Developmental Psychopathology

6 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 2 with catalog number 1023659BNW for working students in the 1st semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.

Semester

1st semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Enrollment Requirements

For this course you have to meet certain enrolment requirements. For an overview of the enrolment requirements check https://www.vub.be/en/studying-vub/practical-info-for-students/study-guidance/study-path/individual-study-path#paragraph--id--71647 Students must have taken ‘Clinical Psychiatry’, before they can enroll in ‘Developmental Psychopathology’. Students who are enrolled in a shortened study program can take this course unit. Please note: a lot of additional self-study is required for non-PSY students (eg: reading up on developmental psychology, psychological concepts, insights into intervention and prevention). Registration for this course is only possible for working students. Day students can register for courses whose code ends with an R. At Inschrijven / studentenadministratie@vub.be you must be registered at the VUB as a working student for the current academic year.

Taught in

Dutch

Faculty

Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences

Department

Klinische- en Levenslooppsychologie

Educational team

Lisa Van Hove
Jurgen Lemiere (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

33 contact hours Lecture
6 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
20 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

In the general introduction of this course key features and topics of developmental psychopathology are introduced. Processes and mechanisms which play an important role in the development of psychological problems in childhood and adolescence are discussed.

A second part of this course focusses on epidemiology and etiology of common psychological disorders in children and adolescents, such as anxiety, depression, behavioral problems, ADHD, autism. This course takes into account a transdiagnostic framework and studies multifactorial pathways to the development of psychopathology in childhood and adolescence.

Course material

Digital course material (Required) : PPT-presentations and additional texts with lectures
Handbook (Required) : Leerboek kinder en jeugdpsychiatrie, F. Verhulst, 5de druk, Van Gorcum, 9789023256908, 2020

Additional info

- HOC: 11x3h

-WPO: 2x3h

-SELF 20h

! For students Criminology this course requires extra self-study.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

The student can describe children's and adolescents behaviour from a developmental psychopological perspective.
The student has an insight into symptoms, etiology, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of different psychopathologies in children and adolescents

The students can apply the theory into a practice via casematerial

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Written exam with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Written exam in Dutch

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context