PSICOLOGIA SOCIALE E CLINICA

Academic Year 2015/2016 - 2° Year - Curriculum Curriculum L-39

Detailed Course Content

• The Social Construction of the Social World

  Aims:

  Providing the fundamental epistemological tools to: understand the processes involved in the construction of the social world, particularly to the role that institutions play in the underlying processes of the change and of the "discontinuity" in daily life; in social institutions and in productive organizations. Particular attention will be devoted to the problems of de-institutionalization and to the psycho-social processes that weave with the specific dynamics.

  Contents:

  The "construction" of the social world and the professional activity of the researcher and of the institutional actors; the action/research and the organizational and institutional dynamics; the theoretical patterns and the relationship with the "real"; the collection/construction of "data" and the phenomena of distortion; the contexts and the working hypothesis; the interpersonal dynamics and the setting; the usefulness and the limitations of the structured and the projective tools.

• Social Psycology: Social interactions and interpersonal relationship

  Aims:

  Providing the fundamental epistemological tools to understand and control the subjective and intersubjective phenomena that substantiate the social and professional action: the processes that contribute to structure the Self and the Social Identity (personal and professional), as a function of socialization processes; the group and intergroup processes; the prejudicial thinking and the functional strategies to reduce the same; the training and the interpretation of the professional role.

  Contents:

  The social interaction and relevance of the group; the construction of the Self and the Possible Selves; the Social identity and the ingroup /outgroup bias; the intergroup relationships and the strategies for the reduction of prejudicial thought; the psychological small group and the change processes; the psycho-social training and the "listening ability"; the issue of the Identity and the dynamics of empathy; the interpretation of the role and the ability to "be in the relationship".