Class Clinical Assessment and In tervention with Children and Adolescents I

This curricular unit works on specific skills directed at the assessment and intervention processes with children, adolescents and their caregivers. It lays on the foundations of the cognitive-behavioral therapy and the systemic interventions, preparing the students to be able to exercise their future practice in different settings, such as: schools, health centers, private practice, welfare children protection services, foster care, organizations directed at youth support, among other settings. This unit gets together different knowledge acquired in previous curricular units, covering a wide range of clinical skills, whether they are transverse to many psychotherapeutic interventions, or specific to the assessment and intervention processes with children, adolescents and their families.

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PC1 Psychological consultation with children and adolescents - Specificities, objectives and ethical aspects - Phases of the clinical process - Therapeutic alliance: development, maintenance and monitoring PC2 Interviewing and clinical observation - Developmental objectives, techniques and specificities of the interview with children and adolescents - Interview with parents/teachers - Mental state observation PC3 Clinical evaluation and case formulation - Comprehensive assessment derived from hypotheses - Dimensional assessment of difficulties and competence: ASEBA System - Integration of information and clinical analysis of discrepancies between informants - Developmental adaptation of CBT formulation PC4 Psychological intervention in children and adolescents - Aims and developmental objectives specificities of CBT - Evidence-based psychological intervention - The foundations of the colaborative work towards goal setting  

Different teaching methodologies (TM) will be used: exposition technics (TM1), small group activities in the classroom (TM2), video visualization (TM3), practical cases (TM4), role-play (TM5), role- deferred play (in video) (TM6), teacher feedback (TM7) and peer feedback (TM8). The CU works in a continuous evaluation mode, in face-to-face basis, implying presence in 75% of classes. The final classification results: a) 1 written test (50%), b) group report of a psychological assessment, including the application of a clinical interview, different assessment instruments and case formulation to a child and caregivers (20%), c) role-play of a clinical interview to a child/adolescent and family in the first session (20%); d) oral participation during classes (10%). The maintenance in continuous evaluation is conditioned to a classification of not less than 8 values in each one of the components. Students who do not have access will have access to the final written exam (100%).  

McConaughy, Stephanie H (2013). Clinical Interviews for Children and Adolescents: Assessment to Intervention. The Guilford Press. Orvaschel. H., Faust, J. & Hersen, M (2001). Handbook of conceptualization and treatment of child psychopathology. Elsevier Science. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_facbooks/32 Sattler, J. (2008). Assessment of children: Cognitive foundations. San Diego: Author.  Stallard, P. (2007). Guia do terapeuta para os Bons Pensamentos – Bons Sentimentos: utilizando a terapia cognitivo¿comportamental com crianças e adolescentes. Porto Alegre: Artemed