Empowerment e Participação Social

Code:

PRPSM16

Acronym:

EPS

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Social Science

Instance: 2020/2021 - 1S (since 21-09-2020 to 19-12-2020)

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	http://modle.up.pt
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Psychology Themes

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
MTP	16	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	6	54	162

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- Critically to analyze the current trends of public policies in the area of ​​health and illness, reflecting and analyzing institutional responses and building an inclusive citizenship;
- To question the conceptions of health and illness and educational and social responses, considering cultural and social diversity in a historic perspective;

- To identify the principles and values ​​of empowerment and its implications to health intervention, giving special to mental illness questions;
- To recognize the potential of community intervention in health sphere and to know projects in this field;

- To be able to design community intervention projects in health field, taking into account an empowerment perspective.

Learning outcomes and competences

It aims to promote knowledge and skills on the concepts of citizenship and empowerment and their implications for the design of interventions in the health area, especially in the field of community health.

It is also intended to develop skills for analysis and critical reflection on public policies in the area of ​​health and disease, as well as current intervention devices.

Finally, it is hoped to promote design skills for community health intervention projects, in a perspective of empowerment.

 

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Not applicable.

Program

1. The social, historical and political construction of health and disease definitions.


2. Public policies in the health area, with a special focus on chronic diseases and mental illness.


3. From inclusion and medicalization to think about the challenges of the mental illness experience.


4. The concept of empowerment and its implications for health intervention.


5. Community health intervention: from theory to practice.

 

Mandatory literature

Georges Canguilhem; The^normal and the pathological. ISBN: 978-0-942299-59-5
Carapinheiro, G. (2010). ; Equidade, Cidadania e Saúde: Apontamentos para uma Reflexão Sociológica. Alicerces, 3, 57-64.
Conrad, P. (2007). ; The Medicalization of Society. The John Hopkins University Press.
Conrad, P.; Bandini, J. (2015). ; Mental Illness as a Form of Deviance. Historical Notes and Contemporary Directions In Erich Goode (ed.) The Handbook of Deviance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Goffman Erving; Stigma. ISBN: 978-0-14-012475-0
Isabel Menezes; Intervenção comunitária. ISBN: 978-972-8082-90-1
Menezes, I.; Loja, E.; Teixeira, P. (Eds.) (2014). ; In/capacidade e in/diferença: do indivíduo deficiente à sociedade incapacitante: justiça social, cidadania e autonomia das pessoas incapacitadas. Porto: CIIE.
Pais, S. C.; Menezes, I. & Nunes, J. A. (2016). ; Saúde e escola: reflexões em torno da medicalização da educação. Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 32(9), 1-10.
Silva, L. & Alves, F.; Compreender as racionalidades leigas sobre saúde e doença, Pihysis, 21 (4): 1207-1229, 2011
Silva, L.; Socio-Antropologia da Saúde - sociedade, cultura e saúde/doença, Lisboa: Universidade Aberta, 2004 (Book at ESTSTP-IPP library)
Sontag, S. (2009). ; A doença como metáfora. A Sida e as suas metáforas. Lisboa: Quetzal.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical classes and discussion of community intervention projects.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Exame	60,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Participação presencial	0,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	54,00
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Trabalho de investigação	54,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

The students must have the minimum of 9.5 points in 20 at final evaluation.

The presence in class is mandatory according to the regulation in force in FPCEUP.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final grade is obtained through the formula:

- 40% for presentation and discussion of projects (papers) about intervention in mental health, which allow reflecting critically and grounded the contents of the UC.

- 60% final exam.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable.

Internship work/project

Not applicable.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable.

Classification improvement

The improvement of classification is done according to the regulation in force in FPCEUP.

Observations

The discipline uses Moodle platform.

This master is teach with the collaboration of ESTSP-IPP; some of the bibliography can be found at this school.

Considering the operational recommendations for maintaining teaching and non-teaching activities in person, but in the impossibility of guaranteeing the presence of all the teaching activities of the 1st semester of 2020/2021 in the current pandemic context, due to the lack of physical facilities capable of accommodating with the number of students in this cycle of studies is secure, the component [T] of this UC will partially take place at a distance, with synchronous moments, using telematic support material.