PhD programme in Clinical and Health Psychology
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Objectives and Rationale
The PhD programme in Clinical and Health Psychology aims to serve an area of the health profession and health research that in the last few decades has become consolidated in relation to other disciplines (such as psychiatry) and has defined a broad series of objectives, tools and methodologies of its own. The objective of the programme is to prepare students to carry out research in clinical and health psychology and to write a doctoral thesis. The general objectives are:
• To train researchers in clinical and health psychology towards a high-level qualification and a high standard of competence.
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• To promote innovative lines of research that correspond to the particular characteristics of clinical and health psychology.
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The PhD programme in Clinical and Health Psychology and the Research Master#s Degree in Psychology Applied to Health Sciences (Specialisation in Clinical Psychology) specifically address training needs within research and higher education and, in parallel, the needs of professionals to perfect their skills.
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The PhD programme in Clinical and Health Psychology offers research training in clinical and health psychology in line with the research projects of the Department of Clinical and Health Psychology.
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Research Lines []
In this section you will find all the lines of research on this PhD programme and its thesis supervisors. You will also find, in the right-hand column, the staff who can act as academic tutors.
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Your thesis must have a single tutor, who may or may not be the same person as the thesis supervisor. []
You can find detailed information on the functions and responsibilities of supervisors and tutors by clicking on the menu options Thesis supervision and Thesis tutoring.
Lines of research and thesis supervisors Academic tutors
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Person-Environment Interaction in Psychopathology
• Interactions between gens and daily life stressors
on psychopathology
The research line on interactions between genes and daily life stressors in psychopathology focuses on the processes underlying the development of schizotypy and the transition to disorders in the psychotic spectrum in clinical and non-clinical populations, with particular attention to ecological and dynamic processes (Experience Sampling Methodology).
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Barrantes Vidal, Neus Ballespí Sola, Sergi
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• Vulnerability, psychopathology and gender
Study of genetic and personality risk factors in postnatal depression, social anxiety, depression and personality disorders.
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Subirà Álvarez, Susanna Martín-Santos, Rocío García Esteve, Luisa
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Ballespí Sola, Sergi Barrantes Vidal, Neus Bonillo Martín, Albert Brun Gasca, Carme Costas Moragas, Carme De la Osa Chaparro, Núria Deus Yela, Joan
Domènech Massons, Josep María Ezpeleta Ascaso, Lourdes
García Esteve, Luisa Gomà Freixanet, Montserrat Granero Pérez, Roser Jané Ballabriga, Claustre Martín-Santos, Rocío Navarro Pastor, Blas Obiols Llandrich, Jordi Raich Escursell, Rosa Sánchez Carracedo, David Subirà Álvarez, Susanna
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Psychobiological risk and vulnerability factors in schizophrenic and affective spectra:
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This line of research investigates different psychobiological markers of vulnerability in the
schizophrenic and affective spectra. The team is currently beginning work on two new projects:
• The phenotypical delimitation of schizophrenic spectra v. autistic spectrum.
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• The evaluation of emotional traumas as risk factors for vulnerability in schizophrenia. The final objective of these studies is the phenotypical delimitation of disorders in the psychotic spectrum, their early detection and ultimate prevention.
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Obiols Llandrich, Jordi Brun Gasca, Carme Subirà Álvarez, Susanna Navarro Pastor, Blas
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Eating behaviour and pain
• Food and body image
From normal behaviour to changed behaviour (TCA and TD): involving several sub-lines related to eating behaviour, pain and associated individual differences related to health responses.
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Raich Escursell, Rosa
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• Problems related to eating and weight
This line of research conducts epidemiological studies on EAWRP (eating and weight-related problems) and shared risk factors.
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Sánchez Carracedo, David
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• Neuroimage in neuropsychology and neuropsychiatry
Mainly studying possible changes in FMR in patients with fibromyalgia. Neuroanatomical and functional alterations of the brain in psychiatric pathology are also studied.
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Deus Yela, Joan
Study of personality profiles in persons who engage in high-risk activities, have high alcohol consumption or antisocial behaviour, along with personality disorders and fibromyalgia.
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Gomà Freixanet, Montserrat
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Psychopathology in Early Childhoo
• Psychopathology in Early Childhood
Study of psychological problems, both syndromic and in the principal psychological functions, that can appear in early life.
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Jané Ballabriga, Claustre Ballespí Sola, Sergi Bonillo Martín, Albert
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• Perinatal clinical psychology
Study of neurobehavioral assessment of term and preterm infants.
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This line of research is not offered during the 2015-2016 year
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• Cognitive behavioural phenotypes in genetically
based intellectual incapacity
Conducting clinical, molecular and epidemiological research in the field of genetically based mental retardation.
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Brun Gasca, Carme
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Developmental Psychopathology: assessment and diagnosis
• Developmental psychopathology: assessment, diagnosis and risk factors
Studies epidemiological trends in early childhood disorders and phenomenology, diagnostic definition, etiological factors (risk, vulnerability and protection), course, comorbidity and differential diagnosis.
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Ezpeleta Ascaso, Lourdes De la Osa Chaparro, Núria Domènech Massons, Josep María Granero Pérez, Roser
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Department/s or institute/s linked
Departament de Psicologia Clínica i de la Salut []
Coordinators
Lourdes Ezpeleta Ascaso
[email protected] Phone 93 581 28 83 Fax 93 581 21 25 [] Web http://www.uab.cat/servlet/Satellite/la-docencia/presentacio-1248213816130.html [] Inter-university
PhD programme in Clinical and Health Psychology
Admission requirements []
Admission requirements []
This PhD programme has the following requirements.
• Curriculum vitae showing the applicant has sufficient knowledge and skills to carry out research in clinical psychology.
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• Doctoral thesis project in consonance with the lines of research of this programme.
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• Practical viability of the planned supervision of the doctoral thesis. Admission is conditional on a member of the Department expressing willingness to act as thesis supervisor or tutor.
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• Proven knowledge of one of the following languages: Catalan, Spanish or English, in the case of students from countries with other languages (level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).
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The doctoral programme#s academic committee may require applicants to take up to 30 credits for bridging courses in research methodology and/or initiation to research, preferably from the following subjects on the master's degree in Research in Psychology Applied to Health Sciences
• Research Methodology in Applied Psychology : Quantitative, Observational and Qualitative Methods, (9 ECTS credits)
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• Psychometric and Data Analysis Models in Applied Psychology (6 crèdits ECTS)
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• Critical Analysis of Research in Clinical Psychology (9 ECTS credits)
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• Initiation to Research (15 ECTS credits)
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Enrolment
Enrolling in the PhD is easy. Just follow the instructions that you will find by clicking on Enrolment.. Visit also our
PhD Registration Handbook.
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Openings 10
PhD programme in Clinical and Health Psychology
Academic Activities
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