The teaching is organized as follows:

Learning outcomes

Module: PSICOLOGIA SOCIALE E DEI GRUPPI
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The course aims to provide students with an adequate level of knowledge about Social and Group Psychology: theoretical references, the main models, the most common research methods and its areas of application for people and organizations.


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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The Social and Group Psychology works in several areas of individual and collective life in which psychological processes are structured with the practical activities of people, and the dynamics of organizations and social institutions.

The course offers an overview of Social and Group Psychology, explaining in a systematic way the different theories and describing empirical results achieved over the years. The analysis will take place either at the basic processes of social life (such as those involved in cognition, emotion, communication, motivation and action), or at the level of phenomena that these processes are working to build in the social-interaction area (attitudes, prejudices, social representations, social influence, self and identity construction).

Main topics:

Key concepts of Social and Group Psychology - Origin and development of Social Psychology - Knowledge and representation of the social world - The interpersonal dimension - The group dimension - The organizational dimension - Social Influence - Problems related to theoretical and methodological choices in psychosocial research.

Teaching methods: traditional lessons integrated with active learning.


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
• the community development: from changing process to its results
• psychological resources and empowerment
• sense of community and involvement
• social support, networking and community
• community work: operators, environments and modalities

Bibliographic references:
A) Lavanco G., Novara C. (2006), Elementi di psicologia di comunità, (seconda edizione) McGraw-Hill, Milano.
B) One of the following books according to the student’s choice:
- Arcidiacono C. (a cura di) (2004), Volontariato e legami collettivi. Bisogni di comunità e relazione reciproca, F. Angeli, Milano (except chapters 10 and 11);
- Zani B., Cicognani E (1999). Le vie del benessere. Eventi di vita e strategie di coping, Carocci, Roma.
- Meneghini A.M. (2010). Sentire e condividere. Componenti psicologiche e correlati biologici dell’empatia, SEID Editori, Firenze (except chapters 9, 10 and 11).
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Bibliography

Examination Methods

Module: PSICOLOGIA SOCIALE E DEI GRUPPI
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How the exams will take place will be communicated in detail during the first lessons of the course.

Subjects of assessment will be the main contents of the textbook and the topics covered during lessons. The teacher will provide students with suitable supporting material.

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.


Module: PSICOLOGIA DI COMUNITÀ
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Written exam. More detailes will be comunicated to students during first lesson.
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.