Dentistry

Psychology1

Psicologia

Course code:9548107

Maria do Rosário de Fátima Martins Dias

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:
  • Configure the contributes of Psychology in a developmental perspective of cycle of life.
  • Approach the concept of development, emphasizing the multidisciplinary crossroad in the study of individual ontogenesis.
  • Problematize models of adaptation, life events, quality of life and subject well-being, since the conception to the mourning of cycle of life.
  • Conceptualize the Sick-Person as an identity bio-psycho-social.
  • Exercise good practices in Dentistry care.
Syllabus:
  1. Object and study method of development psychology.
  2. Pre-natal development.
  3. The first years of life.
  4. Development of thought.
  5. The entry in school(s).
  6. The adolescence or the myth of eternity.
  7. The adulthood and its psycho-relational dynamics.
  8. The paradigm of family.
  9. Midle-age: crisis, change or stability?.
  10. Old age: myths and change.
  11. About death and dying: the farewell of life.
Suggested Bibliography:
  • Carapinheiro G (1993) Saberes e Poderes no Hospital. Uma Sociologia dos Serviços Hospitalares. Lisboa: Edições Afrontamento ISBN: 978-972-36-0306-4.
  • Cole M, Cole S (2001) The development of children. New York: W.H. Feeman and Company. ISBN 0-7167-3833-3.
  • Dias MR, Amorim A (2000) Clinica Dentária Integrada: Contributos Bio-Psico-Sociais. Caparica: Egas Moniz Publicações. ISBN 972-98495-0-1.
  • Gleitman H (2011) Psicologia. 9th ed. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. ISBN 978-972-31-1370-9.
  • Reese H, Overton W (1970) Models of Development and Theories of Development. In L. Goulet & P. Baltes (Eds.) Life Span Development Psychology. New York: Academic Press. ISNB:0-471-90778-6.