Clinical Psychology

Paper Code: 
144 (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); Behavioural Assessment; 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           
References: 

 

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Academic Year: 
2014-15
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