M.Sc. ‑ Clinical Psychology

basic cognitive processes, such as, attention, learning, memory, psychophysics and perceptual systems.

learning and cognizing psychodynamic, behaviouristic and humanistic frameworks of personality.

fundamentals of central and peripheral nervous system along with their functions and underlying physiological explanation of various psychological processes and disorders

various interpersonal, psychological and psychosocial processes to understand society that has applications in daily living such as communication, prosocial behaviour, aggression and gender identity.

analyse different facets of organizational behaviour, with emphasis on work environment, performance appraisal and placements.

relationship between physical health and psychological wellbeing and learn health-promoting lifestyles.

phenomenological and psychopathological etiology of neurodevelopmental disorders , intellectual disabilities and various other emotional and behavioural disorders of children.

continuum of normality and abnormality from the perspective of different neurotic and psychotic disorders, viz., anxiety disorders, schizophrenia, etc.

different dimensions of personality highlighting on the different problems associated with it, special emphasis on the causal factors, and other disorders associated with personality problems.

different types of sexual dysfunctions along with their signs and etiology.

concepts of use, harmful use, dependence, tolerance and withdrawal; and the detrimental impacts of psychotropic and psychoactive substances, mainly focusing on the consequences in the domains of emotion, behaviour, thought and perception.

counseling skills – to cognise and integrate the possibilities and limitations of therapeutic work, inculcate respect and maintain confidentiality and ethical guidelines.

different schools of psychotherapy, namely, psychodynamic, exsistential, behavioural (BT), cognitive, cognitive-behavioural (CBT), and third wave behaviour therapy, along with their techniques, stages, strategies, tools, applications,limitations, indications and contra-indications.

different evidence-based psychotherapeutic approaches (BT, CBT, Interpersonal Therapy, Family and Couple therapy) of treatment of various anxiety disorders, mood disorders and schizophrenia related disorders.

impairment (structural and functional), handicap and disability and about primary, secondary and tertiary health care systems, their importance and efficacy in treatement and rehabilitation of individuals with physical disability and/or psychiatric illnesses.

assessment, including, but not limited to, theoritical background, administration, scoring and interpretation using standardised tests of intelligence such as Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM) and Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale – IVth edition (WAIS-IV) and that of personality, such as, Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) and Neuroticism, Extroversion, Openness to Experience Scale (NEO- PI and NEO-FFI)

assessment, including, but not limited to, theoritical background, administration, scoring and interpretation using standardised projective measures of personality, like, Rorschach Inkblot Test (RIBT) and Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) and emotional and behavioural traits, such as Rosenswig Picture-Frustration Test.

various symptom and syndrome-specific scales of psychopathology, such as, evaluation of mood, anxiety, disruptive behaviours, thought, perception etc.

application of the aforementioned scales on outdoor clients

organised and systematic ways of finding evidence for psychological and psychosocial phenomena, using both quantitative and qualitative methodology, various statistical implications including those required for description of data, drawing inference and predicting for population, and integrative learning of scale construction through appropriate psychometric methods