Undergraduate Education in Psychology: All’s Well That Begins and Ends Well
Dana S. Dunn, Bernard C. Beins, Maureen A. McCarthy, and G. William Hill
in Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major: Research, Cases, and Recommendations
This chapter presents an introductory overview to the title. It discusses the structure and content of each section within the title, along with the importance of continuity within ...
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Counseling Students Who Are Pregnant or Parenting
Emily S. Fisher, Kelly S. Kennedy, and Haylea Drysdale
in Counseling Special Populations in Schools
This chapter reviews strategies for working with students who are pregnant or parenting. The chapter reviews the risks for becoming a teen parent, as well as the risks and pressures faced ...
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Advising in the Classroom: A Career Exploration Class for Psychology Majors
Drew C. Appleby
in Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major: Research, Cases, and Recommendations
This chapter outlines career exploration classes for psychology majors. It aims to explain how academic advising can be incorporated in a classroom setting that has been purposely designed ...
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Displacing Wikipedia: Information Literacy for First-Year Students
Charles M. Harris and S. Lynn Cameron
in Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major: Research, Cases, and Recommendations
This chapter discusses information literacy for first-year students, including the use of Wikipedia as a source of information, definitions of information literacy, case examples of ...
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Engaging Students in Psychology: Building on First-Year Programs and Seminars
Regan A. R. Gurung and Georjeanna Wilson-Doenges
in Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major: Research, Cases, and Recommendations
This chapter presents an effective strategy to engage first-year students at the level of the class and the university. The strategy is designed to energize students with a passion for ...
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Psychotherapy with Interfaith Couples
Susan S. Needles
in Handbook of Private Practice: Keys to Success for Mental Health Practitioners
The goal of psychotherapy with interfaith couples is to help them work out their differences so that they can form a peaceful and lasting union. In counseling, these couples explore their ...
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Counseling Students in Military Families
Emily S. Fisher and Kelly S. Kennedy
in Counseling Special Populations in Schools
This chapter reviews strategies for working with students who are from military families. During peacetime, military children are nearly identical to civilian children in terms of ...
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Depression in Medical Patients: Interpersonal Counseling and Brief IPT
Myrna M. Weissman, John C. Markowitz, and Gerald L. Klerman
in The Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy: Updated and Expanded Edition
Depression treatment that is coordinated with care for comorbid chronic conditions improves control of both the depression and the chronic medical disease. Interpersonal counseling (IPC) ...
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Supporting Bereaved Students at School
Jacqueline A. Brown and Shane R. Jimerson (eds)
Given that most children will experience the death of at least one close or special person prior to high school graduation, and because the vast majority of children attend school on a ...
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Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major: Research, Cases, and Recommendations
Dana S. Dunn, Bernard B. Beins, Maureen A. McCarthy, and G. William Hill, IV (eds)
In this collection of articles, psychology instructors involved in the improvement of teaching and learning review the research and share their own successes and challenges in the ...
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Research Teams: Developing a Capstone Experience With Programmatic Research
Bernard C. Beins and Phil D. Wann
in Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major: Research, Cases, and Recommendations
This chapter discusses research teams, and the development of a capstone experience with programmatic research. It outlines the benefits and importance of student experience with research, ...
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Ten Things I Hate About My Capstone Course—And a Few Ways to Fix Them
Tracy E. Zin, Monica J. Reis-Bergan, and Suzanne C. Baker
in Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major: Research, Cases, and Recommendations
This chapter we discusses the seminar capstone experience, three categories of common problems with capstone courses (issues related to student skill level, student expectations and ...
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Helping Undergraduates Transition to the Workplace: Four Discussion Starters
Paul Hettich
in Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major: Research, Cases, and Recommendations
The purpose of this chapter is to introduce four specific dimensions of workplace transition: youth-to-adult transitions, organizational differences between college and workplace, skills ...
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Capping the Undergraduate Experience: Making Learning Come Alive Through Fieldwork
Joann H. Grayson
in Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major: Research, Cases, and Recommendations
This chapter discusses fieldwork as an undergraduate capstone option, including why fieldwork should be offered, how a capstone field placement can be planned, negotiation with agencies for ...
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Developing Scientific Reasoning Skills in Beginning and Ending Students
Suzanne C. Baker, Maureen A. McCarthy, Jane S. Halonen, Dana S. Dunn, and G. William Hill
in Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major: Research, Cases, and Recommendations
This chapter discusses the development of scientific reasoning skills in beginning and ending students. The purpose of this chapter is to explore the role that departments and their faculty ...
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Teaching Psychology’s Endings: The Simple Gifts of a Reflective Close
Neil Lutsky
in Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major: Research, Cases, and Recommendations
In this chapter argues that there is a generalized psychology of endings that provides insights and guides for pedagogical endings. Generalizing the concept of endings further implies that ...
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Reading From the Same Page: Building an Integrated Curriculum
Brian T. Loher, Karri B. Verno, Francis W. Craig, and Peter A. Keller
in Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major: Research, Cases, and Recommendations
This chapter discusses integrated curricula, and describes efforts at Mansfield University to build an integrated undergraduate curriculum that maintains a common core while responding to ...
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The Capstone Course in Psychology as Liberal Education Opportunity
Dana S. Dunn and Maureen A. McCarthy
in Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major: Research, Cases, and Recommendations
This chapter is about applying the strengths of liberal education to a particular arena: the capstone course in the psychology major. A capstone course marks a final educational experience ...
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The Capstone Research Course: A Case Study in the Evolution of Educational Efficacy
Wayne S. Messer and David B. Porter
in Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major: Research, Cases, and Recommendations
This chapter discusses capstone research courses, and offers an account of experiences to benefit those who may find themselves in the position of developing and teaching such a course, ...
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Building a Psychology Orientation Course: Common Themes and Exercises
Brian T. Loher and R. Eric Landrum
in Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major: Research, Cases, and Recommendations
This chapter discusses psychology orientation courses. It describes the assumptions and themes common to orientation courses and presents several sample exercises used in the author’s ...
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