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April 2, 2010

Spring Term 2010 Reading List

Posted by Nathen under graduate school, lists, reading, school, tests
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OK, I’m done with my comps exam. It went well, I think. I’ll find out in a couple weeks. I’m already a week into my new term and am starting my reading. Here’s my reading list for the next 9 weeks. Each one of these is a chapter or an article for either Child & Family Assessment, Group Therapy, Wellness & Spirituality Throughout the Life Cycle, or Beginning Practicum.

624 Yalom 1 3/31/2010
623 Strauss, Hungry for Connection BB
 4/5/2010
623 Stith et al., the voices of children BB
 4/5/2010
623 Gil 2000, Engaging families in therapeutic play BB
 4/5/2010
609 Brock ch 1 4/5/2010
609 Brock ch 2 4/5/2010
609 BB ch1 in Essential skills in family therapy 4/5/2010
624 Yalom 2 4/7/2010
624 Yalom 3 4/7/2010
624 Yalom 4 4/7/2010
630 Walsh 1 4/9/2010
630 Walsh 2 4/9/2010
630 Walsh 3 4/9/2010
630 Odell BB 4/9/2010
630 Prest & Keller 4/9/2010
623 Moon 1998 Family therapy w intellectually gifted BB
 4/12/2010
623 Prober 2004 understanding the rainforest mind BB
 4/12/2010
623 Mahoney, Exceptional children BB
 4/12/2010
623 Gil 2005 From senstivity to competence BB
 4/12/2010
623 Meth 2000 Involving fathers BB
 4/12/2010
623 Canino 2000 Diagnostic categories BB
 4/12/2010
609 Brock ch 3 4/12/2010
609 Prochaska 1999 How do people change BB 4/12/2010
609 essential skills ch 4 BB 4/12/2010
609 Experiential Text–1/6 of it 4/12/2010
Photo & bio stuff for camp as in email from maya of 3/29 4/14/2010
624 yalom 5 4/14/2010
624 Yalom 6 4/14/2010
624 Jacobs 6 4/14/2010
624 Jacobs 7 4/14/2010
630 Walsh 11 4/16/2010
630 Walsh 12 4/16/2010
630 Walsh 13 4/16/2010
630 Walsh 14 4/16/2010
630 Walsh 15 4/16/2010
630 Walsh 16 4/16/2010
630 Hodge BB 4/16/2010
623 http://www.circleofsecurity.org/docs/COS%20Teminology.pdf (terminology?) 4/19/2010
623 Booth 2005 Children’s attachment BB
 4/19/2010
623 Rober 1998 Reflections on ways to create safe BB
 4/19/2010
623 Watchel 2001 The language of becoming BB
 4/19/2010
623 small group role play #1 4/19/2010
APPLY TO INTERNSHIPS 4/19/2010
609 Brock ch 4 4/19/2010
609 Snyder 1999 Hope as a psychotherapeutic BB 4/19/2010
609 BB essential skills ch 6 4/19/2010
609 Ward 2009 moving up the continuum BB 4/19/2010
609 Experiential Text–2/6 done 4/19/2010
624 Yalom 7 4/21/2010
624 Yalom 8 4/21/2010
624 Jacobs 8 4/21/2010
624 Jacobs 9 4/21/2010
630 Walsh 5 4/23/2010
630 Walsh 6 4/23/2010
630 Walsh 7 4/23/2010
630 Walsh 8 4/23/2010
630 Walsh 9 4/23/2010
623 small group role play #2 4/26/2010
623 assessment paper #1 due 4/26/2010
623 Nida 2000 Children’s social emotional development BB
 4/26/2010
623 Canino 2000 influence of culture and multiple social BB
 4/26/2010
609 Brock ch 5 4/26/2010
609 Gehart 2003 Theory based treatment planning ch1 BB 4/26/2010
609 Experiential Text–3/6 done 4/26/2010
624 Yalom 9 4/28/2010
624 Yalom 10 4/28/2010
624 Jacobs 2 4/28/2010
624 Jacobs 3 4/28/2010
624 Jacobs 4 4/28/2010
630 response paper #1 due 4/30/2010
630 Walsh 4 4/30/2010
630 SArmiento & Cardamil BB 4/30/2010
630 Walsh BB in Family Resiliency 4/30/2010
623 small group role play #3 5/3/2010
623 assessment paper #2 due 5/3/2010
623 Diller 2005 Bitter pill: Ritalin BB
 5/3/2010
623 Josephson, Family therapy in an age of bio psych BB
 5/3/2010
609 Brock ch 10 5/3/2010
609 Brock ch 11 5/3/2010
609 Brock ch 12 5/3/2010
609 Experiential Text–4/6 done 5/3/2010
609 http://www.dhs.state.or.us/abuse/ 5/3/2010
624 jacobs 5 5/5/2010
624 jacobs 12 5/5/2010
624 Yalom 11 5/5/2010
624 Yalom 12 5/5/2010
624 Wichman 2005 BB 5/5/2010
624 Midterm reflection paper–see syllabus 5/5/2010
630 McGoldrick Family Life Cycle BB ch 1 5/7/2010
630 McGoldrick Family Life Cycle BB ch 2 5/7/2010
630 McGoldrick Family Life Cycle BB ch 4 5/7/2010
630 Erickson BB 5/7/2010
630 Sheridan, Peterson, Rosen BB 5/7/2010
630 Pardeck & Pardeck BB** 5/7/2010
623 small group role play #4 5/10/2010
623 assessment paper #3 due 5/10/2010
623 Ketering 2007 child physical abuse and neglect BB
 5/10/2010
623 Benoit 1999 Parental abuse and foster homes BB
 5/10/2010
623 Caffaro 2008 sibling violence BB
 5/10/2010
623 Sholevar, The family and the legal system BB
 5/10/2010
623 Tonning 1999 Persistent & chronic neglect BB
 5/10/2010
623 http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/ACE/ familiarize w purpose and outcomes 5/10/2010
609 Treatment Planning due 5/10/2010
609 Brock ch 7 5/10/2010
609 Brock ch 8 5/10/2010
609 Experiential Text–5/7 done 5/10/2010
624 Yalom 13 5/12/2010
624 Jacobs 10 5/12/2010
624 Jacobs 11 5/12/2010
624 Jacobs 16 5/12/2010
630 Neda article BB 5/14/2010
630 Danielsdotir, Burgar, Oliver-Pyatt BB 5/14/2010
623 assessment paper #4 due 5/17/2010
623 Wind 1999 Developmental identity crisis in nontrad BB
 5/17/2010
623 Volkow 2004 the adolescent brain BB
 5/17/2010
623 Cohen 2005 psychotherapy w same-sex attracted youth BB
 5/17/2010
609 Brock ch 9 5/17/2010
609 Brock ch 10 5/17/2010
609 Bischoff 2002 The pathway toward clinical self-confidence BB 5/17/2010
609 Avis 2005 Narratives from the field BB 5/17/2010
609 Experiential Text–6/7 done 5/17/2010
624 Jacobs 13 5/19/2010
624 Jacobs 17 5/19/2010
624 Anderson 2009 BB 5/19/2010
630 Response paper #2 due 5/21/2010
630 DAvis, WArd, Storm BB 5/21/2010
623 Imberti 2008 the immigrants odyssey BB
 5/24/2010
623 Fon 1999 Multiple traumas BB
 5/24/2010
623 Dolbin-MacNab 2008 Grandparent raising grandchildren BB
 5/24/2010
609 virtual dialogs due 5/24/2010
609 observation due 5/24/2010
609 Brock ch 6 5/24/2010
609 Experiential Text–done 5/24/2010
630 Papernow BB 5/28/2010
630 King & Wynne BB 5/28/2010
630 Clunis & Green BB** 5/28/2010
630 Corbet-Owen & KrugerBB** 5/28/2010
630 Interventions paper DUE 5/28/2010
630 Interventions handout DUE 5/28/2010
624 Final group reflection–overall–see syllabus 6/2/2010
630 Intervention presentations 6/4/2010
609 final exam 6/7/2010
624 Proposal for group term paper–8-10 pp ########
 

March 4, 2010

Headlines From Psychology, Part 5

Posted by Nathen under advice, behavior reinforcement, children, conformity, decisions, ethics, family, headlines, identity, intelligence, lists, obedience, parenting, psychology, punishment, reading, Solomon Asch, Stanley Milgram, video
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Here’s part 5 of the stuff I learned in my undergrad in psychology that I thought should have been headlines. If you missed them, here are part 1, part 2, part 3, & part 4. As always, if you are interested or skeptical, leave me a comment and I’ll give you my sources.

If You Punish Your Kids, Use the Mildest Effective Punishment: Do the mildest thing you can that stops the behavior you don’t want. The reason is that a punishment that is harsher than necessary takes the child’s initiative for stopping the behavior out of the picture. If you say “Hey, don’t do that,” and the child responds, they come to think that they didn’t really want to do that thing anyway, since such a mild rebuke got them to stop. Psychologists call these principles “insufficient punishment” and “self-persuasion.” These are research findings, not just speculation. If you sit on and beat your child to get them to stop doing something (as suggested by Mike & Debi Pearl), they will believe something more like “That activity was so great that I’ve only stopped because of that horrible punishment.” In other words, the form of the punishment affects the identity of the child–do they behave well because they think of themselves as well-behaved, or do they behave well only because they fear punishment?

You May Want Your Kids To Be Less Blindly Obedient Than Most People: One of the most famous psychological experiments of all time found that most people risked killing someone they barely knew, given an institutional setting and an authority telling them to do it. The Nazis were mostly not evil, just obedient, like most of us.

Humans Can Be Conformist to the Point of Doubting Their Own Senses:

Each Ethical Decision You Make Affects Your Future Ethical Decisions and Your Identity: If you, say, decide to cheat on a test, you will be more likely to cheat on tests in the future, think of yourself as someone who cheats on tests, and form permissive attitudes about cheating. The opposite is true if you decide not to cheat on a test.

Complement Your Kids For the How Hard They Work, Not How Smart They Are: Getting attention for being smart tends to make kids want to appear smart, which makes them choose easier challenges and lighter competition; it’s the success that matters. Getting attention for hard work does the opposite. This means that these kids will end up smarter than the kids who got attention for being smart.

Teach Your Kids to Think About Intelligence as a Fluid Property: That is, teach them that they can become more intelligent by trying. The more they believe it, the more it will be true for them.

If Your Kids Read, Don’t Reward Them For Reading: They will be more likely to stop, if you do, because they will start to think of reading as something they do to be rewarded, not because they like it. If they don’t read, reward them for reading. This goes for other activities, too.

 

January 8, 2010

Winter Term Begins

Posted by Nathen under being kind to myself, graduate school, reading, school, writing
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I’m back from a wonderful vacation with Reanna and my family in Joshua Tree and hunkering down for my winter term. I’ve heard that my last term had the most intense workload of the program, but now that I’ve compiled the list of reading and assignments, I wonder if that’s true, especially considering that we have our comp exams the first week of spring term, which includes writing four 6-8 page papers from memory. I’m thinking of ways to take it easier on myself this term because I lost some of my near-focus vision during fall term and I’m not cool with that. (Yes, I was taking breaks, looking up frequently etc. Reading 30 hours a week is reading 30 hours a week.) Anyway, here’s my reading and writing list for the next 10 weeks. The number codes are for the classes: 610 is my second Family Models class, 620 is my Psychopathology (read DSM and deconstruction of such) class, 621 is Professional and Ethical Issues in Family Therapy, and 632 is Medical Family Therapy. I’m excited about all of them.

620 “Remembering Masturbatory Insanity” (URL) 1/6/2010

620 “Mental Disorders are Not Diseases” (URL) 1/6/2010

620 “The Myth of the Reliability of DSM” (URL) 1/6/2010

620 “On Being Sane in Insane Places” (Blackboard) 1/6/2010

620 “Patient Autobiographies” (Blackboard) 1/6/2010

621 Corey ch 1 1/11/2010

621 Corey ch 2 1/11/2010

621 Woody ch 1 1/11/2010

621 reflection paper 1 1/11/2010

610 Nichols ch 6 1/13/2010

610 Nichols ch 9 1/13/2010

610 BB Bobrow & Ray 1/13/2010

620 Munson: Look at Visuals section. 1/13/2010

620 Munson: Read: Introduction, 1/13/2010

620 Munson: Ch. 3 (for overview), 1/13/2010

620 Munson: Ch. 4 (focus on structure of multiaxial system). 1/13/2010

620 Munson: Skim Ch. 21 1/13/2010

620 Munson: Skim Ch. 23 1/13/2010

620 DSM: Introduction, Use of the Manual, Multiaxial Assessment (through p. 37) 1/13/2010

620 Skim “APA Guidelines for Providers…” 1/13/2010

620 D’Avanzo & Geissler: Read Foreword 1/13/2010

620 D’Avanzo & Geissler: Preface 1/13/2010

620 D’Avanzo & Geissler: Appendix 1/13/2010

620 D’Avanzo & Geissler: look at index. 1/13/2010

620 D’Avanzo & Geissler: Look up people of your ethnic heritage, country(s) of origin, or with whose culture you are familiar in order to evaluate strengths and limitations of this resource 1/13/2010

632 Sapolsky ch 1 1/15/2010

632 Sapolsky ch 12 1/15/2010

632 Sapolsky ch 16 1/15/2010

632 Medical Family Therapy ch 3 1/15/2010

632 Medical Family Therapy ch 6 1/15/2010

610 BB Shields & McDaniel 1/20/2010

610 Tomm part 2 1/20/2010

610 reflection paper 1 1/20/2010

620 Munson: Ch. 19, 11 1/20/2010

620 DSM: Adjustment DOs (p. 679-683), Anxiety DOs (p. 429-484) 1/20/2010

620 Kessler 1/20/2010

620 Barrett 1/20/2010

620 Ung 1/20/2010

620 Burroughs 1/20/2010

620 Munson 14 1/20/2010

620 DSM: Dissociative DOs (p. 519-33), 1/20/2010

620 DSM: Eating DOs (p. 583-595) 1/20/2010

620 Schreiber 1/20/2010

620 Knapp 1/20/2010

632 Rolland part I 1/22/2010

632 Rolland part II 1/22/2010

621 Corey ch 3 1/25/2010

621 Corey ch 4 1/25/2010

621 Woody ch 8 1/25/2010

621 reflection paper 2 1/25/2010

621 reflection paper 3 1/25/2010

610 BB Tomm part 1 1/27/2010

620 Munson: Ch. 10 1/27/2010

620 DSM Bipolar DOs (p. 382-401) 1/27/2010

620 DSM: Mood DOs (p. 345-382 1/27/2010

620 Styron 1/27/2010

620 Jamison 1/27/2010

632 Rolland part III 1/29/2010

621 Corey ch 5 2/1/2010

610 Nichols ch 13 2/3/2010

610 BB carr 1998 2/3/2010

620 reading to be assigned 2/3/2010

620 quiz 2/3/2010

620 summary of small group discussion 2/3/2010

632 Gawande 2/5/2010

632 Patients from different cultures ch 2 2/5/2010

632 Patients from Different cultures ch 4 2/5/2010

621 Corey ch 6 2/8/2010

621 Woody ch 7 2/8/2010

621 reflection paper 4 2/8/2010

621 professional disclosure statement 2/8/2010

610 BB Gergen 1985 2/10/2010

610 quiz 1 2/10/2010

620 Munson 9 2/10/2010

620 Munson 16 2/10/2010

620 DSM: Schizophrenic spectrum DOs (p. 297-338) 2/10/2010

620 Alda mother 2/10/2010

620 Love mother 2/10/2010

620 Steele 2/10/2010

620 Hunt 2/10/2010

620 “lobotomies” coleman 2/10/2010

620 Dully and Fleming 2/10/2010

620 El-Hai 2/10/2010

620 Grand Rounds 2/10/2010

632 Shared experience ch 1 2/12/2010

632 Shared experience ch 14 2/12/2010

632 Shared experience ch 15 2/12/2010

632 Medical family therapy ch 4 2/12/2010

632 Medical family therapy ch 11 2/12/2010

632 Sherret 2/12/2010

632 health genogram due 2/12/2010

621Corey ch 7 2/15/2010

621 Woody ch 3 2/15/2010

621 reflection paper 5 2/15/2010

610 Nichols 12 2/17/2010

610 BB Molnar & DeShazer 1987 2/17/2010

620 Munson 20 2/17/2010

620 Munson 16 2/17/2010

620 DSM: Personality DOs (p. 685-729) 2/17/2010

620 Wurtzel 2/17/2010

620 Levine 2/17/2010

620 Miller 2/17/2010

620 Crimmins 2/17/2010

620 DSM: Alzheimer’s (p. 147-158) 2/17/2010

632 psychotherapist’s guide to psychoparmacology 2/19/2010

621 Corey ch 8 2/22/2010

621 Corey ch 9 2/22/2010

621 Woody ch 4 2/22/2010

621 reflection paper 6 2/22/2010

610 reflection 2 2/24/2010

620 review readings 2/24/2010

620 Exam 2/25/2010

632 LBL chapter 1 2/26/2010

632 LBL chapter 3 2/26/2010

632 LBL chapter 7 2/26/2010

632 Candib 2/26/2010

621 Corey ch 11 3/1/2010

621 Corey ch 12 3/1/2010

621 reflection paper 7 3/1/2010

621 legal statutes and rules summary 3/1/2010

610 Nichols 11 3/3/2010

610 BB Goldner 1992 or so 3/3/2010

610 OSCR reflection 3/3/2010

620 trans readings TBA 3/3/2010

632 LBL chapter 8 3/5/2010

632 LBL chapter 9 3/5/2010

632 Becvar 3/5/2010

621 Corey ch 10 3/8/2010

621 Corey ch 13 3/8/2010

621 reflection paper 8 3/8/2010

621 Take home final due 3/8/2010

610 Nichols 14 3/10/2010

610 quiz 2 3/10/2010

632 interview project due 3/12/2010

610 final paper due 10 am 3/15/2010

 

October 23, 2009

Please Stop Using These Words

Posted by Nathen under rants, reading, words, writing
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I’m reading a lot of scholarly writing these days. Unfortunately that means that I’m reading a lot of bad writing these days. I have some sympathy with these writers–they are writing about complex topics in a discipline (psychology) which has a long tradition of bad writing. I worked many, many, many hours on my honors thesis and only managed to get it out of the “bad writing” category, not into the “good writing” category, except perhaps here and there. However, there are two very easy things we can all do to make scholarly writing better: Stop using the words “utilize” and “extant.”

“Utilize” means no more or less than “use,” and “use” is a better word because it’s simpler and everyone knows what it means.

“Extant” means no more or less than “existing.” Scholarly writers love to refer to “the extant literature” on a topic. It’s not just bad because most people don’t know what “extant” means, it’s bad because if you do know what it means, you know it’s completely superfluous in the phrase “the extant literature.” That is, unless you are really making the distinction between the literature that exists and the literature that does not exist. And you are not.

It may be that folks who are using these words just can’t help it, in the way that a guitarist who has just learned a bunch of flashy licks can’t help playing them all the time. The thing is, you are a writer. You get to edit. Please edit out these words.

 

October 1, 2009

One Half of My Fall Term Workload

Posted by Nathen under Couples and Family Therapy, graduate school, GTD, lists, reading, school
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I just entered the assignments listed on the syllabi from my first two (of four) classes–Family Theory and Gender & Ethnicity in Family Therapy. It’s all reading and writing. There are about 20 assignments that I have on repeat in my PDA, so they only show up once here. Still, I anticipate that this is about half of my workload for the next 10 weeks.

Virtual dialog entry for Family Theory    10/6/2009
Two questions from readings–Family Theory    10/7/2009
Personal Epistemology essay 1    10/7/2009
616 e-reserve Glasserfeld    10/7/2009
619 Genogram    10/7/2009
McGoldrick ch 1    10/7/2009
Read Genogram Materials folder    10/7/2009
619 Read AAMFT Code of Ethics URL    10/7/2009
619 Read Chronister, McWhirter, & Kerewsky [In Ecological Model folder]    10/7/2009
Personal Epistemology essay 2    10/14/2009
616 Pragmatics ch 2-3    10/14/2009
616 e-reserve Bateson Theory of schizophrenia    10/14/2009
616 Sullivan lecture 1    10/14/2009
619 Ecological risk and resilience worksheet    10/14/2009
Read a chapter of McGoldrick et al. that relates to your family of origin, and one that seems very different. Write in your journal about these chapters, particularly in relation to yourself.    10/14/2009
Read McGoldrick et al., Appendix: Cultural Assessment    10/14/2009
Skim McGoldrick et al., Chapters 36, 37, 38    10/14/2009
619 Genogram and ecological worksheet due    10/14/2009
619 Read Shachtman    10/14/2009
619 Skim Paniagua    10/14/2009
619 Read McIntosh URL    10/14/2009
619 Read Kincaid    10/14/2009
Personal Epistemology essay 3    10/21/2009
Family theory quiz 1    10/21/2009
Pragmatics ch 4-5    10/21/2009
616 e-reserve Jackson on Homeostasis    10/21/2009
616 Sullivan lecture 2    10/21/2009
619 Read Gone    10/21/2009
619 Read Phinney et al.    10/21/2009
619Read Sullivan et al.    10/21/2009
Personal Epistemology essay 4    10/28/2009
Pragmatics ch 6-7 and epilogue    10/28/2009
616 e-reserve Jackson on Study of the Family    10/28/2009
Sullivan lecture 3    10/28/2009
619 1000-1500 wd reflection paper (weird format–look in syll)    10/28/2009
Read McGoldrick et al,. Chapter 20, 21, 27    10/28/2009
619 Read Serdarevic & Chronister     10/28/2009
619 Read Boyd-Ball & Dishion    10/28/2009
619 Read Nguyen    10/28/2009
619 Read Ung    10/28/2009
619 Read Littleford    10/28/2009
Personal Epistemology essay 5    11/4/2009
Tactics, beginning to end of ch 2    11/4/2009
616 e-reserve Jackson: sick sad savage sane    11/4/2009
Sullivan lecture IV    11/4/2009
619 Begin reading Him    11/4/2009
619 Read Hertlein    11/4/2009
619 Read Grealy    11/4/2009
619 Read Grealy    11/4/2009
619 Read Decker    11/4/2009
619 Read Kerewsky    11/4/2009
619 Read Steele    11/4/2009
619 Read Mahalik et al.    11/4/2009
Personal Epistemology essay 6    11/11/2009
Tactics ch 3-4    11/11/2009
616 e-reserve Jackson, Myth of normality    11/11/2009
Sullivan lecture V    11/11/2009
619 Responses to clinical vignettes due    11/11/2009
619 Read Davies et al.    11/11/2009
619 Read Loschiavo et al.    11/11/2009
619 Read Swofford    11/11/2009
619 Read APA Guidelines for Psycholological Work with Girls and Women    11/11/2009
619 Read Ali    11/11/2009
Read McGoldrick et al., Chapters 10, 22, 23     11/11/2009
619 Read Beatie    11/11/2009
619 Read Carroll, Gilroy, & Ryan    11/11/2009
Personal Epistemology essay 7    11/18/2009
Family theory quiz 2    11/18/2009
Tactics ch 5-6    11/18/2009
616 e-reserve Dramatization of Evil    11/18/2009
619 Clinical paper    11/18/2009
619 Read hooks    11/18/2009
619 Read Lott    11/18/2009
619 Read Miller & Thoreson    11/18/2009
619 Read Beah    11/18/2009
619 Read Williams & Williams-Morris    11/18/2009
619 Read Reeve    11/18/2009
619 Read Root    11/18/2009
Read McGoldrick et al., Chapter 5    11/18/2009
Skim McGoldrick et al., Chapters 6, 7, 8, 9    11/18/2009
Personal Epistemology essay 8    11/25/2009
Family theory paper presentation    11/25/2009
Tactics ch 7-9    11/25/2009
616 e-reserve Tomm on Milan FT    11/25/2009
619 Read Yardley    11/25/2009
Tactics ch 10-12    12/2/2009
616 e-reserve Madanes on Stratigic FT    12/2/2009
619 Read doctoral students’ summary of Sue et al.    12/2/2009
619 Read Georgas et al. (2 parts)    12/2/2009

 

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