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23rd May 2018, 04:16 PM
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Re: Clinical Psychology Calcutta University

My sister wants to do M.Phil. in Clinical Psychology from Calcutta University. She wants to know about admission requirements for this Course. So please give detailed information about M.Phil. in Clinical Psychology Course of Calcutta University?
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23rd May 2018, 04:19 PM
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Re: Clinical Psychology Calcutta University

The Department of Applied Psychology of Calcutta University was established in 1967.

The Department offers M.Phil. in Clinical Psychology Course.

Here I am giving information about this program:

M.Phil. in Clinical Psychology:

Qualification:
Minimum 55% marks in aggregate in M.A. / M. Sc. in Psychology/ Applied Psychology from any recognized University

Entrance Exam conducted by University.

Selection Process:
Entrance Exam
Viva Voce

Fees:
Admission fee -- Rs. 5000/-(for each year)
Tuition fee -- Rs. 5000/- (per month)
Examination fee -- Rs. 1000/- (for each yearly examination)
Application fee -- Rs. 1000/- (Rs.500 for SC/ST candidates)

Total Intake:
12 Seats

Calcutta University M.Phil. in Clinical Psychology Admission Form:




Calcutta University M.Phil. in Clinical Psychology Syllabus:
YEAR I:
Paper I : Psychosocial Foundation of Behavior and Psychopathology
Paper II : Statistics and Research Methodology
Paper III : Psychiatry
Practical : Psychological Assessments including Viva Voce

YEAR II:
Paper I: Biological Foundations of Behavior
Paper II: Psychotherapy and Counseling
Paper III: Behavioral Medicine
Practical : Psychological Therapies including Viva Voce

Part A (Psychosocial Foundations of Behavior)
Unit - I: Introduction: Scope of clinical psychology; overview of the profession and
practice; history and growth; professional role and functions; current issues
and trends; areas of specialization; ethical and legal issues; code of conduct.

Unit - II: Mental health and illness: Mental health care past and present; stigma and
attitude towards mental illness; concept of mental health and illness;
perspectives psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, humanistic,
existential and biological models of mental health/illness;

Unit - III: Epidemiology: Epidemiological studies in Indian context; socio-cultural
correlates of mental illness, mental health, psychological well-being and
quality of life.

Unit - IV: Self and relationships: Self-concept, self-image, self-perception and selfregulations
in mental health and illness; learned helplessness and attribution
theories; social skill model; interpersonal and communication models of
mental illness; stress diathesis model, resilience, coping and social support.

Unit - V: Family influences: Early deprivation and trauma; neglect and abuse; attachment;
separation; inadequate parenting styles; marital discord and divorce;
maladaptive peer relationships; communication style; family burden;
emotional adaptation; expressed emotions and relapse.

Unit - VI: Societal influences: Discrimination in race, gender and ethnicity; social class
and structure, poverty and unemployment; prejudice, social change and
uncertainty; crime and delinquency; social tension & violence; urban
stressors; torture & terrorism; culture shock; migration; religion & gender
related issues with reference to India.

Unit - VII: Disability: Definition and classification of disability; psychosocial models of
disability; impact, needs and problems; issues related to
assessment/certification of disability areas and measures.

Unit - VIII: Rehabilitation: Approaches to rehabilitation; interventions in the rehabilitation
processes; models of adaptation to disability; family and caregivers issues;
rights of mentally ill; empowerment issues; support to recovery.

Unit - IX: Policies and Acts: Rehabilitation Policies and Acts (Mental Health Act of 1987,
National Mental Health Program 1982, the Persons With Disabilities (equal opportunities, protection of rights and full participation) Act 1995; Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) Act of 1992, National Trust for Mental Retardation, CP and Autistic Children 1999, Juvenile Justice Act of 1986; Mental Health Care Bill 2011; ethical and forensic issues in psychiatry practice); assistance, concessions, social benefits and support from government and voluntary organizations; contemporary challenges; rehabilitation ethics and professional code of conduct.

Part B (Psychopathology)
Unit - X: Introduction to psychopathology: Definition; concepts of normality and
abnormality; clinical criteria of abnormality; continuity (dimensional)
versus discontinuity (categorical), and prototype models of
psychopathology; classification and taxonomies reliability and utility;
classificatory systems, currently in use and their advantages and limitations.
Approach to clinical interviewing and diagnosis; case history; mental status
examination; organization and presentation of psychiatric information;
diagnostic formulation.

Unit - XI: Psychological theories: Psychodynamic; behavioral; cognitive; humanistic;
interpersonal; psychosocial; and other prominent theories/models of
principal clinical disorders and problems, viz. anxiety, obsessivecompulsive,
somatoform, dissociative, adjustment, sexual, substance use,
personality, suicide, childhood and adolescence, psychotic, mood disorders,
and culture-specific disorders.

Unit - XII: Indian thoughts: Concept of mental health and illness; nosology and taxonomy
of mental illness; social identity and stratification (Varnashrama
Vyawastha); concept of cognition, emotion, personality, motivation and
their disorders.

PAPER - II: Statistics and Research Methodology
Unit - I: Introduction: Various methods to ascertain knowledge, scientific method and its
features; problems in measurement in behavioral sciences; levels of
measurement of psychological variables - nominal, ordinal, interval and
ratio scales; test construction - item analysis, concept and methods of
establishing reliability, validity and norms.

Unit - II: Sampling: Probability and non-probability; various methods of sampling - simple
random, stratified, systematic, cluster and multistage sampling; sampling
and non-sampling errors and methods of minimizing these errors.

Unit - III: Concept of probability: Probability distribution - normal, poisson, binomial;
descriptive statistics - central tendency, dispersion, skewness and kurtosis.

Unit - IV: Hypothesis testing: Formulation and types; null hypothesis, alternate
hypothesis, type I and type II errors, level of significance, power of the test,
p-value. Concept of standard error and confidence interval.

Unit - V: Tests of significance - Parametric tests: Requirements, "t" test, normal z-test, and
"F" test including post-hoc tests, one-way and two-way analysis of variance,
analysis of covariance, repeated measures analysis of variance, simple
linear correlation and regression.

Unit VI: Tests of significance - Non-parametric tests: Assumptions; One-sample tests
(sign test, Mc Nemer test); two-sample test (Mann Whitney U test,
Wilcoxon rank sum test); k-sample tests (Kruskal Wallies test, and
Friedman test) and chi-square test.

Unit - VII: Experimental design: Randomization, replication, completely randomized
design, randomized block design, factorial design, crossover design, single
subject design, non-experimental design.

Unit - VIII: Epidemiological studies: Epidemiological studies: Rates- Prevalence and
incidence; Types- Prospective and retrospective studies; Diagnostic Efficiency
Statistics (sensitivity, specificity, predictive values); Risk Estimation- odds
ratio and survival analysis.
Unit - IX: Multivariate analysis: Introduction, Multiple regression, logistic regression,
factor analysis, cluster analysis, discriminant function analysis, path
analysis, MANOVA, Canonical correlation, and Multidimensional scaling.

Unit - X: Sample size estimation: Sample size determination for estimation of mean,
estimation of proportion, comparing two means and comparing two
proportions.

Unit - XI: Qualitative analysis of data: Content analysis, qualitative methods of
psychosocial research.

Unit - XII: Use of computers: Use of relevant statistical package in the field of behavioral science and their limitations.


Contacts
Calcutta University
Department of Applied Psychology
92, A.P.C Road, Kolkata-700 009.
Ph: 033-2350-1397/8386(Ext- 390);
Fax: 033-2351-9755


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