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PSYK4302

The Role of the Psychologist 2 - Understanding, Skills Training and Practice

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Credits 7.5
Level Foundation courses, level I
Course start Spring 2025
Duration 1 semester
Language of instruction Norwegian
Location Trondheim
Examination arrangement Lectures

About

About the course

Course content

The four courses comprising The Psychologist Role (30 credits total) aim to provide students with knowledge and experience of different types of psychological work. Students will also gain a broad understanding of the personal and relational prerequisites as well as professional competence required of psychologists, in addition to the ability to reflect on the importance of these factors.

This series of courses is central to the ongoing suitability assessment, cf. Regulations on suitability assessment in higher education, § 2 and 4. An ongoing suitability assessment is carried out throughout the course of one’s studies, as it is based on the student's professional and personal disposition for working as a health professional.

Core topics for this course are self-development, empathy, communication, patient perspectives and psychological work in organizational systems.

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

  • The students have acquired broad knowledge of the importance of communication skills in psychological practice.
  • The students are familiar with the organization of the health- and welfare systems in Norway.

Skills:

  • The students can reflect on the role of relational competence and communication skills in psychological practice.
  • The students can reflect on their own values, roles, and functioning in their interactions with patients and collaborating parts.

General competence:

  • The students acknowledge the relationship between personal prerequisites and professional skills in psychological practice.
  • The students can reflect on, and discuss, ethical dilemmas related to psychological practice.
  • The students has an insight into how individuals’ rights concerning integrity, dignity and autonomy can be met in psychological practice

Learning methods and activities

With exception to the course-wide lectures, the students shall be divided into groups of around 10 students, with each group being led by a course tutor and a student assistant. These will be the same groups as were allocated in PSYK4301 - The Role of the Psychologist 1. The activities for the groups involve discussions and practical exercises relating to the practicing the role of a psychologist.

Compulsory assignments

  • Mandatory attendance (80%)
  • Submission of written work
  • Team collection presentation

Further on evaluation

The student has the option to repeat the course once more if they have not passed the first time. In the event that the student does not pass the course, both the course and all compulsory assignments must be completed again. The course is assessed in accordance with the ‘Guidelines for the implementation and evaluation of practice’.

Specific conditions

Admission to a programme of study is required:
Clinical Psychology Programme (CPSYR)

Required previous knowledge

None

Course materials

Will be annonunced at semesterstart.

Credit reductions

Course code Reduction From
PSYPRO4202 7.5 sp Autumn 2021
This course has academic overlap with the course in the table above. If you take overlapping courses, you will receive a credit reduction in the course where you have the lowest grade. If the grades are the same, the reduction will be applied to the course completed most recently.

Subject areas

  • Psychology

Contact information

Course coordinator

Lecturers

Department with academic responsibility

Department of Psychology