Master degree program
Clinical Psychology

Clinical Psychology

QUALIFICATION

  • Scientific and pedagogical direction - Master of Social Sciences

MODEL OF GRADUATING STUDENT

1. Conduct a comprehensive assessment of the role of psychological factors in the structure of various diseases
2. Develop the design and program of psychological research in the field of clinical psychology, analyze, describe, justify and present psychological data with adequate methods and technologies, apply statistical methods in the processing of psychological data
3. Apply the skills of organizing the work of the psychological service in medical institutions
4. To carry out psychological assessment, expertise, psychological intervention in organizations of primary health care, specialized medical institutions of various profiles (oncological, cardiological, antitubercular, psychiatric and drug treatment, etc.), as well as in organizations engaged in the provision of psychological services
5. Critically evaluate the methods and techniques of clinical psychology in working with clients with different nosologies
6. Systematically, competently and competently make psychological conclusions, reports and other types of necessary documentation in the work
7. Formulate problems and tasks, choose appropriate methods and monitoring when conducting psychoprophylactic, psychocorrective, counseling, and rehabilitation work with different categories of clients undergoing treatment, diagnosis, and rehabilitation
8. Critically evaluate, reflect and control the influence of the personal qualities of the research psychologist and practitioner on the results of research and professional activity.

Program passport

Speciality Name
Clinical Psychology
Speciality Code
7M03117
Faculty
Philosophy and Political Science

disciplines

Foreign Language (professional)
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose is to acquire and improve competencies by international standards of foreign language education and to communicate in an intercultural, professional, and scientific environment. A master's student must integrate new information, understand the organization of languages, interact in society, and defend his point of view.

History and Philosophy of Science
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: Understanding of modern philosophy as a system of scientific knowledge, including worldview in rational-theoretical comprehension. The discipline includes aspects of the evolution and development of scientific thinking, historical moments, the contribution of scientists and scientific schools to the formation of science, and ethical and social aspects of scientific activity.

Methodology and methods of psychological expertise
  • Number of credits - 9
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of the foundations of psychological and expert activity in areas requiring assessment of clinical factors; skills of psychological expertise and expert opinion. The course focuses on the acquisition of knowledge and skills in the fields of forensic psychiatry, aggression, suicidology, victimology, expert psychodiagnostics and general ideas about criminal and civil law and procedural legislation in world practice and in the Republic of Kazakhstan.

Organization and Planning of Scientific Research
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - The purpose of the subject is to form the ability to plan and conduct scientific research in the field of philology based on knowledge of the theoretical and methodological bases of organizing research activity. The training course forms the research culture of the future specialist. The subject is aimed at studying the methodology of scientific research, modern methods used in philology.

Pathopsychology and pathopsychological diagnostics
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to prepare undergraduates for clinical psychological activity on the basis of familiarization with the phenomena of disorders of higher mental functions and their diagnosis. The course forms ideas about pathopsychological symptoms, syndromes and mechanisms of mental disorders; introduces the basic theoretical and methodological provisions of pathopsychology, the basic principles and objectives of pathopsychological research; with methods of pathopsychological diagnostics.

Pedagogy of Higher Education
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: To provide pedagogical theories and practical strategies for effective teaching in higher education, fostering critical thinking, and academic success. The course explores instructional methods, curriculum design, assessment techniques, and classroom management strategies preparing educators to create inclusive and stimulating learning environments.

Psychological assessment of personality and behavior disorders
  • Number of credits - 6
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of psychological assessment competencies - systematic objective collection of empirical data on intellectual functions, personal characteristics and human behavior, sufficient for forecasting and making psychological decisions. The discipline is aimed at developing practical skills in organizing psychological assessment, drawing up evaluation programs, forming a psychodiagnostic battery, mastering the ability to generalize and analyze the collected data.

Psychology of management
  • Number of credits - 3
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Formation of knowledge about the fundamental concepts of management psychology for the practical application of the most critical aspects of management in professional interaction. The following will be studied: basic principles of management psychology, personality in management interactions, management of personality behavior, modern ideas, psychology of managing group phenomena, motivation, and practical reflection.

Data for 2021-2024 years

disciplines

Computer modeling and statistics in psychology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of professional psychological thinking through the development of practical skills in the application of computer modeling methods and statistical methods of data processing. The course provides for the study of ways to increase the "purity" of the experiment by increasing the accuracy of recording the results and eliminating errors in processing the source data.

Family and group psychotherapy
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to form a holistic view of the process of psychotherapeutic work with family and group, about the forms and methods of psychotherapeutic work in specific cases using various approaches; relevant competencies and practical skills. The course focuses on the use for therapeutic purposes of the entire set of interactions and relationships that arise between family members and participants in the group, including a psychotherapist.

History, Condition and Development Tendency of Modern Psychology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of competencies for mastering the theoretical and practical foundations of the development of psychological thought. The course allows you to get a holistic view of psychology from its inception to the present day, expands the general psychological outlook of the student, contributes to the development of the right attitude to the psychological heritage, gives a correct idea of the process of development of psychological thought in theory and practice.

Individual clinical psychotherapy
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of competencies of complex therapeutic verbal and nonverbal effects on emotions, judgments, self-awareness of a person with various diseases (mental, nervous, psychosomatic); development of skills of relief of psychopathological symptoms by methods of individual clinical psychotherapy. The course focuses on mastering the basics of individual clinical psychotherapy, mastering approaches, organizational and substantive issues of the psychotherapeutic process, methods and basic techniques.

Methodology, methods and experiment in psychology
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to master the methodology, theory, organization of psychological research, including experiment, as a special form of research practice. The course is aimed at familiarization with the methodological foundations of psychological science, the formation of skills in planning psychological research, obtaining and processing empirical data; obtaining, interpreting and presenting experimental data.

Methods of clinical-psychological intervention
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of professional competencies of emergency clinical and psychological intervention in various psychopathologies and mental traumatization. The course is aimed at the practical development of methods of clinical and psychological intervention and the development of appropriate programs. Special attention is paid to the methods of cognitive-behavioral intervention of abnormal behavior and behavioral disorders of a clinical nature, including affective spectrum disorders.

Modern methods of counseling and psychotherapy
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to form a systematic understanding of modern paradigms of counseling and psychotherapy in relation to the work of a psychologist in clinical settings, as well as skills of psychological work with patients / clients. The discipline integrates the study of the theory, methodology and practice of counseling and psychotherapy within the framework of various psychological schools and directions; focuses on creating the necessary psychological atmosphere and therapeutic environment.

Neuropsychology and psychosomatics: theory, methodology, diagnostics and practice
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to create a holistic system view of the main practical directions of clinical psychology, to form competencies in the field of diagnostics and practice of applying theoretical approaches and applied aspects of neuropsychology and psychosomatics. The discipline reveals a model of neuro-psycho diagnostic and neuropsychocorrective activity in the process of real practical work from the point of view of the biopsychosocial paradigm.

Prevention of mental and behavioral disorders
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: formation of professional competencies for the prevention of mental and behavioral disorders, development of appropriate preventive programs for medical, clinical organizations and public health. Special attention is paid to the prevention of addictions, neurotic disorders, behavioral pathologies and abnormal behavior.

Suicidology and crisis psychotherapy
  • Type of control - [RK1+MT+RK2+Exam] (100)
  • Description - Purpose: to develop the ability and willingness to perform professional tasks in the field of counseling and psychotherapeutic, psychological and educational activities aimed at people with suicidal behavior and crisis state. The discipline introduces the specifics of providing appropriate psychological assistance; focuses on taking into account the physiological, psychological and behavioral indicators of suicidal risk and crisis states of the individual.

Data for 2021-2024 years

INTERNSHIPS

Pedagogical
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - Aim оf discipline: formation of the ability to carry out educational activities in universities, to design the educational process and conduct certain types of training sessions using innovative educational technologies.

Research
  • Type of control - Защита практики
  • Description - The purpose of the practice: gaining experience in the study of an actual scientific problem, expand the professional knowledge gained in the learning process, and developing practical skills for conducting independent scientific work. The practice is aimed at developing the skills of research, analysis and application of economic knowledge.

Data for 2021-2024 years