Latino Bilingual Track 2009-2010

Description

The Latino Bilingual Track within the School of Professional Psychology combines academic and clinical training experiences intended to prepare students to work with Latinos of origin and Spanish speaking populations.

The Track provides students with a way to cluster their training through a defined curriculum of academic classes, research and clinical practice that solidify core knowledge in the cross cultural assessment, diagnosis, and treatment, of individuals, child/adolescents, families and couples of Latinos of origin and Spanish speaking populations. The Track also seeks to support student development of other interests within the field of Latino Psychology.

It is our goal to train outstanding practitioner-scholars who can deliver and/or develop cutting-edge empirically-driven and validated treatments for this unique population.

 

Faculty Mentors

Faculty areas of specialization include psychological and mental health evaluations, stress management and wellness practices, treatment of anxiety, depression and trauma; parent-child relations and child and adolescent behavior problems; family therapy; individual, child, family, group and couple’s psychotherapy, cross-cultural interventions.

Mentors include a mix of core and part time faculty in addition to community psychologists who provide teaching, supervision and research mentoring to Track students.  Interests include, but are not limited to, work with children, adolescents and adults, assessment, eating disorders, school-based interventions, disabilities and cultural consultation all with Latino populations.

  Core Faculty

  Affiliated Community Faculty

 

Requirements for Track Members

Students who are accepted to the Latino-Bilingual Track will be required to complete the following:

 

Required Courses for Track Members 

In addition to the regularly required courses within the general SPP curriculum, the following electives are required:

See attached suggested course sequence for regular students. Advanced Standing Students will be supported in creating their Individualized Education Plan, which will include determining if any of the LBT required coursed can be waived.

 

Admission & Selection

 

FAQ’s:

How is joining a Track better than just creating my own educational plan?

Joining a Track provides students the opportunity to do emphasis training in a certain domain within a smaller learning community. Students in the LBT will have priority in mentoring and research opportunities by core and affiliated faculty as well as placements in practicum and clinical fieldwork settings that provide services to Spanish speaking individuals.

When to take the required courses?

Students are responsible for developing their individualized education plan with guidance from their advisor. The attached suggested sequence of classes is intended only as guidance. Please notice some classes have a specific year requirement. There is no Advanced Standing recommended course sequence, as each individual with this standing varies in terms of what is an exempt course or an allowable transfer.

Joining two tracks?

Due to the heavy work demand, SPP faculty do not recommend students to be accepted in two tracks. This does not stop students from creating an individualized educational plan in which they could develop skills to be competent in different areas of psychology with Latinos.

As developing a track is always a work in progress, if you are interested in two tracks, make sure you discuss your interest with both track Directors, in order to get a better understanding of how to accomplish the development of the desired skills.

Students can be members of other tracks and be affiliated with the LBT.

What does being affiliated with LBT means?

Students who satisfy the language requirements (defined by either the OPI Score on the ACTFL or Faculty assessment) and are interested in either clinical work or research with Latinos can be considered affiliated to the track.

The affiliated students:

  1. Will be invited to all LBT events, educational, and community related activities, including the LBT quarterly meetings.
  2. Could receive mentoring opportunities by core and affiliated faculty.
  3. Will be helped to find practicum or field work placements. Due to the limited number of practicum and field work placements that satisfy the requirements for the LBT, affiliated students will be able to be accepted in any of them after LBT students have been placed.  
  4. Will be given support in creating their educational plan toward becoming competent to work with Latino populations.

 

Practicum/field work placements

As any other student, LBT members will be placed at the SPP Training Clinics for Practicum I. All Practicum II and Clinical Fieldwork placements will be determined in discussion with the Track director and the Director of Clinical Training for best matches. The LBT is interested in developing, as much as possible, practicum experiences that offer services to Latinos and have a bilingual bicultural supervisor. Students can help develop such practicums in direct communication with the LBT Director and the Director of Clinical Training.

 

LATINO BILINGUAL TRACK

Suggested Class Sequence for Students Beginning Fall 2009

 

Year 1   09-10

Credits

Year 3   11-12

Credits

Fall

 

Fall

 

Psychometrics

3

Practicum II

4

Basic Clinical and Counseling Skills

3

Elective

3

Basic Counseling Skills Lab - BILINGUAL

1

Intervention III

3

Intervention I

3

 

Total 10

Psychopathology

3

 

 

Intermediate Spanish I

1

 

 

Interprofessional Course – Didactic

0.5

 

 

 

Total 14.5

 

 

Spring 

 

Spring

 

Introduction to DX & TX Planning

3

Practicum II

4

DX & TX Planning Lab - BILINGUAL

1

Business of Psychology

3

Intervention II

3

Elective

3

Assessment I

3

 

Total 10

Cognition

3

 

 

Intermediate Spanish I

1

 

 

Interprofessional Course - Experiential

0.5

 

 

 

Total 14.5

 

 

Summer

 

Summer

 

Professional Communication

3

Practicum II

4

Assessment II

3

History & Systems

3

Ethics & Professional Issues

3

Advanced Lifespan Psychology

3

Intermediate Spanish I

1

Dissertation

3

Latino Immersion Program and Seminar

1

 

Total 13/34

 

Total 14/43

 

 
       

Year 2  10-11

 

Year 4  12-13

 

Fall

 

Fall

 

Practicum I 

4

Dissertation

3

Thesis

2

Professional Roles I

3

Statistics and Research Design I

3

Elective

3

Psychotherapy  with Latino

3

 

Total 9

Intermediate Spanish I

1

 

 

 

Total 13

 

 

Spring   

 

Spring

 

Research Design

3

Professional Roles II

2

Fund of BX Neuroscience

3

Dissertation

3

Practicum I

4

Elective

3

Thesis

2

 

Total 8

Psychotherapy  with Latino – Seminar

2

 

 

Intermediate Spanish I

1

 

 

 

Total 15

 

 

Summer  

 

Summer

 

Human Diversity

3

Dissertation

3

Human Diversity Lab

1

Supervision Practicum

1

Social/ Ind Bases of BX

3

Elective

3

Thesis

2

 

Total 7/24

Practicum I

4

 

Intermediate Spanish I

1

 Year 5   13-14  

 

Total 14/43 

Internship (2 credits x 3 terms)

Total 6

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    Total for MS.& PsyD: 148