UMH - PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, ASSESSMENT, AND SKILLS OF THE CHILD THERAPIST

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PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, ASSESSMENT, AND SKILLS OF THE CHILD THERAPIST

Course

Code: 1321

Degree: Master's in Psychological Therapy with Children and Adolescents

Faculty of Health and Social Sciences

Year: Year 1 of Master's in Psychological Therapy with Children and Adolescents

Semester: Fall

Type: Required

Language: Spanish

ECTS credits: 4.5

Lecture: 3

Laboratory: 1.5

Hours: 112.5

Directed: 0

Shared: 6

Autonomous: 61

Subject matter: Basic Fundamentals of Psychological Therapy with Children and Adolescents

Module: Module I: Basic Fundamentals

Course instructors are responsible for the course content descriptions in English.

Description

1. Welfare of the child and adolescent.
2. Differentiating characteristics of child therapy.
3. Diagnostic classification of child and adolescent disorders.
4. Risk factors.
5. Process of evaluation and diagnosis.
6. Therapeutic skills.
7. Ethical aspects.

Faculty

Name	Coordinator	Lecture	Laboratory
PIQUERAS RODRIGUEZ, JOSÉ ANTONIO	■	■	■
MORALES SABUCO, ALEXANDRA		■	■
MAGANTO MATEO, CARMEN		■	■
GONZALEZ BARRON, REMEDIOS		■	■
ESPADA SÁNCHEZ, JOSÉ PEDRO		■	■

Professional interest

The psychologist specialized in child and adolescent psychotherapy need to master a number of prerequisites for professional performance, such as: diagnostic classification systems, behaviors and habits risks for mental health, assesment process and diagnosis and specific therapeutic skills of child therapist.

Competencies and learning outcomes

General competencies

Be able to recognize and accept the ambiguity and complexity of psychological problems, as well as the tentative nature of their explanations and social context where they occur.
Recognize and respect human diversity and understand that psychological explanations may vary throughout populations and contexts.
Know how to assess and integrate different psychological aspects involved in the development of psychological disorders.
Show reasonable critical sense and intellectual curiosity about the factors influencing or causing psychological disorders.
Understand and comply with current legislation in the exercise of the profession.
Apply ethics and deontological principles to the profession, considering user rights.
Be able to upgrade, consolidate, and integrate new knowledge to improve the profession using continuous self-learning techniques and critical analysis.

Specific competencies

Know how to identify the personal and psychosocial factors that may risk the health of children and adolescents.
Know how to specify the demands and objectives of a case, and, depending upon them, compile information.
Be able to organize and schedule an evaluation session in a child-youth population.
Know how to select and apply different types of psychological tests in childhood and adolescence.
Be able to properly apply diagnostic criteria for different psychological disorders in children and youth.
Develop the empathic capacity necessary for understanding children and adolescents facing a problem.
Know how to prepare reports for different purposes (information, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, counseling, research, etc.) and directed at different audiences (patients, administrators, other psychologists, other professionals, etc.).

Objectives (Learning outcomes)

The student will be able to know the main distinguishing features and characteristics of psychological intervention in childhood and adolescence
Students will learn the different systems of diagnostic classification and diagnostic criteria in problems and disorders in childhood and adolescence
The student will be able to know the major risk behaviors and habits for child and adolescent mental health
The student will be able to design, implement, amend and interpret psychological assessments in children and adolescents
The student will be able to effectively lead the process of psychological intervention using the therapeutic skills in children and adolescents
The student will be able to apply the ethical code of the profession, considering the rights of children / adolescents and adults

Teaching units

Basic bibliography

Méndez Carrillo, F. Xavier coord / Espada Sánchez, José Pedro, coord / Orgilés Amorós, Mireia, coord. "Intervención psicológica y educativa con niñnos y adolescentes estudio de casos escolares". Madrid Pirámide DL2006.

Complementary bibliography

Methodology and grading

Methodology

Case studies: Learning through the analysis of actual or simulated cases in order to interpret and resolve them by employing various alternative solution procedures.
Lecture: Pass on knowledge and activate cognitive processes in students, encouraging their participation.
Solving exercises and problems: Exercise, test, and apply previous knowledge through routine repetition.

Grading

The evaluation system is as follows:

a)-Exam (50%): 20 questions with 3 choices of response. The correction system is PD = A - (E/k-1) / (number of items/10), where A is the number of correct answers, E the mistakes, and k the number of options. You need a 5 to pass the exam. b)-Portfolio (30%): activities indicated by the professor.

c)-Teaching online (20%): activities in the virtual platform led by the teacher.

The extraordinary exams in September and December will consist in an exam on the theoretical contents (50%) and an exam on the applied contents (50%).

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General competencies

Specific competencies

Objectives (Learning outcomes)

Lecture topics

Teaching units

Course contents

Basic bibliography

Complementary bibliography

Links

Software

Methodology

Grading