The course consists of three parts: Developmental Psychology (12 hours), School Psychology (12 hours), Communication and helping relationship (12 hours).
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY (12 hours)
1. Introduction:
- Developmental psychology: evolutionary stages;
- Neuroanatomical and neurophysiological developmental bases.
2. The main theoretical models in Developmental Psychology: the bioecological model of development (Bronfenbrenner); behavioral theories and learning paradigms; cognitive theories (J. Piaget); the development of moral judgment (Kohlberg); psychodynamic theories (S. Freud, A. Freud, M. Klein); genetic psychoanalysis (R.A. Spitz, M. Mahler); the C group of London psychoanalysis (Winnicott); Attachment Theory (Bowlby).
Self and identity: definition and development.
Adolescence: criteria for defining the duration of adolescence; Havighurst's developmental tasks model.
Bullying: definition, types, principles of prevention and treatment.
Group psychology (basic theoretical notions): the social group (definition, structure, dynamics, leadership).
SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGY (12 hours)
1. What is and what does school psychology include:
educational processes from the psychological point of view; planning of interventions.
2.How the human being construct the world:
perception, attention and intuition, memory, intelligence, awareness and knowledge, recognition, skill and understanding.
3.How the human being learns the world: learning and knowledge building, thought processes, learning and meta-cognition, motivation.
4. The teacher and student relationship: plurality of learning environments; educational contexts; the class relationship: status and roles; mutual images; education styles and teaching objectives; the relationship between student and teacher.
5. The individual and society: individuals and groups; status and role (power, cohesion, identity); communication standards and networks; social influence and conformism; bullying and cyberbullying; Group dynamics: building oneself and others, making a decision, inter-group dynamics.
6. The family: types of families; the family cycle; normality and dysfunctionality in the family.
7. Diversity: atypical development; normality and developmental pathology; disabilities.
COMMUNICATION AND HELPING RELATIONSHIP (12 hours)
Communication and relationship in the educational context.
The helping relationship: definition; phases of the process; helping skills.