Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology

Teacher(s)

Deplus Sandrine; Lahaye Magali (coordinator);

Language

French

Main themes

Acquisition of a scientific model for the clinical practice with children and teenagers and their context.Thispattern has four central characteristics:

1. The model ismulti-contextual because the psychological problems of the children and teenagers must be conceptualized, for the evaluation and the intervention, in their multiple contexts (family, school, peers, social network).

2. The approach isdevelopmental, taking into account the individual development (lifespan development), the developmental psychopathology, and the family life cycle.

3. The model ismulti-prospectwith biological, behavioral, psychodynamic, cognitive, emotional, and ecological prospects. Consequently, the model focuses on the psychological interpersonal processes.

4. The modelis integrative by thevarious elements ofscientific knowledge in a case formulation.The approach is not eclectic to avoid an approach by fragments.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	- Evaluation methods scientifically validated for various child and teenager disorders - Formulation of assumptions and development of a process based on these assumptions, in collaboration with other professionals - Learning of the psychotherapeutic interventions scientifically validated in the individual setting (child or teenager). (Interventions for the family, parents, and social network settings are learned in other courses) - How can we scientifically evaluate the interventions in the individual setting and adapt the process. The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programmes(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled 'Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit'.

Online resources

Moodle

Bibliography

Weis, R. (2013). Introduction to abnormal child and adolescent psychology (Second edition). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
Carr, A. (2005). The Handbook of Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology. London: Routledge.

Teaching materials

• documents et ressources en ligne sur Moodle

Faculty or entity

EPSY