3 ECTS credits
90 h study time
Offer 2 with catalog number 4003740FNR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (F) Master - specialised level.
Case Studies Psychopathology Children and Adolescents (CSPCA) deepens assessment and intervention concerning clinical issues of youth and their environment according to professional guidelines. To monitor the realization of such guidelines, this course uses the FACE© stressbalance model and the accompanying FACE© method (Facilitating Adjustment of Cognition and Emotion, see handbooks and publications).
The FACE©-approach is an evidence-based conceptual and methodological framework to:
- guide the initial risk assessment with the youth and his environment (the clientsystem),
- on a macro-level, efficiently and rapidly map the clientsystem’s (perceived) load of problems and resources,
- on a micro-level, discern sources of risk and resiliency in the clientsystem’s thought, feel, and action dynamics, with attention to neuroplasticity and epigenetics,
- deduct leads for change and readjustment of the youth’s and their family’s ‘Psychological Balance©’; or orient adequate referral when needed.
The student, as a soon-to-be active clinician, monitors professional conduct by learning to self-critically and (culture)competently adjust his or her modes of thinking, feeling and acting with the client(system).
During this course, students develop their clinical mastery regarding child and adolescent psychopathology by composing a guidelined workpiece of a case study wih a youth, according to the FACE-approach for professional assessment and intervention monitoring. This workpiece focusses on transparent, evidence-based assessment and intervention with the chosen youth and his/her environment.
In short, Case Studies Psychopathology Children and Adolescents operates as an interactive course where students, through active participation, have the opportunity to grow towards an 'end-of-cycle' synthesis and integration of evidence-based scientific knowledge, constructive self-critical insights and initial practice experience.
See learning platform for the current semester's course focus and guidelines.
Students thus learn to acquire the following learning results that are integratively reflected in the individual clinical workpiece. Students are able to: independently propose an initial risktaxation for the chosen youth; use the FACE©-approach to map the clientsystem’s overall stressbalance in a problem-solving, resiliency oriented manner; efficiently screen the clientsystem’s individual cognitive-emotional dynamics using appropriate instruments and/or (FACE©-)tools; propose, following the aforementioned screening appropriate intervention or referral ; and self-critically evaluate and where needed readjust his/her own role during their clinical work according to the FACE©-approach.
Contact: during contact sessions, through email and by appointment.
Prof. Dr. Smadar Celestin-Westreich
Dept. of Developmental and Life Span Psychology
Faculty of Psychology & Pedagogy
Vrije Universiteit Brussels
E-mail: Smadar.Westreich@vub.ac.be
See learning platform at the start of the semester for current guidelines.
The study materials concern the theory and the practice of this course.
Students bring their own material of a clinical case with a youth from their internship to independently accomplish their workpiece.
Contact sessions (live or digital) help students in the conceptual and methodological progress on their clinical case study through different didactic modalities (e.g. class, intervision, supervision, student presentations).
See Course Aims.
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
The course evaluation consists of the following categories :
The written exam determines 100% of the course evaluation.
The exam integrates theory and practice. For the exam, students deliver a work piece of a clinical case study with a youth.
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Psychology: Clinical Psychology (only offered in Dutch)