Romania - Mures County - Targu Mures - Affiliate of ACBS

Mures County - Targu Mures Affiliate of ACBS

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Affiliated 2019

Coordinators:

Cosmin Popa & Cristiana-Manuela Cojocaru

Address:

George Emil Palade University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science, and Technology of Târgu Mureş (UMPhST)

Bachelor's Program in Psychology
Center of Counseling and Career Orientation (CCOC)
Targu Mures, Mures County, 540142
Romania

The Bachelor's Program in Psychology within UMPhST provides an integrative curriculum based on international standards on psychological education, research and practice, integrating an interdisciplinary approach. As part of this integrative teaching process, the process-based framework emphasizing acceptance, mindfulness and values-based techniques has a central role in the training journey of future specialists in various fields of psychology, including the clinical, organizational, vocational or forensic psychology. 

Futhermore, our counseling center provides psychological different approaches in psychotherapy, such as Process-Based Therapy (PBT-T). These activities are achieved through an integrative approach that incorporates the use of Acceptance and Commintment Therapy (ACT) techniques in order to facilitate psychological flexibility, including mindfulness, acceptance, cognitive defusion strategies, as well as and values-based exercises and action plans. The final purposes of these programs are to reduce academic stress by improving emotional management and to promote a values-based living.

In addition, the implementation of research projects on the psychotherapeutic field represents an important goal in our professional activity. In this respect, the simplified model of ACT is an important evidence-based psychotherapeutic method regarding psychological interventions for individuals who face anxiety, depression or another emotional disorders. Nevertheless, the disseminations of ACT, CBS and RFT model in our profesional communities represents another important objective. Therefore, this will consist in scientific presentations at conferences, clinical workshops and publications regarding the psychological treatment from the ACT perspective.

Moreover, another research area that involves our team is related to the fields of clinical psychology. Specifically, we are interested in the implications of psychological flexibility/ inflexibility processes in emotional disorders co-occuring with serious menthal health conditions like schizophrenia, psychiosis and personality disordes, as wel as chronic medical conditions. Also, the investigation of psychological difficulties that accompany various medical procedures, such as surgical interventions using the ACT framework is another important focus of our Affiliate.