Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology

Code:

P703

Acronym:

ICCA

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Psychology

Instance: 2015/2016 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master Psychology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIPSI	63	Official Curricular Structure	4	-	6	54	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

 •To manage the process of communication with children / adolescents and subsystems involved in the service to child and adolescents. • To prepare clinical interviews for different intervenient in the process of consultation. • Mediate the communication with the child in the context of the consultation, namely through playful strategies, in a way to guarantee the optimization of the child involvement in the consultation process. • To know deeply the model of comprehensive evaluation with children and adolescents. • To know the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health for children and youth -case study • To know the objectives and techniques of intervention of cognitive-behavioral model in the analysis of disorders of children and adolescents.

Learning outcomes and competences

Students learning outcomes:

Be able to:

1) Manage the process of communication with children / adolescents

2) Manage the process of communication with subsystems involved in the service to child and adolescents

3) Develop clinical interviews for different intervenient in the process of consultation

4) Mediate the communication with the child in the context of the consultation, namely through playful strategies

5) Use the comprehensive evaluation model with children and adolescents

 6) Use the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health for children and youth in case studies

7) Use the objectives and techniques of intervention of cognitive-behavioral model in the analysis of disorders of children and adolescents.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. The process of psychological consultation with children and adolescent • Central Characteristics and Construction of the therapeutic relation. 1.1 Competences of communication and their application in the consultation process. 1.2 Communication management- subsystems related to the attendance to child and adolescents 1.2.1 The team work 1.3 Mediation of the communication with the child in the context of the consultation, through playful strategies. 2. Model of comprehensive evaluation with children and adolescents • Model of evaluation derived from hypotheses; targets of evaluation; focuses of evaluation; sources of evaluation; general strategies, methods, techniques. 3. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health for children and youth 3.1. Case studies - Perturbations in the childhood and in the adolescence 4. Cognitive-behaviour model with children and adolescents • The initial clinical evaluation. • The intervention in the main problems with children and adolescents: explicative models and specific techniques

Mandatory literature

Abreu José Luís Pio; Comunicação e medicina. ISBN: 972-97547-0-5
Lewis Michael 340; Handbook of developmental psychopathology. ISBN: 0-306-43190-4
Meisels Samuel J. 340; Handbook of early childhood intervention. ISBN: 0-521-38777-9
Reinecke Mark A. 340; Cognitive therapy with children and adolescents. ISBN: 1-57230-022-1
Watzlawick Paul; Pragmática da comunicação humana. ISBN: 85-316-0314-5
McHenry Bill; What therapists say and why they say it. ISBN: 0-205-48477-8
Friedberg, R. & McClure, J. ; prática clínica de terapia cognitiva com crianças e adolescentes, Artmed Editora, 2004
Damon William 340; Handbook of child psychology. ISBN: 0-471-17893-4

Teaching methods and learning activities

 1. Plays, Exercises, Experiential Activities. 2. Exhibition of subjects. 3. Study and analysis of cases. 4. Exploration of playful materials. 5. Participate in role-plays. 6. Visualization of videos.

keywords

Social sciences > Psychological sciences > Psychology > Clinical psychology

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Exame	50,00
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

Evaluation distributed between different written works and exam. To get frequency students must attend at least 75 % of the classes effectively taught, and the realization, in group, of written works. Without written works students can not attend the final examination.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final classification will be obtained by the sum of the mark obtained in the final examination with the one of the written practical work taking in consideration the ponderation of 50% for each components:
Final examination: classification between 0 - 20
Presentation of works during the classes: classification between 0 - 20
The classification in the final examination and the in the written work can not be less than 7, 5 values.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Internship work/project

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

In cases where the student status does not allow them to attend classes students can take advantage of this right in relation to participation in theorethical classroom lessons. However, taking into account the characteristics of the assessment components of this course, it is required to students to participate in class (at least 75%) and conduct activities that are subject to evaluation. Other situations involving a special assessment will be analyzed together with the teacher at the beginning of the semester.

 

Classification improvement

Classification can be improved by performing a new written examination once, one of the two final exam periods immediately following that in which the UC has provided examination.