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Psychodiagnosis and exercises on tests [ LPSY1350 ]


4.0 crédits ECTS  45.0 h + 15.0 h   1q 

Teacher(s) Grégoire Jacques ;
Language French
Place
of the course
Louvain-la-Neuve
Main themes The course is organized to reflect the different stages of a psychodiagnostic examination : - 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.
Aims To be able to conduct all aspects of a psychodiagnostic examination. 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
Content To be able to conduct all aspects of a psychodiagnostic examination. 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 Lectures with case analysis, demonstrations of evaluation instruments and interpretations of scores
Cycle et année
d'étude
> Bachelor in Psychology and Education: General
> Bachelor in Psychology and Education : Speech and Language Therapy
Faculty or entity
in charge
> PSP


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