PSYC452-19S2 (C) Semester Two 2019

Family Psychology

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 15 July 2019
End Date: Sunday, 10 November 2019
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Friday, 26 July 2019
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Friday, 27 September 2019

Description

A comprehensive examination of adult development within a family context.

This course will consider a number of topics in Family Psychology, with an emphasis on current research findings in the field. There will be a focus on the relevance of research in Family Psychology to critical issues in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

Learning Outcomes

  • A graduate of the course will be expected to be able to:
    Personal Attributes
  • Identify several major areas of contemporary research in family psychology
  • Relate these to the New Zealand context
  • Critically evaluate and synthesis the empirical literature on families and mental health (Assessment task: Literature Review)
  • Understand the implications of research for policy/interventions.
  • Present research and theory to audiences (Assessment task: Chapter review presentation and literature update; Poster and  Oral presentation)

    Interactive Attributes
  • Be able to work collaboratively on presentation of ideas and information (Assessment task Class Presentation).
  • To introduce students to current research in Family Psychology
  • To explore the relevance of this research to the New Zealand context (Assessment task:
  • To introduce students to the professional work of Clinical Family psychologists.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department.

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Jacki Henderson

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Research Proposal 20%
Literature Review 30%
Class Presentation 25%
Poster Presentation 25%

Textbooks / Resources

NO SET TEXT BOOK; readings to be advised

Course links

Library portal

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,002.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Limited Entry Course

Maximum enrolment is 17

For further information see School of Psychology, Speech and Hearing .

All PSYC452 Occurrences

  • PSYC452-19S2 (C) Semester Two 2019