The National Council for Teaching and Research in Psychology (CNEIP - Consejo Nacional para la Educación e Investigación en Psicología) has re-accredited UDEM, making us the only institution in this city to have achieved this. The Bachelor of Psychology academic program includes clinical, organizational, educational, social and children's psychology, with a strong integration of theory and practice.

Objective

To shape professionals with the necessary scientific knowledge to understand, interpret, analyze and explain human behavior in various dimensions, theoretical perspectives, methods and techniques. They should also have basic abilities and skills for assessing and being involved in the social, educational, clinical and organizational fields; and committed to the promotion of health and the psychological wellbeing of human beings.

Enrollment Profile

The students who enroll in this program must be interested in understanding human behavior under various situations and contexts; have a willingness to develop professional skills of communication and listening; an ability to develop critical and constructive thought; willingness for personal knowledge and human development, and a sensibility towards the psycho-social needs of others.

Graduation Profile

Upon completion of their undergraduate degree, the students will have the following knowledge, skills, and attitudes:

Knowledge of: 

• The epistemological and methodological fundamentals of Psychology as a science. 
• The biological bases of human behavior and its relation to the psychological processes. 
• The psychological development of the child, teenager, adult and senior citizen. 
• The psychological fundamentals of educational processes. 
• The psycho-social bases which explain the operation of organizations and their leadership and change processes. 
• The theoretical models which explain the personality, and its aspects of normality and abnormality. 
• The research approaches and methods and techniques for data analysis. 
• The various methods for psychological assessment, diagnosis and intervention in contexts of different applications.

Skills for: 

• Detecting the needs of the beneficiaries and establish the action goals specific to the psychologist in the fields of health, education and work. 
• Defining objectives, preparing the plan and choosing the intervention techniques in accordance to the needs and demands of the beneficiaries. 
• Promoting psychological health and wellbeing processes in the various fields of application by means of the methods specific to Psychology. 
• Applying various methods and instruments for assessment at the individual, family, group, community and organizational levels. 
• Knowing how to convey the results of the assessment to the beneficiaries, in a proper and precise manner. 
• Preparing psychological reports according to the different psychological interventions, addressed to different readers.

Attitudes: 

• Ethical behavior and decisions in all professional practice. 
• Confidentiality in every practice of psychological work. 
• Responsibility for identifying and managing methods, techniques and instruments specific to the professional work.

Each UDEM curriculum is made up of two blocks of courses:

• Professional studies, these are the specialized, professional courses that make each degree plan unique.
• General studies, these are the courses that provide a general and interdisciplinary overview.

 

 

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CREDIT SUMMARY
MANDATORY	AREA	CREDITS
	General studies	36
	Professional studies	246
	Total mandatory credits	282
ELECTIVE	AREA	CREDITS
	General studies	18
	Elective courses for professional concentration	18
	Elective courses in other disciplines	12
	Total elective credits	48
TOTAL CREDITS		330

The Bachelors of Psychology (LPS) will be prepared to work in various fields: in entities of the social and health sectors such as hospitals, daycare centers, National Agency for Family Development (DIF - Desarrollo Integral de la Familia) branch offices, psychological care centers, non-governmental organizations, as well as in educational institutions like schools and universities as well as in organizations of the productive or services sectors, such as companies, recruitment and selection bureaus and psychological assessment bureaus.

Evangelina Reyes Peña

LPS Academic Program Director

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evangelina.reyes@udem.edu.mx

Building 5, office 5115

 

T. (81) 8215-1274

01 800-801-UDEM, ext. 1274