Provides an overview of the history of psychology, including the dark side of psychology and its contributions to colonization and inequities. The course also covers a range of counseling and psychological theories applicable to school psychologists, children, and educational contexts, with an emphasis on socio-cultural contexts. Consideration is also given to the influence of history and theory on school psychological practice. Max Hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Introduction to the core concepts of the Neurosequential Model™ (NM) that impact learning. Core concepts include basics of brain organization, brain development, understanding state-dependent learning, the stress response systems, and the impact of trauma and neglect on children. Typically offered: fall. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Typically Offered: Fall.

Focuses on helping educators and other school personnel better understand and teach challenging children by offering practical strategies and classroom practices related to structuring classroom schedules, activities and interactions that can help all children (not just children impacted by trauma and adversity) learn in an optimal way. Prereq: SPSY 5100. Typically offered: spring. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: SPSY 5100.

Typically Offered: Spring.

Repeatable. Max hours: 15 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 15.

Repeatable. Max Hours: 9 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

The course will foster students' understanding and appreciation of diversity and its applications for school psychology practice, educational contexts, and mental health policy. Students will learn to evaluate and implement school-based mental health and educational interventions with a multicultural lens. Prereq: SPSY 6100. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 3.

Prereq: SPSY 6100

Reviews theories of learning and affect pertinent for school psychologists and explores their roles in human functioning, Content includes basic components of cognition, including attention, memory, and decision making and how this impacts learning and children. Restriction: Graduate level students. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Graduate level students.

This course covers the application of legal and ethical practice in school psychology. Topics include developing an ethical mindset, landmark court cases, understanding legally compliant special education practices, legal and ethical decision making, and applying these ideas to school-based settings. Prereq: Admission to School Psychology Program. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to SPSY majors within the School of Education and Human Development.

This course covers topics related to the legal and ethical practice of school psychology, including landmark legal rulings, best practices in special education, and ethical decision making. Practicum II in the schools is required while students are taking this course. Coreq: SPSY 6911. Restriction: Restricted to SPSY majors within the School of Education and Human Development. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Coreq: SPSY 6911 Restriction: Restricted to SPSY PsyD majors within the School of Education and Human Development

Focuses on assessment of cognitive ability, cognitive processes, and achievement in children and adolescents. Topics include selection, administration, and interpretation of ability and achievement tests; psychological report writing, and psychometric, historical, theoretical, and cultural issues in assessment. Test administration required. Restriction: SPSY PsyD: Restricted to SPSY PsyD majors within the School of Education and Human Development. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to SPSY majors within the School of Education and Human Development.

Focuses on the assessment of adaptive behavior, personality, and social-emotional functioning in children and adolescents. Topics include selection, administration, and interpretation of these types of measures; cultural considerations in psychological assessment, psychological report writing, and developing interventions. Test administration required. Prereq: SPSY 6150. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: SPSY 6150.

Examines theories and research in developmental psychology to provide a foundation for clinical services to children and families in applied settings. Includes coverage of developmental assessments and services for infants/toddlers. Prereq: SPSY 6150. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: SPSY 6150.

Provides theoretical and practice-oriented introduction to child therapy in schools. Weaves together skills and techniques essential to theory and implementation of psychotherapeutic techniques. Course activities compliment the systemic and group-based interventions examined in SPSY 6400. Prereq: SPSY 5010. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: SPSY 5010.

Provides students with advanced study of research on and techniques of classroom and small group interventions. Includes instruction on the evaluation of intervention effectiveness. Systemic, school-wide interventions are addressed. Prereq: SPSY 5010. Restriction: Restricted to SPSY majors within the School of Education and Human Development. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: SPSY 5010. Restriction: Restricted to SPSY majors within the School of Education and Human Development.

Prepares students to provide psychoeducational assessments to children who are culturally and/or linguistically diverse. Content includes differentiation of language disorders versus language acquisition, and developing recommendations for accommodations and interventions to meet the unique psychoeducational needs of diverse children and youth. Prereq: SPSY 6150. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: SPSY 6150.

Introduces students to crisis theory, prevention research, and intervention strategies. The course is designed for school mental health professionals interested in developing advanced crisis counseling and intervention skills sufficient for use in school settings. The course emphasizes the importance of practical hands-on opportunities for skills development. Prereq: COUN 5010 or SPSY 5010. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: COUN 5010 or SPSY 5010

A wide range of traditional or emerging consultation models emphasizing practical application of empirically-based approaches to advance the social or academic competence of students, classrooms, schools and districts. Hands-on experience supplement course content as students develop, refine, and practice their own eclectic consultation approach. Prereq: SPSY 6100. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: SPSY 6100

This course provides advanced training in case conceptualization, psychopathology, and diagnosis. It includes the practical application of categorical classification using the DSM, with a focus on major childhood diagnostic categories and consideration of the client’s cultural context. Restriction: Restricted to SPSY majors within the School of Education and Human Development or consent of the instructor. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restriction: Restricted to SPSY majors within the School of Education and Human Development.

Covers theories, research, and key social-cultural concepts in typical and atypical child and adolescent development. Includes an emphasis on exploring adversity and atypical developmental trajectories in a variety of cultural contexts and how these impact well being. Restriction: Restricted to SPSY majors within the School of Education and Human Development. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Founded on a decision-making and accountability model, this course provides training in the investigation of theoretical and applied issues relevant to the design, implementation, and evaluation of academic and behavioral interventions for students in schools. Prereq: SPSY 6150. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: SPSY 6150.

Examines the social influences on human behavior, development, and wellbeing. The course focuses on people’s interactions together in varying sociocultural contexts, with an emphasis on children and educational contexts and areas most critical to school psychologists. Restriction: Restricted to SPSY majors within the School of Education and Human Development. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Restricted to SPSY-PSYD majors within the School of Education and Human Development.

This course covers advanced topics related to the practice of school psychology including applying and interviewing for internship, certification/ licensure, capstone preparation and completion, and the development of a professional identity. Prereq: SPSY 6911. Restriction: Restricted to School Psychology majors. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: SPSY 6911 Restriction: Restricted to SPSY majors

Supervised practice in providing comprehensive psychological services to children in grades preschool to 12. Students are placed in public schools or affiliated school-related agencies and supervised by practicing, licensed school psychologists. Prereq: SPSY 5600, SPSY 6100, SPSY 6150, SPSY 6160 or consent of instructor. Repeatable. Max Hours: 6 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.

Prereq: SPSY 5600, SPSY 6100, SPSY 6150, and SPSY 6160

This school psychology practicum experience is focused on developing multicultural competencies with culturally and linguistically diverse students through either a cultural immersion experience in Mexico or a local practicum placement in a culturally and linguistically diverse setting. Prereq: SPSY 6100 and SPSY 6150 and consent of the instructor. Repeatable. Max hours: 9 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 9.

Prereq: SPSY 6100 and SPSY 6150.

Under faculty supervision provide psychological assessment services to clients in the UC Denver Student and Community Counseling Center. Prereq: SPSY 6150, SPSY 6160, and consent of the instructor. Max hours: 1 Credit.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Repeatable. Max Credits: 1.

Clinical experience under supervision of licensed mental health professionals. Students participate in assessment and/or intervention in a variety of settings. Note: All field placements must be approved by the SPSY Program Director in advance of registration. Prereq: SPSY 6911. Repeatable. Max Hours: 6 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.

Prereq: SPSY 6911

Supervised experience in the practice of school psychology with children and adolescents in a school or clinic setting. Prereq: SPSY 5900, SPSY 6100, SPSY 6410, SPSY 6911, SPSY 6350, SPSY 6400, SPSY 6450, SPSY 6500, or instructor consent. Repeatable. Max hours: 6 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 6.

Prereq: SPSY 5900, SPSY 6100, SPSY 6410, SPSY 6911, SPSY 6350, SPSY 6400, SPSY 6450, and SPSY 6500

Examines the biological basis of behavior emphasizing the relationship between the functions and structures of the brain including neuroanatomy, brain development, neurophysiology, neurochemistry, and psychopharmacology; and neuropsychological assessment principles. Prereq: SPSY 6150. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: SPSY 6150.

Course prepares school psychologists to function in supervisory and administrative capacities in delivering mental health services. Content includes examination of clinical supervision theories, models, techniques; focus on development of skills for administrative roles, and understanding organizations from a systems perspective. Prereq: SPSY 6918. Max hours: 3 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade

Prereq: SPSY 6918 Restriction: Restricted to SPSY PsyD majors within the School of Education and Human Development

The Capstone Project is a culminating component of the program. Production of a scholarly project that illustrates the student’s understanding of relevant topics in school psychology, the scope of contemporary practice, and the various roles of the professional school psychologist. Prereq: SPSY 6911 and SPSY 6700. Restriction: Restricted to SPSY-PSYD majors within the School of Education and Human Development or consent of the instructor. Repeatable. Max hours: 4 Credits.

Grading Basis: Letter Grade with IP

Repeatable. Max Credits: 4.

Prereq: SPSY 6911 and SPSY 6700. Restriction: Restricted to SPSY-PSYD majors within the School of Education and Human Development.

Additional Information: Report as Full Time.

Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer.