Novel-like Books for CoursesSome suggestions for novels - all with great
writing, and all both witty and serious:
Therapy by David Lodge - hilarious and poignant - good for counselling students?
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night, and A Spot of Bother, both by
Mark Hadden - the first about Asperger's, the second about hypochondrias
Trans-sister Radio by Chris Bohjalion and Middlesex by Jefferey Eugenides -
both about sex change
When we Were Bad: A Novel by Charlotte Mendelson - dysfunctional family dyamics
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby about suicide
Engleby by Sebastian Faulkes - a creepy but good read about inside the mind of
a murderer
We Need to Talk about Kevin by Lionel Shriver - about a teenage boy who murders
at school - a must read
Daniel Isn't Talking by Marti Leimbach - about autism and behavioural
intervention
regards,
Sally Walters
Capilano U
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From: Jablonski, Jessica
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 1:14 PM
Subject: [tips] Novel-like Books for Courses
Hello All,
I have been incorporating novel-like books as supplementary reading into some
of my courses and have found that many of the students really enjoy when we
devote the first 15 minutes of each class to discussing our reactions to a
chapter of the book. I also require that they keep a typed journal of their
reactions to each chapter and turn that in at the end of the semester. I've
found this to promote class participation in class sizes around 35 students or
smaller, and I am looking for book suggestions for the following courses that I
have yet to find a reading that I think the undergraduate students will really
enjoy:
Theories of Counseling
Personality
Social Psychology
Health Psychology ("Standing Tall: The Kevin Everett Story" was recently
recommended to me by a student, but I have not yet read it)
Any suggestions you have are welcomed. Thanks.
Jessica Jablonski, Psy.D.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology
Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
PO Box 195
Pomona, NJ 08240-0195
Phone: 609-626-5512
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My Website on Grad Study in Psych: http://home.comcast.net/~jpsyd/graduate.htm
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