SUBJECT
Rorschach Test 2
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master
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Semesters 1-3
Autumn/Spring semester
Aim of the course
The aim of the course is to contextualise the use of the Rorschach test within a counselling process and framework, and to understand it as a clinical differential diagnostic tool.
Another important aim is to provide, through practical lessons, the further development of the technical skills for administering, scoring and interpreting the Rorschach test.
After administering and scoring the test, students will develop the capacity to consider how the information that emerges from the test can create a descriptive profile of a client.
The course will take the tradition of the use of the test in a non-clinical setting, i.e, career counselling, special needs diagnostics, and the therapeutic use of the test feedback in the process of counselling.
The Column 5 administering and interpretation of the test is another important aim of the curse, and in addition to the standard Rorschach approach, Colunm 5 will be considered as an autonomous content analysis and actometry framework.
The students will be introduced to the differential diagnostic potential of the test especially in the field of psychosis and suicide prevention.
Learning outcome, competences
knowledge:
- The students will develop the basic knowledge in the field of projective diagnostics and the specific use of Rorschach test in clinical and non-clinical
- They can place the development of the test within the history of psychiatry and psychology
- They know the scopes and uses of the test
- They know the basic parameters and indicators of the test
- They know the advanced level scoring of the test in order to administer differential diagnostics in the field of suicide and psychosis prevention
attitude:
- They acknowlwdge and aware of the scope and reliability of the test and can adequately use it within the system of psychological testing tools and interventions
- They can use the results of the test in professional coimmunication
- They can understand the importance of the field and remain óin constant learning process to maintain excellence
skills:
- They can decide whether the use of the test is appropriate propfessionally and can develop an expert role in a professional community
- they can administer the test correctly
- They can create a professionally usable report to describe the result for a professional team
- they can use and understand the basic parameters and indicators of the test
- They know the advanced level scoring of the test in order to administer differential diagnostics in the field of suicide and psychosis prevention, and can create a diagnostic report to help a professional team
Content of the course
Topics of the course
- Administering the Rorschach test
- testing and retesting
- The localization tables
- I column identification
- II column identification
- III column identification
- IV column identification
- Column V interpretation.
- Column 5 as content analysis
- Calculating the basic indicators and parameters
- Anxiety and risk assessment through the Rorschach test
- Differential diagnostics and the Rorschach test
- Career counseling and Rorschach test
- Special needs and rehabilitation and the use of the Rorschach test
- Suicide prevention and Rorschach test
- Psychosis prevention and Rorschach test
Learning activities, learning methods
Evaluation of outcomes
Learning requirements, mode of evaluation, criteria of evaluation:
- The participation in the classes is compulsory because of the close skill learning-feedback context. Through the semester the students are provided with demo reports where they can practice the administration and the scoring of the test.
- At the end of the semester, a test is written by the students with two profiles: one is measuring the administration and scoring, the other part is measuring the ability of assessing and compiling a report based ont he indicators.
- The two profiles will bright about one grade (five levels ECTS, from Failed to A+).
Compulsory reading list
- Mérei Ferenc (2004) A Rorschach-próba. Budapest: Medicina.
Recommended reading list
Mérei, F., Szakács, F. (1974) Klinikai pszichodiagnosztikai módszerek. Budapest: Medicina.
Trull, E., J. Phares, T., J. (2004) Klinikai pszichológia. Budapest: Osiris.