Fiend Practice - Develpmental Psychology and Child Education

Code:

LP508

Acronym:

LP508

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Psychology of Children Development and Education

Instance: 2004/2005 - A

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Psychology Degree

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LPSI	20	Plano oficial a partir de 2001/02	5	8	22	-

Objectives

1. To prepare the professional integration of future psychologists through the development of technical, professional and ethical skills. The activities are always supervised by senior psychologists, beggining with a focus on observing the practice of professional psychologists and progressing towards more autonomous intervention, under structured supervision contexts.

2. To complement academic training with a structured and holistic framework, providing students with opportunities for field practice in a range of institutions within a diversity of professional areas, including educational, clinical, health and justice contexts.

3. Promoting activation and integration of knowledge, methods and adequate techniques, thus creating the necessary conditions so that field practice period constitutes the summit of a first degree of Psychological training, conducive to a fully responsible professional practice. .

4. To develop planning, evaluation and critical skills regarding intervention.

Program

The field practice is undertaken in institutions related with the intervention in child development and education and in child problems(e.g., daycare facilities, regular and special education schools, pediatric and pedopsychoatric health centers and hospitals, early intervention teams, foster care institutions, social security centers). It also includes community projects in populations at risk and research projects.

Types of activities:

1. Observation of senior psychologists interventions, including assessment, planning, and implementation of intervention

2. Practicing of assessment, planning and intervention, under the supervision of a senior psychology, in a continuum evolving from assisted practice to independent practice.

Main Bibliography

Bornstein, M. H. (Ed.). (2002). Handbook of parenting. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

J. P. Schonkoff & S. J. Meisels (Eds.),(2000), Handbook of Early Childhood Intervention. (pp. 135-159). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Mash, E. J. & Barkley, R. (2003). Treatment of childhood disorders. 2nd ed.. New York, NY: Guilford.

Walker, C. E., & Roberts, M. C. (Eds.).(1992). Handbook of clinical child psychology. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Students are assigned to a senior psychologist of the institution (tutor) and also to a professor of the faculty (supervisor). Tutorial learning is used in this discipline through periodical meetings with the tutor and the supervisor.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Eligibility for exams

A minimum of 300h.