Master Courses
Lectures and Seminars
winter semester
seminar ‘vocational rehabilitation’
- Theory, topics, strategies and methods of rehabilitation research
- Laws (e.g. SGB IX) and (international) classification systems (e.g. WHO/ ICF)
- Functionality in work context, impairment and health in rehabilitation context
- Intervention methods and offerings in rehabilitation
- Participation of chronically ill and impaired people in work context
- Individualized and modularized retraining methods (tele-tutoring, e-learning)
- Internal and external quality assurance methods in rehabilitation
seminar ‘intervention and training programs’
- Preserving and regaining vocational acting competence
- Design and requirements regarding specific training programs with focus on social competences and adequate programs
- Cognitive and behavior related theories and methods
- Competence and compensation related programs to regain everyday functioning and acting competence of people with sensumotor, cognitive, emotional or behavioral disabilities
- Focusing social competence in experiencing a group training for social competence (aspects of social competence from a theoretical and methodical point of view)
project seminar ‘conditions for successful vocational rehabilitation’
- Studying relevant publications in vocational rehabilitation
- Working out a relevant question, e.g. about assess to vocational rehabilitation programs, reintegration factors, quality assessment, effectiveness of programs
- Planning and realizing an empirical study
- Independent data evaluation and interpretation
- Public result presentation
- Writing up a scientific result paper
colloquium: presentation of research results I ‘psychology in vocational rehabilitation‘
- examination of relevant publications regarding a specific topic
- analyzing and discussing content and theoretical developments, current empirical results, methodological approaches, questions of study design
summer semester
seminar ‘diagnostical instruments for vocational rehabilitation‘
- international classification systems (DSM-IV, ICD-10, ICIDH)
- diagnostic and assessment in rehabilitation
- cognitive function disorders (e.g. memory disorders, attention disorders, etc.)
- WHO-orientated approaches of measuring everyday life disorders (e.g. mobility disorders, communication disorders)
- classification and dimensional diagnostics in clinical-psychological diagnostics, specific approaches in vocational rehabilitation diagnostics)
seminar ‘development and presentation of reports‘
- adequate evaluation of test results
- adequate interpretation of test results in respect to its prior aim (orientation at guidelines for creating psychological reports)
- setting up a report step by step while considering formal and content related aspects
- practical examples out of different perspectives (clinical-psychologically, social-medically, social)
seminar ‘evaluative research‘
- laboratory research vs. applied research
- ethical issues
- applied research and ist evaluation
- paradigms of evaluative research
- research designs, evaluation designs.
- adequate behavior of researcher in applied research
- gathering valide evaluation information, a priori vs a posterior (statistical) control of content conditions, situational specifications)
- reception and applications of results from evaluative studies
colloquium: presentation of own research results II ‘psychology in vocational rehabilitation‘
- presentation of own study results
- analyzing and discussing content and theoretical developments, current empirical results, methodological approaches, questions of study design
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