Learning objectives
1. Knowledge and understanding. Students will have to achieve a good knowledge of the typical and reserved types characterizing the profession of psychologist also pursuant to article 1 of the law of 18 February 1989, n. 56; They include (but are not limited to): the use of cognitive and intervention tools for prevention, diagnosis, habilitation-rehabilitation activities, psychological support aimed at individuals, groups, social organizations and community, as well as experimentation, research and teaching activities.
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding. Students will have to show that they know how to apply: correct reading / evaluation of the case; appropriate use of psychological information-gathering tools and techniques to carry out case and context analysis; preparation of a theoretically founded and evidence-based professional intervention; evaluation of the process and outcome of the intervention; drafting of a report; return to patient / client / user / institution / organization; establish appropriate relationships with patients / clients / users / institutions / organizations; establish adequate relationships with colleagues; understanding of the legal/ethical/deontological profiles of the profession
3. Making judgments. Students will have to develop critical skills and independence of judgment with respect to each of the single typical and confidential acts characterizing the profession of psychologist, previously indicated.
4. Communication skills. Students must be able to communicate in a professionally appropriate way with all the actors of the psychologist profession (client/user, client, psychologist colleagues and in multidisciplinary teams).
5. Learning skills. Students must be able to learn new techniques and skills, with a view to long-life professional training.
Prerequisites
Pursuant to art. 1 and 3 of Law 163/2021 for the achievement of the master's degree in Psychology - class LM-51 enabling the practice of the profession of Psychologist, the acquisition of part of the professional training activities, up to 10 CFU, will be verified at the courses degree in Psychological Sciences and Techniques - class L-24. Students who have not achieved the aforementioned 10 credits will be able to request recognition of activities carried out and certified during the three-year degree course, relating to: a) activities, carried out individually or in small groups, aimed at learning methods, tools and procedures , relating to the application contexts of psychology; b) practical experiences, laboratories, simulations, role playing, drafting of projects, carried out individually or in small groups, concerning tools, methods and procedures aimed at developing the knowledge necessary to operate in the contexts in which psychologists intervene.
In the absence, total or partial, of the recognition of the credits referred to in Art. 2 paragraph 6 of DI 654 of 5 July 2022, three-year graduates will be able to acquire the missing internship credits in addition to the 120 credits of the master's degree.
Course unit content
The TPV takes the form of contextualized and supervised practical activities,involving direct observation and the execution of activities aimed at situated learning and the development of the procedural and relational skills and abilities fundamental for the exercise of the professional activity.
Full programme
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Teaching methods
The TPV activities are carried out in operational contexts, for a minimum number of 14 credits, at qualified external bodies affiliated with universities. Part of these activities is carried out in public or private health facilities accredited and contracted with the National Health Service. If these structures cannot ensure the adequate and effective availability of psychology services and related tutors within them, the aforementioned TPV can be carried out entirely at other external bodies affiliated with universities. The training of students who carry out TPV activities and their assessment is entrusted to professionals / teacher-tutors, registered with the professional order for at least three years, whose training and assessment activities are carried out on the basis of the provisions for teaching tutorial from the educational regulations of the study courses.
Assessment methods and criteria
Once the judgment of suitability of the TPV activities equal to 30 credits of professional training activities has been obtained in the entire training course (three-year and/or master's), students are allowed to take the practical evaluation test (PPV), which precedes the discussion of the thesis (Art. 1 paragraph 1 of the D.Interm. n. 654 of 05/07/2022). Anyone who obtains a negative evaluation of the internship activities repeats the TPV, or part of it, until acquiring the aforementioned suitability judgment for the purpose of participating in the final qualifying exam. The PPV evaluates the professional skills acquired with the internship within the study programme, ascertaining the level of technical preparation of the candidate for the qualification to practice the profession, which precedes the discussion of the degree thesis. The PPV is aimed at ascertaining the candidate's ability to critically reflect on the overall internship experience and the activities carried out, also in light of the aspects of legislation and professional ethics, demonstrating that he is able to adopt a professional approach based on theoretical models and on the evidence.
The selection commission of the PPV has equal composition and is made up of at least four members, at least half of whom are university professors designated by the Department to which the course pertains, and, for the other half, members designated by the National Council of the Order of psychologists, enrolled for at least five years in the relevant professional register.
The test, in oral mode, is unique and focuses on the activity carried out during the TPV and on the links between theories/models and professional practices, as well as on aspects of legislation and professional ethics. The assessment has as its object the acquisition of the skills referred to in Art. 5, the ability to highlight the links between theories/models and the practice carried out during the training, as well as knowledge of the deontological code of psychologists. The PPV is passed with the achievement by the student of a judgment of suitability, which allows access to the discussion of the thesis.
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