Cursos / 1º Ciclo / Institute of Psychology and Educational Sciences :: Psychology

PSICOLOGIAS APLICADAS - 2016/2017

3º curricular year
Semestralidade: 1st semester
ECTS: 6

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Ana Meireles
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Ana Meireles

Class type and School hours

Teórico-prática : 2 Horas
Orientação Tutorial : 1 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

This course aims to help the student to get in touch with the possibilities of application of psychology to different domains. The student must also understand the specificities and communalities of the several applications of psychology. Besides the intervention contexts the students must also get familiar to the need to articulate theory, research and practice in the different domains of psychology.

Specific Aims/Objectives

This course aims to help the student to get in touch with the possibilities of application of psychology to different domains. The student must also understand the specificities and communalities of the several applications of psychology. Besides the intervention contexts the students must also get familiar to the need to articulate theory, research and practice in the different domains of psychology.

Skills to be acquired

To understand psychology´s intervention´s goals in its different application domains
To understand the different modalities of psychological intervention
To understand the need to articulate theory, research and practice in the different domains of psychology
to reflect on the specificity of psychological intervention in multicultural and multidisciplinary scenarios
to be aware of the limits of the application of psychological interventions as well as the ethical issues associated

Teaching Procedures

Teaching-learning activities combine the expositive method with active strategies in which the student assumes a central role in its own learning process. Selected classes will be taught by invited psychologists from different areas of psychological intervention. The students will make in small groups a practical work about a selected area of psychological intervention. Themes are selected according to their future professional interests (ex: clinical, health or educational psychology).

Programme

Part I: Application domains of psychological intervention
Clinical psychology
Educational psychology
Work and organizational psychology
Justice and forensic psychology
Health psychology
Vocational psychology
Sports psychology
Social psychology

Part II: Psychological intervention Modalities in Applied Psychology
Consulting
Supervision
Training
Group interventions
Primary prevention interventions

Part III: Challenges of applied psychology
Psychological Intervention in transition periods and crisis
Challenges to psychological intervention in multicultural and multidisciplinary contexts
Application of internet and other technologies to psychological interventions
The limits of psychological interventions
Ethical and deontological issues

Evaluation Type

For evaluation purposes both the two written tests and the group work discussed in round table will be considered.

Teaching Resources

Power-point and EBSCO

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Applied Psychology

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