01369 - Theories and Techniques of Group Dynamics

Academic Year 2009/2010

  • Docente: Luisa Brunori
  • Credits: 5
  • SSD: M-PSI/07
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Social Educator (cod. 0489)

Course contents

The core of the Course will be the study of the group from the point of view of Dynamic Psychology. Starting from the pionieer studies of  Northfield in England, a special attention will be paid to further development in the creation of a theory and a practice on the group: groupanalysys. The group, here, is seen as a basis for the construction of the mind and of the psyche of individuals and a tool for change starting from the family. Special attention will be paid to sibling relations and to the consequences that this original experience: that of the family group has in the dinamisms  that individuals activate while present in  different group situations where they happen to be in life.The use of the group in diferent situations will be observed and discussed: learning process, helping relations in deviant realities. Jail, culture differences applications, psychotherapy, metabolisation of trauma will be situation presented as possible professional applications.

Readings/Bibliography


Teaching methods

 A discussion on different applicabilities of technique from theories will be developped  for many different areas of intervention both for the development of the indivikduals and of the communities  through the group (group phisiology)  and in the treatement of deviancy and marginality  (group pathology).

Assessment methods

Evaluation process will take place through oral discussion.

Online subscription

Links to further information

http://www.cirig.unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Luisa Brunori