PAPER – I

Psychosocial Foundations of Behavior and Psychopathology

Part – A (Psychosocial Foundations of Behavior)

Unit - I
Introduction
Scope of clinical psychology
Overview of the profession and practice
History and growth
Professional role and functions
Current issues and trends
Areas of specialization
Ethical and legal issues
Code of conduct

Unit - II
Mental health and illness
Mental health care – past and present
Stigma and attitude towards mental illness
Concept of mental health and illness
Perspectives
Psychodynamic
Behavioral
Cognitive
Humanistic
existential and biological models of mental health/illness

Unit - III
Epidemiology
Epidemiological studies in the Indian context
Socio-cultural correlates of mental illness
Mental health- psychological well-being and quality of life
Unit - IV
Self and relationships
Self-concept
Self-image
Self-perception
Self-regulations in mental health and illness
Learned helplessness
Attribution theories
Social skill model Interpersonal
communication models of mental illness
Stress diathesis model
Resilience, coping, and social support

Unit - V
Family influences
Early deprivation and trauma
Neglect and abuse
Attachment separation
Inadequate parenting styles
Marital discord and divorce
maladaptive peer relationships
Communication style
Family burden
Emotional adaptation
Expressed emotions and relapse

Unit - VI
Societal influences
Discrimination in race, gender, and ethnicity
Social class and structure
Poverty and unemployment
Prejudice, social change and uncertainty
Crime and delinquency
Social tension & violence
Urban stressors
Torture & terrorism
Culture shock
Migration
Religion & Gender
Related issues with reference to India.

Unit - VII
Disability
Definition and classification of disability
Psychosocial models of disability
Impact, needs, and problems
Issues related to assessment/certification of disability - areas and measures

Unit - VIII
Rehabilitation
Approaches to rehabilitation
Interventions in the rehabilitation processes
Models of adaptation to disability
Family and caregivers' issues
Rights of mentally ill
Empowerment issues
Support to recovery

Unit - IX
Policies and Acts
Rehabilitation Policies and Acts
Mental Health Act of 1987 National Mental Health Program 1982,
Persons With Disabilities
Equal opportunities, protection of rights, and full participation-Act 1995
Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) Act of 1992
National Trust for Mental Retardation
CP and Autistic Children 1999
Juvenile Justice Act of 1986
Mental Health Care Bill 2011
Ethical and forensic issues in psychiatry practice
Assistance, concessions, social benefits, and support from government and voluntary
organizations
Contemporary challenges
Rehabilitation ethics and professional code of conduct
 Part – B (Psychopathology)

Unit - X
Introduction to psychopathology
Definition
Concepts of normality and abnormality
Clinical criteria of abnormality
Continuity (dimensional) versus discontinuity (categorical)
Prototype models of psychopathology
Classification and taxonomies
Reliability and utility
Classificatory systems
Currently in use and their advantages and limitations
Approach to clinical interviewing and diagnosis
Case history
Mental status examination
Organization and presentation of psychiatric information
diagnostic formulation

Unit - XI
Psychological theories
Psychodynamic
Behavioral
Cognitive
Humanistic
Interpersonal
Psychosocial
Other prominent theories/models of principal clinical disorders and problems,
Anxiety
Obsessive-compulsive
Somatoform
Dissociative
Adjustment
Sexual
Substance use
Personality
Suicide
childhood and adolescence
Psychotic
Mood disorders
Culture-specific disorders

Unit - XII
Indian thoughts
Concept of mental health and illness
Nosology and taxonomy of mental illness
Social identity and stratification
Varnashrama Vyawastha
Concept of
Cognition
Emotion
Personality
Motivation and their disorders
 PAPER - II: Statistics and Research Methodology
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Unit - I
Introduction
Various methods to ascertain knowledge
Scientific method and its features
Problems in measurement in behavioral sciences
Levels of measurement of psychological variables
Nominal
Ordinal
Interval
ratio scales
Test construction
Item analysis
Concept and methods of establishing
Reliability
Validity
Norms

Unit - II
Sampling
Probability and non-probability
Various methods of sampling
Simple
Random
Stratified
Systematic
Cluster
Multistage sampling
Sampling and non-sampling errors
Methods of minimizing these errors

Unit - III
Concept of probability
Probability distribution
Normal
Poisson
Binomial
Descriptive statistics
Central tendency
Dispersion
Skewness and kurtosis

Unit - IV
Hypothesis testing
Formulation and types
Null hypothesis
Alternate hypothesis
Type I and type II errors
Level of significance
Power of the test
P-value
Concept of standard error
Confidence interval

Unit - V
Tests of significance
Parametric tests
Requirements
"t" test
Normal z-test
"F" test including
Post-hoc tests
One-way
Two-way analysis of variance
Analysis of covariance
Repeated measures analysis of variance
Simple linear correlation and regression

Unit – VI
Tests of significance
Non-parametric tests
Assumptions
One-sample tests
Sign test
Mc Nemer test
Two-sample test
Mann Whitney U test
Wilcoxon rank sum test
K-sample tests
Kruskal Wallies test
Friedman test
Chi-square test

Unit - VII
Experimental design
Randomization
Replication
Completely randomized design
Randomized block design
Factorial design
Crossover design
Single subject design
Non-experimental design

Unit - VIII
Epidemiological studies
Rates
Prevalence
Incidence
Types
Prospective studies
Retrospective studies
Diagnostic Efficiency Statistics
Sensitivity
Specificity Predictive values
Risk Estimation
Odds ratio
Survival analysis
Unit - IX
Multivariate analysis
Introduction
Multiple regression
Logistic regression
Factor analysis
Cluster analysis
Discriminant function analysis
Path analysis
MANOVA
Canonical correlation
Multidimensional scaling

Unit - X
Sample size determination for
Estimation of mean
Estimation of proportion
Comparing two means
Comparing two proportions

Unit - XI
Qualitative analysis of data
Content analysis
Qualitative methods of
Psychosocial research

Unit - XII
Use of computers
Use of relevant statistical package in the field of behavioral
science and their limitations
 PAPER – III
Psychiatry

Unit - I
Signs and symptoms
Disorders of consciousness
Attention
Motor behavior
Orientation
Experience of self
Speech
Thought
Perception Emotion
Memory

Unit - II
Psychoses
Schizophrenia
Affective disorders
Delusional disorders
Other forms of psychotic disorder
Types, Clinical features, Etiology, and management

Unit - III
Neurotic
Stress-related
Somatoform disorders
Types, Clinical features, Etiology, and management

Unit - IV
Disorders of personality and behavior
Specific personality disorders
Mental & behavioral disorders due to psychoactive substance use
Habit and impulse disorders
Sexual disorders and dysfunctions
Types, Clinical features, Etiology, and management
Unit - V
Organic mental disorders
Dementia
Delirium
Other related conditions with
Neuralgic and systemic disorders
Types, Clinical features, Etiology, Management

Unit - VI
Disorders of Childhood &Adolescence
Behavioral
Emotional
Developmental
Types, clinical features, etiology, and management

Unit - VII
Mental retardation
Classification, Etiology, and management

Unit - VIII
Neurobiology of mental disorders
Neurobiological theories of psychosis
Mood disorders
Suicide
Anxiety disorders
Substance use disorders
Other emotional
Behavioral syndromes

Unit - IX
Therapeutic approaches
Drugs
ECT
Psychosurgery
Psychotherapy
behavior therapy
Preventive
Rehabilitative strategies
Half-way home
sheltered workshop
Daycare
Deinstitutionalization

Unit - X
Consultation
Liaison psychiatry
Psychiatric consultation in a general hospital
Primary care setting

Unit - XI
Special populations/Specialties
Geriatric
Terminally ill
HIV/AIDS
Suicidal
Abused
Violent and Noncooperative patients
Psychiatric services
Community
Following disaster/calamity

PRACTICAL

Unit - I
Introduction: Case history; mental status examination; rationale of psychological
assessment; behavioral observations, response recording, and syntheses of
information from different sources; formats of report writing.

Unit - II
Tests of cognitive functions: Bender gestalt test; Wechsler memory scale; PGI
memory scale; Wilcoxen cord sorting test, Bhatia’s battery of performance
tests of intelligence; Binet’s test of intelligence (locally standardized);
Raven’s progressive matrices (all versions); Wechsler adult intelligence
scale – Indian adaptation (WAPIS – Ramalingaswamy’s), WAIS-R.

Unit - III
Tests for diagnostic clarification: A) Rorschach psychodiagnostics, B) Tests for
thought disorders – color form sorting test, object sorting test, proverbs test,
C) Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory; multiphasic questionnaire,
clinical analysis questionnaire, IPDE, D) screening instruments such as
GHQ, hospital anxiety/depression scale etc. to detect psychopathology.

Unit - IV
Tests for adjustment and personality assessment: A) Questionnaires and
inventories – 16 personality factor questionnaire, NEO-5 personality
inventory, temperament and character inventory, Eyesenk’s personality
inventory, Eysenck’s personality questionnaire, self-concept and selfesteem
scales, Rottor’s locus of control scale, Bell’s adjustment inventory
(students’ and adults’), subjective well-being questionnaires, QOL , B)
projective tests – sentence completion test, picture frustration test, draw-aperson
test; TAT – Murray’s and Uma Chowdhary’s.
Unit - V: Rating scales: Self-rated and observer-rated scales of different clinical conditions
such as anxiety, depression, mania, OCD, phobia, panic disorder etc.
(including Leyton’s obsessional inventory, Y-BOCS, BDI, STAI, HADS,
HARS, SANS, SAPS, PANSS, BPRS), issues related to clinical applications and recent
developments.

Unit - VI: Psychological assessment of children: A) Developmental psychopathology

check list, CBCL, B) Administration, scoring and interpretation of tests of
intelligence scale for children such as SFB, C-RPM, Malin’s WISC, Binet’s
tests, and developmental schedules (Gesell’s, Illingworth’s and other)
Vineland social maturity scale, AMD adaptation scale for mental
retardation, BASIC-MR, developmental screening test (Bharatraj’s), C)
Tests of scholastic abilities, tests of attention, reading, writing, arithmetic,
visuo-motor gestalt, and integration, D) Projective tests – Raven’s
controlled projection test, draw-a-person test, children’s apperception test,
E) Clinical rating scales such as for autism, ADHD etc.

Unit - VII
Tests for people with disabilities: WAIS-R, WISC-R (for visual handicapped),
blind learning aptitude test, and other interest and aptitude tests, Kauffman’s
assessment battery and such other tests/scales for physically handicapped
individuals.

Unit - VIII
Neuropsychological assessment: LNNB, Halstead-Reitan battery, PGI-BBD,
NIMHANS and other batteries for neuropsychological tests are currently in use.

Core Tests

1. Stanford Binet’s test of intelligence (any vernacular version)

2. Raven’s test of intelligence (all forms)
3. Bhatia’s battery of intelligence tests
4. Wechsler Adult Performance Intelligence Scale
5. Malin’s intelligence scale for children
6. Gesell’s developmental schedule
7. Wechsler memory scale
8. PGI memory scale
9. 16 personality factor questionnaire
10. NEO-5 personality inventory
11. Temperament and character inventory
12. Children's personality questionnaire
13. Clinical analysis questionnaire
14. Multiphasic questionnaire
15. Object sorting/classification test
16. Sentence completion test
17. Thematic apperception test
18. Children’s apperception test
19. Rorschach psychodiagnostics
20. Neuropsychological battery of tests (any standard version)