Special modalities of clinical assessment

Pre-requisites: Fundamentals of clinical assessment and Methods of clinical assessment

Course objectives: Introducing students with theoretical foundations, empirical foundations and practical applications of two modalities of assessment used in practice - Rorschach method and Genogram.

Course description: Theory classes: Genogram - a place in a comprehensive study of an individual and family; theoretical basis; definition, content and special variants; application in various schools of family therapy and in various aspects of clinical work; advantages and limitations. History and development of the Rorschach method. Origin and development of the instrument. Concept of (test) projections and projective techniques. Development of various Rorschach interpretation systems. Exner's "Comprehensive System", Lerner's psychoanalytical system; Interpreting responses and integrating data, Writing of the psychological report. Rorschach in the assessment of family dynamics. Assessment of object relations; Evaluation of primitive defenses and primitive mental states in children, adolescents and adults. Assessment of border phenomenology and narcissism. Planning of treatment and psychotherapy goals based on Rorschach. Rorschach as an instrument in therapeutic assessment. The use of Rorschach in forensic evaluation. Practical classes: exercises, other forms of teaching, student essays.

Learning Outcomes: Training students for independent application of the Genogram technique and Rorschach's ink blot test in clinical practice.

Literature/Reading:

• 1. Asen, E. i Tomson, P. (2001). Porodica u nama – genogrami. U E. Asen i P. Tomson, Porodična rešenja u praksi (str.29-45)(prevod. J. Srna). Beograd: UNICEF.
• 2. McGoldrick, M., Gerson, R. & Petry, S. (2008). Genograms: Assessment and Intervention (3rd ed.). New York • London: W. W. Norton & Company.
• 3. McGoldrick, M. (2004). History genograms and the family life cycle – Freud in context. In B. Carter & M. McGoldrick (Eds.), The expanded family life cycle: Individual, family, and social perspectiv
• 4. Srna, J. (1997). Genogram. U M. Milojković, J. Srna i M. Mićović (Ur), Porodična terapija (str. 87-104). Beograd: Centar za brak i porodicu.
• 5. Srna J. (2003). Genogram. U M. Biro i V. Butolo (Ur.), Klinička psihologija (122-128). Univerzitet u Minhenu: Katedra za kliničku psihologiju “Ludvig Maksimilijan” i Novi Sad: Futura publikacije.
• 1. Bornstein, R. F., & Masling, J. M. (2005). Scoring the Rorschach: Seven Validated Systems. Mahwah, New Jersey: Laurence Erlbaum. (odabrana poglavlja)
• 2. Exner, J. E. (2003). The Rorschach: A Comprehensive System, Vol. 1. (4th edition). Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (odabrana poglavlja)
• 3. Exner, J. E., & Erdberg, P. (Eds.). (2005). The Rorschach: Advanced Interpretation, Vol. 2. (3rd edition). Hoboken, New Jersey, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (odabrana poglavlja)
• 4. Huprich, S. K. (Ed.). (2006). Rorschach Assessment of the Personality Disorders. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum. (odabrana poglavlja)
• 5. Kelly, F. D. (1997). The Assessment of Object Relations Phenomena in Adolescents TAT and Rorschach Measures. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum. (odabrana poglavlja)
• 6. Lerner, P. M. (1998). Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Rorschach. Hillsdale, New Jersey: The Analytic Press. (odabrana poglavlja)
• 7. Lerner, H. D., & Lerner, P. M. (Eds.). (1988). Primitive Mental States and the Rorschach. Madison: International Universities Press, Inc. (odabrana poglavlja)
• 8. Weiner, I. (2003). Principles of Rorschach Interpretation (2nd edition). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum. (odabrana poglavlja)
• 9. Popović, V. B. (1999). Imaginacija i Roršah: Arhetipološko preispitivanje Roršahove metode. Beograd: Filozofski fakultet. (odabrana poglavlja)
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