Study level: Graduate study programme in psychology
ECTS: 5
Language: Croatian
Semester: 3rd (winter)
Status: elective
Form of instruction with class hours: 30 hours of lectures, 30 hours of practical classes. Practical classes organized at psychiatric department will include the clinical assessment procedures of people with psychological disorders and interpretation of collected data.
Prerequisites: Clinical assessment of psychological disorders
Student evaluation: Written and oral exam
Course description
Biological, psychoanalytic, cognitive and behavioural etiological theories of anxiety disorders, somatoform and dissociative disorders, mood disorders, personality disorders and sexual disorders. Clinical features and clinical assessment procedures for each disorder. Specific assessment procedures.
Course objectives
Students will get acquainted with different etiology theories of anxiety disorders, somatoform and dissociative disorders, mood disorders, personality disorders and sexual disorders. They will learn diagnostic differences in symptoms and assessment results.
Required readings
Davison GC, Neale JM. (1999). Psihologija abnormalnog doživljavanja i ponašanja. Jastrebarsko: Naklada Slap.
Carson RC, Butcher J.N, Mineka S (2002.) Fundamentals of Abnormal Psychology. Boston: Allyn and Bacon,
Recommended readings
Lindsay SJE, Powel GE (1995.). The Handbook of Clinical Adult Psychology; Routledge.
Groth-Marnath G. (1997.). Handbook of Psychological Assesment, New York: Wiley&sons.