Unit Psychology of social relationships in the community and family
- Course
- Social work
- Study-unit Code
- A002990
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Federica Spaccatini
- Teachers
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- Federica Spaccatini
- Hours
- 42 ore - Federica Spaccatini
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline psicologiche
- Academic discipline
- M-PSI/05
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian.
International and erasmus student are invited to attend the lessons - Contents
- The course is comprised of two main parts. In the first part we will discuss the main theoretical approaches, problems, concepts and methods of community psychology. The second part will be focused on family, understood as a social group affected by processes of individual, relational, social, and psychological change and evolution.
- Reference texts
- The programme is the following:
1) MASSIMO SANTINELLO, ALESSIO VIENO, MICHELA LENZI (2018). Fondamenti di psicologia di comunità. Bologna: Il Mulino.
2) MONYA FERRITTI (2019). Il corpo estraneo. Dentro le ideologie e i pregiudizi sull'adozione. Edizioni ETS
3) materials that will be uploaded on unistudium - Educational objectives
- At the end of the course students are expected to have developed skills such as: i) awareness of the role and responsibilities of social workers in interdisciplinary professional contexts at both community and family levels; ii) critical analysis of psychosocial dynamics in family and community contexts, especially in complex and critical situations that require counselling, promotion and support interventions for communities, families and people in difficulty.
- Prerequisites
- none
- Teaching methods
- Frontal lessons and group activities
- Learning verification modality
- Written exam
- Extended program
- The course is comprised of two main parts. In the first part we will discuss the main theoretical approaches, problems, concepts and methods of community psychology. Focusing on the psychosocial characteristics of people and communities, the analysis of contexts and their criticalities will be deepened and, consequently, of the resources available to the community, of social support and empowerment, of the development of participatory interventions and of evaluation of the intervening changes.
The second part will be focused on family, understood as a social group affected by processes of individual, relational, social, and psychological change and evolution. The focus will be on the identity of the family, its dynamics along the life cycle both internal and external with the social context in which it is inserted. Some of the transformations and transitions the family can undergo and which make the universe of possible family configurations variegated will then be examined.