The educational objectives of this course concern the acquisition of knowledge of the fields of action of legal and community psychology in legal, regulatory, and educational and social contexts and the application to broader and more complex social contexts, as well as the development of competences for the recognition of conflicts in interdependent groups and the constructive rather than destructive management/mediation of the same within groups and communities.
By the study of : Legal and community psychology the student will be able to achieve the following training objectives.
- Understand what legal and investigative psychology deals with, the regulatory context, and what are the applicative implications of the discipline with particular reference to aspects of social problems;
- Know the applicative contexts of legal psychology with references to expert evaluation and report, risk assessment and psychosocial interventions with children and adult victims and offenders.
- Acquisition of the key concepts of community psychology.
- Identification of the differentiation between conflict and violence.
- Distinction between management of constructive conflict, which leads to change in social balance, and destructive conflict management, which instead results in violence.
- Develop autonomy in assessing conflict situations and applying the reflection skills acquired in the management and management of groups within educational contexts and social services
The teaching is connected with the Laboratory of Lie detection and non-verbal communication.