Developmental psychology of childhood and adolescence

Code 436MM
Credits 9

Learning outcomes

The course allows the mastering of focal skills related to the understanding of the basic processes in developmental psychology of the life span: infant, childhood and adolescent ages. The student will be able to acquire a framework of crucial knowledge to recognise cognitive and emotional processes and dynamics that characterize these stages of life (especially in adolescence ) framed in complex social relationships of interest of the social worker profession. In the broader framework of social policies, the deepening of these kind of knowledge and skills will be reinforced also by the attendance of teaching courses in social psychology and the subsequent course of political psychology and community (the third year), allowing the better pourpoused defining of these professionalizing skill facets.