Course Description
This course is intended to meet APA requirements for school psychology graduate students to be familiar with ethical and legal issues that impact clinical practice as well as clinical supervision, and for students to gain practice providing supervision of others. A combination of readings, case studies, and guest lecturers will be used in discussing legal/ethical issues impacting school psychology practice and clinical supervision.
Athena Title
Peer Supervision Foundations
Non-Traditional Format
Practicum
Prerequisite
EPSY 7720
Semester Course Offered
Offered summer semester every year.
Grading System
S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory)
Course Objectives
This course is intended to meet APA requirements for school psychology graduate students to be familiar with ethical and legal issues that impact clinical practice as well as clinical supervision, and for students to gain practice providing supervision of others. A combination of readings, case studies, and guest lecturers will be used in discussing legal/ethical issues impacting school psychology practice and clinical supervision. First-year students will acquire additional knowledge and skills needed to begin conducting psycho-educational assessments in the UGA School Psychology Clinic. Each student will be paired with a second-year student case manager and both parties are responsible for coordinating schedules. First-year school psychology students will review scoring and interpretation and administration procedures of the narrow-band measure during the week of the class presentation/demonstration by a second-year student. Measures to be presented and demonstrated will be discussed in class and will be contingent on online availability for practice purposes. Second-year students will expand their understanding of evidence-based clinical practice and models of supervision as well as ethical and legal issues related to providing peer supervision. They will present/teach narrow-band measures to first-year students, and supervise their performance in the context of case studies provided to them.
Topical Outline
Tentative Course Schedule: Week 1 Introduction/overview of practicum (second and first years); Models of supervision Week 2 HIPAA and ethics Week 3 Telehealth and tele-assessment ethics, standards, and guidelines Week 4 Multicultural supervision Week 5 Multicultural issues continued Week 6 Interdisciplinary collaboration Week 7 Interdisciplinary collaboration Week 8 Speech and language disorders or other special topics
Syllabus
Public CV