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Identical coursesPostgraduate Thesis Seminar, Part I (B-KUL-P0P09A)
Cannot be taken as part of an examination contractAims
After completing this course, the student is capable of:
- an integration of theory, technique, practice and supervision, a personal critical reflection and creative processing, literary study. The student writes a specialisation which illustrates the therapeutical process of his/her own therapy and in which (s)he demonstrates the ability to independently initiate, supervise, wrap up and critically reflect on a therapeutical process.
Previous knowledge
Before introducing themselves, students should already have (some) clinical experience. Concretely they should have at least done a full time internship of 6 months (or a part time internship of 12 months) in a clinical setting under supervision of a mentor acknowledged by the programme.
Is included in these courses of study
Activities
3 ects. Postgraduate Thesis Seminar, Part I (B-KUL-P0P09a)
Content
The student investigates the psychotherapeutical process from a personally performed therapy and links this to a creative affection of the theory, the appropriate technique for this case and the feedback from supervision. (S)he links this to a specific topic, about which in addition a literary study takes place. This is discussed with a supervisor of this thesis.
The students will work on this specialisation report from the first year onwards, it is submitted at the end of the last year of the programme, but is permanently followed up.
Course material
All relevant literature, supervision notes.
Format: more information
Written specialisation report, for which substantive and formal requirements are communicated to the student in a separate document via the programme website.
Evaluation
Evaluation: Postgraduate Thesis Seminar, Part I (B-KUL-P2P09a)
Explanation
The grading scale of this course unit is pass/fail.
- Evaluation form:
In this programme, the emphasis is on the critical description of the therapeutical process. The exact substantive and formal requirements are communicated to the students at the beginning of the academic year via a pdf file. This document is permanently available via the programme website. The specialisation report is submitted at the end of the last year of the programme. In the previous years the student continuously works on it under the supervision of the therapy supervisor, and the work is continuously evaluated and adjusted by the supervisor. - Conditions:
Students work on the specialisation work from the first year onwards, throughout the supervision sessions permanent oral feedback is given which the student is expected to incorporate in the report. Evaluation is done yearly by the therapy supervisor on the basis of the progression which is made.