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

Versao Portuguesa

PSICOLOGIA DO DESENVOLVIMENTO DA CRIANÇA E DO ADOLESCENTE - 2021/2022

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

Teachers

Leading Teacher: Prof. Doutora Mariana Sousa
Assistant Professor: Prof. Doutora Mariana Sousa

Class type and School hours

Orientação Tutorial : 1 Horas
Teórico-prática : 2 Horas

Teaching Language

Portuguese

Main Aims/Objectives

To know the object of study, goals and scope of Developmental Psychology
To understand and debate the main models and theories on human development
To know the main developmental milestones and tasks of childhood and adolescence

Specific Aims/Objectives

To identify the object of study, goals and scope of Developmental Psychology
To understand the assumptions of the main models and theories on human development
To identify similarities and differences in the assumptions underlying these models and theories
To know the main milestones and developmental tasks of childhood and adolescence
To mobilize models and theories on human development to understand developmental processes in childhood and adolescence

Skills to be acquired

To convene knowledge allowing for:
- identifying the object, goals and scope of Developmental Psychology
- understanding and debating the main developmental milestones and tasks in childhood and adolescence
- mobilizing models and theories on human development to understand the developmental processes in childhood and adolescence

Teaching Procedures

- Exposition by the professor
- Discussion in large group
- Analysis and discussion of papers
- Analysis and discussion of videos illustrating the programmatic contents
- Supervision of the construction and operationalization of children´s observational grids
- Team work

Programme

1. Developmental Psychology
1.1. Object, goals and scope
1.2. The concept of development
1.3. From Psychology based on the theories of developmental stages to the contextual and ecological approaches focused on the vital cycle
1.4. Methodologies more frequently used in Developmental Psychology
2. Development in childhood
2.1. The perinatal period: genetic and perinatal factors
2.2. Birth and postpartum
2.3. Child?s social and emotional development: attachment theory and sociocultural theory
2.4. Child?s cognitive development
2.5. Child?s moral development
3. Development in adolescence
3.1. The concept of adolescence
3.2. Physical development: Puberty changes and their psychological implications
3.3. Cognitive development
3.4. Social development: Peer group and friendship
3.5. Construction of identity: Erickson?s theory of psychosocial development
3.6. Risk behaviors in adolescence

Evaluation Type

Continuous assessment:
1 - Frequency of 70% of classes
2 - Two written tests on the theoretical component of the course
3 - A team work to be presented orally in the tutorial classes, requiring the construction of a grid to be used in the observation of a child

Final assessment:
The student may choose to be submitted to a final exam at the end of the semester.

Teaching Resources

Computer, projector, chart , scientific articles

Sustainability Objectives

Keywords

Development
Children
Adolescents
Models and theories of development in childhood and adolescence

Main Bibliography

Author Garvis, S., Phillipson, S., Clarke, S., Harrison,
Title Child development and learning
Place Australia & New Zeland
Editor Oxford University Press
Year 2018
Author Rosalyn, H. S., & Phillip, T. S.
Title Child development: theories and critical perspecti
Edition 2ª ed.
Place New York
Editor Routledge
Year 2015
Author Sprinthall, N. A., & Collins, W. A.
Title Psicologia do adolescente: uma abordagem desenvolv
Edition 5ª ed.
Place Lisboa
Editor Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Year 2011

Complementary Bibliography

Author Shaffer, D. R., & Kipp, K.
Title Psicologia do Desenvolvimento: infância e adolescê
Edition 8ª ed.
Place São Paulo
Editor Cengage Learning
Year 2015
Author Lamb, M. E., & Bornstein, M. H.
Title Social and personality development: an advanced te
Edition 1ª ed.
Place New York
Editor Psychology Press
Year 2011