Intervention in Family Systems

Code:

P746

Acronym:

ISF

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Psychology

Instance: 2013/2014 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Integrated Master Psychology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MIPSI	35	Official Curricular Structure	4	-	6	54	162
		Official Curricular Structure 2012	4	-	6	54	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

The family systems  psychological intervention does not consist only in counseling, psychotherapy and psycho-education, but also in training and advisement by individuals, groups, institutions and communities, constituting the individuals psychosocial environment. Intervention skills in crisis (or not) must be acquired, helping individuals, to constructively, deal with the tasks throughout their lives or to improve the quality of their psychological life. The syllabus shows the continuity between individual, family and contextual psychology. That is, students are trained to acquire capacities to analyze the individual in his uniqueness on a multisystemic analysis. The purpose of this curricular unit is, not only, the training family therapists, but also to prepare students to the need of a developmental perspective, dialectic, circular and contextual intervention.

 

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Learning outcomes and competences

Working method

Presencial

Program

 The emergence of a new discipline and its historical framework in the scientific community context;

 Family Psychological Development;

 The development as a dialectical process in the interaction of biological, psychological and contextual (proximal and distal) factors.

Constructivist and Attachment theories ;

 Paradigms, models and intervention techniques of Family Psychological Intervention;

 Systemic models in the service of psychological intervention in different contexts (e.g. schools);

 Psychotherapy and parental development;

 Promotion of positive parenting and parent-child relationships throughout life;

 Pregnancy, infertility, perinatal death and abortion;

 Single-parent families;

Divorce: characterization contextualization and Explanatory Models ;

 Psychological Intervention on divorce; o Remarried Families: characteristics, consequences, psychological;

Family Careguivers of Older Adults

 

Mandatory literature

Dallos,R & Vetere,A.; Attachment narrative Therapy: Integrating, sYstemic and attachment therapies., Routledge, 2009
Jonson, S.M.; Attachment processes in couple and family therapy, Erdman, 2003
Mark Rivett & EddY Street ; Family Therapy.100Key points & techniques , N.Y: Routledge, 2009
Thomas W. Roberts ; A Systems Perspective of Parenting, Brooks/ Cole Publishing Company., 2008
Juffer, F.; Bakermans- Kranenburg,M. J. e IJzendoom, M.H.; Promoting Positive Parenting. An Attachment- based intervention., 2008
Burns, L.H. and Covington, S.N. (eds) ; Infertility Counseling: A Comprehensive Handbook for Clinicians, Parthenon, New York, 2009
P.M. Matos,C. Duarte, M.E.Costa ; Familias questões de desenvolvimento e intervenção, Porto: Livpsic, 2011

Teaching methods and learning activities

This CU is organized in theoretical (2h) complemented by practice classes (1.5h) in a weekly basis. As this CU aims to provide a basic structure of training for students’ future exercise of clinical psychologists, becoming essential that information is transmitted both in scientific but plain language, encouraging learning, reflection and communication. Predominantly, oral presentations with audio visual support materials are used. However, students’ continuous participation is encouraged through their own presentation of examples, dilemmas and issues. Each student has an observer role in a clinical case in the Faculty Community services, reporting each session, planning the following session and presents the case to the class. In practical classes students watch videos of psychological intervention in different models and different issues. Evaluation is continuous a comprehensive with a final exam, worth 50% each.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Exame	50,00
Participação presencial	25,00
Trabalho laboratorial	25,00
Total:	100,00

Eligibility for exams

Evaluation is continuous with a final exam, worth 50% each

Calculation formula of final grade