Study Guide

Objective

Development psychology
The student understands the development of the person as a holistic, individual process and recognises the different elements of this development, the various life stages, developmental tasks and possible developmental crises of a person. They can evaluate the significance of crises and abnormal development for the client’s overall situation using various psychological views of human nature.

Basics of psychology in a therapeutic encounter
The student can define psychological phenomena and consider the basic principles of a therapeutic work approach. The student recognises the impact of their own personality in interaction situations. The student is capable of engaging in a motivating interview and interaction. The student is capable of ethical reflection when interacting with clients. The student learns to recognise the limits of their own professional skills and resources.

Clinical psychology
The student understands the modern view of mental health and psychological functional capacity and understands the importance of psychological resources for a person’s wellbeing and ability to adapt. The student recognises the signs of a traumatic crisis and psychological symptoms in a client, can adapt support measures to the client’s needs in traumatic situations and can refer the client to mental health services, if necessary. The student possesses the basic skills for having good interaction with a client experiencing psychological and psychosomatic symptoms.

Mental health first aid
Crisis psychology and trauma; acute, moderate or severe mental health symptoms; referral to mental health services

Supporting mental health through osteopathic practice
The student understands the importance of therapeutic interaction in osteopathic practice. The student understands the importance of the connection between body and mind from a psychological point of view in osteopathic practice.
The student takes the factors impacting mental health into account in osteopathic practice. The student can combine osteopathic approaches to the client’s treatment plan in an appropriate way, and knows how to collaborate with the client to find instructions that support the client’s health.

Content

Importance of psychology in the holistic development of a person over the course of their life
Supporting good development at different stages of life
Cognitive development; development of attachment relations, emotions, personality and identity; and psychosexual development
Developmental tasks over the course of a person’s life and minority stress
Protective and risk factors in development
Psychological competence in good interaction
Building a therapeutic care relationship
Motivating interaction, own personality, ethics and coping in care work
Mental health, traumatic crises and psychological resources
Client with psychological symptoms: recognising the most common mental health disorders, pre-emptive mental health work and referral to treatment
Psychosomatics: connection between body and mind, differential diagnostics of somatic and psychological pain and somatoform symptoms

Prerequisites

Promoting Health and Working Capacity through Osteopathic Practices

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE BASE
- Student can search for knowledge resourcefully utilizing sources of the field and uses the knowledge base of the field
- Student is familiar with the knowledge base and core components of the profession

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AND ACTIONS
- Student has adequate professional skills to work in the profession
- Student can work in a client-oriented way
- Student solves professional tasks and problems

ETHICS, COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
- Student works safely and in accordance with the ethical principles of the field
- Student displays competence benefitting groups or projects
- Student is able to evaluate personal strengths and weaknesses and development needs

Assessment criteria, good (3)

PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE BASE
- Student searches for knowledge and justifies the use of sources
- Student uses the professional knowledge base consistently
- Student justifies actions by means of evidencebased knowledge

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AND ACTIONS
- Student applies professional skills to different situations
- Student can act responsibly and in a clientoriented way
- Student can work in various tasks in diverse operating environments

ETHICS, COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
- Student justifies professional activities according to the ethical principles of the field and evaluates the safety of these activities
- Student can work in work groups and projects in a goal-oriented way
- Student develops oneself

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE BASE
- Student applies the professional knowledge base fluently and in a versatile way
- Student evaluates and uses evidence-based knowledge

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AND ACTIONS
- Student applies professional skills in different situations and can evaluate the results of these actions
- Student can act responsibly and in a clientoriented way
- Student applies alternative solutions to professional decision-making

ETHICS, COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
- Student evaluates professional activities and safety according to the ethical principles of the field
- Student can work in different groups and projects with persons with diverse cultural backgrounds
- Student develops the work community and oneself

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

PASS: Same as satisfactory (see above)

Failed

PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE BASE
- Student does not know or know how to use the concepts of the profession adequately
- Student uses the professional knowledge base one-sidedly

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS AND ACTIONS
- Student does not have the required professional knowledge or skills, and the level of professional competence proves inadequate
- Student does not reach the level of client

ETHICS, COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT
- Student does not consider safety or ethical principles of the field sufficiently
- Student does not show adequate readiness to develop oneself or to participate