The course aims to improve students’ knowledge of
- useful and practical tools and techniques in order to conduct psychological assessment in clinical and health psychology;
- theoretical models and clinical practice in psychological interventions and psychotherapy. It will be used an approach focused in clinical practice to allow students to use theories and techniques of psychological assessment and interventions as close as possible to real-world experience.

Understanding:
- knowing and describing the theories and the use of the different instruments of psychological assessment;
- to describe the psychological determinants of psychotherapeutic treatment;
- to describe the fundamental characteristics of psychological processes within the therapeutic setting;
- to know the main theoretical models of psychotherapy.

Making judgments:
- ability to choose assessment tools that are consistent for the referral questions:
- to deepen the psychological aspects of psychotherapy;
- to link psychological constructs and therapeutic outcomes;
- to assess the effectiveness of psychotherapies.

Communication skills: the student will be able:
- to report the results deriving from psychological assessment;
able to:
- relate psychological models to treatment techniques;
- plan psychological interventions.