| Course Code |
Course Name |
Credit hours |
Description |
| A0131215 |
Induction to research the thuds in clinical Psychology |
3 |
This course aims to introduce students to the basic approaches, concepts, issues, and research tools in psychology. The differences between epistemology, methodology, interpretation, understanding, problem definition, hypothesis, research designs, statistical analyzes for each design, and the role of inference in interpreting data. Various examples will be presented to help gain a better understanding of the specific research methods used in clinical psychology, such as the correlational method, the survey method, the case study, and others. |
| A0134112 |
Psychology of Refuge |
3 |
The course covers the concept of asylum, its stages, the psychological changes accompanying each stage of asylum, and psychological interventions for the psychological effects resulting from each stage of asylum. It also places a focus on the mental health of refugees across various official classifications. The course examines methods of psychological assessment, diagnosis, and treatment in asylum contexts. It addresses cultural, gender, and age differences of refugees, as well as role of the clinical psychologist in asylum contexts and work contexts in organizations, institutions, and entities concerned with the mental health of refugees. |
| A0133413 |
Neuropsychology |
3 |
The course includes a historical introduction to the development of neuropsychology, methods of studying the nervous system, neuroanatomy, disorders and diseases that affect the brain, functions of the cerebral cortex and parts of the brain, and clinical neuropsychology. |
| A0133313 |
Introduction to Personality Assessment |
3 |
The course covers the concept of psychological assessment, application skills, correction, and interpretation of personality tests in the clinical field. It includes projective tests and objective tests for adults and children, as well as the psychometric properties of the tests. |
| A0131211 |
Descriptive Statistics |
3 |
It covers an introduction to descriptive statistics and deals with methods for selecting samples, methods for displaying primary data (frequency distributions and representing information graphically), measures of central tendency (means, median, mode, percentiles), measures of dispersion (standard deviation, variance, normal distribution), and T-score, Standard score and probabilities. |
| A0134602 |
Practicum |
12 |
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| A0133311 |
Tests of Intelligence and cognitive abilities |
3 |
The course covers individual and group intelligence tests, in exploring their applications, significance, and interpretation of results. It includes practical application training, and the preparation of diagnostic reports. This course also addresses other options for measuring mental abilities memory, language, attention, problem-solving, brain functions... |
| A0132402 |
Positive Psychology |
3 |
This course aims at focusing on people's strengths rather than their weaknesses. It includes an introduction to positive psychology and its research fields, scientific study of happiness, fundamental concepts, specific topics, research, interventions, realistic applications of positive psychology and practical experience and applying these concepts to real life. |
| A0132114 |
Psychology of Learning and Cognition |
3 |
This course aims at focusing on the nature of learning and its significance to study and interpret human behavior. It also covers behavioral theories, cognitive theories that can be utilized to interpret learning (classical conditioning, trial-and-error learning, procedural learning, social learning, Gestalt theory, information processing model and Piaget?s theory of cognitive development). In addition, it also provides an overview of cognitive skills such as language, attention, thinking, decision-making and problem solving. |
| A0132401 |
Social Psychology |
3 |
This course deals with the concept of social psychology, its goals, importance, development, and its relationship with other disciplines. In addition, the focus of the course will be on research methods in social psychology, socialization, leadership psychology, social interaction, roles and group dynamics. |
| A0134512 |
Introduction to adult psychotherapy |
3 |
In this course, the student will become acquainted with modern therapeutic theories and methods, exploring their application in the treatment of psychological disorders in adults. This includes cognitive-behavioral therapy, dialectical behavioral therapy, third-wave psychotherapy and other therapeutic methods. The course also provides room for practical application through practical groups during lectures and field visits to ensure effective training in therapeutic interventions. |
| A0132411 |
Introduction to Psychological disorders in Children and Adolescents |
3 |
This course is designed to cover psychological disorders of childhood and adolescence, including their types, nature, causes, classification, prevalence, diagnosis and treatment methods. It also addresses recent trends of interpretation processes, diagnosis and treatment of these disorders. |
| A0131111 |
Principles of Psychology |
3 |
This course covers basic concepts in psychology. It also includes the history of psychology, with an emphasis on presenting relevant research methods, the nervous system, genes, learning and memory, growth and sensation, perception, motivation, social behavior, personality, psychological disorders and psychotherapy. |
| A0134511 |
Introduction to Child and adolescent psychotherapy |
3 |
The course provides an introduction to psychotherapy for children and adolescents, including an introduction to the development of the concept of psychotherapy, its history and methods. Students will familiarize themselves with theories, its foundations, and methods of applying it to children and adolescents. It includes the following therapeutic schools: analytical, behavioral, cognitive, cognitive-behavioral, and modern waves in psychological treatments for children. |
| A0133111 |
Psychotraumatology |
3 |
This course studies the traumatic contexts that an individual experiences in his life in general during his various developmental stages from childhood to old age. This course studies the types of trauma, its stages, and its psychological effects. It also addresses cultural and gender differences in trauma contexts. This course studies key concepts such as trauma, psychological stress, psychological hardiness, adaptation, loss... The course focuses on psychological treatments for trauma of all types, the age of the person affected, his gender, culture, psychological strategies aimed at preventing trauma, and post-traumatic psychological development. |
| A0132506 |
Principles of Counselling Psychology |
3 |
The course encompasses the principles of counseling in the psychological field, its concept, the need for it, its development, and its relationship to other helping sciences such as psychotherapy. The concept explores the foundations upon which counseling relies, the needs of the counselors at different life stages, the key counseling theories and methodologies, as well as counseling skills and their applications. |
| A0134501 |
Clinical Psychology |
3 |
The course focuses on the study of clinical psychology, its development and research methods. It covers methods of clinical assessment, clinical interviews, diagnosis, psychotherapy, personality assessment (intelligence, mental abilities, behavioral assessment...) with an expansion of various types of psychological treatments. The course also addresses related topics such as health psychology, neuropsychology in clinical practice. |
| A0132501 |
Psychology of Personality |
3 |
This course includes the fundamental topics of personality psychology, alongside the relationship between them and individual differences, research methods of personality science, the history of personality psychology, methods of measuring personality, personality theories such as analytical, humanistic, psychodynamic, besides the relationship between these theories and human behavior and personality disorders. |
| A0133412 |
Introduction to adult psychological disorders |
3 |
The course covers research methods in the field of psychological disorders and delves into psychological disorders that occur during adulthood. It explores the methods of studying these disorders, their nature, symptoms, prevalence rates, causes, classification, diagnosis and treatment methods. This course adopts an integrated approach to understanding and treating psychological disorders. |
| A0133505 |
Psychosocial Support |
3 |
The course covers the concept of psychosocial support and the contexts in which it is applied. It introduces the categories unvenerable to risks for whom psychosocial support programs are designed, including refugees, children, and women. This course also explores methods for conducting surveys and initial assessments to determine the need for psychosocial support. It also addresses the design methods, implementation and evaluation of psychosocial support programs. |
| A0132301 |
Physiological Psychology |
3 |
This course includes the major divisions of the nervous system and its composition (physiology of the body), the connection between the parts of the nervous system and how the behavior of living organisms changes over time. It also covers the physiology of sleep behavior, addiction, the senses, the endocrine system, learning, memory and psychological disorders. |
| A0132312 |
Introduction to Clinical Interview |
3 |
The course aims at providing an overview of the significance of clinical interview in the field of clinical psychology, types of clinical interviews, skills of conducting a clinical interview such as establishing a friendly relationship, effective listening skills, the form of questions during an interview, exploring the case, setting goals, examining mental states, and formulating the case. It also covers a training process in therapeutic methods. |
| A0131112 |
Lifespan Developmental Psychology |
3 |
This course addresses all stages of a lifespan including their physical, cognitive, emotional, social and moral aspects. It also covers theories interpreting the lifespan of development and methods of approaching them. It also includes topics related to the continuity of growth from the moment of fertilization until death, the importance of biological, psychological, social factors and their impact on human development. |
| A0132211 |
Inferential Statistics |
3 |
The course covers information on methods of analyzing data statistically and extracting relationships between various academic variables. It includes an introduction to research designs and methods of analyzing them statistically, with an emphasis on correlation coefficients, chi-square, an analysis of variance of all kinds, regression analysis, factor analysis, ?t? test, and the use of statistical packages in statistical analysis. |
| A0133301 |
Experimental Psychology |
3 |
This course covers specialized information about the foundations of experimental method and the characteristics that distinguish it from other research methods in psychology. It also includes an entire spectrum of the elements of the key experiment, namely, variables and their measurement, derivation and formulation of hypotheses, control strategies, experimental control, and various experimental designs. This course also provides an overview of psychology laboratory and how to conduct psychological experiments in controlled laboratory conditions and write a report in accordance with the standards of scientific methodology. |
| Course Code |
Course Name |
Credit hours |
Description |
| A0133507 |
Self-Care Practices |
3 |
This course addresses the psychological contexts in which a person is exposed to direct or secondary psychological pressures and trauma as a result of practicing his profession. This course aims to provide students with practices that contribute to their self-care, ensuring their mental and physical health and the continuity of their ability to perform their roles with the competence expected of them. This course addresses practices such as stress management mechanisms such as relaxation, practices for living an active life, nutritional practices that contribute to mental and physical health, affirmative communication practices, anger control and management practices, compassion burnout management, how to set and manage boundaries, and other self-care practices. |
| A0132115 |
Cyberpsychology |
3 |
The course explores the definition of cyber psychology and its most important theories. It introduces the concept of self and cyber identity, communication in the virtual world, influence in the social space, negative cyber effects, and issues in cyber psychology (electronic addiction, cybercrime, cyberterrorism, cyberbullying, cyberstalking and blackmail, electronic games, ... ), along with cyber psychological counseling. |
| A0133411 |
Neurodevelopmental Disorders |
3 |
The course aims to introduce disorders of neurodevelopmental origin. It covers learning disorders, hyperactivity, poor attention, and the spectrum of autism disorders, as well as a wide range of conditions and situations related to the developmental stage and the nervous system that impact behavior and cognitive processes. The course focuses on the direct and indirect causes of these disorders, the reason for their spread, classification, evaluation, diagnosis and therapeutic methods. |
| A0134414 |
Clinical Heath Psychology |
3 |
The course includes the study of psychological structures according to the biopsychosocial model. It focuses on mental health and physical health and their interaction with each other to produce a healthy or sick psychological and physical state. The role of psychological factors and physical factors in health or illness. It also addresses the role of the clinical psychologist in the medical fields and his contributions to physical and psychological health in order to come up with a comprehensive treatment plan for the patient, both physically and psychologically. |
| A0133504 |
Criminal Psychology |
3 |
This course addresses a range of topics in the fields of criminal psychology and antisocial behavior. This course examines the contribution of psychology to analyzing the behavior of criminals, especially in terms of their background and motivations. The course also emphasizes the contribution of psychology in intervening in crime and treating criminals. The course also includes presenting some strategies and methods for preventing criminal behavior in general (among juveniles and adults). The course also allows the student to conduct some field visits and learn about some deviant behavioral problems in society. |
| A0134111 |
Ethical Issues in Clinical Psychology |
3 |
|
| A0133113 |
Contemporary Issues in clinical psychology |
3 |
This course deals with topics that are prevalent at the present time, such as psychological stress, what it is, its sources, and the strategies and programs used to confront it, whether in children or adults. While addressing some societal issues that disturb society and leave psychological effects on all family members, especially children, and other issues such as addiction of all kinds and its effects on individuals and society. |
