COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CLINICAL INTERVIEW AND ASSESSMENT

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PSI 5051 CLINICAL INTERVIEW AND ASSESSMENT ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

PSYCHOLOGY

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ORÇUN YORULMAZ

Offered to

PSYCHOLOGY

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to provide knowledge and skills based on individual assessment, general and idiosyncrotic case formulation which is necessary for therapeutic intervention.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to explain principles of psychological assessment applications
2   To be able to administer general interview format, content and requisities
3   To be able to question critical constructs in assessment based on different psychoapthologies
4   To be able to prepare idiosynrotic case formulation
5   To be able to administer various psychological tests
6   To be able to interpret psychological test results
7   To be able to integrate and report fidnings of observation, interview and tests
8   To be able to present current lietrature findings of assessment

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction of course, general clinical assessment principles
2 Format of first and other sessions
3 Ethics in psychoogical assessment
4 Clinical assessment in mood and anxiety disorders
5 Clinical assessment in tsomatoform,eating, sexual function disorders
6 Clinical assessment in personality, schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders
7 Report writing in clinical assessment
8 Various psychoogical tests in clinical assessment
9 Mini Mental Assessment, Bender-gestalt test, MMPI
10 TAT and House Tree Person test
11 Examination of administration examples of students
12 Examination of administration examples of students
13 Examination of administration examples of students
14 Examination of administration examples of students
15 Examination of administration examples of students
16 Examination of administration examples of students

Recomended or Required Reading

Balon, R & Sevgraves, R. T. (2009). Clinical Manual of Sexual Disorders. Washington:
American Psychiatric Publishing.
Beck, J. (2005). Cognitive Therapy for Challenging Problems. New York: The Guilford
Press.
Beck, A., Freeman, A., Davis, D. D. (2004). Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders.
New York: The Guilford Press.
Berman, P. S., & Shopland, S. (2005). Interviewing and Diagnostic Exercises for
Clinical and Counseling Skills Building. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
Fairburn, C. (2008). Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Eating Disorders. New York: The
Guilford Press.
Gilson, M., Freeman, A., Yates, M. J., Freeman, S. M. (2009). Overcoming Depression: A
Cognitive Therapy Approach. New York: Oxford University Press.
Hersen, M. (2004). Psychological Assessment in Clinical Practice. East Sussex: Taylor &
Francis Books Inc.
Savaşır, I., Soygüt, G., & Barışkın, E. (2009). Bilişsel-Davranışçı Terapiler. Ankara:
Türk Psikologlar Derneği Yayınları.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Question-answer
Discussion
Observation and administration

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.25 + STT * 0.25 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE* 0.25 + STT * 0.25 + RST* 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Observation and administration, Midterm and Final Exams

Assessment Criteria

Observation and administration, Midterm and Final Exams

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Student must attend at least 70% of the courses

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

orcun.yorulmaz@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday 14.00-15.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 20 20
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 26 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 6 84
Final 1 3 3
Quiz etc. 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 203

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.155
LO.235
LO.355
LO.455
LO.55
LO.655
LO.745
LO.845

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