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Work Placement

Code: 106402
Credits: 6
2026/2027
Degree programme Type Course
Psychology OB 4

Contact lecturer

Name :
Teresa Gutiérrez Rosado
Email :
teresa.gutierrez@uab.cat

Group languages

You can consult this information at the end of the document.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for enrolling in this subject for students of the bachelor’s degree in Psychology. We recommend having finished all the courses belonging to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd academic years.

Objectives

External academic internships are an activity of an exclusively educational nature, whose purpose is to contribute to the acquisition and/or improvement of competencies related to the profession of psychology, complementing the knowledge acquired in academic training with professional practice, through direct observation of the work environment (tutors, users, and teams) and guided participation in specific interventions in each field.

The training project must set, at a minimum, the competencies that the student must acquire or improve during the internship, the specific objectives, as well as the basic activities to be developed at the center.


Learning outcomes

  1. Recognise and appreciate external assessment of personal actions.
  2. Recognise personal limitations and limitations of the discipline in the different areas of professional practice.
  3. Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
  4. Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  5. Explain the explicit or implicit deontological code in your area of knowledge.
  6. Critically analyse the principles, values and procedures that govern the exercise of the profession.
  7. Identify situations in which a change or improvement is needed.
  8. Select appropriate methods and techniques tools for solving specific practical problems given the idiosyncrasies of each situation.
  9. Select the most appropriate intervention strategies for the issues arising.
  10. Apply mediation and negotiation strategies in situations of conflict.
  11. Design performance models that take into account the family, social and community framework for promoting the quality of life of people.
  12. Classify the different techniques of program evaluation in order to assess its development, the results that have been obtained and their effectiveness.
  13. Identify the different levels for which indicators evaluating programs and interventions are required.
  14. Design strategies for collecting data and hypothesis testing to assess the extent of an intervention program and its ability to achieve the objectives for which it was designed.
  15. Operationally define indicators that will be part of the evaluation.
  16. Design strategies to evaluate a program, through the measurement of changes that these interventions have had on individuals, groups and organizations. Such strategies should facilitate subsequent decision making by professionals on the need to modify elements of the program.
  17. Properly implement the strategies and instruments for evaluating programs in order to obtain information about each performance and the impact of interventions, especially in clinical settings and health.
  18. Adequately analyse the data related to program evaluation.
  19. Reflect on the process that has been carried out with a program or intervention, identifying its scope and limitations.
  20. Use active listening techniques, thus making the verbal and nonverbal language, to create a climate that facilitates communication between two or more participants.
  21. Grasp and understand the entire message, properly interpreting its meaning based on verbal and nonverbal communication of an issuer.
  22. Show interest and consideration for the message, and understand the perspective of the issuer.
  23. Interpret the specific content of a message from the point of view of the transmitter, demonstrating responsiveness, empathy and has been well played.
  24. Conduct interviews to collect relevant information, as well as administering questionnaires and self-report scales appropriate for each situation.
  25. Make proper use of the instruments of assessment and diagnosis and assess their suitability for each particular situation and convenience, as well as their advantages and limitations.
  26. Distinguish the variables that affect adherence to a psychological intervention.
  27. Explain to recipients the intervention options and the possible advantages and disadvantages of each.
  28. Use strategies to promote the commitment of the recipient in the actions proposed intervention.
  29. Identify systems that allow the creation and e-management of individual and group histories, as well as trace logs and transmission of information to recipients of an intervention, especially in clinical and health settings.
  30. Create and maintain records that include all relevant aspects of persons, groups and situations, with proper identification and documentation.
  31. Identify systems that ensure the longevity and accuracy of the information recorded in the records.

Contents

The specific contents on which the students will have to work depend on the type of center where the internship is carried out and the specific training program proposed by the center and established in the specific educational cooperation agreements. Consult the offer of external internships to have more information about the center: the general professional field of action, the typology of the center, the users, and the main interventions at the center. You will also be able to consult the supervised activities in which the students will participate. Currently, places are offered in different fields and typologies. Giving some examples. Consult the definitive offer on the Faculty's portal:


PSYCHOLOGY OF EDUCATION EAP: Psych pedagogical Advisory Team Infant and Primary Education Center (CEIP); Psych pedagogical counseling (Private Entity-Center); Club, federations, or sports centers; Secondary Education Institute (IES)

CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY: Private entity-Psychology; EAP - Primary Care Team Addictions; CAS, TC-Flats, Rehabilitation, Reinsertion Socio-health center; Hospital-MH (Mental Health); CDIAP - Child Development and Early Care Centers; Relatives and Patients Association; Day Center-MH Residence; Penitentiary Centers (Department of Justice); City Council-Childhood and Adolescence; Care Infant and Primary Education Center (CEIP); CSMA - Adult Mental Health Center; CSMIJ - Child-Juvenile Mental Health; Center Day; hospital-MH ; MH Occupational Therapy.

HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY: Intellectual disability and chronicity or aging; City Council-Well-being and Health; Public Health Agency (prevention and/or health promotion); City Council-Women's Resource; Foundation-Hope online; Foundation-disability labor insertion; Environmental psychology.

PSYCHOLOGY OF WORK AND ORGANIZATIONS Company: human resources departments (HR);Company: market studies Health and well-being in work environments

PSYCHOLOGY OF SOCIAL INTERVENTION: Mental health and families care Consultancy; projects, programs, and social policy Socio-educational space; children and adolescents; Mental health and aging; Mediation services; Socio-educational services; City Council: Feminism and LGTBI; Services Abuse victims care center; Department of Justice; School canteens: time for education, nutrition, and leisure.

RESEARCH. In recognized research groups in the different departments of the Faculty: Department of Psychobiology and Methodology of Health Sciences; Department of Clinical and Health Psychology; Department of Basic, Evolutionary, and Educational Psychology; Department of Social Psychology.


Learning activities and methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
Tutorials with the academic tutor 5 0.2
Activities developed at the assigned centre 120 4.8
Report writing 25 1

The tutor of the external center will supervise 83% of the students' activity. The remaining 17% corresponds to autonomous work (search for documentation, reading, preparation of the memory/report...) and to tutoring sessions with the academic tutor.


A minimum of 2 academic tutoring sessions is planned:

First tutoring session (academic tutor): 'presentation of the subject', is carried out before starting the internship and has the purpose of giving information about the characteristics of the subject, the internship centers, evaluation system, concretization of the follow-up tutorials, communication modality and action in case of incidents among others. Attendance at this session is mandatory: it is not allowed to contact the center before this session. This tutoring session is part of the evaluation evidence corresponding to 'follow-up tutorials' with a weight of 2%.


Second tutoring session (academic tutor): 'intermediate follow-up'. It is carried out in the middle of the first or second period with the group of students of the corresponding period. This group session has the purpose of evaluating ongoing internships (with brief explanations of the internship experience by the students), collection of suggestions, resolution of doubts, reminder of the memory/report and publication of grades among others. This tutoring session is part of the evaluation evidence corresponding to 'follow-up tutorials' with a weight of 3%. Each academic tutor will inform you of the specific date and location.


Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Assessment

Continuous assessment activities

Title Weight Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
EV2- REPORT (evaluated by academic tutor) 20% 0 0 1, 21, 27
EV1-REPORT evaluated by the center tutor 75% 0 0 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
EV3-FOLLOW-UP TUTORIALS (with an academic tutor) 5% 0 0 2, 23, 25, 27

In the evaluation of the external internships intervenes the tutor of the external center (75% of the final grade) and the academic tutor (25% of the final grade), based on 3 types of evidence:

EV1-Evaluation report from the center's tutor (75%) Complete an evaluation rubric that includes a quantitative (from 0 to 10) and qualitative assessment, taking into account: attendance and compliance with the schedule, attitude and disposition, and level of learning achieved. Once the internship period is finished, the external tutor must complete the student evaluation form within a maximum of fifteen days after the end of the internship period. The academic tutor will give them access to this form.

EV2-Memory (20%) Delivered by the students to the virtual campus of the subject in the scheduled calendar for the first or second period. It is evaluated by the academic tutor through a rubric, according to the sections of the memory, at the end of the first or second period according to the scheduled calendar on the Faculty's portal.

EV3-Follow-up tutorials (5%) With the academic tutor: a minimum of 2 tutorials are scheduled in the weeks established in the calendar:

  • First tutorial session (academic tutor): 'presentation of the subject' (2%), attendance is mandatory.
  • Second tutorial session (academic tutor): 'intermediate follow-up' (3%).

To consider that students have passed the external internships, it is required that: a) Attend at least the 2 follow-up sessions established by the teaching guide (EV3). b) Submit the internship report to the virtual campus within the established periods (EV2). c) Complete the corresponding internship hours at the assigned center under the supervision of the tutor of the external center (see additional considerations). d) Obtain a MINIMUM GRADE OF 4 in EV1 (Center tutor's report) and EV2 (Report). IF ALL PREVIOUS REQUIREMENTS ARE MET, EXTERNAL INTERNSHIPS WILL BE CONSIDERED WHEN THE AVERAGE RESULT OF THE THREE EVIDENCE IS 5 OR HIGHER. In case of not meeting these requirements, the maximum grade to be recorded in the academic record will be 4.5 points, with the following additional considerations regarding point (c): (1) If less than 40% of the 120 hours have been completed at the internship center, the final grade will be: Not evaluable; (2) If between 40% and less than 100% of the 120 hours have been completed at the internship center, the final grade will be between 0 and 4, proportional to the hours completed.

The academic tutor is responsible for compiling the evaluation of all the learning evidence, as well as publishing it on the virtual campus and reviewing the final grade of the subject, at the end of each period.

The subject coordinator is responsible for transferring the grades to SIGMA and closing the subject records.

In accordance with article 261 of the UAB academic regulations (https://www.uab.cat/doc/oci_normativa_academica_enllac), no recovery system is contemplated. This subject does not contemplate single evaluation or synthesis test. Link to the evaluation guidelines of the Faculty: https://www.uab.cat/doc/DOC_PautesAvaluacio_2026

Return type Types of evidence Week
Rubric Memory Week 3/20
Rubric Center tutor report Week 19/20

USE IA- Restricted

\"For this subject, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is permitted exclusively for support tasks, such as bibliographic or information searches and text correction. Students must clearly identify which parts have been generated using this technology, specify the tools used, and include a critical reflection on how these have influenced the process and the final result of the activity. Failure to disclose the use of AI in this assessable activity will be considered academic dishonesty and may result in a partial or total penalty on the activity grade, or more severe penalties in serious cases.\"


Bibliography

There is not an specific bibliography. However academic tutor and the tutor of the centre will provide the student documents (articles, books, rapports, web pages) which complete the knowledge about the activities and contents developed at the centre.

Software

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Course groups and languages

The information provided is provisional until November 30. After this date, you will be able to consult the language of each group through this link. To access the information, you will need to enter the course CODE

Type of teaching Group Language Semester Shift
(PEXT) Pràctiques externes i pràcticum 1 Catalan annual morning-mixed