4 ECTS credits
120 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4021264ENR for all students in the 1st semester at a (E) Master - 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 ‘Psychological Communication’ (unless not imposed in your SCH/VOO program because of your previous studies) AND 'Clinical Psychiatry' before they can enroll in the Therapy course (Relationship/Cognitive Behaviour/Psychodynamic).​
Taught in
Dutch
Faculty
Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
Department
Klinische- en Levenslooppsychologie
Educational team
Ho-Shu Eileen Tang (course titular)
Activities and contact hours
33 contact hours Lecture
Course Content

Evidence base of PDT;

Basic assumptions of PDT;

Basic principles of PDT;

Mentalizing as a transdiagnostic mechanism;

Mentalization-Based Treatment;

Dynamic Interpersonal Therapy

Course material
Handbook (Recommended) : Brief dynamic interpersonal therapy. A clinician’s guide., Lemma, A., Target, M., & Fonagy, P., Oxford: Oxford University Press., 9780199602452, 2011
Digital course material (Recommended) : Achter de deur. Het kader van de psychoanalytische psychotherapeut (pp. 15-25)., Een lege plek om te blijven? Gedachten over het kader in psychodynamische kinderpsychotherapie. In C. Leroy, N. Vliegen, & M. Hermans (Red.), Cluckers, G., Antwerpen/ Apeldoorn: Garant., 2009
Digital course material (Recommended) : Achter de deur. Het kader van de psychoanalytische psychotherapeut (pp. 27-39)., Een zich vullende ruimte? Beschouwingen over het kader in psychoanalytische psychotherapie met volwassenen. In C. Leroy, N. Vliegen, & M. Hermans (Red.), Hebbrecht, M., Antwerpen/ Apeldoorn: Garant., 2009
Digital course material (Recommended) : The mentalizing approach to psychopathology: State of the art and future directions. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 16, 9.1-9.29., Luyten, P., Campbell, C., Allison, E., & Fonagy, P., 2020
Digital course material (Recommended) : The evidence-base for psychodynamic psychotherapy with children and adolescents: A narrative synthesis. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 662671. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.662671, Midgley, N., Mortimer, R., Cirasola, A., Batra, P., & Kennedy, E., 2021
Digital course material (Recommended) : That was then, this is now: Psychoanalytic psychotherapy for the rest of us., Shedler, J., 2019
Digital course material (Recommended) : Psychoanalysis in modern mental health practice. The Lancet Psychiatry, 5(5), 443-450., Yakeley, J., 2018
Digital course material (Required) : Geduldig gereedschap: De relatie als drager van het psychodynamische proces (pp. 25-46)., De relatie in de psychodynamische psychotherapie. In N. Vliegen, P. Meurs, & L. Van Lier (Red.), Vliegen, N., Leuven/ Den Haag: Acco., 2009
Digital course material (Required) : Handbook of mentalizing in mental health practice (pp. 3-20)., Introduction. In P. Fonagy & A. Bateman (Eds.), Fonagy, P., & Bateman, A., 2, Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association Publishing., 2019
Digital course material (Required) : Powerpoint presentaties die in de cursus worden gebruikt zullen staan op Canvas, Canvas
Digital course material (Recommended) : De effectiviteit van psychoanalytische therapie, Tijdschrift Klinische Psychologie, 46(4), 271-288., Luyten, P., & Lowyck, B., 2016
Digital course material (Required) : Handbook of psychodynamic approaches to psychopathology (pp. 3-26)., Theoretical and empirical foundations of contemporary psychodynamic approaches. In P. Luyten, L. C. Mayes, P. Fonagy, M. Target, & S. J. Blatt (Eds.), Luyten, P., Mayes, L. C., Blatt, S. J., Target, M., & Fonagy, P., New York: The Guilford Press., 2015
Digital course material (Required) : Achter de deur. Het kader van de psychoanalytische psychotherapeut (pp. 7-14)., Achter zoveel deuren. In C. Leroy, N. Vliegen, & M. Hermans (Red.), Vliegen, N., Antwerpen/ Apeldoorn: Garant., 2009
Digital course material (Recommended) : Mentalization-based treatment for children. A time-limited approach (pp. 15-37)., The development of mentalizing., Midgley, N., Ensink, K., Lindqvist, K., Malberg, N., & Muller, N., Washington, DC: American Psychological Association., 2017
Digital course material (Recommended) : Mentalization-based treatment for children. A time-limited approach (pp. 39-60)., When the capacity for mentalizing is underdeveloped or breaks down., Midgley, N., Ensink, K., Lindqvist, K., Malberg, N., & Muller, N., Washington, DC: American Psychological Association., 2017
Digital course material (Required) : Dynamische Interpersoonlijke Therapie (DIT). Een integratieve psychodynamische behandeling voor een brede waaier van klachten en problemen. Tijdschrift voor Psychoanalyse, 21(4), 264-273., Luyten, P., 2015
Additional info

Not applicable

Learning Outcomes

Algemene competenties

The student has knowledge of as wel as has gained insight in the particularities of psychodynamic psychotherapies, the basic assumptions underlying psychodynamic psychotherapies as well as the basic principles of psychodynamic psychotherapies.

The student is able to recognize in and apply this knowledge and these insights to new information and is able to discuss these critically, for instance, in relation to new case material.

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 100 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Not applicable

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

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Psychology: Clinical Psychology (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Teaching in Behavioural Sciences: psychologie (120 ECTS, Etterbeek) (only offered in Dutch)