1. Welcome to the
Master in Psychology
Specialization Health Psychology
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2. What can you do with an
MSc health psychology?
Health promotion Psychological care in
chronic disease
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3. Professional perspectives
• Community health centers (GG & GD)
• National health funds
• Government
• Rehabilitation centers
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4. Professional perspectives
• General hospital
• Medical psychology settings
• Companies
• Primary health care settings
• Research institutes (e.g. RIVM, NIVEL, TNO) & universities
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5. What do you need to do
afterwards…..
• You CAN proceed with the Post Master training
• This is the case for all students who do Clinical, C&A or
Clin.Neuro
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6. Postmaster BIG programmes
GZ-psychologist
Child/adults Clinical
2 yr psychologist
Master
4 yr
1 yr
Bachelor
CP
3 yr
HP
Psychotherapist
CNP Clinical neuro-
Child/Adults
CAP psychologist
4 yr
4 yr
(3 yr for GZ)
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7. Post-master training programs
at the moment
• Health care psychologist PDO ‘GZ-psycholoog’ (adult)
(many applicants, few places)
• PDO ‘Psychotherapeut’ (Adults)
• PhD-study
• Specific therapy-training programs (e.g. Cognitive-behavior
therapy, client-centred therapy)
• Please note that additional requirements have to be met
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8. Additional requirements
postmaster programmes
Obligatory for postmaster GZ-psycholoog:
• Organisation and legal and ethical aspects of the health care
system (is part of your internship)
• Internship of at least 520 hours (20 ECTS) with supervised
assessment and treatment
• Three diagnostic cases with diverse assessment questions and
diagnostic instruments and supervised by a licensed
supervisor (BAPD)
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9. Additional requirements
postmaster programmes
Obligatory* for postmaster Psychotherapeut:
• Cultural aspects of health and health care given in sem 2
period 2
• Seksuologie given sem 2 period 1
• Biopsychopathology and psychopharmacology given in Sem 1,
period 1
• Internship of at least 240 hours (10 ECTS) with supervised
assessment and treatment
* No strict requirement
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10. What does the health psychology
program
look like?
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11. MSc Program Health Psychology
Standard Alternative
• Mandatory courses 20 ec 20 ec
• Electives 0 ec 10 ec
• Internship 20* ec 10 ec
• Thesis 20 ec 20 ec
* incl. Organisational, ethical & legal aspects
of health care (+ BAPD)
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12. Health psychology programma (start Sept 2012)
September October November December January February March April May June
36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 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
BTS (5) CBI (5)
HPDP (5) PAICD (5)
Thesis (20) Internship (20)
BTS (5) CBI (5) Elective HPiP (5) Possible elective (5)
HPDP (5) PAICD (5) Internship (10)
Thesis (20)
TCCS (10) IBV internship (10)
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13. Basic therapeutic skills
• 2x yearly
• 1 two-hour lecture on what patients need from a therapeutic
relationship in order to benefit from treatment.
• 14 three-hour workgroups on training in basic therapeutic skills, such
as handling a psychotherapeutic relationship, formulating a treatment
plan, monitoring and evaluating the process of treatment, treatment
termination
• Workgroups will be in English and Dutch (Tue-Thu)
• Separate lecture and workgroups for health psychology and clinical
psychology
• Coordinator: Veronica Janssen
Act.code: Lect 4781, Int: 6855, Dutch: 9435
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14. Cognitive-behavioral interventions
• 2x yearly
• 7 two-hour lectures on general aspects of cognitive-behavior
therapy and specific interventions for different psychopathologies
• 14 four-hour workgroups on training in basic cognitive-behavioral
interventions, such as, case formulation, exposure, response
prevention, and changing negative thoughts
• Applying these interventions as an apprentice therapist with one of
the fellow students
• Workgroups will be in English and Dutch (Tue-Thu)
• Separate workgroups for health psychology and clinical psychology
• Coordinator: Véronique de Gucht
Act.code: Lect: 1964, Int: 2627, Dutch: 2636
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15. Health promotion & disease prevention
• 1x yearly
• 4 two-hour lectures on recent insights into theory- and evidence-
based health promotion and a systematic approach to design and
implement effective interventions.
• 7 three-hour workgroups, where students will work in groups to
design an intervention aimed at improving health. In a final step,
they will implement and evaluate part of the intervention in a real-
life situation.
• English and Dutch spoken workgroups will be given on Thursdays or
Fridays, the groups will be made in the first lecture.
• Coordinator: Winnie Gebhardt
Act.code: lect 4837, workgroups all: 5808
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16. Psychological assessment and
interventions in chronic disease
• 1x yearly
• 7 two-hour lectures on the epidemiology of, and specific psychosocial
problems associated with a variety of chronic diseases. Disease-
specific psychosocial intervention strategies for the enhancement of
quality of life and/or self-management are addressed.
• 7 three-hour workgroups where the use of different assessment
instruments are trained and the practical use of specific intervention
strategies in patients with chronic disease are addressed.
• English(Wed) and Dutch-spoken (Thu) workgroups are given
• Coordinator: Véronique de Gucht
Act.code: Lect: 4838, All 6007-6008
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17. Master thesis
• A thesis-information-meeting will be held in October, you will get a
personal invitation by Umail
• Topics will be presented and you can indicate your topics of interest
• You will be allocated and than you talk to the corresponding staff
member in order to choose a specific topic together
• There are 2 presentations
– Oral presentation of research proposal (2nd week of Feb 2013)
– Poster presentation of results (2nd week of June 2013)
• There are 2 deadlines scheduled:
– handing in the research proposal (before March 1, 2013)
– Handing in final thesis (end of June 2013)
• Thesis coordinator: Margot van der Doef
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18. Internship
• An internship-info-meeting will be held in October
• Preferably you start an internship after you finished most your
courses and most of your thesis
• The timing (nr. of days a week) of the internship is flexible, and
depends on the wishes of you and the organization.
• Finding a place: finding one yourself or apply to listed
organisations. Criteria in internship manual (BB  MSc Health
psychology general internship).
• International students can do a practical internship (10 or 20 ec)
or a research internship (10 ec) or combine their thesis with an
internship. In case of a 10 ec internship 5 ec electives and Health
Psychology in Practice (5 ec) are required.
• Internship coordinator: Chris Verhoeven
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19. What courses can you take
besides the ‘mandatory’
program?
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20. Electives
There is not much time to do extra courses
BUT
• List of electives in e-guide (from own & other specialisations)
• Electives from specialisations within psychology
• Health psychology in Practice is recommended if you decide to
choose electives
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21. Preparatory course in
Methodology and Statistics
• International students and external students who would like to
update their knowledge and/or skills in statistics can do a
course in the first semester, to be prepared for the thesis
process.
• Leiden BA students can do the course if the think they need it.
• If it was a requirement in your admission, you need to pass the
course (≥ 5,5)
• Course runs from Sept to Dec.
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22. Master committee (MOC)
There is a Master Comittee responsible for all kinds of issues that
are important for the master programs (p.e. evaluation of the
courses, standardization of regulations between specializations,
information stream bottom-up, etc)
Each specialisation is represented by 1 Dutch-speaking student, 1
lecturer and an international representative.
Who would like to join the MOC?
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23. Mentor-system
• Students will get a personal mentor
• Mentorship is obligatory (no ec’s)
• Three meetings a year
• You get an invitation for your first meeting soon
Aim:
• To discuss choices within the master program (e.g. electives)
• To discuss problems with the study (e.g. progress or
organisational problems)
• To discuss future perspectives (e.g. internship, postmaster
courses)
• To get referred to the right persons
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24. Procedure to subscribe
Subscribing with Usis for 1st semester courses of 2012-2013 will be
possible this afternoon between 12.00-15.00 hours
• In January 2013 you subscribe for the courses of the 2nd semester
• Read carefully in Usis the remarks (e.g. “Students Health
Psychology”, “international students”, “English”), so you subscribe
to the right coursegroup (remember the act.codes of the courses)
• If Usis reports for a chosen elective: “Full” or “waiting list” there is
a realistic possibility that you can not follow the course. However if
it is a mandatory course you will always be placed.
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25. Basics
• Secretariate Clinical and Health psychology (2B57): You can
address them with questions regarding your workgroups, results of
exams, etc.
• Usis: You need that function to subscribe for courses, check your
grades, subscribe for exams (10 calendar days in advance of the
exam!)
• Studentnumber: if you have not received that yet, contact the
onderwijsdienst or the International Office immediately. For
subscription: Mrs. De Groot 2A55
• Blackboard: there you find the latest info on courses, results from
exams, assignments for workgroups…. You enrol yourself
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26. Basics
• Umail: use your umail address for all correspondence with the
university (forward it to your personal mail if you don’t check it
regularly)… the university will use umail for important messages
• Apply for graduation at the onderwijsdienst: There are 5
moments a year to graduate (last Wednesday in: Sept, Nov, Feb,
April, June). Two month before graduation all grades need to be
handed in.
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27. Welcome drink
Beginning of next week you will get
an invitation for a drink
Perfect opportunity to meet
fellow students (also Feb group)
& staff!!
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28. Questions??
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