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Leiden/ August 30, 2012 /Health Psychology Welcome to the Master in Psychology Specialization Health Psychology

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Page 1: Master Health Psychology

Leiden/ August 30, 2012 /Health Psychology

Welcome to the Master in PsychologySpecialization Health Psychology

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What can you do with an

MSc health psychology?

Health promotion Psychological care in chronic disease

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Professional perspectives

• Community health centers (GG & GD)• National health funds• Government• Rehabilitation centers

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Professional perspectives

• General hospital• Medical psychology settings• Companies • Primary health care settings

• Research institutes (e.g. RIVM, NIVEL, TNO) & universities

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What do you need to do afterwards…..

• You CAN proceed with the Post Master training• This is the case for all students who do Clinical, C&A or

Clin.Neuro

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Postmaster BIG programmes

Bachelor3 yr

Master1 yrCPHP

CNPCAP

GZ-psychologistChild/adults

2 yr

PsychotherapistChild/Adults

4 yr (3 yr for GZ)

Clinical psychologist

4 yr

Clinical neuro-psychologist

4 yr

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Post-master training programs at the moment

• Health care psychologist PDO ‘GZ-psycholoog’ (adult)

(many applicants, few places)

• PDO ‘Psychotherapeut’ (Adults)

• PhD-study

• Specific therapy-training programs (e.g. Cognitive-behavior therapy, client-centred therapy)

• Please note that additional requirements have to be met

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Additional requirements postmaster programmes

Obligatory for postmaster GZ-psycholoog:

• Organisation and legal and ethical aspects of the health care system (is part of your internship)

• Internship of at least 520 hours (20 ECTS) with supervised assessment and treatment

• Three diagnostic cases with diverse assessment questions and diagnostic instruments and supervised by a licensed supervisor (BAPD)

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What does the health psychology

program

look like?

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MSc Program Health Psychology

Standard

• Mandatory courses 20 ec

• Electives 0 ec

• Internship 20* ec

• Thesis 20 ec

* incl. Organisational, ethical & legal aspects of health care (+ BAPD)

Alternative

20 ec

10 ec

10 ec

20 ec

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Health psychology programma (start Sept 2012)September October November December January February March April May June36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27

BTS (5) CBI (5)

HPDP (5) PAICD (5)

Thesis (20) Internship (20)

BTS (5) CBI (5) Elective HPiP (5) Possible elective (5)

HPDP (5) PAICD (5) Internship (10)

Thesis (20)

TCCS (10) IBV internship (10)

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Basic therapeutic skills

• 2x yearly

• 1 two-hour lecture on what patients need from a therapeutic relationship in order to benefit from treatment.

• 14 three-hour workgroups on training in basic therapeutic skills, such as handling a psychotherapeutic relationship, formulating a treatment plan, monitoring and evaluating the process of treatment, treatment termination

• Workgroups will be in English and Dutch (Tue-Thu)

• Separate lecture and workgroups for health psychology and clinical psychology

• Coordinator: Veronica Janssen

Act.code: Lect 4781, Int: 6855, Dutch: 9435

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Cognitive-behavioral interventions• 2x yearly

• 7 two-hour lectures on general aspects of cognitive-behavior therapy and specific interventions for different psychopathologies

• 14 four-hour workgroups on training in basic cognitive-behavioral interventions, such as, case formulation, exposure, response prevention, and changing negative thoughts

• Applying these interventions as an apprentice therapist with one of the fellow students

• Workgroups will be in English and Dutch (Tue-Thu)

• Separate workgroups for health psychology and clinical psychology

• Coordinator: Véronique de Gucht

Act.code: Lect: 1964, Int: 2627, Dutch: 2636

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Health promotion & disease prevention

• 1x yearly

• 4 two-hour lectures on recent insights into theory- and evidence-based health promotion and a systematic approach to design and implement effective interventions.

• 7 three-hour workgroups, where students will work in groups to design an intervention aimed at improving health. In a final step, they will implement and evaluate part of the intervention in a real-life situation.

• English and Dutch spoken workgroups will be given on Thursdays or Fridays, the groups will be made in the first lecture.

• Coordinator: Winnie Gebhardt

Act.code: lect 4837, workgroups all: 5808

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Psychological assessment and interventions in chronic disease

• 1x yearly

• 7 two-hour lectures on the epidemiology of, and specific psychosocial problems associated with a variety of chronic diseases. Disease-specific psychosocial intervention strategies for the enhancement of quality of life and/or self-management are addressed.

• 7 three-hour workgroups where the use of different assessment instruments are trained and the practical use of specific intervention strategies in patients with chronic disease are addressed.

• English(Wed) and Dutch-spoken (Thu) workgroups are given

• Coordinator: Véronique de Gucht

Act.code: Lect: 4838, All 6007-6008

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Master thesis• A thesis-information-meeting will be held in October, you will get a

personal invitation by Umail

• Topics will be presented and you can indicate your topics of interest

• You will be allocated and than you talk to the corresponding staff member in order to choose a specific topic together

• There are 2 presentations

– Oral presentation of research proposal (2nd week of Feb 2013)

– Poster presentation of results (2nd week of June 2013)

• There are 2 deadlines scheduled:

– handing in the research proposal (before March 1, 2013)

– Handing in final thesis (end of June 2013)

• Thesis coordinator: Margot van der Doef

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Internship• An internship-info-meeting will be held in October

• Preferably you start an internship after you finished most your courses and most of your thesis

• The timing (nr. of days a week) of the internship is flexible, and depends on the wishes of you and the organization.

• Finding a place: finding one yourself or apply to listed organisations. Criteria in internship manual (BB MSc Health psychology general internship).

• International students can do a practical internship (10 or 20 ec) or a research internship (10 ec) or combine their thesis with an internship. In case of a 10 ec internship 5 ec electives and Health Psychology in Practice (5 ec) are required.

• Internship coordinator: Chris Verhoeven

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What courses can you take

besides the ‘mandatory’

program?

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ElectivesThere is not much time to do extra courses

BUT

• List of electives in e-guide (from own & other specialisations)

• Electives from specialisations within psychology

• Health psychology in Practice is recommended if you decide to choose electives

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Preparatory course in Methodology and Statistics

• International students and external students who would like to update their knowledge and/or skills in statistics can do a course in the first semester, to be prepared for the thesis process.

• Leiden BA students can do the course if the think they need it.

• If it was a requirement in your admission, you need to pass the course (≥ 5,5)

• Course runs from Sept to Dec.

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Master committee (MOC)

There is a Master Comittee responsible for all kinds of issues that are important for the master programs (p.e. evaluation of the courses, standardization of regulations between specializations, information stream bottom-up, etc)

Each specialisation is represented by 1 Dutch-speaking student, 1 lecturer and an international representative.

Who would like to join the MOC?

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Mentor-system• Students will get a personal mentor

• Mentorship is obligatory (no ec’s)

• Three meetings a year

• You get an invitation for your first meeting soon

Aim:

• To discuss choices within the master program (e.g. electives)

• To discuss problems with the study (e.g. progress or organisational problems)

• To discuss future perspectives (e.g. internship, postmaster courses)

• To get referred to the right persons

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Procedure to subscribeSubscribing with Usis for 1st semester courses of 2012-2013 will be

possible this afternoon between 12.00-15.00 hours

• In January 2013 you subscribe for the courses of the 2nd semester• Read carefully in Usis the remarks (e.g. “Students Health

Psychology”, “international students”, “English”), so you subscribe to the right coursegroup (remember the act.codes of the courses)

• If Usis reports for a chosen elective: “Full” or “waiting list” there is a realistic possibility that you can not follow the course. However if it is a mandatory course you will always be placed.

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Basics • Secretariate Clinical and Health psychology (2B57): You can

address them with questions regarding your workgroups, results of exams, etc.

• Usis: You need that function to subscribe for courses, check your grades, subscribe for exams (10 calendar days in advance of the exam!)

• Studentnumber: if you have not received that yet, contact the onderwijsdienst or the International Office immediately. For subscription: Mrs. De Groot 2A55

• Blackboard: there you find the latest info on courses, results from exams, assignments for workgroups…. You enrol yourself

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Basics • Umail: use your umail address for all correspondence with the

university (forward it to your personal mail if you don’t check it regularly)… the university will use umail for important messages

• Apply for graduation at the onderwijsdienst: There are 5 moments a year to graduate (last Wednesday in: Sept, Nov, Feb, April, June). Two month before graduation all grades need to be handed in.

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Welcome drink

Beginning of next week you will getan invitation for a drink

Perfect opportunity to meet

fellow students (also Feb group)

& staff!!

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Questions??