Class Family Intervention

  Based on a systemic way of thinking and intervening, and assuming the central place of the family in understanding the development trajectories and the adjustment/well-being of individual subjects, this UC aims to provide students with tools to deal with the diversity of contemporary family configurations , in an informed and inclusive manner, as well as models of psychological intervention focused on family relationships, either with the family system as a whole, or with the subsystems that constitute it (e.g., marital, parental, fraternal, individuals), or even in the articulation with other broader systems (e.g., education, health, social/legal).

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  PC1. Initial questions: Family or families? PC2. Theoretical and epistemological foundations in Family Psychology 2.1. General Systems Theory 2.2. cybernetics 2.3. Pragmatic Theory of Human Communication 2.4. Paradigm of systemic complexity PC3. Models for understanding family functioning 3.1. Family stress models 3.2.The family's vital cycle framework. Expected steps and challenges in conjugality and parenthood 3.3. Families facing unexpected transitions: chronic health conditions, death; separation/divorce and remarriage; infertility; adoption; physical separation; LGBTQ+ families PC4. Interventions with families 4.1. Types and indications 4.2. Information collection and analysis techniques 4.3. Examples of family intervention models -Transgenerational -Structural and strategic -Solution-centered therapy and narrative model Key concepts in the conceptualization of clinical cases, outlines of the therapeutic process and techniques.  

Teaching methodologies (TM)   The syllabus will be taught using a variety of methodologies, namely: oral presentation of content (TM1); brainstorming (TM2); interactive dialogue and guided discussion (TM3); viewing excerpts from films/videos (TM4); exercises (individual or in groups) to apply the concepts taught (TM5); dramatization/role-play exercises (TM6); tutoring for ongoing group work (TM7); research, reading, analysis and discussion of scientific articles and other relevant literature (TM8). At the end of the course, students are invited to critically reflect on the skills they gained in the UC, including self-assessment of their learning, involvement in tasks and performance (TM9).  

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