ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 1 Expository Class: 16 Interactive Classroom: 7 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology
Areas: Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatments
Center Faculty of Psychology
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
• Develop an understanding of the usefulness of the scientific study of personality to be able to further the knowledge, etiology and development of personality disorders.
• Develop historical-conceptual and diagnostic approaches to personality disorders.
• Introduce the characteristics of the different personality disorders and isolate the most defining traits of the different evaluation techniques and intervention modes.
• Foster a critical assessment of the currently available psychotherapeutic resources to be able to address the different types of personality disorders.
Unit 1. By way of introduction: Personality and personality disorders.
Unit 2. A historical-conceptual introduction to personality disorders and how they are approached in contemporary classification systems.
Unit 3. Personality disorders: types and characteristics.
Unit 4. Psychological evaluation and intervention in personality disorders.
Unit 5. A necessary synthesis: current situation and perspectives for the future.
Basic Bibliography
• Belloch, A. y Fernández-Álvarez, H. (coords.) (2010). Tratado de trastornos de la personalidad. Madrid: Síntesis.
• Caballo, V. (coord.) (2009). Manual de Trastornos de la personalidad: descripción, evaluación y tratamiento. Madrid: Síntesis.
• Millon, T., Grossman, S., Millon, C., Meagher, S. y Ramnath, R. (2006). Trastornos de la personalidad en la vida moderna. Elsevier/Masson.
• Semerari, A. y Dimaggio, G. (Eds.) (2008). Los trastornos de la personalidad. Modelos y tratamiento. Bilbao: Desclée de Brouwer.
Complementary Bibliography
• Belloch, A. y Fernández-Alvarez, H. (2002). Trastornos de la personalidad. Madrid: Síntesis.
• Beck, A.T. y Freeman A. (1995). Terapia cognitiva de los trastornos de personalidad. Barcelona: Paidos.
• Roca, M. (coord.) (2004). Trastornos de personalidad. Barcelona: Ars Médica.
• First, M.B., Gibbon, M., Spitzer, R.L., Williams, J.B. y Benjamin, L.S. (1999). Entrevista Clínica Estructurada para los Trastornos de la Personalidad del Eje II del DSM- IV-TR. Barcelona: Masson.
• Gunderson, J.G. y Gabbard, G.O. (2002). Psicoterapia en los trastornos de la personalidad. Barcelona: Ars Médica.
• O’Donohue, W., Fowler, K. A. y Lilienfeld, S. O. (2007). Personality Disorders toward the DSMV. Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications.
• Oldham, J.M., Skodol, A.E. Bender, D.S. (2007). Tratado de trastornos de la personalidad. Barcelona: Masson.
• Rubio, V. y Pérez, A. (Eds.) (2003). Trastornos de la personalidad. Madrid: Elsevier.
BASIC AND GENERAL
• To have an in-depth knowledge of the psychological nature of human behavioral disorders.
• Have an in-depth knowledge of the different models of assessment and intervention in the field of General Health
Psychology, as well as the techniques and procedures derived from them for the approach to behavioral disorders and
psychological factors associated with health problems.
• Plan, carry out and, when appropriate, supervise the process of psychological assessment of human behavior and
psychological factors associated with health problems to establish the evaluation of them.
• Design, develop and, when appropriate, supervise and evaluate psychological intervention plans and programs, depending
on the psychological evaluation and the individual and social variables that concur in each case.
• That students possess the learning skills that allow them to continue studying in a way that will be largely self-directed or
autonomous.
TRANSVERSAL SKILLS
• To know how to critically analyze and use clinical information sources.
SPECIFIC
• Being familiar the main historical-conceptual traits and taxonomies of personality disorders.
• Being able to identify the different personality disorders and identify their associated features.
• Being familiar with the different psychological assessment and intervention models for personality disorders.
• Being able to identify the characteristics of the different personality disorders from the reading of clinical cases.
• To know how to apply the main theories on the etiology of human behavioral disorders in the conceptualization of each
case.
• To be able to plan and develop an assessment and intervention session, establishing hypotheses from which to deduce
contrastable statements.
• To know how to select and apply the most appropriate assessment techniques and instruments for each case according to
its characteristics and context.
• To know how to analyze and interpret the results of a psychological evaluation.
• To know how to plan and develop a psychological intervention, establishing relevant and realistic objectives according to
the characteristics of the problem and the context.
Lectures will address the contents of the syllabus and will consist in the presentations of topics and analysis of specific tests. There will be a combination of “master classes” and “discussion groups, thus encouraging the active participation of students. Students will also be required to read academic papers, make case studies and group and individual assignments.
The assessment will be carried out taking into account all the activities carried out throughout the course (role playing, presentations, individual and cooperative work, debate sessions, clinical cases, and other practical tasks), which will account for 70% of the final grade. The remaining 30% will come from a final exam, which will cover theoretical content and practical aspects worked on in the classroom. Almost all of the activities will be conducted in-person in the classroom (with mandatory attendance), and a minimal portion (10%) can be completed through the course's virtual classroom.
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Jose Manuel Otero Lopez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology
- Area
- Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatments
- Phone
- 881813882
- josemanuel.otero.lopez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
| Friday | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00-13:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Teaching Laboratory for Clinical Psychology I |
| 13:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | Spanish | Teaching Laboratory for Clinical Psychology I |
| 04.28.2025 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 9 |
| 07.10.2025 18:00-20:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Seminar for Personality, Psychological Assessment and Treatment Area |