Development and Intervention in Childhood and Adolescence

Recommended Prerequisites

Developmental Psychology

Teaching Methods

Expositive/argumentative Method.

Role-play.

Group work.

Field/research work.

Discussion of cases.

Learning Outcomes

Based on a paradigm of Applied Developmental Psychology, this unit seeks, fundamentally, to equip students with a developmental perspective on intervention with children and adolescents.

Specific objectives are:

- To strengthen an ecological perspective on the Human Development process;

- To develop the capacity to analyze some problems and particularities of certain development contexts and to elaborate specific intervention plans, which are developmentally informed;

- To know strategies and programs of intervention/prevention in the developmental process and in some contexts of development of the child and the adolescent, based on evidence.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1.The pair Development–Intervention:Contributes of the ecological perspective of development.

2.Development and Intervention in the context of psychological consultation

a)Special features about interviewing children/adolescents and parents;

b)Information devolution interview

3.Develop. and Interv. in the family context

a)Caregiving during infancy and promotion of emotional (self)regulation;

b)Toilet training and enuresis;

c)Develop. and sexual education;

d)Parental support in adolescent’s decision-making

e)Children of divorce

4.Develop. and Interv. in the social context

a)Peer interactions and groups:Developmental perspective

b)Pro-social behaviour, peer acceptance and friendship

c)Peer rejection and aggression: Deviant, anti-social behaviour, and peer bullying;Agression and new technologies: cyberbullying;d) Peer experiences and later adjustment

5.Programs of develop. of personal and social competences (conflict resolution/Bullying prevention);Prevention of sexual and addictive risk

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria da Luz Bernardes Rodrigues Vale Dias

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Research work: 10.0%
Resolution Problems: 20.0%
Frequency: 70.0%

Bibliography

Arnett,J, Kurtines,W & Montgomery,M (Eds)(2008).Promoting Positive Youth Development:A Developmental Intervention,J. of Adolescent Research,Special Issue,23(3),233-359

Barros,L (2004).Perturbações de eliminação na infância e na adolescência.Lisboa:Climepsi

Damon,W & Lerner,R (2008)(Eds).Child and Adolescent Development.An Advanced Course.NJ:John Wiley & Sons

Hartley,C & Somerville,L (2015).The neuroscience of adolescent decision-making.Current Opinion in Behav. Sciences,5,108-115

Kerns,K, Mathews,B, Koehn,A, Williams,C & Siener-Ciesla,S (2015).Assessing both safe haven and secure base support in parent-child relationships.Attachment and Human Develop.,17(4),337-353

Morgado,A, & Vale Dias,ML (2016).Antisocial behaviour in adolescence:Understanding risk factors and mediators through a structural equations model.Intern. J. of Developmental and Educ. Psychology,2(1),381-392

Zych,I, Farrington,D, Llorent,V, Ttofi,M (2017).Protecting Children Against Bullying and Its Consequences.NY:Springer