Class Clinical Skills Laboratory

Adopting transtheoretical and integrative proposals, and interpersonal psychotherapy models focused on the therapist personal development and on the clinical competencies for the establishment, maintenance and repair of therapeutic alliances, the focus is to provide a critical discussion and reflection on the clinical reasoning and on the importance of adjusting the clinical practice to the specifics of the case and the setting (e.g., client, problem, resources). In order to facilitate the training of these skills, skills training modalities will be implemented using: videos of psychotherapy sessions; analysis of clinical vignettes; case formulations; videotaped case simulations and role-plays, which will be followed by peer feedback and self-scopy.

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CP1. Historical perspective of psychological intervention in clinical psychology From the unique model perspective to the recognition of common factors Technical and supra-paradigmatic integration CP2. Assumptions, stages, and predictors of therapeutic change Resistance and/or ambivalence to change CP3. Therapeutic relationship as an element of intervention and a factor of change Therapeutic alliance: to repair threats, impasses, and ruptures Defensive mechanisms: narrative and relational dynamics Therapeutic use of transference and countertransference CP4. Multicultural competency Critical consciousness Microaggressions Cultural humility CP4. Competencies and interventions focused on affect Building and managing the therapeutic alliance and relationship Listening to and organizing narrative and affect CP5. Clinical history and case formulation Planning and evaluating the therapeutic process Components, procedures, and decision-making CP6. Personal development and metacognitive skills.

The teaching methodologies encompass a set of innovative evidence-based practices tailored to the learning objectives and syllabus, including training and critical reflection on clinical skills for establishing, maintaining, and repairing the therapeutic relationship and alliance; self-assessment and qualitative feedback among peers; emphasis on active participation and joint reflection and discussion; and the use of real and fictional clinical case examples.

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