Developmental Psychology: Advanced Issues

Recommended Prerequisites

Developmental Psychology.

Teaching Methods

Expositive/argumentative Method, with support of projection of visual material;

- Recourse to filmed documents;

- Group work;

- Discussion of cases.

Learning Outcomes

Objectives:

- to deepen the understanding about the multidimensional functioning of human development througout life and the influence of risk and protection factors on developmental pathways

- to incorporate new conceptual and empirical models in the ecological perspective of human development

 

At the end, students should be able to:

- understand the particular features of the selected issues in the scope of human development

- define, contrast and integrate the arguments from different approaches to human development

- Understand the theoretical and empirical relevance of the studied issues to the state of art in Developmental Psychology.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1- Maladaptive patterns of attachment through out life

2- Poverty as a risk factor for development

3- The relations between epigenetics and developmental psychology

4- Emotion regulation in adolescence

5- Developmental approach to the understanding of antissocial behaviour in adolescence

6- Moral development.A)from unidimensional models (eg.,Piaget,Kohlberg) to contextual models (eg.,Gilligan, Turiel,Jensen) and multidimensional models (eg.,Rest, Nunner-Winkler & Sodian, Schlenker). B)moral develoment in a global world: the cultural-developmental perspective.C)Emotions and moral motivation

7- Life-span perspective on positive development and well-being. 

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria da Luz Bernardes Rodrigues Vale Dias

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 10.0%
Synthesis work: 10.0%
Frequency: 80.0%

Bibliography

Gonzalez-Pardo, H. & Perez-Alvarez, M. (2013). Epigenetics and its implications for psychology. Psicothema, 25(1), 3

Lennarz, H., Hollenstein, T., Lichtwarck-Aschoff, A., Kuntsche, E. & Granic, I. (2019). Emotion regulation in action: Use, selection, and success of emotion regulation in adolescents’ daily lives. Intern. Jour. of Behav. Develop., 43(1), 1-11

Jensen, L. A. (2018). The Cultural-Developmental Approach to Moral Psychology: Autonomy, Community, and Divinity Across Cultures and Ages. In Gelfand, M. J., Chiu, C.-Y., & Hong, Y.-Y. (Eds.),Handbook of Advances in Culture and Psychology, Vol. 7 (pp.107-143).New York:Oxford University Press.

Payne, A. A., & Welch, K. (2015). How school and education impact the development of criminal and antisocial behavior. In J. Morizot & L. Kazemian (Eds.), The development of criminal and antisocial behavior. (pp. 237-251).Switzerland:Springer.

Shute, R. & Slee, P. (2015). Child development: theories and critical perspectives. NY: Routledge.