Metacognitive Training for Psychosis

Code: ENF14760O

2 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/52 hours

Scientific Area: Health Sciences

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: B-learning

Sustainable Development Goals

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

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

Learning Goals

Learning Aim: To ability mental health and psychiatric professionals to implement Metacognitive Training for people with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders.

Module 1 - Cognitive Errors and Metacognition
1.1 - Common cognitive errors in Psychosis
1.2 - Concept of Metacognition
1.3 - Psychotherapeutic Intervention - Metacognitive Training

Module 2 - Metacognitive Training in Psychosis
2.1 - Sessions Structure and Procedures
2.2 - Modules of the Metacognitive Training in Psychosis

Teaching Methods

In the contact hours, in addition to the explanation of the concepts by the expositive method, discussion and clarification of doubts, simulation sessions of the Metacognitive Training modules and practical exercises will be carried out.
In asynchronous sessions will be used the method of self-learning with viewing videos, reading the manual of Metacognitive Training and conducting practical exercises of metacognitive training.

Assessment

The course evaluation method is continuous assessment, and participants should participate in the sessions and carry out the proposed activities. Being a b-learning course, in order to enable the presence of the largest number of participants, face-to-face sessions (6 hours) and online sessions (9 hours) will be held. To complete the course it is mandatory to attend at least 75% of the contact hours and complete the proposed asynchronous activities. In the contact sessions, Metacognitive Training for Psychosis sessions will be simulated. The asynchronous activities will be as follows: reading of course-related contents and performance of metacognitive training exercises. The exercises performed in the asynchronous sessions will be discussed in the contact sessions.