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ANXIETY DISORDERS

Course

Code: 1323

Degree: Master's in Psychological Therapy with Children and Adolescents

Faculty of Health and Social Sciences

Year: Year 1 of Master's in Psychological Therapy with Children and Adolescents

Semester: Fall

Type: Required

Language: Spanish

ECTS credits: 6

Lecture: 3

Laboratory: 3

Hours: 150

Directed: 60

Shared: 8

Autonomous: 82

Subject matter: Assessment and Treatment of Internalizing Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence

Module: Module II: Psychological Intervention in Childhood and Adolescent Disorders

Course instructors are responsible for the course content descriptions in English.

Description

1. Specific fears and phobias in childhood and adolescence.
2. Separation anxiety disorder.
3. Generalized anxiety disorder.
4. Social phobia. Social skills deficit.
5. Panic disorder and agoraphobia
6. Obsessive-compulsive disorder.
7. Post-traumatic stress disorder.

Faculty

Name	Coordinator	Lecture	Laboratory
ORGILES AMOROS, MIREIA	■	■	■
PIQUERAS RODRIGUEZ, JOSÉ ANTONIO		■	■
GAVINO LÁZARO, AURORA		■	■

Professional interest

Anxiety disorders are one of the most common disorders in childhood and adolescence. The course allows students to learn to diagnose the different anxiety disorders, assess and apply the proper treatment.

Competencies and learning outcomes

General competencies

Be able to reach an adequate level of understanding about the demands of the recipient in every situation or application context.
Critically evaluate information and apply the scientific method to improve professional practice.
Formulate hypotheses, assess information, and promote viable solutions to professional cases and situations.
Be able to analyze, evaluate, and assess individual and collective situations, identify problems, interpret data, and formulate solutions to individual or collective problems.
Be able to upgrade, consolidate, and integrate new knowledge to improve the profession using continuous self-learning techniques and critical analysis.

Specific competencies

Know how to select and apply different types of psychological tests in childhood and adolescence.
Be able to properly apply diagnostic criteria for different psychological disorders in children and youth.
Know how to establish a treatment plan from predictions made about the child or adolescent and the psychological knowledge.
Know how to monitor a child and/or adolescent clinical case, choosing appropriate and realistic goals.
Choose and select the most appropriate child/adolescent psychological intervention techniques in each case in order to achieve the objectives.
Know how to apply the main techniques of effective and empirically proven interventions for children and adolescents.
Know how to apply direct intervention strategies and methods in children and adolescents: construction of healthy scenarios, prevention of problems, and quality of life.
Master strategies and techniques for involving children and/or adolescents in the intervention.
Know how to provide feedback to children/adolescents and their families in an appropriate and accurate manner.

Objectives (Learning outcomes)

The student will be able to differentiate the different diagnostic criteria for anxiety disorders
The student will be able to apply the appropriate assessment tools for the diagnosis of anxiety disorders
The student will be able to intervene in social phobia and other problems
The student will be able to intervene in specific phobias, separation anxiety and school refusal
Students will be able to intervene in generalized anxiety
The student will be able to intervene in posttraumatic stress disorder
The student will be able to intervene in panic and agoraphobia

Teaching units

Basic bibliography

Espada Sánchez, José Pedro coord / Orgilés Amorós, Mireia coord / Méndez Carrillo, F. Xavier coord. "Terapia psicológica con niños y adolescentes Estudio de casos clínicos". Madrid Pirámide D.L. 2006.

Complementary bibliography

Methodology and grading

Methodology

Case studies: Learning through the analysis of actual or simulated cases in order to interpret and resolve them by employing various alternative solution procedures.
Cooperative learning: Develop active learning through cooperative working strategies among students and promote shared responsibility to reach group goals.
Lecture: Pass on knowledge and activate cognitive processes in students, encouraging their participation.
Problem-based learning: Develop active learning strategies through problem solving that promote thinking, experimentation, and decision making in the student.

Grading

The evaluation system is as follows:
a)-Exam (50%): 20 questions with 3 choices of response. The correction system is PD = A - (E/k-1) / (number of items/10), where A is the number of correct answers, E the mistakes, and k the number of options. You need a 5 to pass the exam. b)-Portfolio (30%): activities conducted in class and other activities indicated by the professor. The portfolio assesses the practical content. To correct the portfolio must have attended 80% of classes.
c)-Teaching online (20%): activities in the virtual platform led by the teacher.
The extraordinary exams in September and December will consist in an exam on the theoretical contents (50%) and an exam on the applied contents (50%).

Faculty: ANXIETY DISORDERS

General competencies

Specific competencies

Objectives (Learning outcomes)

Lecture topics

Teaching units

Course contents

Basic bibliography

Complementary bibliography

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Methodology

Grading