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Clinical Psychology
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:9.00
Study Course Accepted:12.03.2024 13:41:08
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | VPUPK_043 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Psychology; Clinical Psychology | Target Audience: | Psychology | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Jeļena Koļesņikova | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Health Psychology and Paedagogy | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 5 J. Asara Street, vppk rsu[pnkts]lv, +37167061587 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 10 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 20 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 6 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 12 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 6 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 12 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 3 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 6 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 18 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Personality psychology, Development psychology. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To provide an opportunity to acquire clinical psychology, its directions, to provide an overview of clinical psychology terminology and key issues, to improve students’ understanding of a disease as a process, of changes in mental process in case of an illness and to provide an insight into pathopsychology. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Course content and requirements. Concept of norm, its record and determination. The aims and tasks of the Clinical psychology. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Biopsychosocial model. Key changes in mental processes in case of different illnesses. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 3 | Stress and mental health. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 4 | Understanding of the crisis, its types and stages. Crisis management and normal pace of crisis. The threat to identity, loss of biological integrity. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | The consequences of violence and support. Suicide phenomenon. Relationship between the suicide risk and the specific nature, course and prognosis of the patient’s illness. Stages in the cycle of grief. Death. Mourning. Normal mourning. Pathological mourning. | Lectures | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Personality disorders | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 7 | Psychological assessment methods in clinical psychology. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 8 | Case analysis. | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Course content and requirements. Concept of norm, its record and determination. The aims and tasks of the Clinical psychology. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Biopsychosocial model. Key changes in mental processes in case of different illnesses. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 3 | Stress and mental health. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Understanding of the crisis, its types and stages. Crisis management and normal pace of crisis. The threat to identity, loss of biological integrity. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | The consequences of violence and support. Suicide phenomenon. Relationship between the suicide risk and the specific nature, course and prognosis of the patient’s illness. Stages in the cycle of grief. Death. Mourning. Normal mourning. Pathological mourning. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Personality disorders | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 7 | Psychological assessment methods in clinical psychology. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | 1. Systematically read the indicated sources and analyze the case. 2. To develop a report and presentation on the professional activity of a psychologist in a clinical environment. 3. Prepare for test. In order to evaluate the quality of the study course as a whole, the student must fill out the study course evaluation questionnaire on the Student Portal. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | 1. To develop a report and presentation on the professional activity of a psychologist in a clinical environment and and present to a group of students (40%). 2. Test at the end of the course: 10 questions (60%). | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Students explain the terminology of clinical psychology; describes mental health manifestations; characterised by the process of its formation within the context of the biopsychosocial model; characterises the clinical psychological assessment methods; describes types of personality disordes; describes types and stages of crisis; describes the types and features of violence. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Students correctly use the terminology of clinical psychology; evaluates described clinical cases about client problems, difficulties, resources that can be selected for client assessment; recognises the types and signs of violence. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Students explain and evaluate in detail the described clinical cases of the client's problems and difficulties, analyze the client's problems and fix the regularities between the symptoms, as well as draw conclusions. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | American Psychiatric Association (2013). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.). Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing. | ||||||||
| 2 | Hooley, J. M., Butcher, J. N., Matthew, K., N., & Mineka, S. (2017). Abnormal psychology and modern life (17th edition). London: Pearson Education Limited. | ||||||||
| 3 | Sommers-Flanagan, J. & Sommers-Flanagan, R. (2013). Clinical Interviewing. (5th edition). John & Sons. | ||||||||
| 4 | Llewelyn, S. & Murphy, D. (2014). What Is Clinical Psychology? Vol. Fifth edition edited by Susan Llewelyn, David Murphy. OUP Oxford. | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Boulbijs D. (1998). Drošais pamats. Rasa; ABC. | ||||||||
| 2 | Faugno, D. K., Shores, M., Sievers, V., Smock, B., & Speck, P. M. (2021). Domestic violence and nonfatal strangulation assessment - ebook: For health care providers and first responders. STM Learning, Incorporated. | ||||||||
| 3 | Plante, T. G. (2005). Contemporary clinical psychology. New York: Wiley. | ||||||||
| 4 | Trull, T. J. (2005). Clinical psychology. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Wadsworth | ||||||||
| Other Information Sources | |||||||||
| 1 | Annual Review of Clinical Psychology | ||||||||
| 2 | Clinical Psychologist | ||||||||
| 3 | Clinical Psychology Rewiev | ||||||||
| 4 | Journal of Abnormaly Psychology | ||||||||
