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:
Specifically,
The Youth
Development Project (YDP) is composed of two main programs that you will
help implement and maintain. They are the:
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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.
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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:
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Forms/Applications
You must submit the following to
receive credit for this course:
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‘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.
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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.
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Fingerprints:
You are required to be fingerprinted at a Miami-Dade Police Station
before you can go to your assigned school.
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‘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:
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