Community mental health

Year
4
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
02018007
Subject Area
Psychology
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
4.0
Type
Compulsory
Level
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado

Recommended Prerequisites

Have complied with the curricular plan of the 1st phase of the Integrated Master in Psychology

Teaching Methods

Theoretical exposition with audiovisual resources, research, consultation of documents and interviews with specialists, visits and confrontation with ongoing projects or experiences, debate, cooperative learning. Students are invited to participate in scientific activities related to mental health promotion and prevention, responding to empirical needs or integrating ongoing work.

Learning Outcomes

students should be able to:

* identify risk factors and protect health and individual and collective well-being

* reflect on strategies for prevention and intervention of adverse situations, involving cognitive, emotional, behavioral and contextual components

* describe the main approaches to action in Community Mental Health

* analyze diagnoses of and in communities; to know intervention programs (preventive and remediative); procedures for evaluating intervention programs.

* identify the ecological principles of intervention in community settings

* structure intervention projects based on the collaborative research paradigm

* structure and base the application of ecological principles to the processes of social change

* to reconcile and equate the functions of social support networks

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

A.Definition, evolution and organization of Community Mental Health services

1. Origins

2. New therapeutic paradigms

3. Public Health and Community Mental H

4. Objectives of the work in Community Mental Health (prevention and recovery planning focused on the subject and the community)

5. Intervention in network and interdisciplinary cooperation.Establishment of educational programs and development of new forms of indirect intervention

B. Theoretical and technical aspects of Community M H

1. Models, theories and intervention strategies

2. Concepts of empowerment, stakeholders, wellness, support, social support, support networks (formal and informal), self-help and mutual help, crisis, resilience, recovery;

3. Contributions of Ecological Psychology;

4. Contributions of the Systems Theory;

C. Programs to support families of individuals integrated in therapeutic communities

D. Programs aimed at reducing stigma and discrimination of subjects

E. Community M H Guidelines, Protocols and Tools

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Jorge Santos Almeida Rama Ferro

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Frequency: 40.0%
Synthesis work: 60.0%

Bibliography

APA http://www.apa.org/about/division/div27.aspx

Apter, S. J. (1982). Troubled Children, Troubled Systems. N.Y.: Pergamon Press, General Psychology Series.

Bowe, N. (2005). Perspectives in Community Mental Health (a study guide and workbook). Dubuque, Iowa: Kendal/Hunt Publishing Company.

Kelly, J. (2006). Becoming Ecological: An Expedition into Community Psychology. New York: Oxford University

Nelson, G., Kloos, B., & Ornelas, J. H. (2014). Community Psychology and Community Mental Health: Towards Transformative Change. Estados Unidos: Oxford University Press.

Rosenberg, S. J. & Rosenberg, J. (Editor) (2017). Community Mental Health: Challenges for the 21st Century (3rd Edition). NY: Routledge.

Southwick, S.T., & Charney, D.S. (2018) Resilience. The science of mastering life's greatest challenges. Cambridge: Univ Press.

Thornicroft, G., Szmulkler, G., Muesser, K. T., & Drake, R. (Eds.) (2011). Oxford Textbook of Community Mental Health. Oxford University Press.