Department of Paramedical

Basic of Clinical Psychology

Credit: 4 (4 units: 4 subtopics under each topic)
Requires 4 lectures per week
1st year
Unit 1: Introduction to Psychology.

 What is Psychology, methods, fields

 Cognitive process and Testing: Intelligence, Learning, Memory
 Conative process and testing motivation
 Affective process and testing emotion.

Unit 2: Cognitive Neuro-Psychology

 Nervous System structure

 Nervous System Function
 Endocrine System structure
 Endocrine System Function

Unit 3: Personality theories & testing

 Psychoanalytic Approach: Freud

 Trait and Type Approach
 Humanistic Approach: Rogers
 Assessment of personality

Unit 4: Developmental Pathologies across life span

 Childhood- Intellectual Disability, ADHD, Autism

 Adolescence: Conduct Disorder
 Adulthood- Personality Disorder,
 Old Age- Dementia
 Practical: Psychometric Assessment

Advance Clinical Psychology

Credit: 4 (4 units: 4 subtopics under each topic)
Requires 4 lectures per week
2nd year

Unit 1: Introduction to Abnormality

 Concept of abnormality
 Classification of mental disorders
 Classificatory Systems
 Psychiatry and Psychology

Unit 2: Major Psychiatric disorders

 Introduction to Major Psychiatric disorders

 Schizophrenia
 Mood Disorder
 Anxiety Disorder

Unit 3: Counselling and Psychotherapy

 Introduction to counselling and psychotherapy

 Skill of the therapist
  Ethical Consideration
 Approaches & Techniques of Psychotherapy-
 Psychodynamic
 Behavioral
 CBT

Unit 4:
 Case History
 MSE
 Diagnosis
 Report writing

Practical: Psychometric Assessment