Admission requirements
Only open to master students Clinical Psychology and Health Psychology.
Description
Basic Therapeutic Skills is a course in professional skills in which the student will learn to understand and apply basic psychotherapeutic skills in a clinical and health psychological setting.
Course objectives
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.
Students will also take the first step in using themselves as an instrument for monitoring and evaluating psychotherapeutic processes.
Timetable
Basic Therapeutic Skills (2014-2015):
Lectures (2nd semester)
Workgroups (2nd semester)
Note
Health Psychology and Clinical Psychology students: Introductory Lecture on 8 September 2014 and 9 February 2015.
Registration
Course
Students need to enroll for lectures and work group sessions. Please consult the Instructions registration
Examination
Students are not automatically enrolled for an examination. They can register via uSis from 100 to 10 calendar days before the date; students who are not registered will not be permitted to take the examination. Registering for exams
Mode of instruction
To reach the objectives students read and discuss relevant literature, practice therapeutic skills in small supervised and unsupervised 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.
Assessment method
Assessment will be based on three assessments:
full attendance for the work group sessions;
engagement in a learning process, which implies an active participation in the workgroups and a willingness to reflect on professional development;
written reflections on professional development
The Faculty of Social Sciences has instituted that instructors use a software programme for the systematic detection of plagiarism in students’ written work. In case of fraud disciplinary actions will be taken. Please see the information concerning fraud
Blackboard
Information on blackboard.leidenuniv.nl
Reading list
Heaton, J.A. (1998). Building Basic Therapeutic Skills. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass
Additional reading will be supplied by the staff
Contact information
Dr. Hendrik M. Koopman (for specialisation Clinical Psychology)
Room 2B25
Tel.: +31 (0)71 527 4068
E-mail: hkoopman@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
Dr. V. Janssen (for specialisation Health Psychology)
Unit Health, Medical and Neuropsychology
Room 2B53
Tel: +31 (0)71 527 3676
E-mail: vjanssen@fsw.leidenuniv.nl