Prospectus | 08/09 - Psychology and Neuroscience - Maastricht ...

Chapter 5 - Specialization Psychopathology
| 482PP Clinical Skills I: Interviewing Skills – 2 credits
Coordinator: Inge Drost, Clinical Psychological Science (FPN), Phone 38 81733,
50 Universiteitssingel, Room 1.354, E-mail: inge.drost@dep.unimaas.nl
Description of the Course
The aim of this training is to teach students basic clinical interview skills needed for
interviewing patients with psychopathology. After this training, students should be
able to administer semi-structured interviews covering the reason for referral, chief
complaint and history of the presented problem(s), mental status, developmental and
social assessment, diagnoses, and type of treatment requested.
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Instructional Approach
This course consists of seven 2-hour sessions. The first meeting is an introductory
lecture. The second meeting will be an SPC (Simulated Patient Contact), during
which the entrance level of each student will be assessed. The other meetings are
structured as training meetings; as preparation, students study literature and dvd’s. The
assessment skills are practiced by means of role-playing. The last meeting will again be
an SPC. Students complete an assessment and a reflection report for each SPC.
Form of Assessment
Adequate demonstration of interviewing skills, adequate completion of patient
assessment reports and reflection reports.
| 483PP Clinical Skills II: Diagnostic Test Procedures – 2 credits
Coordinators: Petra Hurks, Neuropsychology & Psychopharmacology (FPN), Phone 38 84269,
40 Universiteitssingel East, Room 2.747, E-mail: Pm.Hurks@psychology.unimaas.nl;
Rudolf Ponds, Psychiatry & Neuropsychology (FHML, University Hospital Maastricht,
Maastro Clinic), 12 Dr. Tanslaan, Room 4.G3.061, Phone 38 76044 ,
E-mail: r.ponds@np.unimaas.nl
Description of the Course
The aim of this training is to teach students procedures for psychodiagnostic
and neuropsychological testing needed for assessing type, severity and extent of
psychopathology and neuropsychological problems in individuals with psychiatric
disorders. Students will learn to administer a psychodiagnostic interview in
adult clients with psychiatric diagnoses as well as in caregivers of children with
developmental problems. Also, they will extend their experience in neuropsychological
test administration and observation. They will acquire skills in writing a formal report
and in communicating their conclusions to the patient.
Following an introduction in the main cognitive domains in relation to brain areas
and relevant neuropsychological and psychopathological test procedures, the training
will focus on five disorders: developmental disorders (including disorders of executive
functioning and disorders of learning and attention), schizophrenia, bipolar disorder,