70029 - Practicum.

Learning outcomes

The student, at the end of this activity: - knows some actual workplaces and some professional practices useful to identify objectives of the professional activity of psychologists; - is able to apply competencies to contribute to conduct situational assessments and to contribute to implement psychological interventions; is able to create professional interactions with clients and other practitioners working in organizations and in human resources field.

Course contents

Contents are related to the two different proposals in which the stage can be done. The actual program will be the Individual project that the student will have to run; the students is responsible of the choice of the stage and of its management. The stage is tipically run in the second semester of the second year. The two alternatives are:

a) stage – internship: It is a period in a workplace that the student has to select based on the list of workplaces that have already an agreement with the University/ School of Psychology. The student may propose a new workplace; in order to do this, the International Relation and Stage office of the Campus di Cesena must be contacted some months before the start of the stage.

b) stage – research: this concerns individual practical projects agreed with a professor of the Master program, and conducted under his/her responsibilities. It is run into a Department of the University of Bologna under the supervision of the professor. This stage does not include research activities related to the master thesis that the student is working upon.

Readings/Bibliography

- Bartram, D. (1996), Occupational standards and competence-based qualifications for professional applied psychologist in the U.K. European Psychologist, 1,157-165

-  Bartram, D., Roe, R.A (2005), Definition and assessment of competences in the context of the European Diploma in Psychology, European Psychologist,, 2, 93-102

- Roe, R.A. (2002), What makes a competent psychologist? European Psychologist, 7 (3), 221-225.

- Rogard, V (2004), La formation initiale des psychologues du travail: offre, contenus et débouchés. In V. Cohen-Scali (Eds), Les métiers en psychologie du Travail, Paris: In Press Editions

- Erasmus Mundus Program A framework of competences in postgraduate education for professional practice of Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology in Europe, Annex VI

Teaching methods

Meetings and discussions on reports/portfolio.

Assessment methods

Evaluation of a Final paper  of about 25 pages (about 3500 characters per page), including the following points:

1)      description of the organization structure and functioning  where the internship was done

2)      description of the activities and of the role of the student, with methods and tolls used during the stage

3)      description of the theories used to explain the activities and to run the activities during the stage

4)      interaction with the supervisors and description of the types and frequency of the interactions

5)      an assessment of the competencies and skills developed during the stage (by using the Europsy model).

 

Students of the international program will also add to this Final paper the writing of a two-weekly portfolio.

Teaching tools

Reports, guided discussions, examination of psychological tests that are in the Department library.

Office hours

See the website of Salvatore Zappalà