Accreditation

This accreditation commission of evalag, Evalag-Baden-Württemberg http ://www.evalag.de, accredited this program and awarded the evalag international label for program accreditation.

Emphasis

- Clinical Psychology
- Industrial Psychology

Mission

The Department of Psychology seeks to train competent people in various fields of study: cognitive, clinical, pathological, social, labor and development psychology. This education aims at giving human behavior a scientific explanation and understanding the psychic functioning that underlies it. The training helps students command, on the one hand, theoretical, methodological and practical knowledge. On the other hand, it prepares them to practice the profession of psychologist and researcher. These skills empower them to enter the labor market and gain access to higher education and research.

Program Educational Objectives

1. Graduates will make careers in guidance, counseling, support and psychological counseling within a pluralistic team in the different institutions; from early childhood to adulthood.
2. Graduates will make careers in the field of psychological practice in clinical and scholarly domains, in specialized rehabilitation and training centers, in hospitals or in prison centers for youths and adolescents.
3. Graduates will demonstrate the necessary skills to pursue a postgraduate course and excel in research.

Program Outcomes

a. Students will define key concepts of the different domains of psychology, which constitute the basis of the bachelor’s degree and introduce the Master’s program.
b. Distinguish the different theoretical perspectives of social psychology, develop conceptual skills of communication and put into practice group functioning.
c. Rigorously adopt a methodological and statistical analysis of the scientific approach in psychology, which combines the epistemological, ethical, technological and static principles.
d. Recognize the foundations of the psychology of child, adolescent and adult development, and highlight the relative characteristics of each stage.
e. Correlate the basic notions of psychoanalysis and target the relationship between theory and analytical practice in clinical settings.
f. Examine the personality across the different theoretical and psychometric perspectives of psychology.
g. Delineate psychopathology existent from early childhood to adulthood.
h. Adopt the models and methods of consulting advice and guidance toward education, training and careers.
i. Analyze through cognition, biology and neurobiology, thepsyche and human behavior, normal and pathological in its environment.
j. Validate the clinical approach, maintenance procedures and clinical examination and the method of testing at the level of the child, adolescent and adult.
k. Put into practice the acquired knowledge and evaluate training.
l. Put into practice the fundamental concepts of ergonomics while placing them as priority work­health and work­time relations and analyzing sociologically the institutional environment.
m. Develop psychological management of management issues, developments of labor and their consequences.