PSY594 PRACTICUM IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
| Course Code: | 2330594 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 0 (0.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 10.0 |
| Department: | Psychology |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. FARUK GENÇÖZ |
| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
- To facilitate the development of therapy skills, including assessment, conceptualization, treatment planning, and intervention.
- To increase skills in making good use of supervision
- To increase awareness and skills in using oneself and one's reactions as a tool in therapy.
- To develop students' theoretical orientation
- To facilitate learning intervention techniques from a variety of orientations
- To gain an understanding of what it means to operate in a professional manner.
Course Content
This series of courses will provide supervised practical experience to the students in clinical/field settings. The students will be required to attend weekly discussion sessions in the department. Areas and settings in which practice will be offered will be announced each semester.
Course Learning Outcomes
- To facilitate the development of therapy skills, including assessment, conceptualization, treatment planning, and intervention.
- Use various assessment methods, such as objective assessment methods, clinical interview methods
- Conceptualize client's presenting problems within a clinical framework
- Plan clinical treatment
- Implement clinical treatment
- To increase skills in making good use of supervision
- Receive feedback from supervisor
- Evaluate feedback and determine personal appropriateness
- Make necessary changes in therapy setting based on feedback
- To increase awareness and skills in using oneself and one's reactions as a tool in therapy.
- Notice one's reactions towards the client
- Evaluate one's reactions towards the client
- Differentiate countertransference from therapist reactions based on client's interpersonal style
- Give client appropriate feedback
- To develop students' theoretical orientation
- Describe one's theoretical orientation in detail
- Identify personal and professional reasons for choosing a certain theoretical orientation
- Conceptualize, plan treatment, and implement treatment in accordance with one's theoretical orientation
- To facilitate learning intervention techniques from a variety of orientations
- Identify various intervention techniques
- Describe the rationale behind intervention techniques
- Implement intervention techniques appropriately
- To gain an understanding of what it means to operate in a professional manner.
- To dress professionally
- To apply ethical principles in clinical and professional settings.