Looking for Feedback on 3 UL Coopersmith Classes

[TorsMama]

Thanks. May I ask how long you studied for Family Therapy? Were the essay questions tough? Also do you know what Excelsior considers a passing score from coopersmith?

I don't recall my prep for that course specifically.  For most of my Coopersmith courses, I would hit the main PPT deck (the crash course, the study guide, or whatever you'd like to call it) very hard.  If there was a video read-through of the PPT (although that's rare with Coopersmith), I would listen to it in the background while doing other tasks.  Any supplemental study materials, like a secondary PPT deck, free online textbook or other resource, I would do one complete read-through, and re-read any sections I felt I needed to.  But I'd do my best to memorize the main PPT deck.  Call it a week to ten days, an hour or two per weekday, longer on the weekend.

I didn't find the Family Therapy short answer questions particularly onerous.  They're really not essays in the traditional sense, I think they ask for three to four sentences each.  They weren't those horrifying kind of essay questions where they tell you to provide nine types of a particular class of disorder, with definitions for each.  To me, they seem to be looking for a few key words to show that you were able to grasp the concepts.  My answers were short and sweet.  I think I typically wrote two to three sentences, and I don't think I got dinged for any of them.  No gotchas or unpleasant surprises.  I really wouldn't call them anything to be intimidated by, and after all, there are only three of them.

Thank you for the feedback! I might see if I can get physiological psychology switched for therapeutic interviewing. I do not like the essay questions.