PSYCHOLOGY 327.1: 40 Hours, 1 credit
PSYCHOLOGY 327.2: 80 Hours, 2 credits
PSYCHOLOGY 327.3: 120 Hours, 3 credits


• Prerequisites: Psychology 221 and permission of instructor

Students serve as volunteers in a mental health setting for 45 or 90 or 135 hours a semester. Such settings include psychiatric hospitals, psychiatric units of general hospitals. community agencies dealing with such special populations as autistic children, developmentally disabled children and adults, clinics serving patients with phobias, agencies serving children facing life-threatening diseases, etc. Activities such as interacting with patients, observing ward meetings, helping to desensitize a phobic patient, reading case records, interacting with professional mental health workers, attending case conferences, etc. are possible, depending upon the policies of the particular agency at which the student is volunteering. A term paper is required which involves library research and which focuses on some topic relevant to the particular student's field work.

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