Community Psychology

Code:

LPSI305

Acronym:

PC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Psychology

Instance: 2022/2023 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Psychology
Course/CS Responsible:	First degree in Psychology

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LPSIC	158	Official Curricular Structure	3	-	3	27	81

Teaching language

Portuguese
Obs.: Psicologia Comunitária

Objectives

It is its main goal to promote the construction of conceptual frameworks in the field oof community psychology.

 

Learning outcome: At the end of the semester, students should be capable to:

(a) Acquire knowledge concerning community intervention projects and critically analyse them;

(b)Critically and carefully analyse and question, based on recent research, objectives, methods and strategies of intervention modalities in personal and contextual systems, concerning a diversity of problems, populations and contexts;

(c)Design community projects in personal and contextual systems: family, school, organizations and communities.

(d) Present and debate recent investigation projects of community intervention, by writing and orally.

Learning outcomes and competences

 

At the end of the semester, students should be able to:

• Historically situate and characterize the progressive expansion of the modalities of psychological intervention, in line with the diversity of its objectives, targets and strategies, and base its pertinence by framing it in a developmental, constructivist and ecological reading of Preventive Psychology of Mental Health, Clinical Social Psychology and Community Psychology;
• Analyze and question, critically and judiciously, based on existing research, objectives, methods and strategies of each of the modalities of intervention in the personal system and in the contextual system, in relation to a diversity of problems, populations and contexts;
• Plan the development, implementation and evaluation of community psychological intervention projects in relation to a variety of problems, populations and contexts;
• To present and discuss, orally and in writing, investigations into the various modalities of Community psychological intervention, as well as the intervention plans they themselves draw up in this area.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1st Chapter: Developmental, constructivist and ecological model of community, social and preventive psychological counselling and historical contextualization of community psychology.

 

2^nd Chapter: General aspects referring to the elaboration, implementation and assessment of psychological developmental interventions.

 

3rd Chapter: Skills development aiming to deal with life, transitions and developmental tasks.

 

4th Chapter: Cognitive structures of human action development: the discussion of moral dilemmas and the deliberate psychological education.

 

5th Chapter: Consultancy: consultancy types and process.

 

6^th Chapter: Promotion and development of Social Support Networks. Intervention modalities in social support networks.

7^th Chapter: Involvement in change projects of institutional and community life contexts: (a) Research-action (b) advocacy interventions and communities’ empowering.

Mandatory literature

Menezes, I ; Intervenção comunitária. Uma perspectiva psicológica
Montero, Maritza; Introducción a la Psicología Comunitaria. Desarrollo, conceptos y procesos. , Barcelona: Paidós., 2004
• Kagan, C., Burton, M., Duckett, P., Lawthon, R., & Siddiquee, A; Critical Community Psychology, West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. , 2011
Martin, Baró; O papel do Psicólogo, Estudos de Psicologia, 2,7-27., 1996

Complementary Bibliography

Parker, I; Handbook of Critical Psychology, 2014

Teaching methods and learning activities

The methodology of teaching/learning is student-focused, previously supervised by the teacher. Such activities will be developed in small groups, tutorial moments of individual support; and moments of independent work.

Moments of attendance in small groups, involving moments focusing the study, presentation and critical analysis of research on projects community intervention, based on articles published in journals of the speciality

 Continuous assessment without final exam includes the following two components:

(a) Participation in the weekly classes where attendance is required (50%)

(b) Individual work: when attending classes (50%): This part of evaluation consist of an individual work to be developed while attending classes and in writing, in the last day of classes

 

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	10,00
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	40,00
Trabalho escrito	50,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	20,00
Estudo autónomo	31,00
Frequência das aulas	30,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

Participation in 75% of the expected classes

Calculation formula of final grade

 Continuous assessment without final exam includes the following two components:

(a) Participation in the weekly classes where attendance is required (50%)

(b) Individual work: when attending classes (50%): This part of evaluation consist of an individual work to be developed while attending classes and in writing, in the last day of classes