Entry requirements

A Bachelor's degree, equivalent to a Swedish Kandidatexamen, from an internationally recognized university. Also required is 90 credits in psychology with at least 7.5 credits in methods and statistics. Proficiency in English equivalent to the Swedish upper secondary course English 6.

Learning outcomes

After completing the course, the student should be able to:

- Demonstrate understanding of global burden of disease and how psychological factors contribute.

- Describe current cognitive behavioral theories and philosophy within clinical psychology.

- Summarize evidence for outcomes from treatments with cognitive behavioral therapies.

- Discuss the basis for the role of clinical psychology in health broadly.

- Assess strengths and weaknesses in current research methods in clinical psychology.

- Propose approaches that could improve future treatments in clinical and health psychology.

Content

This course will address the application of behavioral science knowledge and methods to problems in human health, including mental and physical health. The course will focus on theories and philosophy within the broadly cognitive behavioral approaches, including the latest generation of these. The epidemiology of the most burdensome global health conditions will be reviewed briefly and effectiveness of current psychological methods for addressing some of the impacts of these will be summarizes. There will be a focus on current treatment models and research method in treatment development and testing, including both group-based, or nomothetic, and idiographic methods, and relative strengths and weaknesses of these approaches will be assessed. The potential for contextual behavioral science and proposed process-based methods will also be examined.

Instruction

Instruction will take place in the form of lectures and discussion, seminars, and demonstrations. All instruction will be in English.

Assessment

Assessment of knowledge will be mainly in writing. Examination will include written exams or reports, but the course grade will also include performance in presentations and participation in seminars.