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Senior Honors Projects

2009

Psychology

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Reel Life Lessons: Using Film To Engage Adolescents In Valuable Discussions About Life, Catherine Collazzo May 2009

Reel Life Lessons: Using Film To Engage Adolescents In Valuable Discussions About Life, Catherine Collazzo

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Films provide profound reflections and interpretations of the people and the times in which they are made. Because of this, we often feel emotionally connected to certain films. We root for a teen who pursues his talent against his family’s wishes, because we have also been misunderstood by family and friends. We cry with a young girl whose best friend has passed away, because we remember the first time we lost someone we loved. We applaud the couple whom manages to stay together despite their differences, because we still believe in happy endings. Film has had a tremendous social impact …


Exploring The Scientist-Practitioner Model In Clinical Psychology, Jami Halpern May 2009

Exploring The Scientist-Practitioner Model In Clinical Psychology, Jami Halpern

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The Scientist-Practitioner Model is a system of education used by many graduate programs in applied fields of psychology. The goal of this educational model is to help clinicians and other practitioners to learn to use empirical research as a basis for the applied work that they do and also for them to learn to use the experience of applied clinical practice to guide research questions and to advance scientific thinking in the discipline of Psychology. As a student who plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, I felt that it would be beneficial for me to experience the Scientist-Practitioner …