Themes and specializations
Would you like to gain a better understanding of psychopathological disorders and brain disorders and deficits?
Within the theme Mental Health: perspectives from Neuro- and Clinical Psychology, we combine insights from clinical psychology, clinical neuropsychology, and psychometrics, rendering a unique multidisciplinary approach. We address associations between brain and behaviour, but the programme also has a focus on understanding the causal mechanisms underlying the onset and maintenance of disorders. Moreover, insight in transdiagnostic (dysfunctional) cognitive, emotional, and behavioural processes is combined with insight in specific disorders, their symptoms, and effects on everyday functioning. You will gain the knowledge and tools to conduct fundamental research as well as more applied research on assessment, diagnosis, and improving interventions in healthcare.
Students also have the opportunity to train in advanced diagnostic and other clinical skills to qualify for a postgraduate training programme including the Dutch GZ-opleiding. In terms of ECTS spent on clinically relevant components (including courses, traineeship and skills subjects) this is equivalent to the RUG Master's degree in Clinical Psychology or Clinical Neuropsychology- where our programme includes a thorough and more extensive research-oriented training. With a statement of the programme, you can enrol in several postgraduate programs. Please contact us for such a statement or if you want to know more about this option.
Specializations in this theme:
Clinical Neuropsychology | Clinical Psychology | Psychometrics and Statistics
For questions about the MH theme contact j.p.wessel rug.nl.
Would you like to gain insights in how individuals develop across the lifespan and become active contributors to society?
The Individual Development in Social context (IDS) track uses a multidisciplinary perspective on human development. Our goal is to better understand the processes that underlie the development of the marked differences in emotions, happiness, creativity, identity, learning ability, motivations, and the comorbidity of somatic and mental problems as they unfold over the lifespan. What is abnormal or healthy? What is the role of culture and society? How are individual differences and lifespan changes reflected in our interactions with parents, siblings, peers, friends, teachers, colleagues, romantic relationships, the jobs we choose, or society more broadly? How can we intervene in individual development? Our courses cover the domains of Developmental Psychology and Psychopathology, Sociology, Positive psychology, (ortho)Pedagogy and Educational Sciences, and Methodology and Statistics. We believe that happiness and somatic and mental health (and problems) can only be understood from a lifespan perspective that also covers the worlds in which we live and grow.
By the end of the program, students will be proficient in both theoretical and conceptual modeling and empirically studying how interpersonal contexts shape individual development across the life span. In addition, students will master research method techniques to analyze three-dimensional data (persons, variables and time points), such as dynamic network analyses, time-series analyses, and complex dynamic system models. Also qualitative methods (such as interviews and text analyses) and social network approaches (e.g., ego-networks and genograms) are part of our toolbox. Students have the opportunity to train in diagnostic and clinical skills for postdoctoral training during an internship. This program is designed to prepare students for PhD studies, but also for a professional career in social science research institutes and educational and clinical settings.
Specializations in this theme:
Developmental Psychology | Orthopedagogy | Pedagogical and Educational Sciences | Psychometrics and Statistics | Sociology
For questions about the IDS theme contact a.lichtwarck-aschoff rug.nl.
Specializations in this theme:
Environmental Psychology | Organizational Psychology | Psychometrics and Statistics | Social psychology | Sociology
For questions about the UCS theme contact b.bilecen rug.nl.
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