B026952 - PSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATION LABORATORY

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The course is aimed to transmit specific knowledge and skills for writing a psychological report.

The course is aimed to transmit specific knowledge and skills for psychological assessment.

- Heard, S. B. (2022). The scientist’s guide to writing: how to write more easily and effectively throughout your scientific career. Princeton University Press.
- Course materials given by the professor and uploaded on e-learning platform.

Course materials will be given by the teacher and uploaded on the e-learning platform.
Additional readings:
- Heard, S. B. (2022). The scientist's guide to writing: how to write more easily and effectively throughout your scientific career. Princeton University Press.

Knowledge and Understanding: During the course, students will acquire the fundamental skills needed to create a psychological report based on empirical research. The course will also focus on specific themes related to psychological assessment, providing the necessary tools to interpret and effectively use psychometric tests.

Judgment Autonomy: At the end of the course, students will have the skills to:
- Understand and apply the key principles necessary for drafting an accurate and effective psychological report;
- Acquire and apply a deep and critical knowledge of the practices and principles of psychological assessment, enabling them to make informed choices and formulate independent judgments.

Communication Skills: At the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Articulate, express, and communicate clearly and professionally the concepts and information arising from the results of empirical research and/or a psychological assessment;
- Present their findings and conclusions in a coherent and structured manner, both in written and oral form, using a format that reflects the standards of a scientific publication.

Learning Ability: The course is designed to allow students to integrate the new knowledge acquired with prior knowledge, coming from other courses. This approach will promote the students' ability to establish connections and relationships between different themes and disciplines, enhancing their critical learning and continuous self-education capacity.

Knowledge and understanding.
How to carry out a psychological evaluation and develop a report.

Applying knowledge and understanding.
At the end of the course students should be able to:
- know the essential principles of the practice of psychological assessment
- know the essential principles of drafting a report.

Making judgements.
At the end of the course, students should acquire a rational critical attitude through which to reflect and possibly question concepts and procedures proposed in the scientific field.

Communication skills.
At the end of the course students should be able to:
- implement and communicate (possibly in a scientific publication) concepts and information relating to psychological assessment correctly and adequately.

Learning skills.
Upon completion of this course students should be able to integrate the newly acquired knowledge with those already in their possession, and with those produced by other courses, with the aim of creating useful links and connections

Undergraduate-level knowledge of psychology.

Undergraduate-level knowledge of psychology

Knowledge and understanding: lectures and practical exercises.

Applied knowledge and understanding: during the lectures, exercises and examples will be conducted to demonstrate how to apply the theoretical knowledge acquired.

Autonomy of judgment: a critical approach to the analyzed theories and concepts will be used during the lectures, encouraging students to question concepts and theories proposed in the scientific field.

Communicative skills: the language used during the lectures will aim to convey the main technical terms of the discipline while also providing examples of effective communication methods to be used with colleagues and patients.

Learning ability: Frontal lectures will include practical exercises due to the laboratory nature of the course, linked to the theoretical knowledge acquired in the courses taken by the student in previous years.

Knowledge and understanding.
Lectures and practical exercises.

Applying knowledge and understanding
During the course, exercises and exemplifications will be offered, so as to show how to implement the acquired theoretical knowledge.

Making judgements
During the course, a critical approach will be used, so as to accustom students to an attitude of constant and rational discussion of concepts and procedures that has been proposed in the scientific field.

Communication skills.
During the course, a language will be used to communicate the main technical terms of the discipline, but also to give examples of useful communication skills that have to be differentiated in relation to colleagues and patients.

Learning skills.
Lectures and practical exercises

21 hours of meeting time

21 hours of meeting time

Knowledge and understanding: Written and oral examination.

Applied knowledge and understanding: In-class exercises where students can demonstrate their progressive learning. Elaboration of a written psychological report.

Autonomy of judgment: During the examination, the ability to critically evaluate specific theses presented in the lessons will be required.

Communicative skills: During the examination, the technical appropriateness of the language used and the conceptual clarity in presenting concepts and theories will be evaluated.

Learning ability: During the examination, the ability to establish connections and linkages between concepts and theories not only within the specific course but also between these and concepts and theories from previous courses of the student's study program will be assessed.

Knowledge and understanding.
Written and oral examination

Applying knowledge and understanding.
During the course, practical exercises will be provided, so that students will have the opportunities of showing their progressive learning. Writing a psychological report.

Making judgements.
During the examination, critical judgements will be requested about the concept exposed during the course.

Communication skills.
During examination, the technical correctness of used language and also the conceptual clearness in the description of concept and theories will be evaluated.

Learning skills.
During examination, the evaluation will take in account the ability to draw connections and links between concepts and theories not only within the specific course, but also between the course and concepts and theories pertinent to other preceding courses attended by students.

The IMRAD structure of a psychological scientific article.
General principles of a psychological report;
Psychological assessment through the use of psychometric tests.

General principles of a psychological report; the terminology used in a psychological report; the evaluation of the data; synthesize and conceptualize the findings; the structure and the writing of a psychological report. Assessment by psychological tests: 1. administration and scoring, 2. Use of norms and score interpretation, 3. report of the assessment results, 4. interaction and communication with the patient/client.

Specific objectives:
1. Encourage the development of a greater awareness of the teaching topics.
2. Offer the opportunity to learn about new methods and techniques that encourage the student's participation and involvement.

Expected results:
1. Improve teaching quality.
2. Create a space in Moodle that collects teaching practices and experiences.
3. Improve the role and the relationships between students and teacher to generate learning.
4. Create a system to promote constructive feedback from peers related to teaching.

Teaching practices:
1. promote critical reflection in the classroom,
2. use group work in the classroom,
3. teach interactively,
5. develop collaborative and supportive relationships between peers.

Goal 3 - Health and Well-being: Psychological assessment methods will be presented underlining their usefulness in intervention programs for the promotion of mental health.

Goal 4 - Quality education & Goal 8 - Decent work and economic growth: Basic technical and professional skills related to the psychological assessment will be provided. The aim is to substantially increase the number of young people who are well prepared to find adequately paid work in an area of employment consistent with their university training.