2024

Theory and Practice of the Rorschach test

Name: Theory and Practice of the Rorschach test
Code: PSI11165M
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

Learning Goals

To acquire knowledge about the Rorschach Method in its different aspects, the application, scoring, data summarization and basic interpretation, according to the John E. Exner Rorschach Integrative System.
Acquire skills to use the Rorschach Method according to John E. Exner's Rorschach Integrative System.

Contents

The Rorschach Method according to the John E. Exner Integrative System
1- Some introductory and historical aspects
2- A reference to the Rorschach Performance Assessment System (R-PAS)
3- Standardized adminstration procedures
4- The scoring
4.1- Location and development quality
4.2- The determinants
4.3- Formal quality
4.4- Popular Contents
4.5- The organizational activity
4.6- Special scores: critical and non-critical
4.7- Scoring of a protocol
5- Obtaining the Structural Summary
6- The process of interpretation
6.1- Some general guidelines
6.2- The interpretive clusters
6.2.1- Information Processing
6.2.2- Mediation
6.2.3- Ideation
6.2.4- Affect
6.2.5- Self Perception
6.2.6- Interpersonal Relationships
6-2.7- Control and Stress Tolerance
6.3- Interpretation of a protocol

Teaching Methods

The teacher will combine an expository teaching methodology with practical activities of visualization of videos on the administration, training of scoring, obtaining of a structural summary and scoring and interpretation of protocols. The students will also present practical work in small groups.
Continuous evaluation system.
The first individual assigment consists of a reading sheet of a text on administration, and has a weighting of 10% in the final grade. The second assigment, individual, is to perform an application of the Rorschach method. The third assignment consists in the presentation of a text concerning the interpretation of Rroschach, with a weighting of 25% in the final grade. The brief test has a weighting of 30% in the final grade.
Final evaluation.
In addition to an examination with a weighting of 30% of the final grade, students should carry out the compulsory practical component, composed of the same 3 assigments of the continuous assessment system.

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