This course is a skills lab in which the student will learn to understand and apply basic psychotherapeutic skills, both from a theoretical as well as a practical perspective.
Coordinator
Dr. W. Heuves
Room 2B42
Tel.: +31 (0)71 527 3741
E-mailaddress: heuves@fsw.leidenuniv.nl (Clinical Psychology)
Aims
From a theoretical perspective students will understand what patients need from a psychotherapeutic relationship in order to benefit from treatment.
From a practical perspective students will learn basic therapeutic skills (such as observational skills, establishing rapport, therapeutic interviewing, handling crises) to facilitate and manage a psychotherapeutic relationship.
Also students make the first steps in using themselves as an instrument for monitoring and evaluating psychotherapeutic processes.
Literature
Heaton, J.A. (1998). Building basic therapeutic skills. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
Additional reading will be supplied by the staff
Examination
Active participation in the program (20%) and paper (80%)
From January 1, 2006 the Faculty of Social Sciences has instituted the Ephorus system to be used by instructors for the systematic detection of plagiarism in students’ written work. Please see the Additional Rules and Regulations, section 6.
Education method(s)
To reach the objectives students read and discuss relevant literature, practice therapeutic skills in small groups and are willing to discuss their own professional skills with other students and staff. An important didactic device is the self-monitoring process of professional development. Students write a paper about their professional development.
There will be two scheduled sessions each week. Full attendance is mandatory.
Lectures will be in English and workshops/papers in English or Dutch. Frequency workshops: twice a week!
Enrolment
Introduction and enrolment for courses of the first semester will take place August 27th 2009. Introduction and enrolment for courses of the second semester will take place in January 2010. More information will be available at the website of the Department of Psychology.
NB: Exam and re-exam registration will take place via U-Twist, and will be open between a month and a week before the (re)exam. Students who haven’t registered, cannot participate in the (re)exam.
Blackboard
Information available on Blackboard
Time table
Timetable Basic Therapeutic Skills [2009-2010]
Semester 1 | Semester 2