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Second cycle degree

SOCIAL AND CLINICAL APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY

COD. 5054
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A.Y. 2016/2017
CLASS:
LM-51 - Classe delle lauree magistrali in Psicologia
Years of study: 2
Credits (CFU): 120
Mode of study: full-time
DEGREE COURSE WITH LOCALLY-REGULATED ENROLMENT

Places available: 100
of which 3 for Non-EU citizens, including 1 reserved to Chinese citizens

Acceptance based on the chronological order of enrolments

Enrolment: from July 20th 2016, 12.00 h, to August 8th 2016, 12.00 h - if the number of available places is not reached, enrollments will re-open from August 23rd 2016, 12.00 h, to November 10th 2016, 12.00 h

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COURSE STRUCTURE DIAGRAM WITH CREDITS

CORSO GENERICO (curriculum)

Year of study: 1

Year of study: 2

Profile of the programme

The second cycle degree course in Social and Clinical Applied Psychology answers to a growing demand in planning, management and evaluation of psychological intervention. Such demand comes from a series of enterprises and institutions operating in the educational sector (childhood services, schools, formative agencies, psycho-educational centres), in the social needs assistance (family aid centres, youth association centres, private social enterprises, hospitals and health centres, rehabilitation centres). The structure of the course aims at consolidating and enhancing theoretical knowledge of the psychological disciplines, further enriched by adequate training concerning the instruments of research and intervention methodologies for successful professional activities.

Admission requirements

The number of enrolments to the Second Cycle Degree Course in Social and Clinical Applied Psychology is regulated at a local scale.
In coherence with the directives of the Italian Psychologists Associations and of the Academic Council of Psychology, as well as with the recent dispositions from the National Agency for the Evaluation of the University and Research System (ANVUR) and the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR), the professors of the course justify the restriction on the number of students with the need of assuring the didactic objectives and adequate professional training established by the course. This decision also takes into account the supply of resources, structures and services, in order to guarantee to all the students the use of the highly specialized laboratories, a compulsory internship and the utilization of computer and technological systems.
Admission to the course is locally regulated by the chronological order of enrolments. Admission is not subordinated to any entrance test.
Applicants:
1. must possess a first cycle degree in Psychology (class 34 or class L-24);
2. or an equivalent Italian or foreign certificate containing at least 88 credits in psychological subjects belonging to the following scientific-disciplinary sectors: M-PSI/01, M-PSI/02, M-PSI/03, M-PSI/04, M-PSI/05, M-PSI/06, M-PSI/07, M-PSI/08. In order to obtain the requested 88 credits, applicants can take further entrance exams in Degree Courses or Faculties in Psychology (but not Master Programmes, Postgraduate courses or similar)

Key learning outcomes

The course structure has been designed for the acquisition and consolidation of in-depth theoretical knowledge in psychological disciplines, completed by adequate training on the necessary tools for research and intervention methodologies and for effective professional activities. In particular, the course will produce graduates with the needed skills for conceiving interventions of primary and secondary prevention, for dealing with emotional, relational, social and cognitive problems in the abovementioned sectors and their lifetime.
At the end of the course, graduates will be able to:
- apply the appropriate methodologies to understand and analyse the complexity of the psychological processes in educational, social and health contexts;
- master psychological tools and techniques (questionnaires, interviews, observations) and suitably use them according to specific requests;
- project, realise and monitor the interventions for promoting individual, family, group and organisation resources in the selected areas
- take the responsibility for the interventions while proving/demonstrating/showing professional autonomy and capacity of team-working and collaboration into a group.

In order to reach such objectives, the course provides:
- frontal lectures
- guided practical training
- individual and group study (usually small groups)
- in-depth seminars by experts of the sector
- internships in external structures
- study experiences abroad in other European (through the Erasmus Programme) or international universities (through bilateral agreements between the University of Parma and its international academic partners).
Furthermore, each student is assisted by a tutor professor during his/her whole educational path, especially as regards the curriculum, the choice of the optional subjects, of the internship and the final thesis.

Final examination, if any

The final examination consists in the presentation of a written thesis, originally conceived and elaborated under the supervision of a professor of the Second Cycle Degree Course in Social and Clinical Applied Psychology. The thesis can focus on the critical analysis of the specific literature regarding a selected topic or on an empirical research project conducted by the candidate. In all these cases, the elaboration of the thesis must highlight: the reasonable choice of a relevant topic; the critical comprehension of a great part of international literature about the selected topic; the autonomous use of tools for the retrieval of both theoretical and empirical data; the personal and original re-elaboration of the selected topic.
The thesis will be publicly presented and discussed by the candidate in front of a designated assistant supervisor and Commission. The final mark is expressed out of 110.