Psychology

This course discusses intervention and psychological treatments in clinical psychology including processes of intervention, psychotherapeutic techniques and treatments, and aids to treatment. 

This course introduces students to key concepts and ideas in the discipline of psychology. The course starts by investigating a brief history of psychology; learning about significant theorists and exploring psychological methods. It then investigate fundamental topics in psychology through four of the core perspectives in the field, namely: developmental, biological, social, and cognitive psychology. The course encourages students to begin to think about links between psychology and other related disciplines in the social sciences. Topics include: relationships, mental health, persuasion, identity, and parenting. The course draws on past experiments and theories from an array of global scholars, as well as real life examples, to demonstrate how relevant psychology is in our day-to-day lives.

Bullying: Beyond common examines the phenomenon of youth bullying. The course focuses on both traditional bullying that usually takes place on school premises and cyberbullying, which occurs via information and communication technologies. With a social-ecological perspective, the first part of the course explores the boundaries of these phenomena, and analyzes the characteristics of youth involved and the social-psychological processes that underlie the different roles youth play in bully-victim-bystander dynamics. The second part of this course covers the prevention and intervention strategies available at the international level. The course recommends students have previous knowledge of theories and methodologies from developmental psychology and social psychology as a prerequisite.

This course provides a critical analysis of the criteria used to distinguish between normal and abnormal behavior and apply psychopathological diagnosis. Topics covered include: history of clinical psychology and psychopathology; general models of abnormal behavior; evaluation, classification and diagnosis of abnormal behavior; disorders of perception, awareness and attention; memory disorders; disorders of thought and language; psychomotor disorders; food and sleep disorders.