General and Social Psychology

The course is aimed at providing students with basic knowledge on the structure and role of the major psychological functions and on their inclusion and organization into the individual and social psychology models most frequently used in in healthcare and socio-educational services. Other aims of the course will comprise the acquisition of theoretical and methodological knowledge about
· the main psychological functions and their relation with the quality of experience and with one's own and others' behavior
· the major theoretical models in general and social psychology
· the processes underlying collective events, phenomena and behaviors in relation to different social systems and subsystems (family, ethnic group, organization, community, nation)
· dynamics underlying group processes

At the end of the course the students will acquire competences
· to describe the structure of the main psychological functions and their role in orienting behavior
· to know the paradigms and theoretical models most frequently used in healthcare and socio-educational services
· to correctly use psychological concepts and terminology in describing one's own and other's experience
· to identify the processes underlying collective events, phenomena and behaviors in relation to different social systems and subsystems (family, ethnic group, organization, community, nation)
· to identify and analyze the main group dynamics