Clinical Psychology

Paper Code: 
PSY144 (C)
Credits: 
04
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
12.00
Unit I: 
Introduction to Clinical Psychology

The Perspective of Clinical Psychology: The clinical attitude; The problem of individuality; Variables, individual differences and persons; Persons and types; Persons and environments; Persons and social systems.

Concepts of Normality and Pathology: Psychopathology in historical perspective; The medical model of mental illness; A concept of psychological health and abnormality; Toward a unitary concept of mental health and mental illness.

12.00
Unit II: 
Theoretical Perspectives on Maladaptive Behaviour

Biological perspective; The psycho dynamic perspective; Behavioural                      perspective;    Cognitive     perspective;    The Humanistic-Existential; The Community-Cultural perspective, Models of mental health intervention

16.00
Unit III: 
Classification and Assessment I

Classification - Categories of Maladaptive Behaviour: Vulnerability, Resilience, and Coping; The multiaxial approach; DSM-IV-TR; Major Diagnostic categories; Evaluation of the DSM multiaxial approach; Research on Classification

Nature and Purpose of Clinical Assessment: Introduction to Clinical Assessment; Variables and techniques; Stages in the assessment process; Outline for a case study;

The Interview : The Interview in clinical practice; Kinds of interviews; Arrangements for the interview; Stages in the initial interview; Communication and language; Reliability and validity of clinical interviews

12.00
Unit IV: 
Classification and Assessment II

Psychological Testing: Tests use by Clinicians; Intelligence Test (WAIS, Binet Tests, Bhatia’s Battery); Nueropsychological Tests (Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test); Personality Assessment (MMPI, Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory, NEO- PI-R); Projective techniques (Rorschach Inkblot Test, TAT, Word Association Test, Sentence Completion Test); BehaviouralAssessment; Cognitive      Assessment; Relation        Assessment; Bodily Assessment.

8.00
Unit V: 
Interpreting, Synthesizing, and Communicating Assessment Findings

From Psychological Data to Clinical Decision- The Role of interpretation; The psychometric and clinical traditions in assessment; Statistical methods in clinical decision-making; Clinical versus Statistical prediction; the process of interpretation;  Communicating  Assessment  findings-The Psychological Report

Essential Readings: 
  • Sheldon J. Korchin, (1986). Modern Clinical Psychology.
  • Irwin G. Sarason & Barbara R. Sarason (2005). Abnormal Psychology.
  • Kaplan, H.J. and Sadock, B.J. Ninth Edition (2004) Synopsis of Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry, Baltimore : Williams and Wilkins.
  • Korchin, S.J. : Modern Clinical Psychology, Tokyo, Harper International Edition, 1976.
  • Wolman : Handbook of Clinical Psychology, New York, McGraw Hill, 1965.
  • Kendall and Norton-ford : Modern Clinical Psychology, New York, Wiley, 1980.
  • Mayer, R.G. and Deutsch, S.E. (1996). The Child Clinician’s Handbook. Mass : Allyn and Bacon.
  • Pinel, P.J. (1997) Biopsychology, Mass : Allyn and Bacon.
  • Purves, D. et al (Ed) Neuroscience. Mass : Allny and Bacon.
  • Zillmer E.A. and Spears, M.V. (2001) Principles of Neuropsychology. Canada : wadsworth Publishers.
  • Walker , C.E. and Roberts M.C. (2001) Handbook of Clinical Child Psychology 3rd edition New York : J. Wiley & Sons.
  • Batchelor I.R.C. 10th Ed. (1968).Henderson Gillepie’s Textbook of Psychiatry. London, Oxford University Press.
  • Cameron N. & Margaret (1951). Behavior Pathology. Houghton Mifflin Company, Bostan.
  • Ludwig A. (1986). Principles of Clinical Psychiatry. The Free Press, New York.
  • Nicoli A.M. Ed. (1978). The Harvard Guide to Modern Psychiatry. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.

 

Academic Year: 
2024-25
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