Assignment Clinical Psychology (eBook) MPCE-011/012/013/046

This ebook contains the GUIDELINES for the below questions

MPCE – 011 : PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

SECTION A

1. Explain the psychosocial and socio-cultural causes of psychopathology.
2. Describe the clinical features, causes and treatment of borderline personality disorder.
3. Describe the common substances and accompanying psychiatric symptoms. Highlight the diagnostic features of substance induced mood disorder.

SECTION B

4. Provide the clinical picture of attention deficit and hyperactive disorder and discuss its causes.
5. Discuss the biological and psychological factors contributing to phobic disorder.
6. Explain the types of delusional disorder.
7. Describe the diagnostic features of dependent personality disorder.
8. Discuss the causes and treatment for paranoid personality disorder.

SECTION C

9. Stages of psychosexual development
10. Approaches to the classification of psychopathology
11. Asperger syndrome
12. Oppositional defiant disorder
13. Classification of bipolar disorder
14. Parkinson’s disease
15. Characteristics of schizophrenia
16. Treatment of obsessive compulsive disorder
17. Body dysmorphic disorder
18. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR)

MPCE – 012 : PSCHODIAGNOSTICS

SECTION A

1. Discuss the practical application of psychological assessment.
2. Explain the purpose of diagnostic assessment. Discuss the areas to be covered in a diagnostic interview.
3. Examine the tests of implicit memory and explicit memory.

SECTION B

4. Define psychodiagnostics. Explain the variable domains of psychological assessment.
5. Differentiate between descriptive and predictive assessments.
6. Elucidate Mental Status Examination.
7. Delineate the characteristics and explain the administration of Stanford-Binet Scale.
8. Discuss the stages and steps in psychodiagnostics.

SECTION C

9. Unstandardising standardized tests
10. APA Ethics Code
11. Crisis interview
12. WAIS-IV
13. Ravens Progressive Matrices
14. Referral question
15. Characteristics of tests of abstraction
16. Wisconsin Card Sorting Test
17. Torrance test of creativity
18. Uses of neuropsychological assessment

MPCE – 013 : PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC METHODS

SECTION A

1. Explain interpersonal psychotherapy in terms of its characteristics and techniques.
2. Define integrative psychotherapy. Explain different ways to psychotherapy integration.
3. Define couple therapy. Explain the different approaches to couple therapy.

SECTION B

4. Explain the Developmental, Individual difference and Relationship based model (DIR).
5. Explain the treatment principles of cognitive behaviour therapy.
6. Describe the areas of application for behavior modification techniques.
7. Explain the goals and views of human nature as per client centered therapy.
8. Explain psychotherapy in the context of terminal illness.

SECTION C

9. Attachment and Biobehavioural Catch-up (ABC)
10. Aim of play therapy
11. Cognitive analytic therapy
12. Systematic desensitization
13. Multimodal therapy
14. Negative punishment
15. Types of groups
16. Life review therapy
17. Psychosocial tasks of middle adulthood
18. Projective identification