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Senior Lab (DEP4720) / Field Experience (PSY 4941/4916)

This course is an advanced senior laboratory in the implementation and maintenance of a psychosocial developmental school based intervention. Consideration will be given to:

  • promoting positive youth development in troubled youth and

  • acquiring a familiarity with the research techniques and methodology associated in this research area. 

Specifically,

The Youth Development Project (YDP) is composed of two main programs that you will help implement and maintain.  They are the:

  • Changing Lives Program (CLP, intervention), which is a school-based counseling program that aims to empower troubled adolescents so they can be in control of their lives and take responsibility for changing their life courses in positive directions.

  • Longitudinal Life Course Change Project (LCP, control condition), which is an ongoing longitudinal study of quantitative and qualitative changes in the life course or life pathways of troubled adolescents in alternative school programs who do not receive psychosocial intervention.

 

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

v      Forms/Applications

      You must submit the following to receive credit for this course:

·         Online Application’ for the Youth Development Project Training Program: You must complete the Online Application prior to registering for the Psychosocial Intervention Senior Lab.

·         Course Contract: You must sign and turn into the course Teaching Assistant the course contract, which will be filed in the YDP records.

·         Research and Intervention Participation Guidelines: You must sign and turn into the course Teaching Assistant these guidelines, which will be filed in the YDP records.

·         School Volunteer Program Registration Form:  You must complete and turn in the Miami-Dade County Public School System Volunteer Form, which includes a background check.

·         Fingerprints: You are required to be fingerprinted at a Miami-Dade Police Station before you can go to your assigned school.

·         ‘Human Subject Certificate’: You must complete the National Institute of Health computer-based Training Model on research ethics to be eligible to participate in this senior lab. If you do not complete this requirement for certification, you cannot participate in this senior lab. One copy of the certification received upon completion of the online course which has your name on it must be filed with the Evaluation Team Leader. The NIH course is available at: http://www.dsrt.fiu.edu 

REQUIRED TEXTS: 

You must download, print, place in your notebook, and bring to the second week of Trainings:

 

REQUIRED FORMS: 

PLACEMENT SITES DIRECTIONS:

ACE

(305) 460-2946 Directions

CAN

(305) 634-4650 Directions

CAS

(305) 246-4348 Directions

SAT

(305) 573-5499 Directions

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