General Health Psychology + Relational/Systemic PsychotherapyMaster's degree

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    Internships

    Internships (36 ECTS) give students the chance for training as they carry out tasks and duties, thus developing professional competences (skills, attitudes and aptitudes). Practical work will be carried out both in the field of General Health Psychology and Relational/Systemic Psychotherapy.

    All clinical tutors are accredited family therapists with experience in different relational issues (trauma, bereavement, inter-parental conflict, domestic violence, etc.).

    Clinical internships in Phase 1 and Phase 2 will be held in two different centres:

    Clinical internships in Phase 3 clinical placements are held in accredited external centres under the supervision of accredited professionals. To see the type of centres you can look at those linked to:

    Internship centres - General Health Psychology 

    The number of hours of clinical practice will be around 750. The hours are counted weekly, taking into account exclusively direct clinical practice, i.e. intervention, observation and supervision with a therapist.

    Internships in the field of General Health Psychology + Relational/Systemic Psychotherapy

    Internship structure

    Phase 0: Pre-practicum Seminar

    Phase 1: Co-therapy with a psychotherapist

    Phase 2: Co-therapy under live supervision of a psychotherapist

    Phase 3: Off-site therapy under deferred supervision

    The main objective of this phase is for students to be able to apply the acquired knowledge and problem-solving skills in therapeutic settings through psychotherapeutic, interpersonal communication and emotional management skills.

    This seminar will be given by the therapists involved in the other phases of the internship.

    This phase involves internships worth 12 ECTS from a relational/systemic perspective of intervention. In this phase, each student will enter the psychotherapeutic sessions as a co-therapist, always accompanied by a family therapist who will be responsible for the case.

    In addition, students will observe live psychotherapeutic sessions (behind the one-way mirror or in video-streaming) of the rest of their peers.

    This phase involves internships worth 12 ECTS from a relational/systemic perspective of intervention. However, in this phase the psychotherapeutic sessions will be conducted by a pair of students, one of whom will be responsible for the case.

    While the family therapist observes the session live , supervising the proper functioning of the session and intervening when necessary. In addition, students will continue to observe live psychotherapeutic sessions (behind the one-way mirror or in video-streaming) of the rest of their classmates, together with the family therapist, who will guide the learning of competences through this observation.

    This phase involves internships worth 12 ECTS from a relational/systemic perspective of intervention. However, psychotherapeutic sessions in this phase will be dealt with by a couple of students in external centres.

    In these centres, students offer a psychotherapeutic care service based on family therapy and attend weekly supervision sessions at the university.

    Supervision sessions will be accompanied by a psychotherapist accredited as a teaching supervisor. In the supervision sessions each student will supervise their case individually in 45-minute sessions and will also participate in the supervision of other students' cases.

    Joint Degree Programme

    Career Opportunities

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    Joint Degree Programme

    Career Opportunities

    Those pursuing this Joint Degree Programme will be qualified to work as psychologists in the health care field. They will also gain the necessary competences to work in the field of couple and family psychotherapy by acquiring specialist training as clinical or health psychologists. These requirements are established in the seventh additional provision of the General Public Health Law of October 2011 on the regulations on professional practice in the health field.

    Fields of work

    You can work in:

    Career options the Master’s degree in General Health Psychology qualifies you for

    • Private practice of the profession of general health psychologist
    • Diagnosis and intervention with mental health disorders in general
    • Residential units for the elderly
    • Psychosocial rehabilitation of chronically ill patients
    • Addiction treatment centres
    • Associations for persons with different diseases.
    • Private sector health care facilities
    • Social and health care centres for children and young people specialising in various psychopathological disorders
    • Neuropsychology diagnosis and rehabilitation units.
    • Private sector fertility units: diagnostic and treatment services for couples with childbearing difficulties

    Career options the Master’s Degree in Systemic-Relational Psychotherapy qualifies you for.

    • Private practice
    • Psychiatric units
    • Family guidance and counselling centres,
    • Care centres for couples,
    • Children’s clinical services,
    • Care services for adolescents in outpatient or residential treatment,
    • Programmes with courts or alternative sentences,
    • Services related to addressing domestic violence,
    • Mediation services,
    • Pastoral councils,
    • Student health services at schools, etc.