Internship in Clinic and Health Psychology

Presentation

The Curricular Unit of Internship in Clinical and Health Psychology aims to provide students with tools that allow them to aplly, in a practical context, the knowledge acquired in the CUs taught during the first year of the Master. It provides students with permanent follow-up during the course of their academic internships, developing in the classroom context activities ranging from the formulation of cases to the proposal and implementation of interventions, within the scope of Clinical and Health Psychology, considering the characteristics of the trainee's host institutions and their population.

Part of this Programme

Clinical and Health Psychology

Level of Qualification|Semesters|ECTS

| Anual | 42

Year | Type of course unit | Language

2 |Mandatory |Português

Code

ULHT65-14572

Recommended complementary curricular units

Psychological Examination and Consultancy of Adults

Psychological Examination and Consultancy of Children and Adolescents

Psychopathology and Development of Children and Adolescent

Psychopathology and Development of Adult

Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy

Systemic, Dynamic and Support Psychotherapies

Prerequisites and co-requisites

n/a

Professional Internship

Sim

Syllabus

• Internship regulation, definition of trainee duties, ethics and deontology;
• Elaboration of the internship project
• Training of communication skills (observation and implementation, psychologist / client,
• psychologist / team)
• Presentation of supervised activities and practical cases with the integration of theoretical
• concepts in Clinical and Health Psychology
• Assessment and diagnosis practice in Clinical and Health Psychology
• Elaboration of case studies
• Formulation of intervention or prevention proposals
• Evaluation of the effectiveness of the implemented interventions
• Case study reports
• Elaboration of the internship report

Objectives

The Course Unit aims to offer an institutional experience in Clinical and Health Psychology, in order to carry out a supervised practice that is in accordance with the knowledge acquired in other curricular units. It also aims to provide students with training in the diagnosis, evaluation, implementation of treatment and prevention programs, and evaluation of the results. It also aims to teach integration in multidisciplinary teams. The conceptualization, development, and accomplishment of an internship project in an institution, supervised in seminar classes, allows the student to obtain the integration and application of the acquired knowledge, being able, in this way, to establish competencies that will lead to an effective intervention in the organizations where he comes to work.

Teaching methodologies and assessment

The internship seminar takes place in small group classes supervised by a teacher. It is intended to be a space for questioning about the integration in the institution, evaluation, and intervention with patients. The pedagogical strategy consists of theoretical lecture classes and practical classes, case discussion seminars, role-playing as well as oral and written presentation of case reports. The student is assessed according to his final internship report (100%). Attendance is mandatory. The approval of the UC depends on the assessment of the advisory teacher and after hearing the institutional advisor and will consider the attendance and the final oral evaluation of the report of the internship before a jury according to the regulations of the internship seminar.

References

• American Psychiatric Association. (2014). DSM-5: Manual de diagnóstico e estatística das perturbações mentais (5.ª ed.).Lisboa: Climepsi.
• Pomerantz, A. (2017). Clinical psychology: Science, practice, and culture (4 th ed.). Thousand Oaks: SAGE.

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