psy125 - Neuropsychological Diagnostics (Course overview)

Enrolment in Master's programme Neurocognitive Psychology.

Parts of the practical exercise need to be completed and handed in at specific dates during winter term.

The module will be tested by a practical exercise: assessment report. The report can be written in English or German.

Required active participation for gaining credits:
attendance of at least 70% in the seminar within one semester.

Goals of module:
Students will acquire specific knowledge about (neuro-)psychological assessment and will be trained to utilize this knowledge within a research context and in applied settings. Students will learn how to analyze clinical cases (“case conceptualization”), how to plan and conduct the information assessment phase, how to record and summarize collected data and how to integrate information in order to draw conclusions about the case given specific diagnostic strategies. Finally, students will learn about the requirements of assessment report generation in written an oral form given a specific applied context. Ethical guidelines and quality norms will be an implicit topic in all courses in the module.

Competencies:
+ Neuropsychological / neurophysiological knowledge for clinical assessments
+ interdisciplinary knowledge & thinking
+ ethics / good scientific practice / professional behavior
+ critical & analytical thinking