Project of Dissertation in C linical and Health Psychology

Presentation

This course unit aims to prepare the dissertation project, which will be implemented in the second year of the study cicle.

Programme

Clinical and Health Psychology

Level of Qualification|Semesters|ECTS

| Semestral | 3

Year | Type of course unit | Language

1 |Mandatory |Português

Code

ULP785-22174

Recommended complementary curricular units

MICAD I

MICAD II

Professional Internship

Não

Syllabus

PC1: Lines of investigation ongoing in the Master's Degree in Clinical and Health Psychology of the ULP - Integration in the investigation of the team and discussion of the developed/developing projects

PC2: Database searches

PC3: Methodologies oriented to literature review

PC4: Research Plans and Procedures

PC5: Data collection and analysis

PC6: Elaboration and writing of research projects

PC7: Submission of research proposals to the Comissão de Ética e Deontologia para a Investigação da Faculdade de Psicologia, Educação e Desporto da Universidade Lusófona do Porto.

Objectives

LO1: To define an original research theme or research question in Clinical and Health Psychology.

LO2: To conduct bibliographic research on the selected topic.

LO3: To carry out a critical reading of scientific texts related to the selected topic and proceed to its synthesis and integration.

LO4: To design an oriented and coherent research project with regard to research questions and/or advanced hypotheses, scientifically grounded and ethically justifiable.

Teaching methodologies and assessment

In this curricular unit students have the opportunity to join one of the research lines ongoing in the Master in Clinical and Health Psychology of ULP. Students should attend research meetings, where they will have the opportunity to contact their research teams and projects; train transversal and specific research competences; and develop a research project in regular articulation with the team work. Teaching methodologies include applied training (TM1), autofeedback (TM2), peer feedback (TM3) and lecturer feedback (TM4), bibliographic search (TM5).

Thus, evaluation of this UC includes: Participation in team meetings (15%); Written proposal of the research project and respective oral discussion (80%); Preparation of the submission of the research proposal to the Comissão de Ética e Deontologia para a Investigação FPED-ULP (5%).

References

American Psychological Association (2009). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (6ª ed). Washington: American Psychological Association.

Katz, M. J. (2009). From research to manuscript: A guide to scientific writing. New York: Springer.

Martin, W. E. & Bridgmon, K. D. (2012). Quantitative and statistical research methods: From hypothesis to results. San Francisco, CA: Wiley.

McBride, D. (2016). The process of research in psychology. London: Sage.

Silverman, D. (2013). Doing qualitative research: A practical handbook (4th Ed.). Los Angeles: Sage.

Bibliografia específica ao tema do projeto dissertação de cada estudante.

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