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
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
1) analyse a request from an individual, family, institutional and cultural perspective
2) select and justify the conceptual framework to refer to
3) select an interview methods and appropriate diagnostic tools
4) interpret the results
5) use all the information and present a diagnosis
6) correctly communicate the results of the examination
Main themes
- analysis of the request
- socio-cultural aspects of the examination (ethnopsychiatric perspective)
- 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 diagnostic judgment etc.)
- conceptual frameworks: anti-nosographic and idiographic perspectives, descriptive nosographies (DSM-IV and ICD-10), psychopathological nosographies
- examination of the personality: interview (free, semi-structured, structured), rating scales (Hamilton etc.), questionnaires (MMPI-II, NEO-PIR, Beck, Spielberger etc.), projective tests (TAT, Rorschah etc.)
- examination of cognitive functions: examination of intelligence (Weschler scales, K-ABC, Piagetian evaluation, assessment of learning potential etc.), memory, spatial organization, language and basic learning.
Content and teaching methods
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
1) analyse a request from an individual, family, institutional and cultural perspective
2) select and justify the conceptual framework to refer to
3) select an interview methods and appropriate diagnostic tools
4) interpret the results
5) use all the information and present a diagnosis
6) correctly communicate the results of the examination
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)