A. Podlesek is the president of the National Committee for awarding the EuroPsy certificate. She is responsible for the implementation of this certificate in Slovenia and participates in the preparation of guidelines for the supervized practice of psychologists, based on the competence model of mentoring the psychologists-in-training. She is involved in developing a training program for mentors of supervised practice, which relies on the identification and evaluation of the competencies in psychology graduates. Within a project which aimed at establishing a mentoring network and developed a model of educational program for mentors and students involved either in internship or supervised practice, she (as a co-author) presented steps in the educational process: acquiring the competence approach and task planning, hands-on activities in practical settings, structured reflection, and assessment of students’ competences and mentors’ role. The project is evaluated and some guidelines for educational programs on supervised practice are outlined (the contripution was accepted for publication in European Psychologist.
F.23 Development of new system-wide, normative and programme solutions, and methods
The current research findings are permanently embedded in undergraduate educational and doctoral programmes at the three Slovene universities (Ljubljana, Maribor, Primorska) as well as at foreign institutions such as the University of Vienna, Grand Valley State (Allendale), Arizona State (Phoenix), Gainesville College (USA), Novosibirsk and Perm (Russia). The findings are mediated through lectures and seminars within a series of courses, i.e. in psychology, biopsychology, pedagogy, adult education, preschool education. The data collected is also used for the purpuses of presenting the usefulness of multivariate statistical methods to the students. Based on our research there are a number of monographs, textbooks, chapters of monographs and papers published annually (see Cobiss for an overview). Those provide the students with the supportive academic material on the latest findings in support to the lectures.
D.10 Educational activities
Original developmental diagnostic instruments were constructed: the Individuation Test for Emerging Adults (IT-EA) and the Explicit Self-report on Neuroticism for Children (ESNC). The IT-EA adds a valuable contribution to the extant psychological assessment tools measuring aspect of individuation in relation to parents; it is a unique strongly reliable and valid questionnaire to assess individuation in emerging adulthood. Adaptation of the instrument for use in various language communities (English, German, French, Norvegian) has contributed to acknowledgments and reputation of the Slovene developmental psychology in the international research community. Preliminary applications of the ESNC also suggest promising findings about the construction of a relevant self-report measure for children. In addition, computer programmes and e-applications for users of the IT-EA (in various languages) and the newly constructed implicit measure of child personality were developed. Taking into consideration characteristics of late adulthood, the personality questionnaire for the elderly based on the Big Five was adapted, validated and standardized. This is of a special importance because developmentally appropriate adjustments of such questionnaires are still lacking in the field of psychodiagnostics.
F.21 Development of new health/diagnostic methods/procedures