scoring and interpretation of tests of intellectual, academic and e...

Diagnostic Interviewing

?The focus of this course is on mastering the diagnostic interview in the context of the initial phase of the treatment. The course will cover interviewing techniques for establishing the therapeutic alliance and for arriving at a diagnostic formulation. Issues of differential diagnosis, psychiatric...

Clinical Theory and Technique: Psychodynamic Therapy

This course focuses on mastering basic clinical theory and techniques in psychodynamic therapy. Issues covered include therapeutic neutrality, transference/countertransference, resistance, differential therapeutics, treatment planning, and psychodynamic case conceptualization. Relevant biological, p...

Advanced Diagnostic Testing and Assessment: Adult Psychopathology

?The course will introduce students to advanced diagnostic testing and assessment of personality-related spectrum of adult psychopathology. Building upon the standard psychological testing battery (Diagnostic Testing I & II), the course will (i) review the most recent new developments in multidimens...

Clinical Externship Seminar 1

One credit per semester

Seminar on Professional Issues and Ethics

This seminar focuses on current issues related to training, evaluation, and accreditation. Social controls over professional practice are examined, along with the role and structure of national, regional, and local psychological associations. APA ethics guidelines and legal guidelines for profess...

Ethnicity in Clinical Theory Practice

This course examines the cultural, historical, and sociopolitical factors that shape the worldviews of the client and therapist, and their impact on the therapy process. Students will explore the influence of culture on the phenomenology of distress and learn practical skills for conducting cultural...

Clinical Practicum: New School Counseling Center

Advanced clinical students will participate in a clinical practicum at The New School Counseling Center where they will conduct weekly psychotherapy sessions with a maximum of 6 patients per week, receive individual supervision with a staff member and group supervision with the director of the couns...

History and Systems of Psychology

The primary objective of this course is to provide foundational knowledge on the origins and development of major ideas, concepts, and methods in the discipline of psychology, and to understand these developments in a sociopolitical context. Students will develop tools to think critically about the ...

Mental Health and Substance Abuse Counseling Externship

MHSAC ExternshipTo supplement training and supervision for the optional clinical externship in the 2nd year of the Concentration in Mental Health and Substance Abuse Counseling (CMHSAC) in the MA in Psychology, this required seminar provides an opportunity to meet with CMHSAC faculty to discuss emer...

The Science of Affect: Foundations and Advanced Topics

We all have feelings, but the field of psychology has grappled for over 100 years with what it means to feel. Despite the supposed universality of emotion, the field is full of debates and questions, such as: are emotions and their expressions universal? How many emotions are there? If you aren?t co...