Warsaw, Poland

Clinical Psychology
(field of studies: Psychology)

Master's
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⇑Clinical Psychology at SWPS

Field of studies: Psychology
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: medicine, health care
Kind of studies: full-time studies
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University website: english.swps.pl

⇑Why choose the Clinical Psychology specialisation (Master's) at SWPS University?

Dlaczego warto studiować na Uniwersytecie SWPS
Why study it:

The Clinical Psychology specialisation on the Psychology programme at SWPS University is a two-year full-time Master's course taught in English. It trains future clinicians in assessment and evidence-based intervention, in line with ethical and professional standards.

Programme: a clear progression of skills

The first year gives you intensive theoretical education, an introduction to clinical treatment, and wide knowledge of child and adult psychopathology, together with basic skills in psychotherapy, assessment and clinical research.

In the second year you explore the psychotherapeutic process, looking at how change happens and how to build effective professional relationships, and you conduct original research that ends in your Master's thesis. The programme follows a scientist-practitioner model, and the curriculum meets the European EuroPsy standard.

Specialisation: clinical courses

The course list is distinctly clinical:

  • Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, and Counseling and Psychotherapy
  • Abnormal Psychology: child and adolescent psychopathology, and advanced adult psychopathology
  • Psychotherapy: psychodynamic and humanistic-existential approaches, and behavioural and cognitive-behavioural approaches
  • Working with adults with behavioural addictions, and Clinical Diagnosis in Practice

Placements: clinical practice in the field

In your second year you complete a psychological practice that includes specialised clinical training, and you learn to work with families, groups and individuals.

Qualifications: title and track

Professional title

  • Titlemagister psychologii
  • Study trackClinical Psychology, noted in the diploma supplement

Depending on your track and professional certification, you can work as:

  • clinical psychologist, assessing, diagnosing and treating mental health difficulties
  • neuropsychologist, studying how neural processes shape behaviour and cognition
  • behavioural psychologist, supporting people with disabilities
  • counsellor, working with individuals, couples and families
  • developmental psychologist, health and wellness psychologist or life coach

Based on the programme pages at swps.pl.

⇑Test: Is Clinical Psychology the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. A client describes low mood, poor sleep and loss of interest. How do you approach the assessment?

2. How do you feel about spending hours with someone in serious emotional distress?

3. Which area of clinical work interests you most?

4. You read a new study claiming a therapy works for anxiety. What do you check?

5. How do you feel about clinical supervision, where an experienced psychologist reviews your work with clients?

6. The programme is taught in English, and you’ll practise case discussions with students from many countries. How do you see that?

7. A client mentions thoughts of self-harm. How do you respond?

8. How do you feel about administering and interpreting psychological tests, such as personality or neuropsychological assessments?

9. Which future role sounds most like you?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology?

⇑Definitions and quotes

Clinical Psychology
Clinical psychology is an integration of science, theory and clinical knowledge for the purpose of understanding, preventing, and relieving psychologically-based distress or dysfunction and to promote subjective well-being and personal development. Central to its practice are psychological assessment, clinical formulation, and psychotherapy, although clinical psychologists also engage in research, teaching, consultation, forensic testimony, and program development and administration. In many countries, clinical psychology is a regulated mental health profession.
Psychology
Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought. It is an academic discipline of immense scope and diverse interests that, when taken together, seek an understanding of the emergent properties of brains, and all the variety of epiphenomena they manifest. As a social science it aims to understand individuals and groups by establishing general principles and researching specific cases.
Psychology
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
Bertrand Russell in: The Conquest of Happiness, Routledge, 12 October 2012, p. 48
Psychology
Unlike the physicist, the psychologist … investigates processes that belong to the same order — perception, learning, thinking — as those by which he conducts his investigation.
Morris R. Cohen, Reason and Nature (1953), p. 81
Psychology
Truly, if you want to ascertain what love there is in you or in another person, then pay attention to how he relates himself to one who is dead. If one wishes to observe a person, it is very important for the sake of the observation that one, in seeing him in a relationship, look at him alone. When one actual person relates himself to another actual person, the result is two, the relationship is constituted, and the observation of the one person alone is made difficult. In other words, the second person covers over something of the first person; moreover, the second person can have so much influence that the first one appears different from what he is. Therefore a double accounting is necessary here; the observation must keep a special account of the influence the second person has on the person who is the object under observation through his personality, his characteristics, his virtues, and his defects. If you could manage to see someone shadowboxing in dead earnest, or if you could prevail upon a dancer to dance solo the dance he customarily dances with another, you would be able to observe his motions best, better than if he were boxing with another actual person or is he were dancing with another actual person. And if, in conversation with someone, you understand the art of making yourself no one, you get to know best what resides in this person.
Soren Kierkegaard 1847 Works of Love, Hong 1995 p. 347

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