PSYK1420 Behavior Analysis 1 - General Principles of Behavior Analysis Course description

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and competence:

Knowledge

The student

• can discuss the nurse’s role in health promoting work and (re)habilitation enterprises for different age groups
• can explain the terms everyday rehabilitation and (re)habilitation at home
• can explain the nursing of children with lasting health challenges and their families
• can discuss health counselling at the individual, group and social level
• can describe measures to preserve life and health in the event of major accidents and in crisis and disaster situations (kun for kull 2020 studieåret 2022-2023)
• can explain different interprofessional methods of collaboration in the field of practice*
• can explain the challenges and possibilities of interprofessional cooperation processes*;

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Skills

The student is capable of

• adapting and integrating theoretical and practical knowledge of the nurse's rehabilitating and health promoting function in order to promote the best possible functional level, well-being and quality of life for the individual, in cooperation with other health professions
• identifying persons with a high risk of functional impairment early enough to implement measures to prevent a deterioration in function, and to reverse such deterioration once it has begun
• planning and carrying out nursing measures to ensure the safe transfer of patients between different units and levels of the health services
• planning and carrying out nursing for patients in the last phase of life and following up next-of-kin and those left behind
• masters general first aid according to the ABC principle (kun for kull 2020 studieåret 2022-2023)
• can on the basis of;examples from their own practical training, analyse and assess interprofessional cooperation processes on and with children and young people with challenges*
• can establish interprofessional cooperation about and with children, young people and their parents/guardians*

Competence

The student is capable of

• critically reflecting on how information, communication and welfare technology can strengthen the municipality’s services
• exchanging points of view and experience with others in the field and in this way contribute to developing good practice
• exploring what a lack of activity and unmet psychosocial needs can lead to over time, and discussing how new measures can strengthen the traditional services provided
• discussing his/her own professional role in an interprofessional context and initiating and contributing to interprofessional and intersectoral cooperation
• communicating important theories, issues and solutions in the field, both orally and in writing
• reflecting on ethical perspectives when nursing is carried out in private homes
• engaging in new thinking and innovation processes through project work
• reflecting on existing procedures and methods, and taking the initiative to quality improvement and implementation of new work methods
• discussing cultural sensitivity and reflecting on the significance of cultural understanding in nursing practice in the patients' homes
• reflecting and critically assessing ethical and legal challenges in the use of technology and digital solutions ;
• understanding how the patients’ linguistic and cultural background might affect how quality and patient safety is addressed
• understanding of;the basis for and necessity of interprofessional cooperation about and with children, young people and their parents/guardians, and of their own professional contribution to the cooperation*

Practical training: over eight weeks in the municipal health service, home-based services. Includes self-study, lectures, simulation, flipped classroom, digital learning resources and seminars.

Digital learning resources are used for parts of INTER1300 ‘Interprofessional cooperation about and with children, adolescents and their families’, including digital resource lectures with lecturers from different study programmes, relevant cases and examples. 2 Days.

After completing the course, the student is expected to have achieved the following learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and competence:

Knowledge;

The student can

• explain the basic assumptions of behaviour analysis
• explain the place of behaviour analysis in psychology
• explain the research methods used in behaviour analysis
• explain reinforcement conditions;
• explain how behaviour is established, transferred and maintained

Skills;

The student can

• apply basic behaviour analysis concepts
• apply methods to observe and record behaviour
• conduct discrete trials training
• conduct precision teaching

Competence;

The student can

• describe behaviour analysis strategies
• conduct and reflect on their own presentation technique

Work and teaching methods used in the course are lectures, self-study and student-initiated group work. Seminars will also be held where the students present subject matter. Participation in these seminars is compulsory. Tests will be held during the course and students will also present assignments related to the syllabus. The assignments will be set by the lecturer. The students’ learning outcomes will be documented through presentations, tests and the exam.

In order to sign up for the final examination the following has to be approved:

• Present;individually1-2 given topics to fellow students
• Identify an area of presentation technique with room for improvement and evaluate this in the students’ own presentations
• Evaluate 1-2 presentations by fellow students (both academic content and presentation technique)
• Teach fellow student topics from the syllabus using flash cards (discrete trials training) and establish flow (precision teaching).

Portfolio exam comprising four tests and a digital, supervised written exam lasting four hours. All four tests must be approved before the student can take the digital, supervised written exam. All the components must be awarded a pass grade before the exam as a whole can be passed.

If the student fails one test, the student can retake this test. Resit/rescheduled attempts at the four tests can be taken once before the ordinary, digital, supervised written exam. Before the resit/rescheduled digital, supervised written exam, students will be given a third and final attempt at one or more of the tests.

SYKKPRA70 and SYKPPRA70 overlap 100%.

Grade scale A-F. A grade will be awarded on the basis of the tests taken during the course (60%) and the result of the final written exam (40%). The student has a right to appeal the overall exam grade for the whole portfolio.

One internal and one external examiner.

10 ECTs overlap with the course PSYK1410 (15 ECTS).