PSY681 APPLICATIONS IN CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
| Course Code: | 2330681 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (2.00 - 2.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Psychology |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. DENİZ CANEL ÇINARBAŞ |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The purpose of this course is:
- 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
The course aim to integrate theoretical and empirical foundations of clinical psychology as applied to specific case applications under supervision. Students will be required to develop a theoretical formulation of cases, to apply psychodiagnostic and therapeutic techniques and to prepare comprehensive case reports.
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.