Course in Techniques and Assessment in Clinical Psychology

With the practical psychology course you'll master therapeutic techniques and clinical assessment for daily use, improving well being, resilience, and communication. Become a trusted support and strengthen your professional profile with immediate, measurable skills.

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Course in Techniques and Assessment in Clinical Psychology

The Practical Psychology Course offers an applied approach to understanding and changing human behavior. It is designed for people who want to acquire basic therapeutic tools to improve their quality of life and that of their surroundings. You will learn to manage stress, develop resilience, and apply psychological first aid.

This program combines theory and practice so you can integrate key concepts of emotional management and social skills immediately, becoming an agent of positive change. You will discover how psychology is not only for clinical settings but a vital everyday tool.

You will deepen self knowledge to identify limiting thought patterns, enabling you to make conscious decisions aligned with your goals. You will acquire effective strategies for assertive communication and conflict resolution that will transform how you relate to your partner, family, and coworkers.

Finally, this training prepares you to face modern challenges with a renewed mindset. By mastering these transversal competencies you will not only improve your subjective well being but also enhance your professional profile with 'soft skills' in high demand. Take the step toward a fuller life and become the supportive reference your environment needs by applying behavioral science to daily reality. Start now and witness personal growth. Join today and apply the learning with confidence.

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What will you learn in this course?

  • 🧠 To apply behavior modification principles to change habits and achieve personal goals.
  • 🤝 Conflict resolution techniques based on psychology to improve your interpersonal relationships.
  • 🧘 To manage daily stress and mild anxiety with practical coping tools.
  • 🗣️ Assertive communication and active listening strategies to understand and be understood.
  • 💡 To develop critical thinking and self-awareness to make more conscious decisions.

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👨🏻‍🏫 19 Topics
TOPIC 1: LEGAL, ETHICAL FRAMEWORK AND ROLE OF THE PROFESSIONAL
6 Lessons00:23:56
Distinguishes roles, assesses and delivers psychotherapy without medication, manages referrals and professional intrusion, adheres to regulations and licensing, safeguards tests, monitors conditions and applies the Diagnostic Triad.

1.1 Professional Identity and Competencies

Differentiate the role of the clinical psychologist from psychiatry, educational psychology, and guidance, and learn to assess, diagnose, and treat through psychotherapy without prescribing medication

04:15

1.2 Intrusiveness and New Trends

How to distinguish coaching from psychotherapy, identify unlicensed practice, and know when to refer to clinical care to protect mental health.

03:53

1.3 Chartered and Regulatory Structure

How to register and remain compliant as a psychologist: local association enrollment, license transfer, social protection, and legal and ethical duties covering client confidentiality, fees, and telepsychology.

03:57

1.4 Ethics in the Handling of Instruments

How to securely store and ethically use psychological tests: who may access them, why leaks invalidate results, and how to prevent sales and misuse.

03:42

1.5 Environmental Conditions of Evaluation

Control lighting, temperature, privacy and furnishings, detect contaminant variables, and assess psychophysical conditions to ensure the validity of a psychological evaluation.

03:45

1.6 Materials and the Diagnostic Triad

Prepare standardized materials, select white sheets and HB pencils, and apply the Diagnostic Triad to cross projective, psychometric, and neuropsychological tests to obtain robust clinical diagnoses

04:24

TOPIC 2: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVIEW
5 Lessons00:17:54
You will conduct psychological interviews covering types and structure, rapport, active listening, nonverbal communication, closing with feedback, managing resistance, transference and ethical containment in therapeutic sessions.

2.1 Definition and Types of Interview

You will distinguish the psychological interview as a scientific technique, learn its types by purpose and its classification by structure, and know when to use closed, semi-structured, or open interviews.

04:12

2.2 Interview Phases

How to establish rapport, gather clinical information during the middle phase, and close the session with feedback and agree on the next appointment.

03:31

2.3 Therapist Skills

Master active listening, the use of silence and nonverbal communication to maintain presence, control the setting, and retain what matters in therapy sessions.

03:22

2.4 Common Errors and Relationship Management

How to provide tools without giving advice or judgments, apply technical empathy without identifying yourself, and use clear language tailored to the patient.

03:18

2.5 Relationship Phenomena

You will identify manifestations of resistance, distinguish transference and countertransference, and contain catharsis and abreaction to ethically guide the therapeutic process.

03:31

TOPIC 3: CLINICAL HISTORY AND ANAMNESIS
4 Lessons00:12:26
Prepare legal, confidential child and adolescent medical records: patient and guardian data, real versus apparent reason, balanced history taking, 3-generation genogram, medical history, development, habits and adolescent adjustment

3.1 Structure of the Clinical History

Format and requirements of the medical record: medico legal content, confidentiality, complete sociodemographic data, and mandatory recording of guardians for child and adolescent patients.

03:26

3.2 Reason for Consultation and History

Distinguish apparent and actual presenting complaints in the medical record, write the history of present illness balancing verbatim and clinical judgment, and elicit and document medical, psychiatric and legal history.

03:03

3.3 Dynamics and Habits

Build a three-generation genogram to document relationships and dates, and assess psychobiological habits such as diet, sleep, substance use, hygiene, and sexual activity after establishing rapport.

03:02

3.4 Developmental Development (Children and Adolescents)

Master child and adolescent history taking by interviewing the family, gathering prenatal perinatal and postnatal history, recording motor and language milestones, and assessing eight developmental domains and adolescent adjustment

02:55

TOPIC 4: MENTAL EXAMINATION [PSYCHOPATHOLOGICAL EXPLORATION]
5 Lessons00:14:33
You will assess mental state and orientation, attention and memory, qualitative intelligence, language and pathological thinking, emotion and psychomotor function, and judgment and insight to diagnose and guide clinical decisions.

4.1 Consciousness, Behavior and Attitude

You will identify how to assess context, appearance, attitude, motor behavior, level of consciousness, and orientation to person, time, and place during the mental status exam.

03:38

4.2 Basic Cognitive Functions

You will identify attention disturbances, evaluate memory processes in their stages, and learn to estimate qualitative intelligence using practical problem solving questions.

03:00

4.3 Communication and Thinking Functions

You will identify language and thought disturbances such as excessive fluency, slowed speech, rapid speech, logorrhea, mutism and echolalia, and assess discourse coherence and the presence of delusional or obsessive ideas

02:46

4.4 Affective and Perceptual Sphere

You will recognize euthymia, hypothymia and hyperthymia, differentiate affective lability, anhedonia and alexithymia, and distinguish illusion from hallucination and their sensory types.

02:37

4.5 Higher Functions and Insight

You will identify psychomotor signs, assess judgment, and distinguish illness awareness from insight, understanding when it leads to action to change the situation.

02:32

TOPIC 5: DIAGNOSIS AND CLASSIFICATION MANUALS
3 Lessons00:08:48
You will distinguish signs and symptoms, differentiate trait, state and disorder by duration, compare ICD 11 and DSM 5 TR across axes, apply WHODAS 2.0 12 item scale 0 to 4 to quantify and interpret disability and use Z code

5.1 Psychiatric Semiology

Distinguish observable signs from subjective symptoms and differentiate trait, state, and disorder by their temporality and diagnostic criteria.

02:58

5.2 Classification Systems

You will recognize differences between ICD-11 and DSM-5 Text Revision, their professional uses, and how they change diagnostic structure, including ICD-11 keeping axes and DSM-5 removing them.

03:05

5.3 Functionality Assessment

Applying WHODAS 2.0: how to use its 12 items and the 0 to 4 scale to quantify disability, interpret scores, consider contextual factors, and use the Z code when information is insufficient

02:45

TOPIC 6: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL REPORT
4 Lessons00:11:21
Psychological report writing: format, identification and confidentiality, reason and background, mental status exam, test record with date and manual, diagnostic impression, clear conclusions and recommendations

6.1 Nature and Formal Structure

Psychological report writing: what they are, intended recipients, printed presentation rules, required structure, and how to record identification details, confidentiality measures, and clear objective conclusions.

03:13

6.2 Content Writing

How to write the actual reason for consultation, integrate history and mental status exam, record instruments with date and manual, and summarize results and areas of assessment for children or adults.

02:55

6.3 Diagnosis and Closure

Prepare an accurate diagnostic impression, draft conclusions with prognosis and progress, create recommendations for patient, family and institution, and follow formalities for a professional clinical report.

02:34

6.4 Style and Ethics in Writing

Write clear, ethical reports: adapt language to the reader, use cautious wording, describe present traits, and include the formula used at the time of evaluation to avoid absolute conclusions.

02:39

TOPIC 7: NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT I [SCREENING]
3 Lessons00:10:46
You will administer and score the MMSE, MoCA and Clock Drawing Test, interpret results and test differences, apply cutoff thresholds and education adjustments to detect and stage mild cognitive impairment.

7.1 Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE)

You will learn how to administer and score the MMSE to assess orientation, immediate and delayed memory, attention, language, duration, contraindications and impairment thresholds

04:24

7.2 Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)

How to use and interpret the MoCA test to detect mild cognitive impairment, its domains and key tasks, differences from the MMSE, administration time and basic scoring criteria.

03:25

7.3 MoCA and Clock Test Correction

How to score and interpret MoCA and Clock Drawing Test: apply 1 point adjustment for low education, consider normal cutoff 26 or higher, and evaluate clock contour, numbers, and hands up to 9 points with impairment thresholds

02:57

TOPIC 8: NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT II [ATTENTION AND MEMORY]
4 Lessons00:12:16
Master administration and interpretation of the Rey Complex Figure, Stroop, Toulouse-Piéron and Grid tests to evaluate perceptual organization, visual memory, processing speed, inhibition, attention and attentional fatigue.

8.1 King's Complex Figure Test (Application)

Assess perceptual organization, visual memory and mental speed with the Rey Complex Figure Test and learn to interpret the copy to detect impulsivity, attention and construction strategy in this video.

03:00

8.2 Rey's Complex Figure Test (Correction)

How to assess the memory phase after copying: brief pause, ask to reproduce the figure, score by splitting into 18 elements with scores of two, one, half or zero, total up to 36, compare with age norms

03:07

8.3 Stroop Test (Executive Functions)

How to apply and interpret the Stroop Test to measure inhibitory control, selective attention, and resistance to interference using the three cards

03:10

8.4 Tests of Sustained Attention

How to apply and interpret the Toulouse Pieron Test and the Grid Test to assess and train concentration, resistance to monotony, selective attention and attentional fatigue

02:59

TOPIC 9: BENDER'S VISUOMOTOR GESTALT TEST
3 Lessons00:09:41
Applies Bender Test, counts errors with Koppitz to estimate visuomotor age in children 5-10 years and screen for psych or neurological signs, and uses Lacks to detect brain injury and differentiate neurosis, psychosis and organic disorders

9.1 Fundamentals and Administration

You will master the theoretical foundations of the Bender Test, the perception laws that support it, and the preparation of materials and instructions for its correct administration.

03:25 🔒

9.2 Koppitz Scoring System (Children)

How to assess visuomotor maturity in children ages 5 to 10 using the Koppitz method: count distortion, rotation, integration and perseveration errors to determine visuomotor age and detect emotional or neurological signs.

03:11 🔒

9.3 Lacks Scoring System (Adults)

Use the Lacks method to identify organic brain damage, recognize 12 pathognomonic signs, and differentiate neurosis, psychosis, and organic disorders by errors such as rotations, perseveration, collisions, and fragmentation

03:05 🔒

TOPIC 10: ASSESSMENT OF INTELLIGENCE [G FACTOR]
3 Lessons00:08:45
Identify the g factor and its three scales using analogies, apply in nonverbal tests, score and sum correct answers, validate and detect invalid profiles, convert scores to age percentiles, and assess spatial reasoning with INV A B 12+

10.1 Raven's Progressive Matrices Test

You will identify intellectual ability and the G factor through visual analogies, learn its three scales and how to apply it across ages in nonverbal, culture-free tests.

03:12 🔒

10.2 Raven's Correction and Interpretation

Explain how to score the test using an answer key, sum correct responses by series and overall total, check discrepancies to validate answers, detect invalidations, convert age-based scores to percentiles and interpret them

02:45 🔒

10.3 Nonverbal Intelligence Test (INV)

How to assess and score abstract reasoning and spatial problem solving with the INV: formats A and B, administration for ages 12 and up, tasks, timing, and conversion of correct answers to percentiles.

02:48 🔒

TOPIC 11: PROJECTIVE PERSONALITY TECHNIQUES
3 Lessons00:09:56
Master the distinction between organic and inorganic stimuli in the Wartegg test, the eight box protocol, and scoring of the verbal projection mechanism to detect responses and levels of clinical adjustment.

11.1 Wartegg Test (Fundamentals)

You will distinguish organic from inorganic stimuli in the Wartegg Test and learn the protocol: use the word drawing, number, title and describe the eight boxes.

03:11 🔒

11.2 Wartegg Test (Interpretation)

You will identify what each of the eight test fields means and how their order and graphic placement reveal personality traits, conflicts, and priorities.

03:29 🔒

11.3 Rotter's Incomplete Sentences Test

Learn how to administer and score the Verbal Projection Mechanism to identify positive, conflicting, or neutral responses and detect adjustment or maladjustment levels that require clinical attention.

03:16 🔒

TOPIC 12: PSYCHOMETRIC PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT
3 Lessons00:09:32
You will master 16PF trait theory, administer and read profiles, distinguish patterns and disorders per MCMI IV and DSM 5, and interpret items, validity scales, TB scores, cutoffs and Grossman facets.

12.1 16PF Questionnaire (Cattell)

You will identify the trait theory behind the 16PF, the 16 bipolar factors and their global dimensions, as well as how to administer, score, and interpret the resulting profile

03:28 🔒

12.2 Millon's Multiaxial Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-IV) - Structure

Identify and differentiate personality patterns and severe disorders using the MCMI-IV aligned with DSM-5, interpret its 195 items and use validity and modifying scales to assess clinical profile reliability.

03:12 🔒

12.3 Millon's Multiaxial Clinical Millon Inventory (MCMI-IV) - Interpretation

How to interpret TB scores and Millon cutoff points, use Grossman Facets for diagnostic nuances, and detect critical responses that warrant evaluation even if they have a low affirmation rate.

02:52 🔒

TOPIC 13: ORGANIZATIONAL ASSESSMENT
2 Lessons00:06:27
You will master applying and interpreting the Valanti Test to detect priorities and negative values and create the star profile, and the DISC Test to graph work style, strengths, and areas for improvement.

13.1 Values and Antivalues Test (Valanti)

You will learn how to apply and score the Valanti Test to assess value priorities, detect anti-values, and generate a star profile with five ethical dimensions, useful in personnel selection.

03:16 🔒

13.2 DISC Test

You will learn how to apply and interpret the DISC assessment, its four dimensions, how to mark and clarify adjectives, compute positives minus negatives, and plot results to reveal work style, strengths, and areas for improvement.

03:11 🔒

TOPIC 14: PSYCHODYNAMIC THERAPY: THEORY
4 Lessons00:11:40
You will master the topographic and structural models and the role of the Ego, Id and Superego in consciousness and the unconscious, distinguish drives, object splitting, and recognize immature, neurotic and mature defenses with examples.

14.1 Psychoanalytic Foundations

How the topographic and structural models of the mind work and how the Ego, the Id and the Superego share conscious and unconscious processes.

02:27 🔒

14.2 Drives and Object Relations

Distinguish the life and death drives in Freud and explain how object splitting in Klein transforms early relationships into psychic structure

03:20 🔒

14.3 Defense Mechanisms I (Narcissistic/Immmature)

You will recognize narcissistic and immature defenses and how they operate: projection, denial, distortion, acting out, regression, blocking, introjection and somatization.

02:59 🔒

14.4 Defense Mechanisms II (Neurotic/Mature)

You will identify and distinguish neurotic defenses such as displacement, rationalization, reaction formation and repression, and mature defenses such as sublimation, humor and altruism, with examples and their adaptive function.

02:54 🔒

TOPIC 15: PSYCHODYNAMIC THERAPY: TECHNIQUE AND APPROACH
3 Lessons00:09:30
Applies free association, floating attention and active silence, interprets speech and dreams without projecting, detects transference, analyzes resistances, sets frame and contains acting out in group dynamics

15.1 Verbal Intervention Techniques

Master free association, floating attention and the active use of silence, and learn to interpret, confront and clarify the patient's discourse without projecting your own subjectivity.

03:23 🔒

15.2 Relationship and Dream Analysis

Identify transference and countertransference, analyze therapeutic resistance, and learn to interpret dreams by distinguishing manifest and latent content to reveal unconscious conflicts.

03:03 🔒

15.3 Psychodynamic Group Approach

You will identify inclusion criteria and framing rules, recognize rigid group roles, and learn to manage acting out to contain it and analyze its function in group dynamics.

03:04 🔒

TOPIC 16: GESTALT THERAPY: FUNDAMENTALS AND RESISTANCES
3 Lessons00:09:49
Apply Here and Now and awareness to identify sensations, emotions and thoughts, restore self-regulation, set boundaries and take responsibility, detect unfinished gestalts and resistances, and release authentic emotions.

16.1 Basic Principles

You will learn to apply the Here and Now and awareness to identify sensations, emotions and thoughts, restore organismic self-regulation, and assume limits and personal responsibility.

03:20 🔒

16.2 The Cycle of Experience and Neurosis

You will identify figure-ground relations, recognize open gestalts that drain energy, and learn to move through layers of neurosis to release genuine emotions and reconnect with your authentic self.

03:23 🔒

16.3 Resistance Mechanisms

You will identify Gestalt resistances such as introjection, projection, retroflection, confluence, deflection, proflexion and egotism, and how they affect contact and the interruption of the cycle of experience

03:06 🔒

TOPIC 17: GESTALT THERAPY: PRACTICE
4 Lessons00:13:03
Master suppressive and expressive techniques, the empty chair and dream dramatization to integrate polarities, turn obligations into choices, and lead the hot seat with confidence and respectful closure

17.1 Suppressive and Expressive Techniques

You will master suppressive techniques to stop avoidance and turn obligatory phrases into personal choices, and expressive techniques to externalize emotions using repetition, exaggeration and verbalization

03:26 🔒

17.2 Integrative Techniques (Empty Chair)

Master the empty chair technique: setup and safety, triangular therapist position, active dialogue and role reversal to integrate polarities and close gestalts.

03:22 🔒

17.3 Dream Work in Gestalt

Narrate and dramatize a dream in the first person and present tense to experience its existential message and reclaim parts of your personality.

03:09 🔒

17.4 Group Approach in Gestalt

How to run the Hot Seat dynamic: selecting the therapist remotely, focused work, using and releasing auxiliary selves, and respectful group closure without advice or interpretations

03:06 🔒

TOPIC 18: OTHER PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC MODELS
5 Lessons00:15:21
Master the ABC model, EORC, and collaborative empiricism to evaluate and restructure beliefs, and apply systemic techniques, psychodrama, and humanistic therapies that foster insight and autonomy.

18.1 Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (Evaluation)

You will identify events, beliefs, and consequences using the ABC model, apply collaborative empiricism to test hypotheses, use EORC functional analysis to structure sessions, and record patterns in logs.

03:14 🔒

18.2 CBT (Thinking and Techniques)

Detects and corrects cognitive distortions and core beliefs using the Downward Arrow and applies restructuring, systematic desensitization, operant techniques and relaxation tools according to the diagnosis.

03:06 🔒

18.3 Systemic Therapy

You will learn systems theory and the axioms of human communication to analyze families as systems, view symptoms as relational expressions, and apply techniques such as boundaries, enactments and genograms.

03:01 🔒

18.4 Psychodrama

Identify the five elements and three phases of psychodrama and learn key techniques such as role reversal, soliloquy, doubling and mirroring to regain spontaneity and foster emotional insight in group sessions.

02:54 🔒

18.5 Humanism and Transactional Analysis

Understand how Client-Centered Therapy and Transactional Analysis explain self incongruence, key therapeutic attitudes, and how to identify and overcome scripts and psychological games to gain autonomy

03:06 🔒

TOPIC 19: DOWNLOAD PDF DOCUMENTATION
1 Lessons00:00:00

📥 19.1 Discard PDF Documentation

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Practical Psychology Course Details

Practical Psychology Course for the Unemployed or Jobseekers

The Practical Psychology course: Tools for change is a training offer at a price of 6$ aimed at unemployed individuals seeking to regain momentum and improve employability.

It will help you manage emotions effectively, build adaptive skills, enrich your experience and strengthen your professional competencies.

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Apply psychology to everyday life with this Change Tools course for $6, useful for coaches and mentors.

You will teach self management techniques to overcome personal and work related blocks, boosting others' development and your professional skills and enhance your credibility, employability, and long term impact.

Certification in Practical Psychology

Upon completing this applied psychology program, you will receive a credential endorsing your knowledge in affective regulation and personal transformation. This private accreditation confirms you master tools to modify behaviors and enhance well-being. It serves as an academic resource for mentors, ensuring the student has technical criteria to facilitate change processes with rigor and coherence. The diploma certifies your professional competence to apply psychological strategies to achieve emotional balance under the highest quality standards.

Passing the questionnaires is essential, this is how we validate our students' genuine learning.

Job Opportunities Psychology practice

Mastery of practical psychology is a cross-cutting skill highly valued in today's market. This course enhances your professional profile in areas such as:

  • Human Resources and Talent Management: Improves personnel selection, workplace climate management and internal conflict resolution.
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  • Social and Care Sector: Offers emotional support resources and communication skills for caregivers, social workers and healthcare personnel.
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Frequently asked questions about Practical Psychology

Does this course qualify me to practice as a psychologist?

No, this course provides practical tools and foundational knowledge, but it does not replace a university degree. It is an ideal complement for personal and professional development in helping professions.

What kind of techniques will I learn?

You will learn evidence based techniques, including cognitive behavioral strategies, emotional regulation exercises, and mindfulness practices applied to everyday life.

Do I need prior knowledge?

It's not necessary. The course is structured to take you from the basics to practical application. The language is accessible and clear, designed for anyone interested in practical psychology.

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