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Work Placement I

Code: 44722
Credits: 15
2026/2027
Degree programme Type Course
General Health Psychology OB 1

Contact lecturer

Name :
Nuria Osa Chaparro
Email :
nuria.delaosa@uab.cat

Group languages

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

Prerequisites

The external internship centers can establish the prerequisites that they consider opportunities that will be made public together with the offer of places. 

Objectives

  • To observe and gradually participate (accompanied intervention and accompanied autonomous intervention) in activities that prepare the student for professional practice as a PGS (evaluation processes, design and
  • execution of the treatment and follow-up plan, supervision of cases, preparation of psychological reports and clinical courses, ....).
  • To relate, in the context of applied practice, the previous theoretical knowledge and that obtained in the master's degree.
  • To use knowledge of methodology and research to understand and collaborate, where appropriate, in research projects underway in the practice centre.
  • To learn to identify the limits of their future professional competence and know how to refer cases to specialists.

Learning outcomes

  1. Continue the learning process, to a large extent autonomously
  2. Use acquired knowledge as a basis for originality in the application of ideas, often in a research context.
  3. Integrate knowledge and use it to make judgements in complex situations, with incomplete information, while keeping in mind social and ethical responsibilities.
  4. Manage communicative resources in professional activities, adapting to individuals' characteristics and different social and cultural contexts.
  5. Apply the code of conduct in different professional contexts.
  6. Use legal and/or professional channels to report cases of ethical misconduct.
  7. Use deliberation and discussion to solve ethical problems in healthcare work.
  8. Identify ethically inappropriate professional conduct.
  9. Identify and use important clinical documents in healthcare work.
  10. Identify and justify cases requiring specialist or interdisciplinary intervention in the work context.
  11. Use resources for effective communication between healthcare professionals in a multidisciplinary context.
  12. Know the characteristics of the organisation where one is employed.
  13. Evaluate quality and give an account of one's own professional performance.
  14. Explain the consequences of critical reflection on one's own professional performance and propose improvements in quality.
  15. Recognise the importance of and identify resources for continuous professional development.
  16. Use counselling and supervision of professional practice when necessary.
  17. Apply the healthcare quality-management procedures of the work context.
  18. Identify and use personal and psychosocial qualities and skills (listening, empathy, tolerance, handling emotions, respect for users' idiosyncrasies, etc.) to communicate efficiently with patients.
  19. Apply strategies to improve communicative processes.
  20. Manage one's own and users' emotional reactions in healthcare work.
  21. Present the contents of a psychological report orally to users and professionals, explaining the conclusions clearly.
  22. Write reports in different styles and formats depending on the objective and the addressees in the work context.
  23. Use resources for effective communication between healthcare professionals in a multidisciplinary context.
  24. Identify the main obstacles to effective communication between professionals.
  25. Understand the basic terminology used by the different healthcare professionals.
  26. Adapt to the dynamics of working in unidisciplinary, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary teams.
  27. Give reasons for choosing the most suitable procedures, techniques and instruments for evaluating behaviour, cognitive processes and psychosocial factors involved in specific areas of the general health psychologist's professional activity
  28. Apply procedures, techniques and instruments for evaluating behaviour, cognitive processes, and psychosocial factors, using suitable criteria for scoring and interpretation in the work context.
  29. Critically assess the evaluation process and results in the work context.
  30. Propose effective programmes of psychological intervention that take into account individual, social and cultural factors associated with a health problem in specific areas of the general health psychologist's professional activity.
  31. Apply appropriate psychological intervention programmes to a health problem in the work context.
  32. Critically assess a psychological intervention programme carried out by others, assessing its impact and suggesting improvements in the work context.
  33. Define the objectives of the psychological intervention in each particular case in the work context.
  34. Assess the changes during the psychological intervention and propose the modifications needed in the work context.
  35. Solve problems in new or little-known situations within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to the field of study.
  36. Communicate and justify conclusions clearly and unambiguously to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.

Contents

Work Placement I Module has not an agenda per se, but objectives that have been described in the section OBJECTIVES of this Teaching Guide and that must be achieved during the internship, according to the Results of Learning module.


The language of instruction will be Spanish or Catalan, depending on the teaching staff who supervise the practices.

Learning activities and methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
Supervised activity: clinical care practice 275 11 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35
Autonomus activities: readings, preparation of presentations, report elaboration .... 100 4 1, 12, 13, 14, 23, 35, 36

AUTONOMOUS ACTIVITIES. These correspond to the readings recommended by the tutors of the centre, as well as the preparation of presentations, exhibitions or other types of work. Prepare the report or the type of work indicated by the centre.

SUPERVISED ACTIVITIES. These correspond to clinical care practice that is carried out in contact with the users of the centre and under the guidance of the professionals of the centre.

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

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
Final Report 10% 0 0 1, 3, 9, 12, 13, 14, 25, 27, 28, 29, 32, 36
Activity carried out by the student in the internship centre 90% 0 0 1, 2, 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, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36

The different tutors from the external centre and the teacher responsible for the internship module at the academic level intervene in the students' assessment.

The tutors from the external centre assess the students based on an evaluation rubric which includes the following aspects: student compliance and attitude, skills and competencies in the assessment and intervention process, communication skills and competencies, knowledge and application of ethical and deontological principles, and knowledge of the legal and institutional framework of professional practice.

The tutors who have supervised the students in any of the different rotations planned in their place of internship, will have to complete an e-form where the aforementioned aspects corresponding to the evaluation rubric. The academic tutor is responsible for calculating the students' final grade based on the evaluations received through the e-form.

The activity carried out by the students in the internship centre has a weight of 90% of the grade. The remaining 10% depends on the final report that the students will have to submit through the Moodle
classroom to the teacher responsible for the internship module.

To be able to consider that the students have completed the external internship they must:
a) Comply with the sessions and schedules of the established internship.
b) Show a respectful attitude toward patients, their families and the collaborating entity at all times.
c) Submit the report within the established deadline.
d) Achieve the learning results established for the module.
Should the student fail to comply with any of these requirements, the global grade will be a maximum of 4 points.

This subject does not provide for the single assessment system.

Students for whom there is no evidence of learning with a weight greater than 40% will appear as “not evaluable”.

The final grades of the subject are expressed to one decimal place and rounded to the next whole number if this allows a qualitative change in the grade: pass (4.85=5) / good (6.85=7) / excellent (8.85=9).

 

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Bibliography

The tutor from the external center will inform of the recommendable bibliography to complete the internship.

Software

Work Placement I Module has not software.

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
(PEXTmRD) Pràctiques externes i pràcticum (màster RD) 1 Unknown Undefined morning-mixed