Academic Professional Clinical Psychology

Course goals

Course objectives
This course comprises a specific, in-depth component as organized by the department of Clinical Psychology and a smaller, more general component as organized by the faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. Each component has its own learning goals.

Departmental component: Clinical Psychology (CP)
The overall goal of the departmental component is to help students develop into academic professionals within our beautiful field of Clinical Psychology. During this course, students will learn to integrate their academic skills into their future work, with the ultimate goal to improve current mental health care. By the end of the course students should be able to:

• Demonstrate an understanding of being an academic professional and its relevant skills.
• Demonstrate an understanding of several broader themes that are relevant in our field, such as cultural sensitivity, treatment development, clinical decision making and ethical decision making.
• Demonstrate an ability to critically reflect on current mental health care, its challenges, and opportunities for improvement.

Specific learning goals for each of the five blocks can be found in the overviews on Brightspace.


Faculty component: Social and Behavioural Sciences (FSBS)
In addition, the faculty component organizes a CareerCrafting course -including two online sessions and one on campus training- to prepare students for (future) internship and/or job applications. By the end of this course students should be able to:

• Demonstrate skills that are relevant for seeking job vacancies and preparing job interviews.

Content

• Individual preparation
• Unsupervised peer meeting
• Working group meeting
• Expert meeting
• Individual portfolio assignment