This course provides an overall perspective about the normal neurodevelopment, including brain, psychological and neuropsychological typical development. It includes to show the life basic conditions required for normal development of the children and adolescent life competences. This course assumes the neurodevelopment social protection perspective to guarantee health during childhood and adolescent. This course includes theoretical and practical topics.
Course description: In this course, students explore the environmental and external factors that may potentially lead to abnormal neurodevelopment in infants, babies and adolescents. Course content will cover relevant variables such as malnutrition and violence, and delineate the ways in which these factors impact healthy neurodevelopment. Finally, students will be provided with a series of approaches to combat the implications of these variables. This course will include both theoretical and practical work.
Course description: In this course, students explore the principles of the Neuropsychological and Psychopathological assessment in children and adolescents. This includes to answer main questions about what, when and how to conduct assessment and show some tools to assess children and adolescents. This course have theoretical and practical issues.
Course description: This course focus on principles of both neuropsychological and psychopathological methodologies applied to prevention and intervention aims for children and adolescents. The course will introduce students to general models and specific strategies to promote mental health and prevent and intervene in psychopathological and neuropsychological disorders in childhood and adolescence. The practical issues will show applications to design preventive and intervention programs and measure changes in children and adolescents enrolled in rehabilitation programs. This course will include both theoretical and practical work.
This course provides an introduction to fundamentals of child and adolescent clinical neuropsychology. This includes the specific characteristics of child neuropsychology and brain damage, differences between children and adults, the process and instrument to conduct neuropsychological assessment, orientations to neuropsychological remediation and, finally, the practice of child clinical neuropsychology.
Course description: This course focus on core concepts of Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorders (ADHD) and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD): its diagnosis, assessment and treatment. Furthermore, the course explores current theories of ADHD, and the most important existing findings from Neurology, Neuroimaging, and Neuropsychology in particular. The course will introduce students to the instruments to assess ADHD/ADD, and will present different clinical cases to illustrate these disorders. This course will include both theoretical and practical work.
Course description : This course focus on core concepts of Language Disorders (LD) and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD), focusing especially on the neuropsychological functioning of children with such disorders. This course also examines the key aspects of assessment and intervention on LD/SLD. The course will introduce students to the instruments to assess LD/SLD, and will present different clinical cases to illustrate these disorders. This course will include both theoretical and practical work.
Course description: This course focus on core concepts of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD): its diagnosis, assessment and treatment. Furthermore, the course explores current neuropsychological aspects of ASD, and the most important existing findings from Neurology, Neuroimaging, and Neuropsychology in particular. The course will introduce students to the instruments to assess ASD, and will present different clinical cases to illustrate these disorders. This course will include both theoretical and practical work.
Course description: In this course students will explore cognitive, language and socio-emotional developmental alterations in children and adolescents with intellectual disability. Specifically, students will learn about the classification of intellectual disability, its epidemiology, causes and risk factors. Students will know which cognitive, language and socio-emotional alterations appear in children and adolescents with intellectual disability. Moreover, students will know some assessment instruments. This course have both, theoretical and practical contents.
Course description: This course focus on core neurodevelopmental alterations after acquired brain injury (ABI). The course will introduce students to most frequent assessment tools and practical orientations for the management of emotional, cognitive and behavioral disorders due to ABI in children and adolescents. The course will present different clinical cases to illustrate these disorders. This course will include both theoretical and practical work.
Course description: This course focus on core concepts of Emotional Disorders (ED): its diagnosis, assessment and treatment. Furthermore, the course explores current the theories that explain the origin and maintenance of emotional disorders in children and adolescents. The course will introduce students to the instruments to assess emotional disorders and practical orientations for its management. This course will include both theoretical and practical work.
Course description: This course aims to enable students to understand the refugee phenomenon from a neuropsychological perspective. Students will examine the refugee phenomenon, especially in Palestine and Jordan. Students will explore risk and protective factors, neuropsychological consequences, and mental health problems of refugee children. Furthermore, this course will focus on the neuropsychological assessment of refugee children and will provide the students with different approaches for intervention.
