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
  • Federica Spaccatini
Hours
  • 45 ore - Federica Spaccatini
CFU
6
Course Regulation
Coorte 2025
Offered
2026/27
Learning activities
Caratterizzante
Area
Discipline psicologiche
Sector
M-PSI/05
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
The course is delivered in Italian. However, international and Erasmus students are still encouraged to attend
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
core texts:
I testi di riferimento sono i seguenti da studiare interamente:
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

For attending students, group work is planned and constitutes an integral part of the course program. Group work will be introduced during the course. For non-attending students, an additional text is required:
MASSIMO SANTINELLO, ALESSIO VIENO (a cura di) (2013) Metodi di intervento in psicologia di comunità
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
For students enrolled in the Social Work degree program od the department of political science (UNIPG), the Social Psychology exam scheduled for the first year is a prerequisite for this exam
Teaching methods
Lectures, practical exercises, and group work (the latter for attending students).
Other information
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Learning verification modality
Written exam consisting of multiple-choice and open-ended questions based on the texts included in the exam syllabus (for attending and non-attending students, as detailed above). The exam will take place on a computer in the department’s computer lab (Via Pascoli campus); those who wish may use their own laptop to complete the test. Students with disabilities and/or specific learning disorders (SLD) are entitled to additional time, in accordance with regulations, and may use compensatory or dispensatory tools.
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.
Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
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