Program learning outcome 4: Professional Identity Development
Professional Identity Development (PLO 4): Graduates will integrate their professional and personal identity as mental health professionals and embrace multiculturalism, inclusion, and equity as guiding principles in their interpersonal functioning, thinking, values, and commitments. Graduates will:
4a. Recognize themselves as cultural beings, their own intersectionality, and positions of privilege, and acknowledge the impact of past and present structures of power, inequality, and oppression on the individual and on society at large.
4b. Demonstrate self-reflection and awareness of self and others from a position of cultural humility in all professional activities.
4c. Demonstrate professional skills in conduct, collaboration, and communication, as well as in selfcare, time, and stress-management.
4d. Uphold RDGS values and adhere to the APA ethical principles and code of conduct.
Below are all courses that meet PLO 4.
PSY-700 Foundations for Doctoral Studies (2.0 units)
This course facilitates the students’ process of transitioning into the doctoral program by strengthening their commitment to professional, ethical, and scholarly excellence and the mission of the Reiss-Davis Graduate School. The course elucidates academic expectations for successful completion of coursework and the dissertation by orienting students to performance standards as defined by learning outcomes and course rubrics. Students develop skills contributing to critical thinking and scholarly writing following current APA format and style, and practice accessing electronic data bases and scholarly literature. Students design their own course management strategies for the program and complete the dissertation proposal planning guide.
PSY-719 Cultural Competence (3.0 units)
This course introduces students to contemporary psychoanalytic relational and intersubjective systems theory. This perspective is employed as a corrective construct to the biases of classical psychoanalysis and ego psychology, with its adherence to dominant Eurocentric worldviews and homophobic and racist attitudes. Students examine the impact of factors such as the environment, culture, gender, sexual orientation, and intergenerational transmission of trauma on the psychology of groups and individuals. Students explore how culture, race, and gender identification organize the experience of both the psychodynamic psychotherapist and the patient in the therapeutic process. Students self-reflect and evaluate their own unconscious biases and privilege exploring the implication for an ethical psychodynamic psychotherapy as they strive for a position of cultural humility.
PSY-732 Case Conference I (2.0 units)
In this first course of a 3-part series, students learn how to develop comprehensive psychodynamic case formulations, and integrate their current casework with psychodynamic theories and interventions learned in first-year coursework. Emphasis is placed on the critical concept of including parents/caregivers in child and adolescent psychodynamic treatment and receive careful consultation about maintaining boundaries between parent work and adult individual therapy in this process. The formulation template will be introduced, and students will record casework progress on a weekly basis in a standard format. Oral presentations of current casework in a small group setting encourages a forum for stimulating dialogue under the leadership of the instructor.
PSY-734 Case Conference II (3.0 units)
The second session of this three-part series of Case Conferences Courses will focus on the ability of the student to integrate psychodynamic and neurobiological theories in a comprehensive case conceptualization and presentation. The student will chose a specific theoretical orientation and through a series of process notes will reflect their understanding of the therapeutic interventions and the application to their clinical work. Key psychodynamic principles of attunement, transference and countertransference will be discussed.
PSY-736 Case Conference III (3.0 units)
In this third course of a 3-part series, students master their skills in the construction of psychodynamic case formulations and integrate their current casework with psychodynamic theories and interventions learned in first, second-year and third year coursework. Emphasis is placed on issues of termination in child and adolescent psychodynamic treatment, and students receive careful consultation about properly planning and implementing these concepts into current casework. Students continue to use the case formulation template and record casework progress on a weekly basis in a standard format. Oral presentations of current casework in a small group setting further encourages stimulating dialogue under the leadership of the instructor.
PSY-742 Psychodynamic Supervision and Evaluation (3.0 units)
This course will examine supervision from a variety of psychodynamic perspectives. Topics will include parallel process, utilization of the countertransference, and managing therapeutic impasses. The instructor will demonstrate concepts and model various approaches by working with issues arising in the students’ practice.
PSY-746 Selected Topics I (2.0 units)
This course develops a specific area in psychodynamic child psychology and psychotherapy. The course will present advanced training based on the expressed interests of the cohort. This course differs from a regular course in that the course content may change from offering to offering depending on the chosen topic and instructor expertise in the relevant area. The course content will be selected six months prior to the quarter it is offered, and students will be notified.
PSY-748 Selected Topics II (2.0 units)
This course develops a specific area in psychodynamic child psychology and psychotherapy. The course will present advanced training based on the expressed interests of the cohort. This course differs from a regular course in that the course content may change from offering to offering depending on the chosen topic and instructor expertise in the relevant area. The course content will be selected six months prior to the quarter it is offered, and students will be notified.
PSY-764 Case Conference IV (3.0 units)
In the fourth course of a four-part series of Case Conferences, students master their skills integrating psychodynamic, neurobiological, and trauma-informed case conceptualizations. Emphasis is placed on the challenges in providing psychodynamic psychotherapy to patients diagnosed with specific Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence. Students evaluate the application of interventions and technique to clinical material in comprehensive case conceptualizations, with special consideration given to diversity and cultural humility
4a. Recognize themselves as cultural beings, their own intersectionality, and positions of privilege, and acknowledge the impact of past and present structures of power, inequality, and oppression on the individual and on society at large.
4b. Demonstrate self-reflection and awareness of self and others from a position of cultural humility in all professional activities.
4c. Demonstrate professional skills in conduct, collaboration, and communication, as well as in selfcare, time, and stress-management.
4d. Uphold RDGS values and adhere to the APA ethical principles and code of conduct.
Below are all courses that meet PLO 4.
PSY-700 Foundations for Doctoral Studies (2.0 units)
This course facilitates the students’ process of transitioning into the doctoral program by strengthening their commitment to professional, ethical, and scholarly excellence and the mission of the Reiss-Davis Graduate School. The course elucidates academic expectations for successful completion of coursework and the dissertation by orienting students to performance standards as defined by learning outcomes and course rubrics. Students develop skills contributing to critical thinking and scholarly writing following current APA format and style, and practice accessing electronic data bases and scholarly literature. Students design their own course management strategies for the program and complete the dissertation proposal planning guide.
PSY-719 Cultural Competence (3.0 units)
This course introduces students to contemporary psychoanalytic relational and intersubjective systems theory. This perspective is employed as a corrective construct to the biases of classical psychoanalysis and ego psychology, with its adherence to dominant Eurocentric worldviews and homophobic and racist attitudes. Students examine the impact of factors such as the environment, culture, gender, sexual orientation, and intergenerational transmission of trauma on the psychology of groups and individuals. Students explore how culture, race, and gender identification organize the experience of both the psychodynamic psychotherapist and the patient in the therapeutic process. Students self-reflect and evaluate their own unconscious biases and privilege exploring the implication for an ethical psychodynamic psychotherapy as they strive for a position of cultural humility.
PSY-732 Case Conference I (2.0 units)
In this first course of a 3-part series, students learn how to develop comprehensive psychodynamic case formulations, and integrate their current casework with psychodynamic theories and interventions learned in first-year coursework. Emphasis is placed on the critical concept of including parents/caregivers in child and adolescent psychodynamic treatment and receive careful consultation about maintaining boundaries between parent work and adult individual therapy in this process. The formulation template will be introduced, and students will record casework progress on a weekly basis in a standard format. Oral presentations of current casework in a small group setting encourages a forum for stimulating dialogue under the leadership of the instructor.
PSY-734 Case Conference II (3.0 units)
The second session of this three-part series of Case Conferences Courses will focus on the ability of the student to integrate psychodynamic and neurobiological theories in a comprehensive case conceptualization and presentation. The student will chose a specific theoretical orientation and through a series of process notes will reflect their understanding of the therapeutic interventions and the application to their clinical work. Key psychodynamic principles of attunement, transference and countertransference will be discussed.
PSY-736 Case Conference III (3.0 units)
In this third course of a 3-part series, students master their skills in the construction of psychodynamic case formulations and integrate their current casework with psychodynamic theories and interventions learned in first, second-year and third year coursework. Emphasis is placed on issues of termination in child and adolescent psychodynamic treatment, and students receive careful consultation about properly planning and implementing these concepts into current casework. Students continue to use the case formulation template and record casework progress on a weekly basis in a standard format. Oral presentations of current casework in a small group setting further encourages stimulating dialogue under the leadership of the instructor.
PSY-742 Psychodynamic Supervision and Evaluation (3.0 units)
This course will examine supervision from a variety of psychodynamic perspectives. Topics will include parallel process, utilization of the countertransference, and managing therapeutic impasses. The instructor will demonstrate concepts and model various approaches by working with issues arising in the students’ practice.
PSY-746 Selected Topics I (2.0 units)
This course develops a specific area in psychodynamic child psychology and psychotherapy. The course will present advanced training based on the expressed interests of the cohort. This course differs from a regular course in that the course content may change from offering to offering depending on the chosen topic and instructor expertise in the relevant area. The course content will be selected six months prior to the quarter it is offered, and students will be notified.
PSY-748 Selected Topics II (2.0 units)
This course develops a specific area in psychodynamic child psychology and psychotherapy. The course will present advanced training based on the expressed interests of the cohort. This course differs from a regular course in that the course content may change from offering to offering depending on the chosen topic and instructor expertise in the relevant area. The course content will be selected six months prior to the quarter it is offered, and students will be notified.
PSY-764 Case Conference IV (3.0 units)
In the fourth course of a four-part series of Case Conferences, students master their skills integrating psychodynamic, neurobiological, and trauma-informed case conceptualizations. Emphasis is placed on the challenges in providing psychodynamic psychotherapy to patients diagnosed with specific Disorders of Childhood and Adolescence. Students evaluate the application of interventions and technique to clinical material in comprehensive case conceptualizations, with special consideration given to diversity and cultural humility
