MTP09 - ECTS The objectives of this CU are:
1. Give the students a multidisciplinary framework that integrates the different subjects related to the protection and promotion of children's rights;
2. Approach the research and theoretical production of different subjects - History, Sociology, Law, Psychology, Education, Health, Social Intervention, Politics, and Media - concerning the protection and promotion of the children's rights;
3. Analyse from an interdisciplinary point of view the relationships between the different subjects involved in the field of Child Protection;
4. Reflect on the social role of the different subjects involved in protecting and promoting children's rights.
5. Reflect on the ethics requirements  of research and intervention in the field of Child Protection

MTP13 - ECTS The goals of this UC are:
1. To add knowledge in the domain of study;
2. To study the theoritical models in the domain;
3. To differetiate the diverse types of maltreatment;
4. To analyse rearch and papers in the domain;
5. To contact with assement strategies of the phenomeno.
6. To have a overview of intervention models in the domain.

MTP10 - ECTS

This course aims to contribute to the scientific training of practitioners in the family and parenting domain, enabling them to contact with theoretical perspectives and empirical studies. In a more specific way it is intended to sensitize students to:

1. The role of the social and historical context in determining family's experiences
2. The family's role in determining children’s development and adjustment
3. The complexity of parent-child interactions and their impact on children’s development and adjustment
4. Positive parenting
5. The levels of parenting intervention

MTP01 - ECTS

Provide students with the fundamental knowledge of research methods used in psychology that will help them develop skills in critically evaluating research studies as well as provide the tools needed to design one’s own study

 

It corresponds to a first step of student training intended to familiarize students with the scientific research methods in Psychology, through the reflection and illustration of studies. It is also an objective to develop the ability to identify and critically evaluate the research methods used in published papers.

PJD01 - ECTS

At the end of this course, students shall be able to:

1. identify the main deviant behavior psychobiological factors and understand their interactions with similar and different factors;

2.
 search, review and develop critical understanding, concerning to the main literature about deviant behavior within the neurosciences framework;

3. select, interpret, synthesize,  and communicate results obtained by means of bibliographic reviews concerning the main psychobiological factors involved in the deviant behavior.

PCS02 - ECTS

The main goal of this course is to provide students’ competences that will allow them to structure and intervene in disease prevention and remediation, mastering psychological strategies with proven efficacy in the learned issues. In order to reach that main outcome, the students must be able to frame health psychology in the theoretical background of Psychology. This includes the history of “health revolutions” and theoretical models developed to explain the enhancement of diseases’ primary prevention as well as secondary and third prevention in case of disease manifestation. Then, they should acquire knowledge and expertise in some issues crossing a variety of diseases. Finally they learn about specific disease characteristics that are more prevalent in Portugal, training specific psychological intervention strategies to deal with these particular problems.

PJD02 - ECTS

- Have a full understanding of the theoretical and empirical developments of the nature and meaning of deviant behaviors
- To deepen the theories applied to the comprehension and intervention in different types of deviant behaviors, violence and crime, juvenile delinquency and anti-social behaviours, white-collar and corporate crime, as well as drug use and drug addiction
- To develop reading and intervention competences, mainly the ones referring to the uses of psychology in the fields of justice, forensic psychology, victimology and criminology

MTP02 - ECTS

The general goal of the various MTP Seminars is to deepen the knowledge and skills that allow a proficient and critical use of research in the field of Psychology and to plan the development of an individual original research, empirical or theoretical, in a specific field of Psychology.

In this course, students will become familiar with and learn to identify the most relevant textbooks, reviews, papers and journals for their research topics. The students will also learn how to critically assess research papers and to point out to research gaps that can be operationalized into feasible research questions.

Specifically, in a specific field of Psychology, the goals are to understand:

1- How to review scientific literature

2- How to review the literature critically

3- How to systematize relevant information about theoretical and methodological frameworks

4- How to frame a research question

 

 

 

MTP12 - ECTS

This CU aims to prepare students for intervention in out-of-home care and adoption.

Students should be able to:

1. Understand the law for the protection of children and youth in danger, and specially the measures for placement out of  family (foster and residential care) and adoption;

2. Understand the impact of historical and cultural factors on the protection system and acknowledge the ethical guidelines for intervention in the area; 

3. Be familiar with the main theoretical models and the results of recent empirical research, both national and international, about family foster and residential care and adoption;

4. Identify indicators of quality of child care both in institutional and family contexts;

5. Acknowledge positive evidence based practices with children and youngsters in care

6. Intervene in the different moments of the adoption process, from the evaluation of competences and adoptive parenting preparation of prospective adopters to the attendance and specialized intervention after child placement and post-adoption.

7. Understand the specificities of the developmental process and the typical life story of the adoptable children, identify the children’s needs and characteristics and to intervene in the adoption process, from the preparation for adoption to the placement within the family in relation to the specific needs which may arise  in the adoptee’s developmental process.   

PCS03 - ECTS

• To obtain an holistic knowledge about the several theoretical and practice dimensions, which are responsible to an effective clinical intervention with children and adolescents. • To understand the importance of manage the communication between systems and subsystems involved in the clinic with child and adolescents. • To prepare clinical interviews for different intervenient in the process of consultation. • Mediate the communication with the child in the context of the consultation, namely through playful strategies, in a way to guarantee the optimization of the child involvement in the consultation process. • To know deeply the model of comprehensive evaluation with children and adolescents. • To know the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health for children and youth and to knoe the Portuguese legislation• To know the objectives and techniques of intervention of cognitive-behavioral model in the analysis of disorders of children and adolescents. • To plan the clinical intervention in cases of children and adolescents. • To know other clinical intervention models.

MTP03 - ECTS

Following “Metodologia e Epistemologia da Investigação em Psicologia I”, the goals are to apply and understand research methods in the context of students’ own research project, helping them to develop skills in critically evaluating research studies and providing the tools needed to design one’s own study.

 

 

 

MTP22 - ECTS 1. To frame the different levels of action for the promotion and protection of the rights of the child in the bio-ecológico and systemic model of Bronfenbrenner; 2. To sistematyze the forms of intervention for ordinary citizens, available internationally, through volunteering or work in organizations that work in the field under study; 3. To know specialized intervention programs with children, youth, and families in the area of protection; 4. To contact with professionals in the area of child protection in Portugal; 5. To develop an intervention project focused on sensitizing families to the theme of child protection; 6. To provide a direct experience of intervention with children and their families; 7. To reflect on intervention models, their strengths and weaknesses in the field of protection of children and young people.

PCS04 - ECTS

Clinical neuropsychology is an advanced and specialized area of psychological professional practice. Thus, it is critical that students can have access to current and advanced scientific knowledge in this domain, acquire it, and have an opportunity to practice, so that they may be ready to face professional practice. The syllabus shows the vast domain of clinical neuropsychology and frames it in a life span perspective, showing the differing neuropsychological practices with children, adolescents, adultos and elders. In each age group the principal neuropsychological conditions are reviewed considering the state of the art in conceptualization, assessment, and multidisciplinary intervention. One expects that students can develop a panoptic view of clinical neuropsychology at the same time that and opportunity is also given to deepen understanding on specific neuropsychological themes. As a result, it is expected that in a forthcoming professional practice, students may be able to situate, think reflexively, search criteriously, understand, and intervene in the neuropsychological syndromes that may show in clinical practice.

PJD03 - ECTS

At the end of the UC students should:

 1) Acquire in-depth knowledge within the areas of Forensic Psychology, Psychology of Justice, Witness Psychology, among others.

2) Know the Portuguese Justice System and compare it with other justice and penal systems.

3) Know the evolution and current state of the relationships between Psychology and the Justice System. Master the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary to understand the origin and development of the psychologist's main practices in the justice system.

4) Develop the knowledge about the role of the psychologist in the Justice System. They should have developed competences related to the intervention of the psychologists in the various subsystems of the justice system (e.g., forensic psychological assessment, intervention in prisons, prevention programmes and psycho-educational and psychological intervention, educational centres, promotion and protection, social reintegration)

5) Should acquire in-depth knowledge about forensic psychological assessment/expertises in different domains (criminal, family, victims, perpetrators, child custody, etc).

6) They should have deepened knowledge about the testimony in court, dimensions that affect it and its role in the judicial decisions. To understand the specificities of the contact of children with the justice system and the need to implement specific mechanisms for hearing children (and other particularly vulnerable victims) in court that protect them from secondary victimization processes.

 

MTP11 - ECTS

To develop the capacity to reflect and to do research on professional practice in the domain of Child Rights Protection (CRP)

MTP04 - ECTS

The general goal of the various MTP Seminars is to deepen the knowledge and skills that allow a proficient and critical use of research in the field of Psychology and related fields, and to plan the development of an individual original research, empirical or theoretical, in a specific field (thematic areas).

 

This unit specifically aims to foster the understanding of:

1- How to critically analyze existing research, reflecting on the theoretical, practical, and ethical implications

2- How to select appropriate methods in the field of study

3- How to develop a research design adequate to the research questions, including methods of data collection (to identify and analyse sources of information such as surveys and interviews, and procedures) and analysis.

 

PJD04 - ECTS

- To comprehend the social determinants of deviance; 
- To know the main theoretical lines (built on social psychology, sociology, anthropology and ethnography cross over) that gave important contributions to the explanation of deviance and crime; 
- To be capable of linking contemporary social and cultural dynamics with signs of disorder and deviant behaviors. 

MTP07 - ECTS

The general goal of this unit is to develop an individual original, empirical or theoretical research project, involving field and/or laboratory work, in a in a specific field of Psychology, more specifically:

1- How to develop a guided independent research on a specific Psychology topic, involving

2- How to develop a written dissertation of the research

MTP08 - ECTS

 

Following the curricular units “Metodologia e Epistemologia da Investigação em Psicologia” I e II, this curricular unit intends to support an in-depth and systematic knowledge of the methods of investigation in Psychology, its operationalization and application in the concrete scope of the research work of each students, in order to contribute to the development of relevant and original scientific research work.

 

MTP05 - ECTS

The general goal of the various MTP Seminars is to deepen the knowledge and skills that allow a proficient and critical use of research in the field of Psychology and related fields, to plan the development of an individual original research, empirical or theoretical, in a specific field (thematic area).

 This unit aims to develop the capability to interpret, evaluate and present the findings of the individual research project, specifically know:

1- How to interpret accurately the research data

2- How to contemplate the ethical standards of research

3- How to evaluate the work developed

4- How to clearly present and discuss the knowledge, arguments and conclusions.

MTP06 - ECTS

The general goal of the various MTP Seminars is to deepen the knowledge and skills that allow a proficient and critical use of research in the field of Psychology and related fields, to plan the development of an individual original research, empirical or theoretical, in a specific field of Psychology.

 

This unit specifically aims to follow up, manage and monitor the implementation of the individual research projet; more specifically:

1- To guide the use of adequate methods of data collection in a specific field of research (thematic area)

2- To guide the use of adequate methods of data analysis in a specific field of research (thematic area)