Special Topics in Abnormal Psychology: Systems and Psychotherapy

The goals of the seminar are to familiarize you with the different systems of psychotherapy, to ask you to formulate the underlying assumptions involved in each system of psychotherapy, to ask you to come up with an understanding of the mechanisms of change and treatment interventions implicit and explicit in these different systems, and to provide you with the opportunity to critically review relevant papers and chapters and to write critical reviews of topics of interest to you.  This is a work intensive seminar which will require extensive readings and writings and even sometimes to stay beyond the end of class.