Clinical Assessment and Intervention with Adults

7 ECTS / Semestral

To distinguish methods and techniques specific to the clinical assessment of adults; recognize the specificities of each psychological disease in the light of the differential diagnosis; mastering techniques of differential diagnosis; reflecting on the clinical outcome associated with the most frequent disorders in adults; knowing the different types of clinical intervention with adults; knowing the empirically based clinical approaches; promoting critical attitude to the different approaches presented; differentiate the specificities of intervention in the most common disorders; mastering a set of therapeutic manuals focused on different disorders and develop plans for therapeutic intervention in view of the particularities of specific populations.

Faculty

Assistant Professor / Researcher
Vânia Sousa Lima has a PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Minho where, in July 2009, she publicly presented her thesis on Bonding, Representation…