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• PSAP 250: Positive Behavior Support for Individuals with Neurodevelopmental Disorders

  3.00 Credits

  Northampton County Area Community College

  
  An exploration of the symptoms, strengths, daily life experiences, and developmental course of people with neurodevelopmental disorders. Students will explore a wide array of neurodevelopmental disorders and increase their knowledge and understanding of this diverse group of people. Restricted to Applied Psychology majors.
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• PSAP 260: Counseling Individuals with Neurodevelopmental Disorders

  3.00 Credits

  Northampton County Area Community College

  
  This course is an overview of basic counseling skills and knowledge that students need to become effective helpers to those with developmental differences. Skills include identification with the values and ethics of the profession, cultivating the habit of self-reflection, and developing cultural competence. Students will explore the requirements and challenges of working with individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders, to consider if a counseling career is a good fit. Restricted to Applied Psychology majors.
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• PSAP 280: Applied Psychology Experiential Learning

  3.00 Credits

  Northampton County Area Community College

  
  Students apply their knowledge of human development, psychopathology, counseling skills, and counseling values and ethics in a clinical setting. They interact with clients and analyze assessment information to evaluate clients' strengths, needs and challenges. They develop an identification with their profession through the application of ethical guidelines and professional standards. Students create written assessments of their clients to document clinical treatment. Requires 150 hours working in an approved clinical setting. Restricted to Applied Psychology majors. Prerequisite:    PSAP 260 (Grade of B or Higher)
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• PSYC 103: Introduction to Psychology

  3.00 Credits

  Northampton County Area Community College

  
  Research and psychotherapeutic methods, and the following topics: history of psychology, biological bases of behavior, sensation, perception, consciousness, learning, memory, language and thought, intelligence, motivation, emotion, human development, personality, stress and coping, psychological disorders, social behavior. Core: SSHB. Also Available via Online Learning. Approved for the Honors Program. Prerequisite:    Reading and writing competency as determined for ENGL 101.
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• PSYC 103G: Introduction to Psychology

  3.00 Credits

  Northampton County Area Community College

  
  Research and psychotherapeutic methods, and the following topics: history of psychology, biological bases of behavior, sensation, perception, consciousness, learning, memory, language and thought, intelligence, motivation, emotion, human development, personality, stress and coping, psychological disorders, social behavior. Writing intensive. Core: SSHB, WI. Also Available via Online Learning. Prerequisite:    ENGL 101
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• PSYC 205: Research Methods

  3.00 Credits

  Northampton County Area Community College

  
  This class is an overview of scientific research methods used in the social sciences. In this class, we will cover not only research methods (such as empirical data collection and analysis) but also the research process from start to end, including the steps of scientific inquiry, and the ethics involved. Only one of the following: HUMA 250G or PSYC 205 may count for credit toward the same degree. Core: SSHB, IL. Prerequisite:    PSYC 103
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• PSYC 221: Responding to the Bereaved

  3.00 Credits

  Northampton County Area Community College

  
  Comprehensive study of bereavement, including grief and mourning, complicated grief, bereaved children and adolescents, spousal bereavement, bereaved parents, principles of bereavement caregiving and assessment. Students will explore ways to structure the funeral director's role as caregiver, address their feelings and attitudes toward death, and receive training in communication skills enhancement. Restricted to Funeral students. Also available through Online Learning.
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• PSYC 230: Introduction to Health Psychology

  3.00 Credits

  Northampton County Area Community College

  
  This course is an overview of the expanding field of health psychology. Current research will be examined to understand how biological, psychological, and social factors influence health, especially as they relate to chronic and life-threatening illnesses (e.g., cancer, AIDS, diabetes, hypertension, and chronic pain). There will be an exploration of the role of psychologists and psychological research in areas such as prevention, early detection and adaptation to illness. Students will also consider cultural and gender factors that influences the following: health behaviors; access to, and utilization of, health-related resources; and health outcomes. Core: D, SSHB. Prerequisite:    PSYC 103
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• PSYC 235: Developmental Child Psychopathol

  3.00 Credits

  Northampton County Area Community College

  
  This course investigates the issues of normal versus psychopathological behavior in infants, children, and adolescents and surveys alternative views of etiology, diagnosis, treatment and prevention or various mental disorders with a special emphasis in the developmental psychopathology perspective. Core: SSHB. Prerequisite:    PSYC 103
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• PSYC 245: Cognitive Psychology

  3.00 Credits

  Northampton County Area Community College

  
  Cognitive psychology is the study of what we know, how we know it, and how that knowledge is acquired, organized, accessed, and used. This class will be a survey of the following: a historical perspective on the field of studying cognition; the research methods of contemporary cognitive psychology; attention; perception; memory; the structure of knowledge; individual differences in intelligence; our understanding of language and music; reasoning; problem-solving; and cognitive neuroscience. Core: SSHB. Prerequisite:    PSYC 103
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