Research on Teaching
Dr. Pascual-Leone also has developed a habit of conducting research on the teaching methods that he uses. He has collaborated with Drs. Scoboria and Sirois (formerly at U. Windsor, now at Bishop’s University) on the effectiveness of a method named ‘interteaching’ in the delivery of undergraduate courses (Scoboria & Pascual-Leone, 2009; Sirois, Scoboria & Pascual-Leone, 2010; Scoboria, Sirois & Pascual-Leone, 2009). This work demonstrates the effectiveness in the method in enhancing, for example, the quality of critical writing. While chair of the Psychology Department Ethics Committee (Chair 2007-2010), he developed an educational tool to aid in training undergraduate students and other researchers regarding the use of deception in research. He subsequently published the work, both to provide the training tool to a larger audience and to promote thoughtful dialogue amongst researchers and research ethics reviewers about the use of deception in human subjects research (Pascual-Leone, Singh & Scoboria, 2010).
Most germane to his expertise, he has extensively studied the effectiveness of the teaching methods that he uses in his graduate course in which he introduces psychotherapy to graduate trainees (Pascual-Leone & Andreescu, 2013; Pascual-Leone, Rubio-Rodriguez, & Metler, 2013) as well as undergraduate trainees (Pascual-Leone, Wolfe & O’Conner, 2012; Pascual-Leone, Andreescu, & Yeryomenko, submitted). The findings from his experience with his students and the data he has gathered from his teaching are then routed back into revising the teaching methods, and into generating new basic research questions to be tested in the lab.
Previously Taught Courses
Undergraduate
- Introduction to Clinical Psychology
- Abnormal Psychology
- Seminar in Research on Emotion Change
- Counselling Psychology
Graduate
- Introduction to Psychotherapy
- Emotion-Focused Therapy I and II
- Experiential-Integrative Psychotherapy Practicum (Psychological Services and Research Centre)
More detailed descriptions on some of the classes taught
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