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Chapter 5 - Specialization Psychopathology
therapy, 3) applying exposure, 4) explaining the rationale of cognitive therapy and 5)
applying cognitive techniques. After this training students should be able to carry out
some elementary therapeutic procedures.
Literature
Roth Ledley, D., Marx, B.P., & Heimberg, R.G. (2005). Making cognitive-behavioural therapy
work. New York: The Guilford Press.
Instructional Approach
Four 3-hour sessions. In this training demonstrations and role-play will be used. Each
of the students will ‘treat’ one case, which is role-played by another student. The
students apply the different techniques on this role-played case. First the instructor
demonstrates each of the techniques. Subsequently, each of the students will apply
these techniques on his/her role-played case. Last, students write out a verbatim
of each of the therapy sessions. This verbatim will be used as the assessment of
this course. Next to treating their role-played case, student will apply some of the
techniques on their own mild fears.
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Form of Assessment
The coordinator will grade the individual verbatim of the therapy sessions.
5.4 M&T workshop
| 491PP Ecological Psychiatry – 1 credit
Coordinator: Philippe Delespaul, Psychiatry & Neuropsychology (FHML),
Phone 36 88685, Vijverdal, Room: SN2.069, E-mail:ph.delespaul@sp.unimaas.nl
Description of the Course
The expression of psychiatric symptoms is reflected in an individual’s behaviours and
private phenomena such as thoughts, perceptions and emotions. Psychiatric deficits
reveal themselves in the ongoing interplay between the patient and the everyday
environment, unavailable for direct observations by the clinician. Therefore, crucial
diagnostic information has to come from recollections y the patients. Unfortunately,
these self-observations are not reliable. To ascertain reliable data, self-ratings should be
collected prospectively in the normal daily life of subjects (‘ecological validity’).
The aim of the workshop is:
• to introduce the field of ecological psychiatry with its scientific roots.
• to discuss the methodological and statistical challenges related to research with selfreports
in normal living situations.
• to illustrate the applicability of these research methodologies in basic and applied
clinical research (using schizophrenia research as the primary reference).