Department of Educational Psychology
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The Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Utah emphasizes the application of behavioral sciences to educational and psychological processes. The department offers doctoral degrees in:
Counseling Psychology, School Psychology and Learning & Cognition.
Master's degrees in :
Professional Counseling, School Counseling, School Psychology, Statistics, and Instructional Design & Educational Technology.
This course provides an overview designed to give students "a taste" of the positive psychology movement and how positive psychological principles can be applied to various areas of life to help individuals have greater life satisfaction and happiness.
- Quality Intimate Relationships, a new multimedia online course, will teach students what skills, characteristics and traits constitute a good relationship and how to implement these in their lives. The nature and importance of intimacy, the influence of culture, individual differences, experience, and human nature on intimacy and relationship skills will be explored. Students will be encouraged to explore their personalities, self concept, expectations and communication styles and how they will and do impact their relationships. The course will incorporate theory and applied practice and is designed for undergraduate and graduate students.
- Forgiveness and Anger Reduction is a course for undergraduate and graduate students who would like to help others reduce their destructive anger from a long‐term minor grudge by using step‐by‐step forgiveness and anger reduction processes.Students will learn two models of forgiveness: the Enright model and the Luskin model. Students will teach the principles of the Luskin and Enright models to older teenagers or adults at the end of the semester. Students will also learn about the Carter and McKay theories of anger management and will practice techniques to reduce long‐term destructive anger.
During the first three weeks of the course, students will learn about common traumatic stress reactions, PTSD, complex PTSD, and treatment. Students will review the psychoeducation portion of
The PTSD Workbook (Introduction and pages 3-40).This course is designed to address the needs of family members who have been affected by divorce in the past or present. Concepts introduced in the courses on Forgiveness, Trauma, Quality Intimate Relationships, and Positive Psychology are applied specifically to issues that continue to affect family members for a long time after a divorce has happened. Research on the effects of divorce, interviews, resources, and strategies for moving on after a divorce (including blended families) are presented in multimedia formats. Course objectives educate family members (including adult children from divorced families), divorced parents, and professionals regarding the risk and resilience factors that can affect the outcome of a family after divorce.
This is an activity/application self-coaching course. You will apply Frisch’s Quality of Life Therapy & Coaching exercises/interventions to high-priority areas of your life. You will practice weekly exercises designed to increase “strengths ‘of the heart’” (Park, Peterson, & Seligman, 2004). “Forty percent of our happiness is controlled by our choices or intentional activities that we pursue… The figure rises to 50 percent if we view our life circumstances as changeable… through our own best efforts” (Sheldon & Lyubomirsky, 2007).
