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The Applied Developmental Science (ADS)
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The focus of the Applied
Developmental Science specialization (ADS) is on the use of research and
application to promote positive development across the lifespan. Applied
developmental scientists adopt the view that positive individual
development and family functioning is a combined and interactive product
of biology and the physical and social environments that continuously
evolve and change over time. The applied developmental science orientation
emphasizes a focus on systematic and successive changes within human
systems that occur across the lifespan. This assumption stresses the
importance of understanding normative and atypical processes as they
emerge within different developmental periods and across diverse physical
and cultural settings. Drawing on the conceptual base provided by the
emerging field of Applied Developmental Science, the applied developmental
science orientation is committed to the use of descriptive and explanatory
knowledge about changes within human systems that occur across the
lifespan in developing, implementing and evaluating preventive, treatment,
and/or enhancing interventions. Such interventions are intended to prevent
negative developmental outcomes and/or restore and promote positive
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Concurrent Credentialing
Option
Within the Applied Developmental Science specialization
(ADS), students may choose the
Concurrent Credentialing
Option for integrating
application into their developmental training. The are two concurrent credentialing tracks available within this
option, The Master in Counseling Psychology offers
credentialing that leads to licensing as a
Mental Health Counselor in the State of Florida
track and the Applied Behavior Analysis track
offers credentialing that leads to
Florida
State Certification in Behavior Analysis (CBA), and National Board
Certification in Behavior Analysis (BCBA). Depending upon specific
credentialing requirements, students choosing these tracks may incur
additional requirements beyond those that must be fulfilled in completing
the doctoral degree. That is, students who elect either of these tracks
(or both) are responsible for fulfilling all of the doctoral degree
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The Masters in Counseling
Psychology track
Within the Concurrent
Credentialing Option, students in the
Master in Counseling Psychology track
work concurrently on fulfilling the
requirements for the doctoral degree in life span developmental
psychology and the requirements for licensing as a Mental Health
Counselor in the State of Florida. These requirements are
fulfilled through enrollment in courses offered by the Psychology
Department.
The practice
of mental health counseling includes, but is not limited to,
psychotherapy, counseling, behavior modification, consultation,
client-centered advocacy, crisis intervention, and the provision of needed
information and education to clients. The practice of mental health
counseling may also include clinical research into more effective
psychotherapeutic modalities for the treatment and prevention of such
conditions.
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find out more about the Masters in Counseling Psychology Program
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The Applied Behavior Analysis track
Within
the Concurrent Credentialing
Option,
students in the Applied
Behavior Analysis track
work
concurrently on fulfilling the requirements for Florida
State Certification in Behavior Analysis (CBA), and National Board
Certification in Behavior Analysis (BCBA). These requirements are
fulfilled through enrollment in courses offered by the Psychology
Department's Applied Behavior Analysis Program (ABAP).
This
track functions also as preparation of students for doctoral-level
training in related disciplines as Experimental Psychology or
Developmental Psychology.
To
find out more about the Applied Behavior Analysis Program click here
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