Psychodiagnostic et exercices sur les tests
[PSY1350]
[45h + 15h] 4 credits
This course is taught in the 1st semester.
Teacher(s): Jacques Grégoire
Language: French
Level: First
Aims
a) to analyse a request from an individual, familial, institutional and cultural point of view
b) to choose and justify the conceptual framework to refer to.
c) To choose a method of interview and appropriate diagnostic tools
d) To interpret the collected results
e) To integrate the various informations and to present a diagnosis
f) To correctly communicate the examination results
Main themes
- analysis of the request
- socio-cultural aspects of the examination (ethnopsychiatric point of view)
- the dynamics of the diagnostic examination: concepts of interpretation and integration, principle of the decision tree, mental processes of the clinician (decision-making and probability; bias in the diagnostic judgment )
- conceptual frameworks: antnosographic and idiographic points of view, descriptive nosographies (DSM-IV and ICD-10), psychopathological nosographies
- examination of the personality: interview (free, semi-structural, structural), rating scales (Hamilton ), questionnaires (MMPI-II, NEO-PIR, Beck, Spielberger ), projective tests (TAT, Rorschah )
- examination of the cognitive functions: examination of intelligence (Weschler scales, K-ABC, piagetian evaluation, assessment of the learning potential ), of memory, of spatial organization, of language and of basic learnings.
Content and teaching methods
a) to analyse a request from an individual, familial, institutional and cultural point of view
b) to choose and justify the conceptual framework to refer to.
c) To choose a method of interview and appropriate diagnostic tools
d) To interpret the collected results
e) To integrate the various informations and to present a diagnosis
f) To correctly communicate the examination results
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)