Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies with Children and Adolescents

Code: PSI11131M

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Psychology

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

3. Saúde de qualidade - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

4. Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

5. Igualdade de género - Alcançar a igualdade de gênero e empoderar todas as mulheres e meninas.

Learning Goals

- To raise awareness and to promote reflexion about research in psychotherapy and the issues of the clinic practice with children and adolescents
- To facilitate knowledge acquisition about the paradigms underlying Behaviour and Cognitive Therapies
- To promote the development and training of conceptualization skills in a cognitive and behavioural perspective
- To facilitate the learning of behavioural and cognitive assessment/intervention techniques with children and adolescents
- To contribute to the development of an ethical and critical reflection, appropriate to the clinical reality

1. Introduction to Psychotherapy.
1.1 Outcome and process research. Common Factors and Integration
1.2 Children and Adolescents intervention specificities
1.2.1 Ethical and deontological aspects
1.2.2 Developmental and contextual/systemic aspects
2. Cognitive-Behavior Therapy with children and adolescents
2.1 Key concepts and theoretical principles
2.2 The behavioral paradigms and the cognitive paradigms in practice
3. The process of cognitive-behavior assessment: initial, along therapy and final
4. The conceptualization of clinical cases in childhood and adolescence
4.1 The concept of disorder in childhood and adolescence
4.2 Conceptualization of clinical cases
5. Strategies and techniques, for individual, and group intervention, for specific problems or disorders in children and adolescents.

Teaching Methods

Students are provided with a set of key texts. The UC framework is made using clinical cases to promote interrogation, research, reflection, discussion and the integration of different knowledge (already acquired and new knowledge) in the conceptualization of cases. In addition to these methodologies, because the aim is for students to also learn how to do things, behavioral and cognitive modeling and role-play are used.

Students learn to make conceptualizations/formulations of clinical cases of children and adolescents by doing them throughout the semester, either in classes or during independent work, and discussing them in classes with the group/class.

Assessment

In the continuous evaluation system, students do one individual case conceptualization (50%), and one theoretical group work (50%), both with the same weight for the final grade. The theoretical work is to research a topic that involves an in-depth reflection on it, as well its presentation to the class. This presentation includes a proposed activity that facilitates the learning of a skill, strategy or technique by the class.

In the final evaluation system, there is a conceptualization to be made (50%) and a final Knowledge test (50%), both with the same weight in the final grade.