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Educational Psychology and Counseling

Educational Psychology and Counseling

Degree 
MSc - Master Degree
School 
Faculty of Psychology
Time period 
Day time
Duration 
4
ECTS 
120
Language 
PT
Data de Acreditação A3ES 
03/04/2021
Prazo de Acreditação A3ES 
6 anos
Official Portuguese Code (DGES) Number 
R/A -Cr 74/2021
Official Portuguese Code (DGES) Registration Date 
12/15/2019

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The Master responds to the need for training psychologists who, according to the Portuguese Psychologists' Order’s (OPP) specifications for qualification as an educational psychologist, allow them to intervene in educational contexts where the processes of development, education and learning take place. The training focuses on deepening scientific knowledge and developing skills which enable students to enhance the integral development and psychosocial well-being of the diversity of target audiences in all stages of life, from infancy to old age, in the multiplicity of roles it plays. The focus is on an inclusive, multi-level approach, preferably of a promotional and preventive nature, with an emphasis on individual learning, career, health and well-being management processes, but also on intervention at the level of communities and institutional settings, creating conditions to foster positive and safe contexts. Granting of a Master’s Degree requires the conclusion of a cycle of studies with 120 ECTS credits and a duration of four semesters, comprising:
a) Attendance and approval of a specialization course, consisting of an organized set of curricular units, which corresponds to 60 ECTS credits;
b) The elaboration and public discussion of a dissertation of a scientific nature, original and specially carried out for this purpose, which corresponds to 30 ECTS credits and a preparatory curricular internship for professional insertion, object of a final report, which corresponds to 30 ECTS credits. This study cycle is accredited by the Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES).

Objectives 

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.

Career prospects 
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.
Fee – 1st year (indicative) 
697.00€
Fee - remaining years (indicative) 
697.00€

International Access

Fee - 1st year (indicative) 
5000,00€
Fee - remaining years (indicative) 
5000,00€