Community Psychology

Recommended Prerequisites

Without reference.

Teaching Methods

Fundamentally, the expositive, demonstrative strategies will be used by the teacher, as well as discussion and also guided research by the students. It will be used, in a systematic way, the research of experiences and the updating of the students' competences. Students will carry out project planning tasks, and reports of visits to intervention contexts will be suggested.

Learning Outcomes

• Identify and characterize contexts, communities, where the community psychologist intervenes or can intervene

• State tasks of community psychological intervention

• Describe roles of the community psychologist

• Knowing community intervention models

* Knowing types of community intervention, prevention of remediation

• Maintain professionalism in a Community intervention team

• Analyze techniques and instruments of community psychological assessment

• Know and analyze instruments of community, psychological and neuropsychological intervention

• Carefully select community intervention programs

• Plan, elaborate, community intervention projects

• Monitoring and evaluating community intervention projects.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Conceptualisation (s) of community psychology

Conjecture (s), types, community (s)

Models of psychological intervention in the context of community psychology

Psychological intervention projects in the community (s)

Experiences of community psychology

Types, forms, contexts, contents and objectives (development / learning) of psychological intervention in a community context

Activities, resources and strategies of community intervention: The role of creativity, entrepreneurship, art (s) (stories, literature, cinema, play, ...) (what to do, how and what goals, and communities)

Community psychologist vs social psychologist

Ecological intelligence, concetualization and forms of development

APA Division 27.

Head Lecturer(s)

Ana Paula Mendes Correia Couceiro Figueira

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Presentation (visit / report) of a community intervention experience, in class, orally and in writing, and in groups, maximum 3 students: 25.0%
Presentation of draft intervention project, oral and written, individual, in class: 25.0%
Presentation of intervention project, and its developments, oral and written, individual, in class and final report: 50.0%

Bibliography

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

Gibbs, M., & Lachenmeyer, J. R. (1980). Community Psychology: theoretical and empirical approaches. N.Y.: Garden Press & Halsted Press.

Goleman, E. (2009). Inteligência Ecológica. NY, Elsevier.

González, A. M., Fuertes, F. C. & García, M. M. (Eds.) (1988). Psicología Comunitaria. Madrid: Textos Visor.

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

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

Ornelas, J. (2008). Psicologia Comunitária. Lisboa: Fim de Século.

Rappapport, J., & Seidman, E. (Eds.). (2000). Handbook of Community Psychology. NY.: Plenum Pub Corp.

Rosenberg, S. J. & Rosenberg, J. (Ed.) (2013). Community Mental Health: Challenges for the 21st Century (Se