Designing and implementing a master course in family and community psychotherapy

Sector

Higher education

Project budget

The maximum budget for this project is € 50,000.

Organisations

This project has been developed by the Faculty of Education of the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) in collaboration with the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa and the University of Pretoria. The tender for this project expired on 6 August 2010. Nuffic has awarded this tender to Maastricht University.

Project description

This project builds on the introduction of a four-year Licenciatura course in Psychology at UEM's Faculty of Education in 2002. Since then the Department of Psychology has produced more than 150 psychologists, specialising in social and organisational psychology, school psychology and special educational needs psychology.

This new master course in family and community psychotherapy aims to:

• respond to the demands of psychologists, trained at the faculty, who encounter family and community problems in their work;
• complete the training of these psychologists by enabling them to apply theories in the Mozambican context, which is dominated by traditional values;
• improve the psychotherapy skills of scientific staff with a Licenciatura degree;
• create a spirit of cooperation among partners enabling faculty staff to exchange competencies through lectures and research projects.

Beneficiaries

The project is aimed at:

• lecturers and students of UEM's Faculty of Education;
• psychologists who graduated at this faculty after 2006;
• psychologists who studied at other universities and who currently work with families and communities in Mozambique;
• the Mozambican population who will have access to more and better-skilled psychologists.