Compulsory Subjects for the Two Lines
Research Methodologies in Psychology
Workload: 60 hours
| Credits: | 4 |
Syllabus : Description of the main methodological perspectives of psychology research. Qualitative and quantitative methods: Assumptions, instruments and related techniques. Ethical and social implications of psychology research.
Pedagogical Preparation in Psychology
Workload: 60 hours
| Credits: | 4 |
Syllabus: Contemporary transformations in the educational context: new demands placed on teaching practice. Didactic and pedagogical preparation for higher education.
Research Seminars in Psychology
Workload: 60 hours
| Credits: | 4 |
Syllabus : Critical reading of the conceptual design presented in the selection process. Elaboration of the research project structure. Project adequacy to the program’s line of research. Critical review of the literature on the project theme. Group discussion of the dissertation proposals.
Guided Studies I
Workload 15 hours
| Credits: | 1 |
Syllabus: General review of the research project presented in the selection process. Arrangements for organizing the research structure.
Guided Studies II
Workload: 15 hours
| Credits: | 1 |
Syllabus: Deepening and written elaboration of the dissertation’s theoretical-methodological framework.
Guided Studies III
Workload: 15 hours
| Credits: | 1 |
Syllabus: Completion of the theoretical and methodological part of the research.
Guided Studies IV
Workload: 15 hours
| Credits: | 1 |
Syllabus: Completion of data analysis and dissertation conclusion.
Compulsory subject for Line 1 (Psychological Assessment and Clinical Processes)
Psychodiagnosis and Clinical Interventions
Workload: 60 hours
| Credits: | 4 |
Syllabus: Theoretical and practical investigations of psychodiagnosis and therapeutic interventions. Planning of research strategies inthe clinical area. Evaluating the effectiveness of psychotherapeutic interventions.
Compulsory Subject for Line 2 (Social Psychology and Institutional Processes)
Social Psychology and Contemporaneity
Workload 60 hours
| Credits: | 4 |
Syllabus : Emerging issues in Social Psychology. Complexity as a paradigm for life in society. Contemporary institutional and social transformations: effects on subjectivation processes. Knowledge production in Psychology in changing societies.
Optional Subjects for Line 1 (Psychological Assessment and Clinical Processes)
Construction of Psychological Assessment Instruments
Workload: 60 hours
| Credits: | 4 |
Syllabus: Stages in the construction of assessment instruments. Investigation of the instruments’ psychometric properties: item analysis and validity evidence. Specificities of psychometric research in ability and personality tests. Use of software in data analysis.
Psychoanalysis and the Body
Workload: 60 hours
| Credits: | 4 |
Syllabus : From the bodily ego to the psychic subject. The symptom and its manifestation in the body. Psychosomatics. Psychoanalytical clinical process health institutions and in the multidisciplinary team.
Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: Clinical and Research
Workload: 60 hours
| Credits: | 4 |
Syllabus: Couple and Family Psychoanalysis: historical background, theoretical strands and current studies. Family psychic dynamics: psychic generational transmission, family psychic apparatus and unconscious alliances. Research and intervention strategies in the context of psychoanalytic care for couples and families.
Optional Subjects for Line 2 (Social Psychology and Institutional Processes)
Ethics, Society and Subjectivation Processes
Workload: 60 hours
| Credits: | 4 |
Syllabus: Ethics as a component of subjectivities production. Emerging ethical problems in contemporary society. Ethical considerations and questions in Psychology in different contexts and social institutions.
Psychology, Institutional Analysis and Power Relations
Workload: 60 hours
| Credits: | 4 |
Syllabus: Research perspectives in Social Psychology based on institutional analysis. Social groups and institutions in subjectivation processes. Interconnections between subjectivation processes and relations of power, control, and resistance.
Psychology, Public Policy and society
Workload: 60 hours
| Credits: | 4 |
Syllabus: Psychology and public policies: problematizations and production of knowledge. Relations among public policies, State and civil society. Sociability and collective action in the public policies context. Formulation, administration and evaluation processes of public policies: implications with the subjectivation modes.
Optional Subjects for the Two Lines of Study
Advanced Topics in Psychology
Workload: 60 hours
| Credits: | 4 |
Syllabus: Discussion of emerging themes in Psychology and related areas.
Additional Activities I
Workload: 30 hours
| Credits: | 2 |
Syllabus: Elaboration, submission, approval and publication of articles related to the dissertation in journals that have at least Qualis B2 in the Psychology area.
Additional Activities II
Workload: 30 hours
| Credits : | 2 |
Syllabus : Elaboration, submission, approval and publication of articles related to the dissertation in journals that have at least Qualis B2 in the Psychology area. Internship
Compulsory for Scholarship Holders
Teaching Internship in Psychology
Workload: 30 hours
| Credits: | 2 |
Syllabus: Supervision of teaching activities in the classroom, lesson plan development and execution of didactic and pedagogical activities in undergraduate Psychology courses.