CPS 689 - Social/Emotional and Systems Interventions

Catalog Year 2013-2014

This class emphasizes the development of individual and systems level interventions to enhance the social, behavioral, affective and adaptive functioning of children and adolescents. Students will develop and apply interventions with clients from diverse cultural and ethnic back-grounds. Topics include both direct and indirect interventions including prevention, home/school/community collaboration, crisis intervention, conflict approaches, health issues and assisting educators and families in teaching prosocial behavior. Interventions discussed will be empirically supported and models for outcomes based assessment will be presented.

credit: 3