The Psychologist as a Person, Exploring the Dynamics of Attachment in Adult Life

Code:

LPSI321

Acronym:

PEPED

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Psychology

Instance: 2025/2026 - 2S

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	31	Official Curricular Structure	3	-	3	27	81

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Building on the "Theory of Attachment Based Exploratory Interest Sharing" ((TABEIS) Heard, Lake and McCluskey 2009) and of the model of individual psychotherapy and of group 'Goal-Corrected Exploratory Psychotherapy' (McCluskey 2005) that explores the vinculação dynamics in the adult life, it is intended sufficiently with this unit curricular to create a pedagogic context safe that allows to the students

in a first moment, to apprehend the models conceptuais and respective concepts as well as to explore them (starting from his/her personal life and/or professional) through you experience live them that will be developed in the classes and;
in a second moment, to explore caretaker's / care relationships in context laboratorial

We intended like this for besides supplying the students sufficiently a theoretical picture adapted for supporting in their different intervention areas, to touch them for us to have in bill, in his/her personal and professional development, the dynamics to "know to take care to take care of the other" ones. 

Learning outcomes and competences

Working method

Presencial

Program

Mandatory literature

McCluskey, Una; To Be Met as a Person: The Dynamics of Attachment in Professional Encounters. , London. Karnac, 2005
Heard Dorothy 340; Attachment therapy with adolescents and adults. ISBN: 978-1-85575-522-2

Complementary Bibliography

Bessel van der Kork; The Body Keeps the Score, Penguin Books, 2014
Pat Ogden; Kekuni Minton; Clare Pain; Trauma and the Body, Norton & Company Ltd, 2006

Teaching methods and learning activities

Exhibition of contents for the teacher; Exploration vivencial; Roll-playings in situations of help: Exploration of videos of the roll-playings with base in the model VIG (Video Interaction Guidance). Reflection written on each one of the pedagogic (SISDAT) situations.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	40,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Trabalho laboratorial	20,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	46,00
Frequência das aulas	30,00
Trabalho laboratorial	5,00
Total:	81,00

Eligibility for exams

According to the regulations, attendance is compulsory in
 75% of classes. As mentioned previously the classes will
 have a part in which a presentation is made by the 
teacher and a second in which the students will, 
in a group, a personal exploration of each of the 
systems presented.

The laboratory work corresponds to the realization, 
in groups of 3, of video-recorded interviews

After each class the students will individually 
produce a personal reflection on 6 themes proposed by 
the teacher; satisfactions, dissatisfactions, 
surprises, discoveries, learnings and applications.

Calculation formula of final grade

The final classification will be obtained in the defined proportions previously in the evaluation component