The InterAtheneo Doctorate in Psychology sees the participation of the University of Messina and the Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro.
The Ph.D. in Psychology was established and activated in A.Y. 21/22 (Cycle 37) on the initiative of university professors pertaining to area 11b and has seen the participation of Medical and Pedagogical professors, with the primary objective of providing graduates with different basic training, knowledge and skills that make them suitable, not only for the implementation of scientifically valid research projects, but to do so from a transdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspective. This proposed PhD integrates a multiplicity of vertical technical and scientific skills with a set of horizontal skills of a more typically relational and managerial nature.
The main objective of the Course is to create training opportunities that can foster the connection between the world of research, development and the world of the productive fabric and innovative services in numerous areas specific to Psychology, but at the same time ensuring a wide-ranging training.
The Ph.D. aims to increase the pool of human capital capable of responding to the innovation needs of businesses and, in particular, social cooperatives, focusing in particular on the promotion of health and well-being and the inclusion and social cohesion of children with special psychological needs and their families. The synergy between the vertical competencies, capitalized through the transversal vision ensured by the horizontal competencies, will enable the Ph.D. to be particularly attentive to the needs and requirements of society and to know how to develop innovative, efficient and sustainable research and intervention protocols thus being able to contribute also in the management of social emergencies.
The Course aims to develop a culture of problem-solving based on the enhancement of personal skills, creativity and learning, in the direction of both scientific innovation in the field of mind and behavioral science and applied innovation in its professional, social and technological declinations. Each student, during the three-year period, will have the opportunity to acquire specific skills for the implementation of scientific research on current issues and will be placed in a training and cultural ecosystem within which the human and material resources useful for undertaking both scientific and applied and/or third mission projects will be available. The PhD program starts from an awareness of the multidimensionality and complexity of the individual. Its reading, analysis and interpretation can only be conducted on the basis of a multiplicity of factors and only through the integration of methodologies, parameters and criteria typical of the different areas of research (medicine, psychology, pedagogy) so that the intersection between the various planes (vertical and transversal) and the different cultural strategies can become a valuable tool not only for intellectual knowledge, but also for the elaboration of tools and application devices.
The course aims to provide knowledge and skills useful for the testing of integrated intervention protocols, of a bio-psycho-social nature, both preventive and clinical, aimed at the prevention and treatment of distress and pathologies and the consolidation of psycho-physical well-being and quality of life.
The Ph.D. track is designed to enable the Ph.D. to acquire knowledge and skills expendable not only in academia, but also in other contexts. They will be able to provide, for example, professional advice on human resource assessment and management, collaborate and support enterprises, companies and cooperatives that intend to promote models of informed participation in the management of productive organizations.
The Ph.D. track is structured, moreover, to enable future Ph.D.s to acquire knowledge and skills useful for proposing and participating in academic spin-offs as well as for launching start-ups offering services and research.