Clinical and Health Psychology
Cod: 41048
Department: DCSG
ECTS: 6
Scientific area: Psychology
Total working hours: 156
Total contact time: 15

This course seeks to highlight contributions, theoretical models and
determinants that are important to understand:

- the normal and pathological development and the individual, family and
collective adaptive processes;

- the promotion of health , quality of life and mental well -being , physical,
social and cultural development of individuals, families , groups and
communities;

-the prevention, assessment and treatment of various dysfunctions and
mental trauma, somatic, psychosocial and cultural


 

Health, Disease , Culture, Development and Communication
Health, Society, Violence and Quality of Life
Health Models
Psychopathology and Risk Factors and Protection

Develop skills that allow the understanding of:

- the main concepts and determinants of health and illness;

-the normal and psychopathological development of individuals and
groups and risk and protective factors and resilience ;

-the multiple individual and collective factors involved in prevention and intervention in mental and physical health and indigenous contexts or
migrant / intercultural ;

- the individual, social and cultural mechanisms involved in the adaptation
and in the psychological, physical and social well being of individuals
groups and communities.

 

Main contents to be discussed:

- Indicators and psychosocial problems of health;

- Addressing systemic and multifactorial nature of health: interactionist and
multidimensional models of health; violence , gender and health; quality of
life and health promotion; risk, vulnerability and resilience;

- Health, culture, family and development – preventive, methodological
and intervention perspectives;

- Adaptation, health and illness in migration and intercultural contexts
(migration, acculturation, adaptation, stress, communication in health care,
intercultural communication and health).

 

Calvinho, M., Ramos, N. (2014). Violência contra a mulher, saúde e
género. Contributos para melhorar as práticas profissionais e as políticas
de prevenção da violência. Revista Ambivalências, 2 (3), p. 42-69.


Ramos,  N.  (2004).  Psicologia Clínica e da Saúde.  Lisboa,
Universidade Aberta.

Ramos, N. (2008), (org.). Saúde, Migração e Interculturalidade. João

Pessoa: EDUFPB.

Ramos, N. (2009). Saúde, Migração e Direitos Humanos. Mudanças –
Psicologia da Saúde, v. 17,n. 1, p. 1-11.
https://www.metodista.br/revistas/revistas-
ims/index.php/MUD/article/viewPDFInterstitial/1924/1938

Ramos, N. (2015). Migraçôes e alteridade: desafios para a saúde colectiva.
In L. C. Teixeira & S. M. Rodrigues (org.). Psicanálise, saberes e práticas
em saúde. Curitiba: Ed. CRV.

Ramos, N. (2016). Mães e famílias entre culturas: saúde, desenvolvimento
e cuidados interculturais. In Rocha, Marcia; Ramos, Natália; Santos,
Silvana; Costa, Maria Dalva (org.). Seguridade social, interculturalidades e
Desigualdades na contemporaneidade. Natal: EDUFRN, p. 229-269.
https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/22342


Granada D, Carreno I, Ramos N, Ramos MCP (2017). Discutir saúde e
imigração no contexto atual  de intensa mobilidade humana/Debating
health and migrations in a context of intense human mobility. Interface -
Comunicação, Saúde, Educação, 21 (61): 285-296. Botucatu, SP: UNESP.
http://www.scielo.br/pdf/icse/v21n61/1414-3283-icse-21-61-0285.pdf


Silva, Ana (2011) – Desenvolvimento infantil: dos 0 aos 2 anos, Lisboa, Climepsi editores.

(Bibliografia adicional será disponibilizada online na turma virtual)


 

E-learning.

Continuous assessment is privileged: 2 digital written documents (e-folios) during the semester (40%) and a final digital test, Global e-folio (e-folio G) at the end of the semester (60%). In due time, students can alternatively choose to perform one final exam (100%).

It is crucial that students consult frequently the couse in:
www.moodle.univ-ab.pt/moodle/ .