ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 1 Expository Class: 16 Interactive Classroom: 7 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology
Areas: Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatments
Center Faculty of Psychology
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
• Develop an understanding of the usefulness of the scientific study of personality to be able to further the knowledge, etiology and development of personality disorders.
• Develop historical-conceptual and diagnostic approaches to personality disorders.
• Introduce the characteristics of the different personality disorders and isolate the most defining traits of the different evaluation techniques and intervention modes.
• Foster a critical assessment of the currently available psychotherapeutic resources to be able to address the different types of personality disorders.
Unit 1. By way of introduction: Personality and personality disorders.
Unit 2. A historical-conceptual introduction to personality disorders and how they are approached in contemporary classification systems.
Unit 3. Personality disorders: types and characteristics.
Unit 4. Psychological evaluation and intervention in personality disorders.
Unit 5. A necessary synthesis: current situation and perspectives for the future.
Basic Bibliography
• Belloch, A. y Fernández-Álvarez, H. (coords.) (2010). Tratado de trastornos de la personalidad. Madrid: Síntesis.
• Caballo, V. (coord.) (2009). Manual de Trastornos de la personalidad: descripción, evaluación y tratamiento. Madrid: Síntesis.
• Millon, T., Grossman, S., Millon, C., Meagher, S. y Ramnath, R. (2006). Trastornos de la personalidad en la vida moderna. Elsevier/Masson.
• Semerari, A. y Dimaggio, G. (Eds.) (2008). Los trastornos de la personalidad. Modelos y tratamiento. Bilbao: Desclée de Brouwer.
Complementary Bibliography
• Belloch, A. y Fernández-Alvarez, H. (2002). Trastornos de la personalidad. Madrid: Síntesis.
• Beck, A.T. y Freeman A. (1995). Terapia cognitiva de los trastornos de personalidad. Barcelona: Paidos.
• Roca, M. (coord.) (2004). Trastornos de personalidad. Barcelona: Ars Médica.
• First, M.B., Gibbon, M., Spitzer, R.L., Williams, J.B. y Benjamin, L.S. (1999). Entrevista Clínica Estructurada para los Trastornos de la Personalidad del Eje II del DSM- IV-TR. Barcelona: Masson.
• Gunderson, J.G. y Gabbard, G.O. (2002). Psicoterapia en los trastornos de la personalidad. Barcelona: Ars Médica.
• O’Donohue, W., Fowler, K. A. y Lilienfeld, S. O. (2007). Personality Disorders toward the DSMV. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications.
• Oldham, J.M., Skodol, A.E. Bender, D.S. (2007). Tratado de trastornos de la personalidad. Barcelona: Masson.
• Rubio, V. y Pérez, A. (Eds.) (2003). Trastornos de la personalidad. Madrid: Elsevier.
• Being familiar the main historical-conceptual traits and taxonomies of personality disorders.
• Being able to identify the different personality disorders and identify their associated features.
• Being familiar with the different psychological assessment and intervention models for personality disorders.
• Being able to identify the characteristics of the different personality disorders from the reading of clinical cases.
Lectures will address the contents of the syllabus and will consist in the presentations of topics and analysis of specific tests. There will be a combination of “master classes” and “discussion groups, thus encouraging the active participation of students. Students will also be required to read academic papers, make case studies and group and individual assignments.
• A final, qualifying multiple-choice examination covering all the contents of the course.
• Individual and group assessment will also be assessed as well as the final report on practical session and participation in the classroom.
• The mark obtained in the theoretical examinations will be 50% of the final grade. The remaining 50% will correspond to other activities (40% to writing and presenting assignments and practical session reports and 10% to active participation in the classroom and discussion groups).
Se estima en unas 58 horas.
Jose Manuel Otero Lopez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology
- Area
- Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatments
- Phone
- 881813882
- josemanuel.otero.lopez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
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| 12:00-13:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Classroom 3 |
| 13:00-14:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | Spanish | Classroom 3 |
| 04.26.2023 18:30-20:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 9 |
| 07.13.2023 12:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Seminar for Personality, Psychological Assessment and Treatment Area |