Overall objectives:

1 - It is intended in this UC that students: - understand intervention in a risk context as a complex system.
2 - - identify the main objectives and intervention methodologies associated with specific issues.
3 - - know the specific issues associated with psychological intervention in risky contexts (disclosure, crisis, articulation with other professionals, client safety, etc.).
4 - - be able to propose psychological intervention plans in a multidisciplinary context.
5 - - know evidence-based psychological interventions associated with the specific contexts addressed.

Syllabus:

1. - Risk, emergency and complex systems: ecology and conceptual delimitation.
2. - Current research on trauma, adverse life events and their developmental implications.
3. - Psychological intervention (framed in multidisciplinary and multisystemic contexts) in risky contexts:
3.1. - Risk associated with family functioning (child abuse, domestic violence, violence in couple relationships, separation/divorce).
3.2. - Risk associated with social functioning (bullying, cyberbullying, poverty, homelessness, human trafficking).
4. - Psychological intervention in contexts of emergency and catastrophe
4.1 - Individual intervention
4.2 - Intervention with groups
4.3 - The psychologist's well-being (compassion fatigue)
5. - Ethical and deontological aspects

Literature/Sources:

U. Bronfenbrenner; G. W. Evans , 2000 , Developmental Science in the 21 [sup st] Century: Emerging Questions, Theoretical Models, Research Designs and Empirical Findings. , Social Development
S. Neves , 2012 , Intervenção psicológica e social com vítimas- adultos , Ed. Almedina
A. Sani; S. Caridade , 2016 , Práticas de intervenção na violência e no crime , Pactor
D. Byrne; G. Callaghan , 2014 , Complexity and the Social Sciences: The state of the art , Routledge
E. Munro , 2020 , Effective child protection , Sage
E. Munro; N. Cartwright; J. Hardie; E. Montuschi , 2017 , Improving child safety: deliberation, judgement and empirical research , Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society
K. Kanel , 2019 , A guide to crisis intervention , Cengage
M. Calheiros & M. Garrido (orgs.) , 2013 , Crianças em risco e perigo: Contextos, investigação e intervenção , Edições Silabo.
S. Neves , 2012 , Intervenção psicológica e social com vítimas - crianças , Ed. Almedina
M. Pereira , 2015 , Intervenção psicológica em crise e catástrofe , Ordem dos Psicólogos
N. Cartwright; E. Munro , 2010 , The limitations of randomized controlled trials in predicting effectiveness , J Eval Clin Pract.

Assesssment methods and criteria:

Classification Type: Quantitativa (0-20)

Evaluation Methodology:
Methods of active student participation will be privileged, namely the interrogative method, through which current issues associated with intervention in risk contexts will be discussed based on the current scientific literature on the understanding of risk contexts and evidence-based interventions; the discussion of practical cases will be proposed as a framework for addressing the specificities inherent in the contexts discussed. Assessment: Group work (written -50% - and oral discussion -50%.The CU is recoverable at appeal period through individual rehearsal written and discussed orally about intervention in a practical case.