Unit PLANNING AND EVALUATION OF PSYCHOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS
- Course
- Assessment of individual functioning in clinical and health psychology
- Study-unit Code
- 40999309
- Curriculum
- Curriculum i
- Teacher
- Chiara Pazzagli
- Teachers
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- Chiara Pazzagli
- Hours
- 54 ore - Chiara Pazzagli
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Psicologia dinamica e clinica
- Academic discipline
- M-PSI/07
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- - scientific studies on psychotherapy research;
- strengths and weaknesses of projects on psychological interventions planning;
- strengths and weaknesses of studies on interventions efficacy and effectiveness.
- guidelines on how to plan a psychological intervention - Reference texts
- During the course, students will work on scientific articles on plan and interventions evaluation. Along with scientific articles, reference books are:Levy R.A., Ablon J.S., Kachele H (2011). Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Research: Evidence-Based Practice and Practice-Based Evidence. Humana Press. Scientific articles on study protocol.
Not attending students should contact the professor in order to agree the program - Educational objectives
- Aim of the course is to provide students with the core competences necessary to plan and evaluate psychological interventions.
Main knowledge acquired will be:
- main studies on psychotherapy research;
- strengths and weaknesses of studies on interventions efficacy and effectiveness;
- basic elements of intervention planning;
- strengths and weaknesses of projects on interventions planning.
The main competence (the ability to apply the acquired knowledge) will be:
- evaluation of the quality of studies on psychotherapy research;
- identification of the steps of project planning;
- ability to apply the acquired knowledge on psychological intervention planning. - Prerequisites
- In order to be able to understand the planning and evaluation of psychological interventions, it is advisable a basic knowledge of the main intervention models.
Furthermore, it is advisable to be able to read and comprehend scientific articles in English - Teaching methods
- The course is organized as follow: lectures on the core subjects of the course; assigned readings which are relevant to project psychological intervention; class discussion and group work on psychological intervention planning; continual feedback on work from other students and professor; planning of a psychological intervention project.
Students will choose the object of their projects based on their personal interests and will work in small groups. - Learning verification modality
- The exam consists in a practice/oral and a written exam. In order to evaluate the acquisition by the student of the necessary competences to plan and evaluate psychological interventions, the exam will be articulated in a progress assessments, a written exam and a discussion of a psychological intervention project. Specifically, the progress assessment will consists of a group presentation (about 30’ minutes longs) by students on studies on psychological interventions and research. The aim of this assessment is to verify the knowledge level, the understanding capability acquired by the student and the capacity to exposure the theoretical topics. The written exam will consists on multiple choice questions in order to verify the level of the knowledge on the topics covered in the course. The student will have about 30 ' minutes of time available. Discussion of a psychological intervention project. Students will choose the object of their project based on their personal interests and will work in small groups. The aim of this assessment is to evaluate the ability to correctly apply the theoretical knowledge.
- Extended program
- Aim of the course is the acquisition by the students of the core competences necessary to plan and evaluate psychological interventions. For this purpose, the following issues will be initially addressed: studies on psychotherapy research and intervention models. Subsequently, articles and chapters on Psychological intervention planning and its evaluation will be deepen. Students will present studies on psychological interventions and research during lectures. By the end of the course, students will present a psychological intervention project. Students will choose the object of their projects based on their personal interests and will work in small groups. The purpose of the project is to apply learned principles to the planning of a psychological intervention