2024
Psychology and Community Intervention
Name: Psychology and Community Intervention
Code: PSI11163M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Psychology
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
1) Know the history, key ideas and theories of community psychology
2) Understand the relationship between people and the environment and how to improve it
3) Know the main research and intervention methods
4) Develop research skills and understand diverse community and social issues
5) Know areas and scopes of intervention
6) Identify and reflect on problems and needs associated with vulnerable populations
7) Apply psychological principles to social issues from an ecological perspective
8) Relate theories to practices
9) Analyse complex situations, plan and evaluate an original intervention
10) Critically analyse the role of psychologists in institutional and social contexts
11) Understand the meaning of change.
12) Develop critical thinking
13) Develop creativity
14) Develop communication and collaboration skills
15) Develop a sense of ethics and social responsibility
2) Understand the relationship between people and the environment and how to improve it
3) Know the main research and intervention methods
4) Develop research skills and understand diverse community and social issues
5) Know areas and scopes of intervention
6) Identify and reflect on problems and needs associated with vulnerable populations
7) Apply psychological principles to social issues from an ecological perspective
8) Relate theories to practices
9) Analyse complex situations, plan and evaluate an original intervention
10) Critically analyse the role of psychologists in institutional and social contexts
11) Understand the meaning of change.
12) Develop critical thinking
13) Develop creativity
14) Develop communication and collaboration skills
15) Develop a sense of ethics and social responsibility
Contents
1 Framing community psychology
1.1 Historical developments
1.2 Key concepts
1.3 Theoretical and practical perspectives
2. Community research and action for social change
2.1 Research methods used in community psychology
2.2 Conducting community-based research
2.3 Ethics in community research
3 Community psychology and intervention
3.1 Areas of intervention
3.2 Psychosocial problems affecting the most vulnerable social groups.
3.3 Types of social and community intervention
3.4 Development and implementation of interventions
3.5. Evaluating the effectiveness of interventions
3.6 Ethics, values and roles of psychologists in interventions
4. Communities and social change
4.1 The role of the community in social change
4.2 Diversity, well-being and social justice
1.1 Historical developments
1.2 Key concepts
1.3 Theoretical and practical perspectives
2. Community research and action for social change
2.1 Research methods used in community psychology
2.2 Conducting community-based research
2.3 Ethics in community research
3 Community psychology and intervention
3.1 Areas of intervention
3.2 Psychosocial problems affecting the most vulnerable social groups.
3.3 Types of social and community intervention
3.4 Development and implementation of interventions
3.5. Evaluating the effectiveness of interventions
3.6 Ethics, values and roles of psychologists in interventions
4. Communities and social change
4.1 The role of the community in social change
4.2 Diversity, well-being and social justice
Teaching Methods
Articulation of theory and practice. Presentation of content, diversified activities, analysis and reflection, debates, exercises, analysis and discussion of cases. Active participation through research activities for additional information on topics of interest and oral presentations. Collaborative work in groups, namely through student-led sessions and group work to be carried out. Contact with real national interventions through the participation of guests from institutions working in the community and social field in different fields and with different audiences (e.g. children, adults, the elderly). Analysing how the principles of community psychology are incorporated into different scenarios. Autonomous work - involves research, reading texts and preparing assignments. Gradual development of autonomy and creativity in designing original interventions, supported by the teacher.
Assessment
CONTINUOUS EVALUATION: Attendance must not be less than 75% of classes. Individual written test (50%) and Group Work (50%). If one of the elements of the continuous assessment is graded below 8, the student moves on to the final assessment regime. The group work has a component of theoretical foundation, problem identification, planning and evaluation of an intervention relevant to a social issue. It includes self-assessment. Students who fulfil the attendance requirements of the continuous assessment regime and carry out the group work, if they must take an exam, can choose to keep the grade for the group work previously obtained.
FINAL ASSESSMENT: Individual work identical to that described above (50%) and written test (50%). Obtaining a mark of less than 8 in any of the tests will result in failure. Pass: minimum final mark of 10, if none of the tests has less than 8 marks.
FINAL ASSESSMENT: Individual work identical to that described above (50%) and written test (50%). Obtaining a mark of less than 8 in any of the tests will result in failure. Pass: minimum final mark of 10, if none of the tests has less than 8 marks.
Teaching Staff
- Maria Luísa Fonseca Grácio [responsible]
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