ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology
Areas: Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatments
Center Faculty of Psychology
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
The student at the end of this course must:
-To know the relevance of the therapeutic relationship in its clinical work and how to improve it in the intervention contexts.
-To know the different factors of the client / patient, the therapist and the context that relate to achieving, or not, a good therapeutic relationship and how once detected improve them.
-Being able to put into practice a good therapeutic relationship with the patients in whom it is going to intervene.
-Be able to implement the main therapeutic skills in simulated clinical settings.
-Develop adequate therapeutic skills to implement an intervention for a person with a psychological, relational or clinical problem.
-To learn to handle clinical situations that require specific skills.
-To know how to complement clinical work with other professionals and how to work efficiently with them.
-To Know how to prepare psychological reports according to the recipients.
- Introduction. General and specific therapeutic skills.
. Communication skills and strategies.
- The therapeutic relationship.
. Factors that influence the effective therapeutic relationship. Factors of therapist, client, context and relationship.
. Identification and management of emotions in therapy and in therapeutic relationship.
- Identification and management of difficult situations in therapy.
. The resistance to change.
. Low motivation to change: the motivational interview.
. Strategies to improve adherence to psychological intervention.
- To work with other professionals. Elaboration of psychological reports.
Basic bibliography
Gavino, A. (2005). Habilidades del terapeuta. En J.P. Espada, Olivares y F.X. Méndez (Coord.), Terapia psicológica (cap., 1; pp. 23-43). Madrid: Pirámide.
Kleinke, C. (2002, 4ª. Ed). Principios comunes en psicoterapia (cap. 3, 4 y 5). Bilbao: Desclée de Brouwer.
Ruiz, M.A. (1998). Habilidades terapéuticas. En Vallejo, M.A. (Ed.), Manual de terapia de conducta, (Vol I, pp. 83-131). Madrid: Dykinson.
Saldaña, C. (2008). Habilidades y competencias terapéuticas. En F.J. Labrador (Coor.), Técnicas de modificación de conducta (pp. 642-658). Madrid: Pirámide.
Complementary bibliography
Ackerman, S.J. y Hilsenroth, M.J. (2001). A review of therapist characteristics and techniques negatively impacting the therapeutic alliance. Psychotherapy, 38, 171-185.
Barlow, D.H. (Ed.) (2011). Clinical handbook of psychological disorders: A step by step treatment manual (4rd ed.). Nueva York: Guilford Press.
Becker, M.H. (1990). Theoretical models of adherence and strategies for improving adherence. En S.A. Schumaker, E. B. Schron y J. K. Ockexe (Eds.). The handbook of health behavior change. Heidelber:Springer
Beutler, L.E., Machado, P.P.P. y Neufeldt, S.A. (1994). Therapist variables. En A.E. Bergin y S.L. Garfield (Eds.), Handbook of psychotherapy and behavior change (4ª ed., pp. 229-269). Nueva York: Wiley
Burns, G.W. (2003). El empleo de metáforas en psicoterapia. 101 historias curativas. Barcelona: Masson.
Caro, I. (2007). Manual teórico-práctico de psicoterapias cognitivas. Bilbao: Desclée de Brouwer.
Corey, G. (1995). Teoría y práctica de la terapia grupal. Bilbao: Desclée de Brouwer.
*Cormier, W.H. y Cormier, L.S. (1996, 2ª ed.). Estrategias de entrevista para terapeutas. Bilbao: Desclée de Brouwer.
Cullari, S. (2001). Fundamentos de psicología clínica. México: Prentice Hall
Feixas, G. y Miró, M.T. (1995, 2ª ed.). Aproximaciones a la psicoterapia. Una introducción a los tratamientos psicológicos. Barcelona: Paidós.
Fernández-Zúñiga, A. y De León, M. (2014). Habilidades del terapeuta de niños y adolescentes. Madrid: Pirámide.
Gavino, A. (2003). Tratamientos psicológicos y trastornos clínicos. Madrid: Pirámide.
Goldstein, W.N. (2001). Iniciación a la psicoterapia. Madrid: Alianza Editorial.
Kanfer, F.H. y Golstein, A.P. (1987). Cómo ayudar al cambio en psicoterapia. Bilbao: Desclée de Brouwer.
*Labrador, F. J. (Ed.) (2011). Situaciones difíciles en terapia. Madrid: Pirámide.
Lazarus, A.A. (2000). El enfoque multimodal. Una psicoterapia breve pero completa. Bilbao: Desclée de Brouwer.
*Maciá, D. y Méndez, F. J. (1996). Evaluación de la adherencia al tratamiento. En G. Buela Casal, V. Caballo, y J. C. Sierra (Eds.), Manual de evaluación en psicología clínica y de la salud (cap. 3; pp.43-59). Ed. Siglo Veintiuno.
*Marinho, M.L., Caballo, V. y Silveira, J.M. (2003). Cuestiones olvidadas en la terapia conductual: Las habilidades del terapeuta. Psicología Conductual, 11, 135-161.
*Meichembaum, D. y Turk, D.C. (1991). Cómo facilitar el seguimiento de los tratamientos terapéuticos. Bilbao: Desclée de Brouwer.
*Miller, W.R. y Rollnick, S.R. (1999). La entrevista motivacional. Preparar para el
cambio de conductas adictivas. Barcelona: Paidós.
Ogrodniczuk, J.S., Joyce, A. y Piper, W. (2005). Strategies for reducing patient-initiated premature termination of psychotherapy. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 13, 57-70.
*Pérez, E., Ausín, B. y Muñoz, M. (2006). El informe psicológico clínico. En V. E. Caballo. Manual para la evaluación clínica de los trastornos psicológicos. Trastornos de la edad adulta e informes psicológicos (pp. 515-554). Madrid: Pirámide.
Pipes, R.B. y Davenport, D.S. (2004). Introducción a la psicoterapia. El saber clínico compartido. Bilbao: Desclée de Brouwer.
Rodríguez-Naranjo, C. (2000). De los principios de la psicología a la práctica clínica. Madrid: Pirámide.
Ruiz, M.A. y Villalobos, A. (1994). Habilidades terapéuticas. Madrid: Fundación Universidad-Empresa.
Shapiro, D. L. y Smith, S. R. (2011). Malpractice in psychology. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Wachtel, P. L. (1996). La comunicación terapéutica. Principios y práctica eficaz. Bilbao: Desclée de Brouwer.
Wachtel, P. L. (2011). Inside the session. What really happens in psychotherapy. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Wessler, R., Hankin, S. y Stern, J. (2015). Trabajando con clientes difíciles. Aplicaciones de la Terapia de Valoración Cognitiva. Bilbao: Desclée de Brouwer.
BASIC AND GENERAL
- To conform to the deontological obligations of Psychology in the health field, showing an ethical and professional commitment with the values of equal opportunities, respect for diversity and peaceful resolution of conflicts.
- Students should be able to apply acquired knowledge and problem-solving skills in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study.
- That the students know how to communicate their conclusions and the latest knowledge and reasons that support them to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous way.
- To know in depth the different models of evaluation and intervention in the field of General Sanitary Psychology, as well as the techniques and procedures that derive from them for the management of behavioral disorders and the psychological factors associated with health problems.
- Demonstrate interpersonal communication and emotional management skills for effective interaction with patients, families and caregivers in problem identification, evaluation, diagnosis, intervention and follow-up processes.
- Apply the fundamentals of bioethics and the method of deliberation in professional practice, adjusting its practice as a health professional to the provisions of Law 44/2003, of November 21, on the organization of health professions.
TRANSVERSAL
- Know how to develop your work from the perspective of quality and continuous improvement, with the self-critical capacity required for responsible professional performance.
- Know how to communicate and communicate with other professionals, and master the skills necessary for teamwork and multidisciplinary groups.
- Know how to analyze from an ethical point of view the problems and their possible solutions.
SPECIFIC
- To Know the framework of action of the general sanitary psychologist and know how to refer the professional specialist.
- To know the obligations and responsibilities of health personnel regarding the confidentiality of information and the protection of personal data of patients.
- Know how to provide feedback to the receivers in an appropriate and precise way in order to involve them in the different phases of the process of psychological evaluation and intervention.
- Know how to write psychological reports adequately to the receivers.
The content of the program will be developed in the class schedule established for this purpose, through master classes / expositions with the support of audiovisual material. In these sessions the basic and complementary bibliography of each theme will be provided.
Also, from the third class, interactive sessions will be held, in order that the student acquires the practical skills of the subject.
1. Attendance at face-to-face sessions is considered mandatory (minimum 80%).
2. The content of the program of the subject will be evaluated through a test, like objective test and / or short questions. In objective test format the standard correction for an objective test with three alternative responses will be used (Correction formula: Score = Correct answers - [Incorrect answers / number of alternatives - 1]. Practices will be evaluated through reports and / or active participation. It will also be proposed to carry out a practical work on a theme of the program that should be presented in class. The final mark of the course is completed by the sum of the marks obtained in the examination of the theoretical content (70%), plus the practical mark (13%) and the practical work done (17%).
Anyone who does not show up for the exam will get a grade of No Presented.
Lectures: 10 hours
Elaboration of reports (practices, etc.): 11 hours
Interactive seminar classes: 12 hours
Tutorials in small groups: 2 hours
Study Activities: 18 hours
Elaboration of works (individual or in group): 20 hours
Formative evaluation activities: 2 hours
. Attend regularly to the face-to-face activities of the subject.
- Participate and be actively involved in the classes.
- Keep the material up to date and carry out the activities that are scheduled.
María Del Carmen Míguez Varela
Coordinador/a- Department
- Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology
- Area
- Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatments
- Phone
- 881813740
- mcarmen.miguez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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