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Welcome

to the Master in Psychology:

Specialisation Health and Medical Psychology

Veronica Janssen & Chris Verhoeven Sept 1st 2016


Health and Medical Psychology eHealth & self-

management

Stress & disease

Prevention & health promotion

Body & Mind

Focus on capacity & empowerment

Chronic disease


Professional perspectives

Primary prevention & training

• Municipal and national health care organizations (e.g.

Voorlichtingsburo Voeding, Trimbos, Hersenstichting,

Hartstichting, Astma Fonds, etc.)

• Companies

Research

• Universities and research institutes (TNO, Nivel, etc.)

Policy

• Local or federal government

• Developmental aid organizations (e.g WHO)


Professional perspectives

Health care

• Primary health care (adults, children)

• Private practice

• Secondary health care: GGZ, hospitals,

rehabilitation centers, medical centers

• Medical psychology department hospital

• Entry to post-graduate clinical training

(e.g., GZ-opleiding)


Future of health/ medical psychologist

• Focus on themes with societal relevance

• Broad clinical, commercial and scientific orientation

• Experience has shown that all alumni find a job in their discipline


What afterwards?

• You CAN proceed with the Post Master training

• This is the case for all students who do Clinical, Child & Adolescent, Clinical

Neuro or School psychology


Postmaster BIG programmes

Bachelor 3 yr

Master

1 yr CP

HMP CNP CAP SP

GZ-psychologist Child/adults

2 yr

Psychotherapist Child/Adults

4 yr (3 yr for GZ)

Clinical psychologist

4 yr

Clinical neuro- psychologist

4 yr


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


p.e. Additional requirements postmaster

programme GZ-psychologist

• Organisation and legal and ethical aspects of the health care system (is part of a

20 ects internship)

• Internship of at least 560 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)


What does the health

and

medical psychology

program

look like?


Program Health and Medical Psychology

Standard

• Mandatory courses 20 ec

• Electives 10 ec

• Internship 10 ec

• Thesis 20 ec

* Clinical practice internship incl. Organizational, ethical &

legal aspects of health care

Alternative

20 ec

0 ec

20* ec

20 ec


Health and Medical psychology programma (start Sept 2016)

September October November December January February March April May June

36 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

x

BTS (5) CBI (5)

HPDP (5) PAICD (5)

Thesis (20) Internship (20)

x EL: Innovations in E-health care (5)

BTS (5) CBI (5) EL: Health Psych.in Practice (5) Possible elective (5)

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

Thesis (20)


Health and medical psychology programma (start Sept 2016)

September October November December January February March April May June

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BTS (5) TCCS (10 elective) IBV internship (10)

HPDP (5) PAICD (5) CBI (5)

Thesis (20)

x EL: Innovations in E-health care (5)

BTS (5) CBI (5) EL: Health Psych.in Practice (5) Possible elective (5)

HPDP (5) PAICD (5) Internal Practice Internship (10)

Thesis (20)


Basic therapeutic skills

• 2x yearly

• 4 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

• Separate lecture and workgroups for health and medical psychology and clinical

psychology

• Coordinator: Hendrik Koopman (CP)/ Veronica Janssen (HMP)

Lect 2145; WG Dutch 1186,1188,1190; WG English 1192


Cognitive-behavioral interventions

• 2x yearly, requirement: Completed BTS

• 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

• Separate workgroups for health psychology and clinical psychology

• Coordinator: Véronique de Gucht

Lect 1270; WG: 1283


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

• Coordinator: Winnie Gebhardt

Lect 4469; WG Dutch 6876, 6877; WG English 6875


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 and Dutch-spoken workgroups are given

• Coordinator: Véronique de Gucht

Lect: 4470, WG Dutch 8229; WG English 8228


Master thesis

• A thesis-information-meeting will be held October 5th (13-15h, 5A23), 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 2017)

• Poster presentation of results (2nd week of June 2017)

• There are 2 deadlines scheduled:

• handing in the research proposal (before March 1, 2017)

• Handing in final thesis (end of June 2017)

• Thesis coordinator: Margot van der Doef


Internship

• The internship info-meeting will be held in October 5th 13-15h 5A23

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

your thesis, the start and intensity (nr. of days a week) of the internship is flexible.

• You can do only 1 internship (of 10 or of 20 ec)

• You can find your own internship place or you can apply to listed organizations (BB

MSc Health psychology general internship). Criteria can be found in the

internship manual.

• For international students an Internal Practice Internship will be organized in

cooperation with Clinical Neuropsychology. This 10 ec internship will have a

coaching/therapeutical focus and will take place in block 4.

• Dutch-speaking students can consider to follow the Trainers Course

Communication Skills (as elective) and take ‘being a trainer of IBV’ as their 10 ec

internship.

• Internship coordinator: Chris Verhoeven


What courses can you take

besides the ‘mandatory’

program?


Electives

There is not much time to do extra courses

BUT

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

• Electives from specialisations within psychology

• Recommended however are:

• Health psychology in Practice (block 3)

• Innovations in E-health care (block 3)


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 they think they need it.

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

• Course runs in the evenings from Sept to Jan.


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?

Please put ‘MOC’ behind your name on the list or contact [email protected]

Suzan Paulussen


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


Procedure to subscribe

Subscribing with Usis for 1st semester courses of 2016-2017 will be possible this

afternoon between 12.00-15.00 hours

• End of 26th January 2017 you subscribe for the courses of the 2nd semester

• Read carefully in Usis the remarks (e.g. “Students Health & Medical 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.


Basics

• Usis:

You need that function to subscribe for courses, check your grades, subscribe for

exams (don’t forget to subscribe for exams!)

• Studentnumber:

If you have not received that yet, contact the Onderwijs Service Center immediately

and for now go to row 3 Student service center (Mrs. Bionda Kijk in de Vegte) .

• Blackboard:

There you find the latest info on courses, results from exams, assignments for

workgroups…. You enrol yourself


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

• Master diploma:

Submit the application form for graduation in time – best you can do is to apply for

graduation when you have 40 ects. Diploma’s are dated on the last working day of the

month. Official graduation sessions are scheduled 4-6 times a year.


Questions??

If questions come up after this session, you can contact

Chris Verhoeven (2B53) 071-5274069

[email protected]

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