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This course introduces students to the developmental, individual differences, relationship-based (DIR®) model. Evidence-based research on the model will be explored. Students will be provided with an interactive learning environment, sensitive to the principles of adult learning, to become familiar with the first 9 Functional Emotional Developmental Capacities (FEDCs) and Floortime® strategies. Students will apply DIR® thinking to personal and professional experiences across all capacities (FEDCs) to understand the interplay between development and individual differences in the context of relationships.

This course builds professional skills to work with families subsumed under the broad concept of diversity which may include culture, neurodiversity, demographics, language, individual identities and differences, family configuration, and socioeconomic status.

This class will offer students opportunities to gather and work with qualitative data, using one or more data collection methods. Students should enter the class with an idea of a small study they would like to do that is distinct from their dissertation. During the class, students will work to gather qualitative data for this small study, learn how to analyze it, and work through the sensemaking and communicative steps of a qualitative study in a structured way.

Write a concise and interesting paragraph here that explains what this course is about

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