A European Framework for Psychologists' Training

Project carried out with the support of the European Community within the framework of the Leonardo da Vinci Programme

CURRICULUM CONTENT - SPAIN

In addition to the regulations referred to the structure of the curriculum (see previous section), the core topics (that can be split in one or more courses) and the minimal teaching load (number of credits) as well as a brief description of the contents have also been regulated by Decree from the Ministry. These minimal contents are compulsory for the Psychology curriculum in every University in Spain teaching the LICENCIATURA EN PSICOLOGÍA.

Core Topics	Compulsory contents	Credits
FIRST CYCLE
Psychological Assessment	Basic principles	8
	Data gathering techniques
	Tests
History of Psychology	History, theories and systems of Psychology	5
Methods, designs and techniques of psychological research	Observational, selective and experimental methodology	16
	Descriptive and inferential statistics
	Psychological measurement
	Qualitative methodologies
	Theory and techniques of test, scales and questionnaire construction
	Qualitative methodologies
Basic Psychological Process	Learning and conditioning	19
	Attention, Perception, Memory, Motivation and Emotion
Psychobiology	Principles of genetics and evolution	16
	Basics of neurosciences
	Physiological Psychology and Ethology
Developmental Psychology	Contexts, mechanisms, facets and phases of the development	11
	Development of psychological processes
Personality Psychology	Personality and individual differences	8
	Theories, empirical dimensions
	Current issues of personality
Social Psychology	Pyschosociological theories	9
	Social attitudes
	Collective behavior
	Environment and behavior
SECOND CYCLE
Psychopathology and intervention and psychological treatment techniques	Psychological processes pathology	9
	Abnormal psychology
	Intervention and psychological treatment techniques
Educational Psychology	Learning at school and instruction	9
	Contents and variables of learning at school
	Educational relationship
	Educational Psychology and School Psychology
Group and Organisational Psychology	Structure, processes and relationships of groups	9
	Psychological approach to organisations
	Typology of organisations
	Group and organisational intervention strategies
Psychology of thinking and language	Reasoning mechanisms and problem solving	9
	Productive thinking
	Language understanding and production
	Language and thinking
PRACTICUM	Stage in companies or other centres of psychological practice	9

Taking into account the regulations about the structure of the curriculum and the previous compulsory core contents for every University in Spain, each University designed its own curriculum (around 1992). After 5 years of experience a review of these curricula has been carried out in all the universities. Here we present the reviewed curriculum contents of the University of Valencia.

Cycle	Year	Title of course	Type of course	Credits Theory	Credit Practice
1st	1st	Psychological assessment	Core	6	3
1st	1st	History of Psychology	Core	6	3
1st	1st	Data analysis in Psychology	Core	6	0
1st	1st	Data analysis in processing in Psychology	Core	0	4.5
1st	1st	Perception and attention	Core	4.5	1.5
1st	1st	Learning psychology	Core	4.5	1.5
1st	1st	Psychobiology (I)	Core	6	0
1st	1st	Psychobiology (II)	Core	6	0
1st	1st	Developmental Psychology (I)	Core	4.5	1.5
1st	2nd	Psychometrics	Core	6	3
1st	2nd	Psychology of memory	Core	4.5	1.5
1st	2nd	Motivation and Emotion	Core	4.5	1.5
1st	2nd	Laboratory of Psychobiology	Core	0	4.5
1st	2nd	Personality Psychology	Core	4.5	3
1st	2nd	Psychology of diversity	Core	3	1.5
1st	2nd	Developmental Psychology (II)	Core	4.5	1.5
1st	2nd	Social Psychology	Core	7.5	0
1st	2nd	Social Psychology (practice)	Core	0	4.5
1st	3rd	Family development	Uni Comp	3	1.5
1st	3rd	Learning difficulties	Uni Comp	3	1.5
1st	3rd	Research Methods and Design in Psychology	Uni Comp	6	3
1st	3rd	Psychoendorinology	Uni Comp	3	1.5
1st	3rd	Psychofamachology	Uni Comp	4.5	1.5
1st	3rd	Work Psychology	Uni Comp	3	1.5
1st	3rd	4 Optional courses from the following list:	Optional	3+3+3+3	1.5+1.5+1.5+.1.5
		Multivariate and qualitative data analysis
		Child and youth psychological assessment
		Psychological assessment of adults
		Developmental intervention in ageing process
		Personality and social behavior
		Data processing applied to behavioral sciences
		Psychobiology of sport and physical activity
		Psycho-immunology
		Communication Psychology
		Economic Psychology
		Information and documentation technologies for Psychology
		Personality theories
		Psychology of traffic and road safety
		Developmental transitions
		Affective attachment
2nd	4th	Educational and Instructional Psychology	Core	3	1.5
2nd	4th	School Psychology	Core	3	1.5
2nd	4th	Organisational Psychology	Core	4.5	3
2nd	4th	Social Psychology of Groups	Core	3	1.5
2nd	4th	Language Psychology	Core	4.5	1.5
2nd	4th	Psychology of thought	Core	4.5	1.5
2nd	4th	General Psychopathology	Core	4.5	1.5
2nd	4th	Introduction to Intervention techniques and psychological treatment	Core	4.5	1.5
2nd	4th	2 Optional Courses from the following list	Optional	3+3	1.5+1.5
		Data analysis and processing for professional practice
		Test construction and analysis
		Delinquency: family and other socialisation contexts
		Human resources management
		Human resources development
		Design for applied research
		Pool and opinion surveys
		Programme evaluation
		Intervention with children with special educational needs
		Formal models applied to Psychological processes
		Motivation in sport and physical activity
		Motivation and learning in additive processes
		Neuropsychology
		New technologies applied to psychopedagogical interventions
		Educational and developmental optimization
		Sociomoral thinking and prosocial behavior
		Personality and stress
		Psychological processes and gender
		Psychobiology of aggression and violence
		Psychobiology of drug addiction
		Psychobiology of ageing
		Applied psycholinguistics
		Clinical psychology
		Community psychology
		Diversity psychology: Identity and gender
		Psychology of Health
		Consumer Psychology
		Psychology of social marketing
		Social Psychology of family
		Social Psychology of health
		Ergonomy and Social Psychology of New technologies
		Social Psychology of organisational change
		Social Psychology of sport
		Vocational Psychology
		Child psychopathology
		Psychological Interview techniques
		Traffic Psychology and road safety (II)
		Cognitive and behavioral treatments (I)
		Cognitive and behavioral treatments (II)
		Experiential and systematic treatments
2nd	5th	Practicum	Core	0	12
2nd	5th	9 Optional courses from the list above	Core	0	12