Introduction to Psychological Treatment
Code: 102573 ECTS Credits: 9| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2502443 Psychology | OB | 3 | 1 |
Contact
- Name:
- David Sanchez Carracedo
- Email:
- david.sanchez@uab.cat
Use of Languages
- Principal working language:
- catalan (cat)
- Some groups entirely in English:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Catalan:
- No
- Some groups entirely in Spanish:
- No
Other comments on languages
The exams will be in Spanish. Bibliography in Spanish. Official documents in Catalan.Teachers
- María Soledad Mora Giral
- Teresa Gutiérrez Rosado
- Joan Torras Claraso
- Silvia Noguer Carmona
- Nuria Reina López
Prerequisites
Students will have already studied mandatory subjects such as Psychopathology across the Lifes Cycle (2nd course, 3rd semester) and Psychological Assessment (2nd course, 4th semester) in previous courses. Both are subjects in the second year of the Psychology Degree at the UAB. Students who come from outside the UAB are recommended to have studied subjects with basic knowledge on psychological assessment and psychopathology.
Objectives and Contextualisation
- Identify the intervention process in clinical practice and the main therapeutic skills involved.
- Understand the main techniques of intervention and psychological treatment, their theoretical and experimental bases, the intervention process and the areas of application.
- Learn to evaluate them in a critical way.
- Undertake some of the intervention procedures.
- Understand the issues and main available data on the efficacy of different psychological treatments.
Competences
- Act with ethical responsibility and respect for fundamental rights and duties, diversity and democratic values.
- Apply knowledge, skills and acquired values critically, reflexively and creatively.
- Criticise the effects of personal practice on people, taking into account the complexity of human diversity.
- Distinguish and relate the different focuses and theoretical traditions that have contributed to the historical development of psychology as well as its influence on the production of knowledge and professional practice.
- Formulate hypotheses about the demands and needs of the recipients.
- Identify and recognise the different methods of treatment and intervention in the different applied areas of psychology.
- Maintain a favourable attitude towards the permanent updating through critical evaluation of scientific documentation, taking into account its origin, situating it in an epistemological framework and identifying and contrasting its contributions in relation to the available disciplinary knowledge.
- Select and apply the methods and techniques in the plan for intervention in accordance with the established objective in relevant contexts for the service requested.
- Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
- Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
- Take sex- or gender-based inequalities into consideration when operating within one's own area of knowledge.
- Work in a team.
Learning Outcomes
- Apply knowledge, skills and acquired values critically, reflexively and creatively.
- Communicate in an inclusive manner avoiding the use of sexist or discriminatory language.
- Critically analyse interventions in published cases.
- Criticise the effects of personal practice on people, taking into account the complexity of human diversity.
- Describe the basic procedure for administration of basic treatment techniques.
- Differentiate between the main evidence on the effectiveness of different psychological treatments.
- Distinguish between the effects due to common factors of the specific effects of different treatments based on evidence.
- Explain the explicit or implicit deontological code in your area of knowledge.
- Identify and assess indicators of functionality demanded by the different techniques of psychological intervention, taking into account criteria of success and suitability.
- Identify constraints and contraindications of various treatment techniques.
- Identify the main contributions of the different psychotherapeutic models of modern psychological treatment.
- Identify the main techniques of psychological treatment.
- Maintain a favourable attitude towards the permanent updating through critical evaluation of scientific documentation, taking into account its origin, situating it in an epistemological framework and identifying and contrasting its contributions in relation to the available disciplinary knowledge.
- Recognise possible common factors of the different psycho therapeutic models.
- Recognise the different applications and indications of basic psychological treatment techniques.
- Recognise the different theoretical and experimental treatment techniques fundamentals.
- Recognise the stages of intervention.
- Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
- Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
- Work in a team.
Content
SESSIONS GROUP 1/1 AND DISCUSSION GROUPS 1/2
Lesson 1. Efificacy and evidence-based practice.
Lesson 2. The theraputic skills.
Lesson 3. The intervention process.
Lesson 4. Relaxation techniques and Mindfulness.
Lesson 5. Exposure techniques.
Lesson 6. Social skills Training.
Lesson 7. Operants conditioning techniques.
Lesson 8. Self-control techniques.
Lesson 9. Cognitive techniques.
Lesson 10. Problem solving techniques.
SEMINAR SESSIONS GROUPS 1/4
1. Difificult situations in psychological treatment
2. Relaxation
3. Exposure I
4. Exposure II
5. Social Skilss Traiining
6. Cognitive Restructuring
Methodology
The "IPT" course aims to promote autonomy and critical attitude.
The methodology is addressed at understanding the main therapeutic techniques, their theoretical bases, implementation procedures, areas of application and efficacy data. Content in the videos and mandatory bibliography, which is a central axis of the course, will be combined with introductory flipped calssrom and the work with applied cases. The seminars (groups ¼) will be focused on the implementation of different techniques of psychological treatment.
Directed activities:
1) Introductory flipped classroom sessions in a large group 1/1: 1.5 hours addressed to all the students in each module. Students must watch a group of videos (total about 45 minutes) prior to the session, in addition to doing the corresponding compulsory reading. During the session, doubts will be clarified, and some information will be completed. A continmuous assesment related to compulsory readings and videos will be held Eand attendance will be take into account.
2) Workshops (groups ½) to discuss mandatory readings, introductory session and applied cases. Two hours long, with half for each module. One workshop for each introductory session will be scheduled. It is essential to review the corresponding reading previously to each workshop session. A Work Guideline is available with questions to guide the reading and to encourage critical thinking, and guided work with applied cases. It is mandatory to attend with the corresponding mandatory reading and the Work Guideline.
3) Seminar sessions (groups ¼), 2 hours. Implementation of different techniques.
Students can find the following materials at Virtual Campus: Readings not available in the Library; the Work Guide with guided reading questions, reflection questions and activities by subject, which will be basic in the workshop sessions, and a Dossier of Seminar Sessions.
Autonomous activities (total 156h) include studying, readings, watching the videos and doing the group project.
N.B. The proposed teaching and assessment methodologies may experience some modifications as a result of the restrictions on face-to-face learning imposed by the health authorities. The teaching staff will use the Moodle classroom or the usual communication channel to specify whether the different directed and assessment activities are to be carried out on site or online, as instructed by the Faculty.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| D.1. Introductory sessions in large group 1/1 | 18 | 0.72 | 7, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 19, 16, 14, 15, 17 |
| D.2. Whorkshops groups 1/2 | 24 | 0.96 | 1, 7, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 18, 19, 16, 14, 15, 17, 20 |
| D.3. Seminar sessions groups ¼ | 12 | 0.48 | 3, 1, 4, 13, 18, 19, 20 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Individual supervisions and optional project supervisions | 10 | 0.4 | |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| A.1. Mandatory readings and flipped classroom's videos | 70 | 2.8 | 7, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 19, 16, 14, 15, 17 |
| A.2. Study | 66 | 2.64 | 7, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 14, 15, 17 |
| A.3. Group project (Ev5) | 20 | 0.8 | 3, 1, 7, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 13, 18, 19, 16, 14, 15, 17, 20 |
Assessment
In addition to the following criteria, the “Assessment Guidelines of the Psychology Faculty” must be taken into account, available at https://www.uab.cat/web/estudiar/graus/graus/avaluacions-1345722525858.html
Individual assessment activities: (Ev1, Ev2)
- There will be two multiple-choice partial examinations (worth 20% of final grade each)
- Exams with 25-30 questions, four choices, only one correct and penalty of 1/3. Questions will not be only about descriptions or identification. They will include reflections, associations of different concepts and applications of main topics worked in all sessions to date.
Individual assessment activities: (Ev3, Ev4)
- There will be two open-answer exams with 5 questions. A short answer (not essay-answer) will be required (worth 15% of final grade each one).
- The questions will be based on brief descriptions of applied cases, which will be similar to those worked in the workshops (PA groups 1/2). There will be no penalties, but incorrect answers, answers without the use of an appropriate technical language, and/or long answers written outside the established margins, will be scored with 0 points.
Continuous assessment of flipped classrooms: (Ev5)
- There will be 5 multiple choice questions in each flipped classroom session, four choices, only one correct, related to contents of videos and compulsory readings. The group of 50 questions (5 x 10 sessions) will worth 15% of final grade. In addition, attendance ≥ 70% worth 5% of the final grade.
Group assessment activity: (Ev6)
EV6: Optional group project. This will be assessed according to a rubric that will be published at the beginning of the course (worth 20% of final grade). Grade of EV6 only will be added to theFinal Grade if grade of EV6 ≥ 4.95. It will not be possible to hand it in it outside the established date.
Assessed / Not assessed
- Students will be assessed if they have attended to at least 40% of the theoretical total grade.
- If a student is finally assessed, all not attended assessment activities will be graded 0
FINAL GRADE /Pass criteria
- Grade Ev1-Ev5 = [(Grade Ev1 x 0.20) + (Grade Ev2 x 0.20) + (Grade Ev3 x 0.15) + (Grade Ev4 x 0.15)] + (Grade Ev5 x 0.15)] + 0,5 if attendance to flipped classroom sessions ≥ 70%.
- Final Grade= (Grade Ev1-Ev5) + [(Grade Ev6 x 0.20) if Ev6 ≥ 4.95]. In order to sum the EV6 grade, Ev6 must be ≥ 4.95.
- To pass this course students must achieve a Final Grade ≥ 4,95 in the continuous assessment.
- Note that final grade is 110% (maximum grade 11 punts).
Reassessment process:
- Reassessment will be offered for not passed assessment activities Ev1 and/or Ev2 and/or Ev3 and/or Ev4 (grade < 4.95).
- It will not be possible to retake Ev5 and Ev6.
- The students can opt to the reassessment process only if: (1) Final Grade in the continuous assessment is not passed; (2) assessed of a minimum weight of 2/3 of the Final Grade; (3) Final Grade ≥3.5 in the continuous assessment. All the requisites must be fulfilled. If Final Grade ≥3.5 criteria in the continuous assessment is not met, then, exceptionally, Ev6 Grade can sum altought Ev6 < 4.95 to make it easier for the student to choose to take the reassessment.
- The reassessment process will consist in assessment activities with the same characteristics as in the continuous assessment. The same criteria will be applied.
- Students with more than one assessment activity not passed could opt to do all of them or choose betweenthem. Theobtainedgrade in the reassessment process will substitute the previous grade in any case. Not retaken assessment activities will retain the previous grade in order to estimate the new final grade.
- The pass criteria will be the same as in the previous continuous assessment. All new grades will be calculated with the same previous criteria, replacing the grades of the retaken assessment activities.
- In any case the reassessment process can be used to improve passed subject.
No unique final synthesis test for students who enrolefor the second time or more is anticipated.
Grade review process. After all grading activities have ended, students will be informed of the date and way in which the course grades will be published. Students will be also be informed of the procedure, place, date and time of grade review in line with University regulations.
N.B. Except for exceptional situations, and only if previously agreed with a student, one week before the assessments, and until the end of the ordinary review, "content" questions will not be answered by email or Moodle. Students must attend teachers office hours.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EV1. Multiple choice exam, subjects 1st part or the course/ first assessment period | 20% | 1.25 | 0.05 | 5, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16, 14, 15, 17 |
| EV2. Multiple choice exam 2nd part of the course / Second assessment period | 20% | 1.25 | 0.05 | 7, 5, 6, 9, 10, 12, 16, 14, 15 |
| EV3. 5 short open-answer questions 1st part of the course / First assessment period | 15% | 1.25 | 0.05 | 1, 5, 10, 12, 18, 19, 15 |
| EV4. 5 short open-answer questions 2nd part of the course / Second assessment period | 15% | 1.25 | 0.05 | 1, 5, 10, 12, 18, 19, 15 |
| EV5. Continuous assessment (multiple choice questions each flipped classroom session + attendance) | 20% | 0 | 0 | 2, 5, 8, 10, 11, 12, 16, 15, 17 |
| EV6. Group project / middle course and end course / Written project / Delivery in person | 20% | 0 | 0 | 3, 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 12, 13, 18, 19, 15, 17, 20 |
Bibliography
Subject 1: Efficacy and evidence-based practice
M. Pérez Álvarez, J.R. Fernández Hermida, C. Fernández Rodríguez y I. Amigo Vázquez (2003) Guía de tratamientos psicológicos eficaces I . Madrid: Pirámide. (1 capítol) (Virtual Campus)
Sánchez-Carracedo, D. (2020). Eficacia de los tratamientos psicológicos y práctica basada en evidencia. Unpublished documento. (Moodle)
Subjects 2-10:
Labrador, F.. J (2008). Técnicas de Modificación de Conducta. Madrid: Pirámide (Chapters 2, 15, 29) (Moodle).
Díaz García, M.I., Ruiz, M.A., Villalobos, A. (2017). Manual de Técnicas y Terapias Cognitivo Conductuales. Bilbao: Desclee de Brouwer. (Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9)
Acces from UAB catalogue: https://cataleg.uab.cat/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2088848
Acces from outside the UAB:
Additional documents can be provided by the teaching team for some subjects.
Detailed bibliography and recommended web pages are available at the WORK GUIDE for each subject.
Software
Basic Office.
Micosoft Forms (Office 365)