The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning outcomes

Module: PSICOLOGIA SOCIALE E DEI GRUPPI
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- To provide knowledge of the main psychosocial processes that intervene in different life contexts.
- To provide conceptual and practical tools for interventions in the field of social and community psychology.
- To promote the use of psychosocial lenses in observing different realities that people construct in interaction.
- To favour methodological and practical competences of the students, possibly through active and critical participation in class.


Module: PSICOLOGIA DI COMUNITà
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The course in Community Psychology will start with an analysis of human development from a relational point of view, and will refer to the main concepts introduced in the Social Psychology course. It will introduce the students to the importance of the sense of community for individual and social changes. It will show how the community work can be useful to cope with psycosocial desease and to promote and develop individual resourses in relationship contests. The theoretical priciples guiding social operators and the pratical strategies will be shown.

Program

Module: PSICOLOGIA SOCIALE E DEI GRUPPI
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During the lessons, the main theoretical contributions to the birth of the discipline will be illustrated, focusing on the those paradigmatic shifts that generated different approaches to social psychology. Then, the main processes that construct social realities will be discussed, with particular attention to social comparison processes, social influence, attitudes, communication and social memory. The theory of Social Representations will be presented with references to its fields of intervention and application.
Finally, the main processes connected to the self, social identity and intergroup relations will be treated. Along the theoretical presentations, pragmatic and real life examples will be favoured in order to enhance students' competences in their future professional interventions.


Bibliography:
Amerio, P. (2007). Fondamenti di psicologia sociale. Bologna: il Mulino. (Capp. 2,3,4,7,8,9,11).
Voci, A. (2006). Processi psicosociali nei gruppi. Roma-Bari: Laterza. (Capp. 1,2,4).


Module: PSICOLOGIA DI COMUNITà
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Course topics:
• human development and the importance of relationships
• quality of life, disease, prevention and health promotion
• how to cope with crisis
• social support, networking and community
• psychological resources and empowerment
• the community development: from changing process to its results
• community work: operators, environments and modalities
• community psychology and educational system.

Texts for the exam
Lavanco G., Novara C. (2006), Elementi di psicologia di comunità, (seconda edizione) McGraw-Hill, Milano.
Arcidiacono C. (a cura di) (2004), Volontariato e legami collettivi. Bisogni di comunità e relazione reciproca, F. Angeli, Milano (Esclusi capitoli 10 e 11).

Examination Methods

Module: PSICOLOGIA SOCIALE E DEI GRUPPI
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At the end of the module, there will be a written exam. An oral integration is also possible.
The final mark of the Social and Community Psychology course will be constituted by a single score that can be recorded only after having successfully passed the two modules.
The bibliography for the exam is the same both for students who attend classes and those who do not.


Module: PSICOLOGIA DI COMUNITà
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Written exam with open questions.
The final mark of the Social and Community Psychology course will be constituted by a single score that can be recorded only after having successfully passed the two modules.