Psychology (MSc/PhD)
Overview
The Graduate Program in Psychology at Unisinos, Master's level, aims to qualify teachers and researchers to respond to the needs of different levels of psychological health promotion. Understands psychological clinic in an expanded perspective taking into account the social changes and needs of the contemporary world.
The Graduate Program in Psychology is recognized and evaluated with a 5 concept by Capes. The program seeks to unite its activities with undergraduate education and extension, in addition to scientific exchange and cooperation between high-level research and training centers in Brazil and abroad.
The master's program is guided by a pedagogical orientation that contemplates two main axes: 1) Clinical Psychology as the locus of knowledge production, contemplating disciplines and activities that offer a theoretical-epistemological formation consistent in Clinical Psychology; 2) develop skills in research, covering the reflection and analysis of the main methods used in research and its applicability in research in Clinical Psychology. The curricular structure contemplates these two axes, supporting the reflection on the production of knowledge in Clinical Psychology and emphasizing the methodological domain in scientific research, as well as covering contents relevant to the scope of the Program's research lines, as well as teaching and improvement scientific writing.
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Emphasis: Clinical Psychology
The psychological clinic, understood in an expanded perspective, takes into account the social transformations and needs of the contemporary world, being defined by ethics and by the commitment to the complexity of human experience. Guided by a paradigm that privileges health, resilience and the promotion of the subjects' potentialities, it covers the development and evaluation of both preventive and therapeutic interventions.
Lines of action
Focuses on the understanding of different forms of psychological distress, manifestations and possibilities of psychotherapeutic intervention. Studies the psychotherapeutic process and results, possibly including individual, group and family interventions.
Addresses health-disease processes and their psychological manifestations related to the work, school and hospital environment. Studies possibilities of mental health promotion and prevention in institutional contexts.
Master's Degree Curriculum
The master's degree consists of 24 credits, including thesis. Students are required to complete required courses (14 credits) and elective courses (10 credits), 4 credits of which may be related to activities of other graduate programs at Unisinos and partner institutions. Development of the thesis will be throughout the course.
Required Courses (14 credits)
- Research Methodology in Psychology (4 credits) - Psychological Treatment (2 credits) - Workshop on Projects I (2 credits) - Workshop on Projects II (2 credits) - Seminar on Thesis I, II, III and IV (1 credit by semester)
Optional Courses - Area of study: Psychopathological States and Psychotherapeutic Approaches
- Clinical Care of Children and Adolescents (2 credits) - Psychopathological states and Contemporary (2 credits) - Research on Psychotherapy (2 credits)
Optional Courses - Area of study: Health-Disease Processes in Institutional Contexts
- Clinical Practices and Research in Institutions (2 credits) - Helth-Disease Processes (2 credits) - Mental Health Prevention and Promotion (2 credits)
Common Optional Courses
- Clinical Practice (4 credits) - Forensic Psychology (2 credits) - Clinical Aspects of Violence (2 credits) - Statistics Applied to Psychology (2 credits) - Workshop on Text Production (2 credits) - Special Topics (1 credit) - Teaching Internship (2 credits) - Higher education Methodology (3 credits)
PROFESSORS
The student of the Psychology Graduate Program has at your disposal a faculty composed mostly of masters, doctors and post-doctor, with national and international training and recognized professional experience.
Clarisse Pereira Mosmann
Doutora em Psicologia clarissepm@unisinos.brCoordinator of the Center for Studies in Couples and Families (NECAF). Conducts research on the following topics: Systemic Psychological Clinic: dynamics of family and marital functioning, Conjugality, coparenting and psychopathology of childhood and adolescence: evaluation and treatment. Marital Conflict and Parent and Child Resolution Strategies: Assessment, Diagnosis and Clinical Intervention.
Denise Falcke
Doutora em Psicologia dfalcke@unisinos.brCoordinator of the Center for Studies in Family and Violence (NEFAV). She conducts research on the following topics: Domestic violence: prevention and intervention, Transgenerationality, Dynamics of family and conjugal functioning, Psychological assessment and treatment of couples and families in risk situations.
Ilana Andretta
Doutora em Psicologia iandretta@unisinos.brCoordinator of the Laboratory of Studies in Psychotherapy and Psychopathology (LAEPSI). She conducts research with the following themes: psychotherapy change processes, psychotherapy assessment instruments and measures, multicultural skills of psychotherapists, mental health and psychopathology.
Janine Kieling Monteiro
Doutora em Psicologia janinekm@unisinos.brCoordinator of the Labor Clinic Laboratory (LABORClínica). Profa Monteiro works at the School of Health in Psychology and Nursing courses. She conducts research with the following themes: Health / mental illness and work, Psychodynamic of work clinic, Assessment of psychosocial risks at work, Bulling at work.
Murilo Ricardo Zibetti
Doutor em Psicologia murilozibetti@unisinos.brCoordinator of MIND-Lab (Laboratory of Measurement and Intervention on Neurocognition through Development). Currently, he conducts research on the following topics: development and cross-cultural adaptation of psychological assessment tools for psychotherapy and clinical neuropsychology, dimensional and transdiagnostic models of psychopathology, interfaces between neurosciences, psychophysiology, and new technologies applied to mental health.
Priscila Goergen Brust Renck
Doutora em Developmental Psychology priscilabr@unisinos.brDirector of the Cognition and Health Laboratory (LAPECS). She researches the role of cognitive processes in prevention and health promotion using a cognitive-behavioral approach within the field of Clinical Health Psychology on the following topics: decision-making process, risk perception and communication, innovation in health services, effect of cognitive processes on health, translational research, quantitative methods.
Rebeca Veras de Andrade Vieira
rebecavieirapsico@gmail.comPostdoctoral scholar by the National Postdoctoral Program / Capes (PNPD / Capes). Conducts research on the following topics: Health psychology, Primary headaches, Development, adaptation and validation of instruments, Cognitive behavioral therapy.
Tagma Marina Schneider Donelli
Doutora em Psicologia tagmad@unisinos.brCoordinator of the Baby-Related Studies Center (CER Bebê). She works mainly on issues related to pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium, motherhood and fatherhood, relational and interaction processes of the baby with parents or substitutes, early symptoms, psychosomatic phenomena in childhood, clinical interventions in child care institutions, as well as on topics related to health and hospital areas.