Psychology

This course provides a basic presentation of the forces that have shaped and are shaping clinical and pathological psychology.

This skills course teaches students how to conduct the semi-structured clinical interview for the DSM-5 (SCID I) and Axis II (SCID II) diagnoses. Students learn to carry out the interview and to interpret the outcomes, to establish differential diagnoses, and to summarize findings in a written report. Special emphasis lies on comparing the patient's answer to a question and the clinical judgement of stating whether certain behavioral criterion is met or not. Note that this training is not restricted to anxiety psychopathology, but to psychopathology in general.

This course examines disability and psychological rehabilitation. Topics include: disability and employment; evaluation; intervention; comprehensive and/or occupational rehabilitation; disability and context; role of family in the integration process; design and redesign of jobs for persons with disabilities; accessibility.

This course provides a study of culture and cultural evolution. Topics include humans as cultural animals, cultural evolution, physical and mental health, and multiculturalism.

Learn concepts of culture, social norms and how to research them, generalizability, and cross-cultural relevance. Seminars provide an opportunity to explore concrete examples for how lives and development of youth can differ across cultures (e.g., initiation rituals, friendship, love and/or marriage, loneliness, social media, work, living arrangements, mental and physical health, beliefs about “emerging adulthood”, ...). Additionally, apply knowledge from lectures by analyzing generalizability and cross-cultural relevance of research articles about youth and their development, reflect on how your own culture can influence how you conduct and interpret research, and develop concrete suggestions for more culture-sensitive research.  This course provides an opportunity to focus on topics you are particularly interested in.

The Internship Workforce course provides students with an overview of working in the United Kingdom. The course looks at the changing organizational structures of work in Britain. It examines the social and economic changes that affect the workplace in the UK. Topics covered include: sociology of work, trade unions, oppression at work, generational changes at work, and the future of work. An internship while studying in London provides an opportunity to experience a “hands on” working situation and a different perspective on the workplace and working practices, while developing professional skills.