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Psychology Department
Dr. Richard Siegel, 978-934-3961
richard_siegel@uml.edu
The program is designed to provide professionals who work with families or with children, youth and elders within family systems, with a contemporary understanding of families through a community-based, culturally-sensitive perspective. It provides graduate level education in family support services and in family-community linkages, and exposure to the range of family support and education approaches in the Merrimack Valley.
Required Courses:
47.500 Introduction to Community Social Psychology
47.501 Applied Developmental Psychology
47.504 The Family System
Electives:
47.502 Seminar in Community Social Psychology*
47.505 Work and Family
47.506 Psychosocial Aspects of Aging
47.508 The Child in the Community
47/44.622 Intimate Partner Violence
Other electives by approval of Graduate Coordinator.
*Focus of seminar varies; may be applied to certificate only when the focus of the seminar is family-centered.