Educational Psychology and Counseling
The Master’s in Educational Psychology aims to develop scientific skills and ethical attitudes to perform psychological acts in educational contexts. The training is eclectically framed by the knowledge of theoretical models and the mastery and training of technical skills of psychological assessment and intervention, and it focuses on three major areas: learning, career building and management, and health and well-being promotion, from a perspective of equity and lifelong intervention. The training also focuses on acquiring scientific knowledge and skills for psychology evaluation, counseling, guidance, training and consultancy in different educational contexts, with different education agents, through an individual, group and community approach, considering the scientific, social, cultural and technological evolution.
This course enables future psychologists to practice in terms of development and learning, promotion of health and well-being, social equity and professional qualification, in formal and non-formal educational settings. Among the employers are: public and private educational institutions; companies and institutions of social and community support; health services; private psycho-educational counseling clinics; support for development and learning centers; vocational training companies and institutions; publishers and producers of resources and educational technology; municipalities; and social reintegration services. It enables students to be qualified to acquire a professional internship in the Portuguese Psychologists' Order (OPP), as well as to obtain the specialization in educational psychology by OPP.
