Seminar in Health Psychology: Clinical Practice and Research Principles. 1 -

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Seminar in Health Psychology: Clinical Practice & Research Principles is a one-credit seminar course intended for clinical psychology graduate students in the CWRU Department of Psychological Sciences and other related graduate programs in addition to upper-level undergraduates in related fields with the permission of the course instructors. This course is designed to provide students with exposure to psychologists at academic medical centers or universities in Northeast Ohio and across the U.S. regarding clinical practice and research as it pertains to the field of health psychology. It is intended for students with interests in either child or adult clinical psychology, including those with early childhood interests to those with a focus on geriatric clinical practice/research. This course is offered one semester/year, and the content and speakers rotate annually so students may enroll multiple times in consultation with their academic advisors. The clinical practice class sessions will include one or more case examples presented by each guest speaker (or by the course instructors), followed by class discussions of conceptualization and intervention strategies and integration of how psychologists with a health psychology specialty collaborate and consult with multiple other specialists. The research principles class sessions will include investigators (guest speakers/instructors) leading class discussions on the conduct of funded research projects (e.g., federal, foundation), clinical research, or other research endeavors specific to topics in health psychology; discussion of unique health psychology models/theories, and emphasis on the collaboration of many different disciplines conducting medical/health research with a behavioral/psychology component.